The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-05
THE VITAL ISSUE

of the b~olShevlk1, or SOCIALIST element,
and the resulting chaos and anarchy
which their reign has brought about.
One of the most terrible aftermaths
of that anarchy is on the way, accord
ing to the address of Herbert Hoover,
who recently declared: There are
49, 0 900 people in North Russia to
whom 1 fear but little access with
food can be obtained this winter.
Their transportation is demoralized in
complete anarchy and shortly many
of their ports will be frozen ven il
internal transport could be realized.
l expect the most dreadful results of
starvation beyond all human power
to allay.'
These poor, misguided people were
induced to withdraw from the wal
By the promise of the socialists that
they would nave peace and bread. The
lands were to be. divided up among
the people, the socialistic program
was to be carried out in every par
ticular, and every one was to be made
happy and be we'll fed by these uto-
plan dreamers. Yet from the day
Lenine and Trotsky assumed control
of the country chaos has reigned. The
credit of Russia is ruined, disease is
rampant, poverty stalks across the
land. industry is paralyzed, murder
and arson go unpublished, and the
whole nation has become a dangerous
derelict calling for the speedy action
of the allied powers if anything is to
be salvaged.
In Germany the all-socialist cabi-
net is in control. AS a dispatch from
Copenhagen puts it: "Germany's new
provisional government will be all
red; that is to say, the bourgeois
parties will not be represented in it"
Germany may have escaped that dire
punishment at the hands of the AL
lies which we were once assured
would include invasion and Berlin or
Bust" but she will suffer terribly at
the HduuS Vi nGI OWh DOlonCNlhAy II
they go on unchecked There we have
seen autocracy relieving the individ-
ual of all initiative for several gen.
erations. Let the government1 do il"
has peer the attitude of the German
people for so long that now that they
find autocracy in fight and the oppor-
tunity at hand for popular rule, they
discover individual initiative to have
become atrophied and the popular
will to have become laccid. Not hav-
ing been permitted to do anything for
themselves for a century with the
government doing their own thinking
for them-they are now destitute of
the power of rational thought or ac-
ton. They must build up from the
bottom at the price of exceeding
sorrow. They are utterly incapable
of understanding initiative by the
workingpeople as it obtains in the
United States.
The pendulum swings from autoc-
racy to socialism and anarchy quite
naturally. We have seen it on its up
ward move toward autocracy during
the past five years in this country.
Every attempt has been made by a
subservient, unrepresentative, sec
tional majority in Congress to center
all authority in one man. 1t had be-
gun before the war started, and was
speeded up under the plea of war
~exigencies. 1t is believed that it was
suddenly halted by the recent Repub-
lican victory which put Congress in
control of the champions of popular
rule. To them will come the task of
restoring the fundamental institutions
of this republic. The centralizing pol
icies of this administration have all
along met with the hearty indorse-
ment of the bolshevists of America,
because they believed the time was
rapidly approaching when, the gov
eminent having appropriated industry
the bolshevists would. by coalition
WIN the dpOSLdIeS Oh Tue OemocIdllt
party, appropriate the government,
and socialism in America would at
tain it's ambition. In pursuance of
these dreams the poor, the b~enighted,
and the ignorant foreign elements of
the country have been exploited un
ceasingly by the Democrats, the Ger
gers, the hearings, AMI t. Stokeses,
as they will be in the future. 1t re-
mains for the Republican party to
educate these elements to the decen-
cies of American governmental the
fact that this is a government of lib
erty, not of license; of law. not Of
men. And in this task the Repub-