The Butte daily bulletin., 1919-06-25
JUSTICE TO RUSSIA
THE REVELATION MUST BE SAVED.

autocracy, and laborcd increasingly
Tor its overthrow. And, what is more,
they labored successfully. For when
all the truth is told. it will be knOWE
that it was not Foch in the west, but
LeDine in the east, who broke Ger
man morale and thus destroyed the
.3oWC! OF german a1ms.
Again. it is said that the allies
must interfere in Russia, because the
bolshevik do not represent the Rus
ian people. Who says that they do
not represent the Russian people? Is
it America, with he: strangle-hold on
Costa Rica, San Domingo and Mica
ragua? Is it France, which has just
seized the Saar Valley, with it's Ger
man population? Is it Japan, which
saps the life-blcod of Korea, and
robs China of the 40,000,000 in the
Shantung peninsula? Or is it, per-
haps, England, with her 800 years
record of popular government in Ire
and? What evidence is there that
The bolsheviki do not represent the
Russians? will stake my life on
he fact that they represent more
Of the Russian people than the czar
md the grand dukes ever did-and
r have yet to hear that any one of
)ur western democracies ever pro-
posed to compass their overthrow by
intervention! If it is true that the
oolsheviki do not represent the Rus
;ian people, then there is one thing,
and one thing only, to be done-and
that is, to leave the people alone
o leave them free from outside in
reference. to work out their own
destinies and put in office a party
which more nearly represents them
han those who now hold the seats
Of power. If a free people do not like
government, they can themselves
DC trusted to destroy it.
Again, it is insisted that the allies
must interfere with the revolution,
because the bolsheviki are using vio-
lence, are guilty of all kinds of atroci-
! ties and outrages, are monsters in
human form, feeding feverishly upon
| human blood.
| Here again the lie factories are at
work twenty-four hours a day, seven
days in the week. Certainly, any man
who would believe one-tenth of one
per cent of the wild tales that have
come out of Russia during the past
year is a candidate for either a nurs-
cry or a lunatic asylum.
And yet, there is just enough OF
ruth in this vast mass of falsehood
to lead one like myself, at least, who
S an absolute nOn-resitant, to lament
and mourn. For the bolsheviki have
resorted to violence to maintain their
authority. They have raised an army
by the utterly undemocratic method
Of conscripton. They has suppressed
| newspapers as vile thing in Mos
COW as in New York. Such methods
| abhor. On these points, | break ut
terly with the bolsheviki But | can
do this consistently and openly, as
one who deliberately accepts the gos-
pei of Leo Tolstoi. But who are those
others who dcnounce the bolshcViki
for violence and outrage?
The very men who rcproach lie.
nine and TrotZlly for using violence
against their fellow countrymeI
found no difficulty in the old days in
doing business with the cZar. The
very men who are now most horror.
stricken at bloodshed i'm Russia are
today gathering together machine
gums and tanks in our great cities tC
murder labor the next time it dares
% raise it's head. The very men who
hold up their hands i'll horror over
the atrocious lie about the national.
ization of women are the profiteers
of social system which has as one
of it's foundation stones the practice
of prostitution. And the very mcl
who weep bitter tears at the starya
tion which the bolsheviki have
brought upon Russia are this very
day urging that the blockade of Rus
sia which is the real cause of Starva
tion, be vigorously maintained; ant
what is worse, arc threatening thu
&c, mans that, if they do not sign th'
death warrant just placed before
chem as il peace treaty, 100000 o
their people will be starved to death
, | would be ashamed to speak on
word in defense of any policy o
! force, be it bOlshevik or any other
But | remember that there is a ia
nous passage of Scripture Whicl
warns against beholding the mot
that is in thy brothers eye and con
sidering not the beam that is i'll ou
r own eye.
What we need in this whole busi
ness OF our relation to Russia is
IlJ}lr pam, everyday lloHcSi!s IL
!. allied states, and many of the paopl
in the allied countries, are hostile t
: the revolution, not because of any
, thing that the bolsheviki have %
have not done. Rolshcvism is simpl
: convenient piece of camouflaat
The real fact is that Il genuine, thol
, ouSh-going, economic and polite:
! revolution has got started in Russi;
and we recognize that, if this rcvolu
f ton succeeds, it means the doom q
. every capitulistic system in the Worlt
: Our capitalists know that they hav
| either got to destroy this revolutio
s or the revolution will destroy then
D The people of Russia have come int
their own; our leaders know tha
: other peoples elsewhere will com
: into their own as well, if these Rus
n slams be not punished with terror an
G cnslavcd again with chains.
e Just here, now, in the fate cf tn
I Russian revolution, is our issue tt
f night. The revolution must be saved
= Saved first because the Russian pet
t pie want it. have sacrificed for it, al
sacrificing for it now, Saved secont