The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-06-15

should offend the sensitive nationalist feelings
Of the Internationalists, hurt the patriotism of
the men without country, Craze the keen sense
of honor of the Bolsheviki 1t is better to do this
than to erect the throne of Potsdam in Persia
and Manchuria. 1t may be that the Russian
masses would share the feelings of the sensitive
Bolsheviki, would indeed support them as against
U.s. We do not believe word of it, but granted
that it is true we would run no more risk of hav-
ing our army of Intervention assaed than Ger
many runs. Germany is penetrating their coun-
try with open imperialist aims, and meets with no
resistance worthy of the name. If we entered it
with the banner of liberty, headed by civil COM
mission which made it possible to hold elections
for genuine Constituent Assembly in every
province or town it entered accompanied or
headed by Red Cross commission distributing
the tangible proofs of our honesty and fair in
tentions-they might coalesce against us with
fiercer resistance than they have shown to the
savage march of the Hoffmans and Eichhorns,
but we doubt it. Granted however, that this i'm
probable thing is true, could better afford to
risk it than to sit by with folded hands, eternaly
doubling, doubling, doubling while the German
eagle builds his eyrie on the shores of the Sea of
Japan.
1t may be that the will of the Russian people
has not expressed itself but it is not true that we
must wait for that will to express itself, unless
by that is meant that we should commit ourselves
to the idea of never doing anything For there
is way in which the will of that people pos
siby express itself. We are glad to see that The
Evening Post which advances this argument, is
not quite easy about it, for it says:
A call for intervention has from far 9th
than the reaconary and prvileged classes of Rus
freedom call for Intervention; when Vladimir Burt
finds himself driven by despair to the revolu
ton when the Social Revolutionsts organizers of
luton among the peasantry. call for intervention it is
plain that something than imperalstic reaction is
at work in Russia ::
Clear, indeed; and yet our friend would wait
seemingly until the significant call of these orig
inal revolutionsts is stamped with an O. K. by
some plebiscite or convention or direct primary
The thing is impossible. We must take the mat
ter as we find it. AS for The Worlds ascription
of insanity to the whole Russian people, we can
not accept the possibility of such a thing even
for arguments sake. No people ever went mad
When nation has seemed to be mad it has been
because it's sheeplike ma jority was terrorized by
it's insane minority. If Russia were in this re-
spect any different from France in 1884, for in
stance, then there would be indeed something
new under the SUM-; something so new that we
should have to reconstruct all think we know
about human nature. 1t is not true but if it were
still the rock-hard fact would remain that the
madness Of one nation must not be humored to
the extent Of throwing away the lives of all the
others. And we hold it self-evident that if Rus
STA is absorbed into the German Empire, then
the life of no other nation on earth will be worth
q moments purchase.
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