Weekly Nome industrial worker., 1919-04-19

British and French liberalism will
 consent. The plan of starving the
 Soyiets out is in many respects more
 ruthless. inhuman and dangerous to
 he future of civilization than the plan of direct Allied military inter
 Eenticn. A sufficient Allied army of occupation, repugnant as 1t would
 he to the instinct of democratic peoples, would at least do a quicl, and thorough job and prevent un- necessary bloodshed. If it were un- der American central 1t would not
 favor any one among the anti-Soviet
 factions; and it would try to see that
 the elections to a constituent assem-
 ply We're fsir But the alternative plan unless the resistance quickly couapsas would starve and drive morally desperate millions of people.
 t would reduce central Russia to human desert which could not for generations recover social vitality.
 The only government which could ! aUu- 4! !1 ii such wilderness would
 ae 9 :.iiilary dictatorship which like that oi the RomanoTs would insist
 on u1q4astlonable obedience. It's
 own behavior and standing would be such that it could not afford to permit any criticism, to tolerate ajy consti- 'ational opposition, or to seek any oasis of popular cansent except fear. Democratic governments would. one would think. aim above all to safeguard Russia and the world a8ainot so disastrous a reaction from
 the Russian revolution, yet officials
 F Paris, London and even in Wash ington, contemplate it's happening with apparent complacency. Their whole effort is to define the issue be- tween the Soviet Republic and it's e1mics as an issue between order and
 anarchy, and in this way to sanction
 ia advance any amount of autocratie
 authority and any employment of
 military coorcion as necessary to or
 der. They are perfectly willing to CO.,
 operate with Russian emisre chiefs.
 such as Admiral KoIchak and Gen. e'al Denssine, who are frank mon
 archist reactionaries, and their pres
 ant. plans would, if successful. result
 in Dlacag Russia and the Russians
 at the mercy of such people for an
 indefinite period. Hence it is that. Nany Russian liberals,such as Ker-
 ansEy. who formerly favored inter-
 fcI.ion now oppose it, because they
 dstrusc the policy and the purposes
 of the Allied governments in Russia.
 Hence it is also that many Social Rev 7iutionaries, such as Gorky. who are hostile to the Bolsheviks have recently rallied to their support They fear
 io!chak and Den'kine moue than
 hey do Lenine. Asked to choose be- 'Ween the revolution even with Bol- 2heyism and monarchist reaction they are for Bolshevism.
 It is vicious and a fatal policy for the governments of democracies to erect Bolshevism into pretext for supporting reactiona~y Russian mon 1 archism, If there is any one consum nation which would be most likely to | undo the work which the Allied vic tory has acomplished for the libera- tion of the peoples Of central Europe, | it would be the restoration of a bureaucratic military government | Such a government, both because of the huge mass of the Russian people and the large army which it would need to coerce the Russian people, would soon become danger to the security of it's neighbors, and this insecurity would compel them to sac