Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-22
Feeding the eoIsheviki.

at large on your premises or those Of
your neighbors. would you register
| adherence" for awhile as President
| Wilson suggested? And if this
worked well-for the bear-would you
make extensive plans to feed him and
urge your neighbors to do likewise
Well, if you had a philanthropic in
terest in the grizzly and expected to
make him a member Of the family.
you might. There may have been
instances of the tanning of grizzlies
, but history has failed to record
them.
What assurance have We that the
, bolsheviki will stop their orgies OF
bloodshed and depreciation il we feed
them? Holding the balance Of power
in Russia as they do, what is there to
prevent them from appropriating
whatever supplies might be sent into
the country and provisioning them
selves for a longer and stronger
| reign of terror? In view Of their
| consistent policy of taking whatever
their own self1shness desires, can any
body be so lacking in common sense
as to assume that they will make an
equitable distribution of foodstuffs or
anything else?
! OF course there are in Russia other
| people who are not bolsheviki. who dc
not deserve the woes in which they
| find themselves. but partly through
their own inability to help them
/ selves. and partly through the in
difference and neglect of the Allies
! TO help them, they have been power
/ less to stop the tide of lawlessness
{ Admiral Kolchak, supreme governor
at Omsk. Central Siberia, who is try
/ ing to unite and make potent the
! healthy forces in Russia by co.
| operation with General Denelline
makes no mention of food supplies
but puts the emphasis on the need OF
clothing and munitions for equippine
the army to kill bolshevisn. He says.
! Russia today is terribly d;sorgan
| lied and needs financial, economic an
| industrial help from America and tn.
Allies but especially requires munition:
and clothes for the gallant army, whic,
! is suffering from lack of essential gar
ments. Concerning Intervention east o
| Trails. ! would welcome detachments Of
! Americans. English and French troops
not for fighting necessarily, but for tn
/ moral effect they would produce on tn
! Russian army. Communication witt
Russia is difficult and enemy propagan
dists are active. If the troops with
their own eyes saw America and tn,
!. Allies backing them in their cause. tint
(, fight against terrorism would be GER
tainIy won.
This would not be intervention il
, salvation of the nation. My present ar
my Of $4,000 men is sufficient to conque
bolshevists if clothed and supplied wit
! munitions. But any allied military c
+, maintenance Of railroads. which are lis
migrating. The transportation pro
blem is dominant and must first b.
solved. l favor an allied commission Y
perative that the trans-Siberian railwa!
be saved, and American management
might logically entail guards for tn
! railroads"
Mr.. Wilson says bolshevisn is {
disease. Granting that it is. it is no
one which will respond to treatmen
by dieting. 1t is rather cancer tina
must be removed by surgery. promp
and drastic. Palliatives will not do.
Concerning military aid. Admira
Kolchaks opinion seems to be tina
the Russian army would be able t
suppress the bolsheviki and restor'
order if they had proper equipment
He is disposed to let Russia help her
self. but is anxious that she SHOULD
have the moral support of the Allies
to be evidenced by the sending o
shevism like autocracy is bold ant
bullying while it is in the ascendency
but is a coward when it meets rea
opposition. During all the time tina
our government has been dallyine
with the Russian situation. even com
ing at one time almost to the point O
giving formal recognition to the Dol
shevik government, the thing ha!
grown in power and in its own i'm
portance. And now, if the PROPOSE
ton to admit their delegates to tn,
peace conference should go through
bolshevism would attain the thing !:
is fighting for-establishment as al
international force which had wo1
recognition by the nations, and the
right to parley with them.
Thousands of German helmets ar,
now on their way to this country t.
help boost the Fourth Liberty Loa,
campaign. We feel a few whisps O
that famous waXed mustache ought /,