White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-17

a. The manner III "ni'"' "e
.arica may assist Russia in solving
her troubles.
=. ol. WILLIAM -. THOMPSON.
" No. 3.
.,..u Ne Leave Russia To German,
Ear too much emphasis has been
nm the personalities OF Lenine
IA Trotzky. These two individuals
sanoen to have come to the surface
:. mo turmoil of the Russian situa-
,on Far too much have they been
,..,;sed in the American mind with
-. torn ''Bolsheviki." You might
,nooeo from the common discussions
IA newspaper articles about them
.h., they had somehow kidnapped
hnssia. Nothing of the sort. You
mirbt suppose that these two men
.,ore dictators who had implanted
,bamselves in the command of a
,ohhle Of wild-eyed enemies OF pub
Il, order. and were turning the city
Of peirograd and the Russian Empire
,,o, IN an orgy of disorder and ex-
.ossee of the mob. Nothing of the
sor, You might suppose that. they
,,o,e Maid agents al the German an-
,oeraey hired TO deliver Russia.
.onnd hand and foot, over TO the
greedy hands of the German autoc-
rscy. Nothing of the sort. And l
say this. even in view of the recent
d,spatches from Russia. which COM
mented D o briefly in my article
published in the News last Sunday.
might say right here that every
effort was made by people opposed
10 these men TO trace 10 them some
Of the German money with which
Russia reeked. but absolutely with
ont success. Ac for disorder, all |
IAN say is that / was in P%etrograd
when the present men came to power.
and for some time after that. and |
am witness to the fact that they have
maintained more stable order in
Petrograd than under any previous
regime that / Observed one cannot
say that Russia Is an unwilling vic
Tin Of their rule. because on many
POINTS these men nov in power and
the Russian people generally think
alike. These points embody the prin-
ciples on which all democraoies rest
As for the other points. Lenine and
Trotzky are Internationalists that is
TO say. they want their dreams to
CONG true all owe the world dreams
Of world run by workmen and peas
ants. Only experience and RESPONSE
bility viii show them that YOU can
not turn a factory over to the hands
TO run, any more than You an a bank
10 the clerks.
EsceSsrs Greatly Exaggerated.
But on the whole 1t Is an amazing
hing to me that in the sudden free
dom which has burst upon Russia.
50 long under the heel of the cruel
autocracy, there have been so few
e~Seesses. Many OF the stories of riot,
looting. bloodshed, and outrage IN
der the rule OF the Bolsheviki r lies
pure and simple, circulated by Ger
man pr%opagandists and by members
Of the old regime who desire to
POISON the mind OF the world against
lhese men who have at last come out
INTO the light of freedom. The re-
Ports that have some basis for truth
are often exaggerated. serving the
@me misleading purpose.
can best illustrate with a specific
instance. X Is generally believed in
's country that the killing of the
Onicers OF the army at Viborg and
elsewhere was done under the Boil
SneViki regime, and currency is given
10 this by some Of the most carefully
suhed magazines. These officers
we're killed during the Korniloff up
rising which was put down by Ker-
'asRy' who, with the great mass OF
PEOPLE saw in 1t an attempt to re
''ore the old order. At that time
'rolzky and his associate leaders
we're In jail. The Kornilon rising
"curred about September 3, was put
""h by September 10, ana Trotzky
vas not set at liberty until September
me present Government did not
'"me Into power until November s.
and as for charging that these men
are agents OF Germany. it is becom-
~s Increasingly evident that they
a"a Their works may prove the un-
VIM OF the whole German situation.
ne example and efforts of the Rus
'an democracy are the things that
more than anything else are setting