Douglas Island news., 1918-01-11
RUSSIA JUDAS
 OF THE WORLD
Has Lost All Prestige She Ever Possessed and Is Generally
 Despised

Russia is today the Judas of the nations. No other government in this war not even that of Germany, has touched such depths of moral degradation as Russia has reached under the rule of Bolshcviki.
 The armisuco with Germany which Lcniuc and Trotsly have made i'm the name of Russia is not merely cowardly dcscrtion of former allies It is not merely a surrender Co 9rus- siauism. It Is studied and calcu- lated act of trcachcry at which even Machiovclli would have hesitatcd, for it involves a denial of every ar tclc of faith and honor which holds society together.
 That the armistico was prepared in Berlin is obvious from the most casual reading of the text Framed "for Che purpose of achieving @ last ing and honorable peacc," it permits the German government to with draw all the troops from the east crn front that it desires and con ccntratc them in France To make sure that no question can be raised as to the right of Germany to make such transfers, the ormisticc spccif- Ically provides that neither side is to make operative any transfers of units from the Baltic-Black Sea front until Jan 1, except those be- gun before the armistice was sign cd. As the agreement was held up Co enable Germany Co begin a general movement of troops to the west. the effect of this armistico is to release all the effective German forces in tho east against the Brit ish. French, American and Italian forces in the west. Maxmalist SO- cialism in Russia has thus made it- self the active friend, supporter and ally of the military autocracy in Germany. and a revolution that was once a hope of humanity has been turned into a shameless conspiracy against democracy fighting for its Ilifc.
 Trotzky boasts in an interview with the Petrograd correspondent of the Paris Matin that i've are the sole masters of Russia, and we will do with her as WIG will" For the time being this is unQuestionably true. and what the BolsheviH arc trying to do with Russia is Co de- troy both society and civilization. |As William English Walling ex- plalned in the Bolshcvih program in a letter printed in Sundays Times, mot immediate peace but immediate civil war" is it's object. Hence the Lonines and the Trotz- kys hastcn to make pace with the Kaiser in the belief that it will be means to fulnllment of their fam aticaI campaign to reduce Russia to anarchy, preparatory to reducing the world to anarchy.
 ! It is possible, of course, that the .Lenines and the Trotzkys are as crazy as they seem and that they ac- tually bclive that nations can be governed by lunatcs for unatics. But even madmen usually have some method in their madness, and the policies adopted by the Bolsheviki regime in Russia are susceptible to much simpler explanation than that of insanity. These men were taken to Russia by Germany and they arc doing Germany's work. lt is the dlrtiest work that anybody has done in the war, and men who arc capable of doing it so we'll arc capable of understanding the deg radiation of their conduct.
 Russia has been given over to human vermin, and the democrats that are battling against Prussian militarism must make the best of it. They at least know the worst