Arizona republican., 1919-04-13

ence of the United States upon Rus sias tomorrow. The present turmoil in the great empire, following the bitter lessons of the Russo Japanese war, has taught the peasantry a wondrous les son-that he can exist without the city, but that the city is helpless with out him. lncesSant strikes in industrial centers have curtailed the production of shoes and clothing and farm inn plements and many other manufac- tured articles. But the cry of the city for wheat and potatoes and wood has been unceasing. What could be more simply logical, then, than the ultima tum of thepeasantry: "No more food and fuel unless you give us tools and clothing? It seems to me the die of Russia is cast in that finality. And Ernest Poole has observed the rock upon which all Utopian ideas of Rus slan government will be broken, until the peasant dictum is recognized and obeyed. And, again, right here, in this new economy, Russia faces the turn ing of the tables. out of this simple equation-food and fuel for tools and clothing-may come leaping the puresr democracy of the world, the rule of the Russian peasant.
 This rule will not be an unsafe one If Poole reveals to US truthfully these people. They are grounded in an ad- herence to simple justice, deep right eousness, and broad freedom in per- sonal privilege. Where will democracy find firmer soil, more solid root anc stronger development?
 The heart-cry of Russia. the honestly pathetic appeal that finds ringing echo in the United States, is the uni. versal need and greed for farm ma chinery. Flows, tractors, wagons, har- vesters, even the simplest tools, arc lacking. The earth, black and fertile like it's people. is pregnant with i'm measurable life. The hearts and hand. of the men and women are itching tc do labor. The world about her is starving, and she can feed her world If the United States will furnish the utensils
 The peasantry of Russia is not poor It is thrifty, and just now. when money will buy neither shoes nor overcoats it scorns money. Once let the route o freight into agricultural Russia bt clear, and manufacturers of the United States will soon have Tn Russia a mar. ket for land instruments that will b, unprecedented, and the land of the Clark people" will feed the starving nations of Europe with lavish hear and hand. For nine- tenths of Russia is peasantry.
 Mir. Poole left Russia before the bol sheviki movement had assumed impor tant powers. In his treatment of thi! feature of Russia's affairs, although very brief, he is not unfriendly to tha regime. He is inclined to place con siderable confidence in Lenine an, TrotZky. He hopes for a quick solu ton. but he is not sanguine of it. N, revolution of any kind will prevail il Russia, he seems to believe, that is no i founded on the intelligent peasantr, and their fundamental interests. Thu ! far. no radical movement has taken tn dark people" into potential considera tion. There is a powerful co-opera l tive organization existent in Russia and it is growing. Some incline t think that the last word will be spokel by this body of producers.
 1 The book is a revealing one, an in structive one, and throws Russian req I life as it is into the foreground. l 1 is well that we here in the Unite States, who possess the love and con 1 fidence of the Russian people, shoul begin to understand this mighty neigh
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