White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-03
BOLSHEv|K| AS SEEN
BY An AME RICAh
col. W. II. THOMPSON, JUST
BACK FROM PETROGRAD. SAYS
THAT RUSSIA OF TODAY RE-
SEMBLES WESTERN MINING
STATES FIFIFTY YEARS AGO.


the American Red Cross
for six months or more. delivered the
following address before the Rocky
Mountain Club at Delmonicoo's this :.
week. He described the conditions
leading up to the assumption of con
troll by the Bolsheviki, and told
large gathering composed of many
wealthy and influential men, not a few
of them from the West, that there
was no cause for alarm in this country
because of conditions in Russia, for
the reason that there was being organ
lied a demotratic government which
would be of greater danger to the
German autocracy than a Russia In
arms
BY WILLIAM p. THOMPSON
have returned to this country with
some very strong ideas regarding Rus
sia, and the duty of the United States
and the Allies to that stirring, and,
erratlo young democracy.
come from people now generally
known as the Bolsheviki, who just
now are extremely unpopular IN the
American press They are held up as
assistant Germans and are denounced
for having deserted the Allies and
throwing their influence on the side
of the Kaiser ! am afraid the Ameri-
can people are slow TO realize one of
the greatest facts in the war at this
time The Bolsheyiki at the present
moment are a tremendous factor in
making the Central Powers of Europe
realize that they can never win this
war; that they will be forced to a
basis of reasonable and a lasting
peace.
The newspapers that are denounc-
ing the Bolshevihj just now are print
ing columns about q revolution In
Austria-Hungary, revolution based
upon Immediate peace with no annex
ations and no indemnities. This
Austro.Hungarian revolution was in
spired by the Russian Belsheviki. The
importance of this revolution should
not be ignored The example and
efforts of the Russian democracy are
setting the Central Powers on fire.
The most damaging enemy Germany
has is the Russian democracy along
side of 1t. preaching TO the German
common people and to the German
soldiers the saae doctrine Of demo
cratic peace. Stranger things have
happened than that a lasting peace.
without the realization OF any of Ger
many's despotie war aims may be, at
this very time, in the making.
When | arrived in Russia last July
| found the country almost PROSTATE
through Generalization caused by un-
opposed German propaganda. German
propaganda had brought about a
strike through all Russia three days
before the declaration of war in 1914.
German intrigue and propaganda had
20 surrounded the Czar that sepa-
rate peace was almost impending last
March.
Food Riots Part of Plot
Food had been cut of deliberately
from Petrograd and other cities H.
order to cause bread riots and strikes.
with the cold intention on the part of
the German and Russian autocracies
of using these measures as an excuse
for separate peace. The Russian
soldiers refused to fire on the hungry
people, and the long-sought Russian
Revolution was realized with the alb
dication of the Car. At the time !
reached Petrograd, that noble Russian
patriot, Alexander Kerencky-and ]
am deliberate in calling him a noble
man-was attempting a coalition gov
ernment-a government representing
the rich and the poor. The rich. how
ever, were not satisfied to work with
the poor.
German propaganda was busy tear
ing down, Allied haggling was uncon.
sciously aiding. and this resulted In
an attempt to place over Russia man
on horseback, Korniloff. To me 1t
seems that madden scheme was
never conceived In the brain of man.
II aroused to frenzy the great mass
of Russians who interpreted II as a
return to the old order. Just at this
time, a Russian general, Gurko, who
had been deprived of the command of
the army for writing letters to the
Car, saying that he hoped to see him
return to power. escaped to England
and was received In audience by King
George. When you who have not been
to Russia are puzzling your brains
over the Bolsheviki and wondering
why they should be so extreme and
so opposed to the property-owning
classes, II would be useful for you to
remember these things, which will
explain who the workingmen and
peasants are In absolute control In
Russia, and pasionately devoted to
l making their freedom secure. The
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