The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-14

We are in this war with Germany because 1t is war for freedom more
 truly than ever before was war
 fought for the liberty of man. In times past it is true, men have fought for
 freedom from oppressors. Sometimes
 they have won and sometimes they
 have lost. But always there has been
 a place in this big world where those
 who had lost in the struggle at home
 might go and find a country where
 they might enjoy the liberty they loved.
 Now all is different If the forces which are fighting for freedom in this war are defeated, there will be no place in the whole world to which they may go to find a refuge from Prus- sian domination. Every land under the sun will be directly or indirectly under control of the victor: and If the victor is autocracy, freedom per- ishes.
 The land where freedom Is most iin- minently menaced by the legions of Prussian autocracy, at this moment, is the land where unwonted freedom | temporarily has run riot and has lost the power to fight for itself-Russia. We are fighting for the freedom of | Russia. and must continue to fight for it until Russia learns what freedom means, and Is again able to fight. If we do not, freedom will die in Russia; Prusslan autocracy will rule and ex- ploit the country for it's own benefit; l oh the czar will be turned against the freedom not only of themselves, hut of other lands.
 In years gone by, when the forces of revolution were showing themselves here and there In Russia, they had the sympathy of America in spite of the methods of terrorism of which we did not approve. When the czar and the kaiser, leaders of autocracy. were
 locked in death grapple, Russia still had our sympathy, because she was 1 fighting on the side of those who were seeking to safeguard the world from Prussian miltarism.
 When the czar was deposed over night American feelings were mixed.
 There was joy at the downfall of an old, and sometimes cruel autocracy, but there was fear that Russia would
 become too dlsorganized to fight fur
 ther, coupled with the thought that per
 haps the revolution had come too soon
 to be effective.
 Then followed the brief regime of , Kerensky, when 1t began to look as l though freedom in Russia might be m l organized freedom, prepared to fight for it's rights, and all America hailed the Russian revolution as blessing. , It had become absolutely correct to
 say that the war was war of democ- [ : racy against autocracy. No pro-Ger- , man could longer point to the czar, |
 whenever an argument arose. Finally came the bolsheviki revolu- ton, in which Kerensky was over- thrown. Russian industry and Rus. sian society were disorganized, and 1 Russian armies ceased to fight. The kaiser's armies pressed on unopposed. took what they desired in spite of q | signed peace, and Russia appeared to be about to pass completely under con- trol of Germany. America stood | dRHdSl Ut lHt piunh liNtNom hta | played. and American opinion turned largely against Russia, but thinking men refused. to give up hope. Rus sia was and still Is incapable of offer | ing resistance, but Russia is not re- signed to autocracy. It devolves upon | others to fight for the freedom Rus sia must have.
 l The experience of other nations has | been that men who loved freedom were willing to fight for it, and to die | for it if necessary. The Russian at | titude of nonresistance was something new In the world, and is hard to un-
 derstand. The bolsheviki represents | ed the extreme idea of liberty. To
 them freedom meant not the right of the majority to choose their form of
 government, but the right of the indi- vldual to he free from all forms of governmental restraint. They would
 tear down the old order completely,
 at one stroke, and set up the mill
 lenium. They would divide the land,
 the factories and the tools among the
 workers, and have no masters hence
 forth.
 Even in Russia, however. there were
 dssenters Some took up arms; and
 the bolsheviki, who fought the Ger
 mans not at all, fought their brothers most ferociously. The result was an-
 archy. Iawlessness. massacre. the dis
 organization of the railways and the failure of the food supply. The mil- Ienium refused to come at the mere
 decree of the bolsheviki. It was shown that there must be organization and
 government of some sort.
 Russia will not longer fight side by side with her former allies. So in. | siduous has been the German propa- ganda that. in many instances, Russian hatred of the allies seems to be deep ! CT than hatred of Germany. Therefore the United States cannot render direct aid to the struggling peo- | pie of Russia. She cannot send them armies and supplies, for they have re- | fused to do battle for themselves. To At sst,. atrht &tr<