The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-04-15
''OA 10 v|CT0RY'
WHAT FURTHER ISLANDERS ON
 THE BOLSHEVIKI MEANS


 We shall watch with considerable interest the effect of President Will sons allusions to the revolutionary government of Russia on our Capital istic press. All of them specially fea- ture his sympathetic references to the Russian governmental "Bolsheviki" goverment-and all contrast his ut terances on the cubject with those of Lloyd George, who coldly ignored and therefore entranged revolutionary Rus sia This difference, most of them con tend, demonstrates that he President is the greatest of living statesmen.
 The sincerity of these remarks will be tested by the future editorial atti- tude Of revolutionary Russia. If they really Tine up behind the president" as they have so constantly urged others to do, the proof will be seen in their dropping the villainous sland- CTS against Lenine and Trotsky as German spies or paid agents and the entire gainut of vituperation invective that they have so freely used against every move on the part of the Bol- shevi<i
 We may reprint here some of the ob- servations of the president on these people, showing at any rate, that he. views them from an utterly different standpoint from the majority of theI press that now praises him sas the greatest living statesman"
 The Russian representatives pre-
 scented not only perfectly definite
 statement of the principles on
 which they would be willing to
 conclude peace, but also an equal
 ly definite program of the con-
 crete application of those prin-
 ciples.
 The Russian representatives were sincere and earnest They
 cannot entertain such proposals of conquest and domination.
 Evidently President Wilson takes no stock in the venemous charges of treachery against the Russian repre- sentative Gall Bolshe1i,J that our cap italist journalism deals in Again he says that
 The Russian representatives have
 insisted, very justly very wisely
 and in the true spirit of modern
 democracy, that the conferences should be held within open, not
 closed doors. $ < There is,
 moreover, 9 voice calling for these
 definitions of principle and of
 purpose more thrilling and compelling than any of the
 moving voices with which the troubled air of the world is filled 1t is the voice of the Russian peo- pie Their power apparently shat tered And yet their soul is not subsewient. They will not yield
 either in principle or action
 All the papers print this, of course, We happen to take the above from the columns of the New York Herald. And vet in the editorial column of rte same issue of that paper we find the same old islander insinuated
 Whether the Bolsheviki have
 been sincere in their demands for
 statement of war aims, or have
 been merely ecnoing the cry raised
 in Berlin, tEoY have their answer
 din President. Wilson" m essage)
 They have, or course. And the pres Mlent says plainly that they have been sincere and wise and upholders of the principles of modery democracy, But the Herald is not ready vet to accept that. Neither is the Wall Street Journel, which, on the same day that the message was issued, prints it on the front page and states in it's ed itorial column that "Trotsky has de- liyered all he can, and that the arnlis- tice to enable him so do it is no longer necessary to the Germans" And it adds in conclusion that the adminis- tration in Washington has no Illusions on the subject"