The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-03-16
HOW CAN WE HELP RUSSIA?

Russias collapse has taught some American soclahs'S inc
peace with Germany is impossible If freedom Is u VI
German pecae would mean that Prusslan mni'aIia = ro,,d he
menace the whole world, and the only way 10 mee "
for all other nations to turn themselves into armed camps anu
form a league to resist inevitable aggression.
From the east side of New York City and from Palm beach
come appeals TO helm Russia. One says: Recognize the Boil
.shevik government" Is there such a government! All we
know is that Trotzky and Lenine seized the government oiioos
at Petrograd, demobilized the Russian army, Offered 10 accept
.Germanys terms of peace and let the Prussians overrun the
western provinces and take all but one of the fortified ciues 0 i
the quadrangle. Their government" has been repudlated by
Finland, Poland, Ukrainia, the Don country and most II Siberia,
and its fate lies in Prussian hands. Its call to arms is laugheu
to scorn by the soldiers of the Russian army and the only forces
at its command are workmen and Red guards, who have been
pillaging Petrograd and Moscow and numbering Firms, and VINO
wish to keep the loot they have taken.
1t is vain to talk about what might have happened If the
Entente allies had accepted the kind of peace Russian vision
aries thought they could have persuaded Germany to accept
last summer. The kaiser would have treated it with no more
respect than he did the peace Trotzky signed a few days ago.
1t is charged that President Wilson and the English and French
governments misunderstood the Russians. What mortal man
tcould foresee the self-destruction of an empire which was re-
Igarded as the most invulnerable of any?
We have loaned Russia hundreds of millions of dollars and
supplied her with military stores, part of which have gone to
strengthen the material resources of Germany. Our present
reward is a threat by the Bolshevik government to repudiate
these obligations. We sent a mission to PetrOgrad to help the
revolution and the revolution s%traightway degenerated into an
Iarchy. We permitted Trotzky and a little band of East Side
anarchists to go back to Russia. Trotzky seized high office and
part Of The funds of the Imperial bank of Russia, while his little
band of followers led the rioters in looting the palaces, ware
houses an churches of Petrograd. Our art collectors will have
"a chance to buy treasurers at bargain prices if these East Side
frpcbcoters are allowed to bring their loot to the United States.
Onr government will help Russians who show a disposition
to help themselves by resisting Prussianism. Finland, Uk-
rainia, Esthonia, Poland and nobody knows how much more
of the former empire of Russia seem to prefer German control
and order to Bolshevik anarchy. The Russian army, that was,
refuses to fight. Are the Bolsheviki any better than Mexican
bandits? The most prominent advocate of recognition of the
Bolshevik government tried to force us into a war of conquest
against Mexico.
What can we do for Russia except fight Germany to save
the rest of the world from the fate which has befallen Russia?
AS long as Russia fought the common foe we helped her. Now
1.-THE Russians are cutting one another's throats while the Prus-
lsians partition their country and prepare to take what they
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