The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13
WAR WEARY RUSSIA
BLAMES ALIEN AID
BLOODY CIVIL WAR WOULD END
AUTOMATICALLY IF FOREIGN
POWERS WITHDREW


the hope that perhaps a truthful
statement proceeding from one
whose work brings him into con-
tinual contact with the Russian
working people may be of help to
you in forming some idea of what is
here actually taking place and in
verifying those sensational and often
misleading communications which
attain so wide a circulation when
nominal means of intercourse are
severed between nations. England
has always been my second Father
land and especially so since she af-
forded me such cordial hospitality
during my almost ten years Danish
ment from Russia in the late Tsar's
reign.
the revolution may be compared
with a dammed-up stream of which
the dyke suddenly gives way. In
reality, only a portion of the Rus
sion people were involved, and this
wave of fury and insanity soon sub
sided.
On the other hand, inanother
sphere of action in which the people
had had time definitely to make up
their mind, our working masses ac-
complished one of those historical
~ ~ s~yannnn %f
which for the whole future of man
kind is so f~ar-reaching that it can
scarcely be adequately appreciated
by the present generation. BY leav-
ing the ranks and r~esolutely return
ing to their homes the Russian sol
diers demonstrated to the world that
wars can be arrested by nations in
dependently of their governments.
Even, perhaps, in a yet greater de-
gree are the Russian working masses
at the present moment outraged by
and tired by the civil war which is
tearing asunder our country. In this
case, however, the problem is more
complex, involving, as it does, vari-
Gus long standing religious. social
and economical grievances. The
independent and conscientious nu-
cleus of the Russian pe0ple-that
lively it~be great or small, are COM
centrated the vital forces and com
ing possibilities of every nation
this intrinsic nucleus is now. and
has been for some 20 years, deliber-
ately striving toward and attaining
that deepest spiritual conception of
life which Russians as aspeople have
never yet completely lost sight of,
and which inspires those who have
attained it with the determination to
surrender all in the service of that
which is true and right.
At the same time our working
masses at large, disiflusiOned in
their former ecclesiastical faith, are
gradually discovering a new under
standing of life which. while satisfy
ing their religious aspirations, would
at the same time be free from pre-
vious Orthodox. superstitions. They
are craving for spiritual enlighten-
ment and give a i>enuously attent-
i've ear to all that has the slightest
relation to questions of faith or re-
ligion, assembling in crowds at all
public lectures and debates upon
such subjects. The political litera-
ture artificially promulgated by var
ious parties in enormous quantities
no longer finds interested readers
among the people affOrding not the
slightest satisfaction to their spir-
it's cynical teaching of self interest,
envy, enmity, hatred, vengeance,
violence and murder.
On the other hand, all religious
literature, especially if free from
superstition and sacerdotalism. is
welcomed by the people with the
greatest interest. Thus the writings
of Tolstoy, which are now for the
first time become accessible to the
masses in Russia, afford pre-emi-
nent satisfaction to our working
classes.
At the present time one. may af-
firm with certainty that the work
ing masses of our country to which
ever part of discovered Russia they
may belong, are utterly disguised
by and revolted at the party enmity
and mutual hatred raging among
the more educated portion of the
population. The so-called common
people"-that is, the population
are infinitely weary of the endless
civil war in which they are COM
PEELED to participate. Artifically di-
divad hu <bo;r nn1ifinaI ruIorc into