The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-03-15
SATURDAY, MARCH Is, 1919
DEPoRT THEM

One of the best services the mon
arches and ex-mOnarchies of Europe
can do the United States is to keep
their aristocrats away from this coun-
try. It is true that some of these
blue-bloods are refugees seeking
safety from a murderous Bolshevism.
As Americans we cannot refuse mercy
to any human being who comes to us
for refuge from wrong and Injustice
not even to king. At the same time
we cannot blind ourselves to the fact
that these representatives of the
monarchial and despotic systems
which have come into such disrepute
in Europe can do much harm If per-
mitted to attitudinize in this country
as our friends. They cannot possibly
have genuine sympathy for our insti-
tutions and we are simply playing into
the hands of the Bolshevists, anarch-
lists and l. w. w. by allowing these
personalities to parade from city to
city airing. their silly views. as.
Only a few weeks ago a Russian
princess dined with some of the liter
airy women in one of our leading cities.
After delectable bits of scandal over
the tea and cakes about Tolstoys do
mestic infelicities the princess pro-
ceeded to tell how noble and good the
old regime in Russia had been.
WAS it true that the old regime
of the car had treated the peasants
cruelty? oh, dear no. OF course. the
government was somewhat one-stded,
tented. In time, rs the masses be-
came more educated and better able
to handle the reins of government,
they would have been given control"
In 1905, when the oppressed people
were lured up to the gates of the i'm
perial palace by Russian agents to
voice their protests, to demand re-
forms and to plead with the czar for
curcease from ancient wrongs and
cruelties, the emperor's cossacks
formed a screen in front of scores of
machine guns. At "a signal the cavalry
divided to each side of the thorough
fare and the machine gunners opened
This was the end of the revolution of
1906. OF course, if the people had
been better educated and more refined
the 5czar would have abdicated and
handed over to them his crown and
:sceptre.
Let us admit that the weaz car
was well-meaning and that he was
unjustly tried, condemned and exc
~cuted, yet, as Americans, we are per-
fectly aware that he was despot and
that in 1905 he acted as despOts must
act II they are to retain their thrones.
The only way despOt can keep him
self in power is by force. He Is a
standing challenge to his people. He
cannot make concessions to them and
still remain an autOcrat. In Russia
the car made concession only under
,compulsion. When he felt that he
could resist refore he resicted. When
his people approached him to ask for
mercy and pity he killed them.
In the whirl of the war have Ameri-
cans forgot the Kishinev massacre
when fanatical people hurled them
selves upon the unoffending Jews OF
a whole city and slew them. That was
the fruit ofsdespotism. Such an atroc-
ity was unthinkable in times of peace
anywhere in Europe outside of Rus
sia and the Balkans. It was due to
an ignorance which Is essential to the
maintenance Of autocracy.
It is true that the car, before the
war, had granted his people liberal
system Of education. It was q fatal
mistake. Enlightenment was sure to
bring. his dynasty crashing into ruins.
Boom we're sure TO overcome machine
guns: IS
The same ignorance s. which pro-
ducsd the depotism Of the csar and
the pogroms against the Jews has pro.
duced the Bolsheviki and their "dic-
tatsrship Of the proletariat." In BE-
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