White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-03

| ing classes. iutu, again
workings of another group, equally
p~atriotic. who believed that ultimate
freedom and the possession OF the
land could cnly be worked out by the
workingmen and the peasants. | can
easily see how Marie Spiridoyna, now
a leading figure in Russian lit, De-
lieyes that freedom is only TO be real
lied by a government OF workingmen
alone. The Russian Revolution, only
a few months ago, released this young
woman, now only In the thirties. from
fifteen years solitary CONTINENT in
a Siberian prison.
| will say right here that. il at any
time during my travels was a Wit
ness OF deeds of wanton destruction
and violence, it was not in Russia. II
at any time | was subjected 10 any
discourtesy or inciyility, 1t was not in
Russia. If at any time | was in any
danger. it was not in Russia.
Country Needs Help.
Yet Russia is a good deal disorgan-
lied these days. and needs our help
There have been revolution and at
tempted revolution, n coming on the
heels of another. There has been con
siderable civil serife in one section of
the country or another, but the re-
ports always appear much more dread.
full than the facts really are. Russia
is happy in her trials. because Russia
has found something which her sons.
land their fathers and g~randfathers
and great-grandfathers, have been
striving for. Russia has found free
dom. Russia is a democracy. II Is a
democracy which comes as neal being
representative of the soil as 1t would
be possible to find anywhere. II has
mud on its boots, hair on Its face.
and the love of freedom in its heart.
Russia is a government OF the work.
ingmen and the soldiers. of the peas
ants and the mechanics. II is a dem
ocracy which Is striving for the uplift
OF the great masses. The one great
desire OF perhaps n~inety-four per cent
of Russia's $50. 000. 900 people is TO
have peace: to have land which they
can control and call their own; to
have a part in the industrial life Of
the country. and feel that they WI
a part of It, TO live lives of order. I'M
restrained by any Car or dictator. 10
their condition. This is the impulse
which has stirred the Russian people
long before and ever since they over
threw the Car
When I say thai they want peace.
| do not say that they want a separ
ate peace. Democratic Russio. in my
opinion. viii never make "a separate
peace with aatoeratic Germany. The
present Government has not ordered
the soldiers away from the trenches.
On the contrary. it is filing the places
OF deserters with new soldiers re
eruited from The Red Guard The Rus.
sian democracy wants peace, as we In
America want peace. as they want
peace ia France and England and
Italy. They want a peace with a dem
oeratic Germany and not with an auto
cratic Germany
People Net Vengefgi
have been deeply impressed with
the effect OF the new-foun6 liberty
upon the great masss or the Russian
people. It did not turn them into a
Yengeful horde. bent on wholesale
massacre and hloodshed. tbe news
paper reports in most part 10 TIE
contrary Notwithstanding As q mat
ter OF fact. il did not change ITEM
very much, except that from . sad.
brave. protesting people. they became
a glad. amiable. but rather beWildered
people. They attained liberty. and
naturally IL is taking some time fer
them~to work out the system OF gov
eminent under which they viii live
They are a kindly people. and IS a
nation they have very high ideals.
II was the Russian democracy which
! gave to the world the cry that there
should be no annexations and 10 IN
IDENTITIES. That is a cry which should
have been appreciated earlier in
America, and should have resulted in
the answering sympathy OF America
being extended to the Russian dem
oeracy, It was the democracy OF
Russia which injected into this war
the cry. NO secret treatiesis 1t was
the democracy Of Russia which gave
to the world the principle Of ~selfdeter.
mination by small na~tionalities, which
President Wilson has crystalized IN
his message. and which will form the
basis for the freedom Of the world. In
the face OF declarations like thes.
from the Russian democracy. there
has been a torrent OF abuse from soaae
of the Russian upper Glasses and from
the American press. which. | am sorfy
to say. apparently does not compre
bend some OF the most important and
fundamental elements of the Russian
situation.
Attempts have been made to STOP
all supplies going TO Russia from the
United States. Advice was given FOL
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