Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-04-03
TURN THE JAP LOOSE
IN RUSSIA


always easier to tell what the other
fellow ought to do than to do it your
self But a statement Of views on a
public question is denied no man and
it is perfectly clear TO us what We
would do if we had the handling OF
the japanese question in Russia. It 4
strikes us that the administration Is .
making a somewhat puerilc move in T.
Directing TO the presence OF japanese .
troops in Russia. Just what the OBJ
lection is based upon. save the urgu.
ment that it may cause UNIVERSAL
Russian dissatisfaction, is not thor
oughly explained to Americans. The
Monroe doctrine probably furnishes
some incentive for the attitude Of the
administration but ii seems to W. that
this is case where the Monroe doc
trine has reached clause that is un-
readable from old age. In the first
place principle has been no part or
the Russian war program and the
Russian people have shown that their
own selfish desires predominant in
their hearts over the interests OF al
most the entire world. Fighting I'M
der the old regime, driven to arms.
and kept in the ranks by the imperial
lash OF the Gear, they fought with
unprecedented success and briIIiancy.
Their efforts were sufficient to keep
a large part of the German army up
on the Russian front. and at no point
did that German army make any ma
terial progress. But the heart of the
Russian peasant began To rebel
against war and suddenly the turn i'm
events enabled him to Unscat Mich
olas and retire him the wilds of 81
IBERIA. II was then that the white
liver of the Russian displaced all his
other vitals. Sacrificing the interests
of their allies, perhaps for all they
knew, laying the world upon the altar
of Prussian brutality for sacrifice 10
autOcracy, the Bolsheviki and the
Soviet quit like yellow dog Trt-
sky proved traitor but not until he
had gone so far with his peace ncgO-
tiations with the Kaiser that they
We're practically unrecallabIc. A few
brave attempts to revive the spirit OF
their country were made by the Cos
sacks but ayailed nothing The Rus
sian, through his CowardiCe ana stu
pidity, threw himself into an EumiI.
Z $780, sisis5 ss4t,R9l, ,b-anaf
doned his front and withdrew his
lighting men, releasing for service
upon the west front hundreds OF
thousands OF veterans against the al
lies. Many more German prisoners
were set free to be again indicted
into service against Franco. Britain
and America. The Russian retired "a
an orgy OF sclfsatisfaction brought
about by his new condition. Rus ian
ships arrived in America commanded
by committees of Bolshcyik. the ship
captains naught but figuTohoads. The
Russian situation became nothing but
n disgusting mess emphasizing bat
one thing and that that the Russian
peasant was unable 10 care for him
self and the Bolsh"yiH government
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