The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-08-02

Should Germany organize Russta's one
hundred and eighty millions OF people. II
would mean two hundred and fifty mill
lions Of their people over against TWO
hundred and twenty-five millions or the
ullics. Their land also would be Il COM
pact land OF nearly eighty thousand
miles from the Rhine to Port Arthur
while the allies land: would be widely
separated. Before the war the Germans
largely controlled the banks. factories
mines and railways of Russia. In the
list of Russian directors the German
names represent an astounding condI-
ton Germans who had migrated to RUS
STA had climbed 10 place and power.
| They knew not only the German langu-
age and the Russian. but they had mas
! tered the English and the French. and
, therefore they were the commercial
: links between Russia and the allied
wn.'ld. During these years Germany
mcrcilcssly exploited Russia. and during
. the period of the war Germany ruined
Russia Under the car and under Len
! Inc. the Russian people have been con-
! trollcd by able foreigners.
! The essential characteristic Of the
! Russian people Is their submissivencss.
: The Slavs in the Balkan regions have
| often exhibited Il strong love of freedom
! and independence. but the Russian Slar
: las pa%SIvely submitted TO alien rulers.
Their patience. their fataliSm. their
dreamy Incidence have been celebrated
rs virtues instead of forms of weakness
! by many Russian novclists. Nothing Is
| rskcd in the statement that the Rus
! sans are the most plastic race in the
world. They have been in the past as
clay in the hands IF tn" potter. and too
often the car potter has been the son or
tI,,, a g hu lf-Ib n sc
| father. II is r singular fact that every
successor of Peter the Great, with one
! exception. have married German women
, with III" result that tho Slav
blood was diluted I" almost moth
ing. until tn" cars palace was
filled with German advisers and his
children were educated by German gov
, C:ncsscs. and the atmosphere WAS GER
man rather than Russian atmosphere.
Multitudcs of these Germans of official
. position took Russian names. just ms Leo
. BrUnStcin took tho name Of Trotzky. as
camouflucc
The vastncss and the resources Of
Russia are always in III" mind of the
German He cannot forget that Russia :
thIriy-thr'c million horses. iifiy-one mil
lion cattle. ScV'Ety-thrc" million sheep.
ur" far ahead Of the herds IN the United
States. Russia not only produces the
the wheat. and rye. oats and barley.
b cts and potatoes. apples and pears or
our north. hut sh" produces the rice,
cotton tea and oranges of our southern
states. Tho prevalent notion that Rus
sin il poor in minerals j. erroneous, for
the explorations show coal iron. copper,
gold. platinum and natural gus. OIL with
. twC-thirdS of the oak. elm. maple and
forests for factories Of the world. TIL"
, rate OF growth of Russia. during tn"
last one hundred years shows that with
in this century she will have seven hum
drd millions Of people. II her resources
are developed she Will leave tn" United
States far and away behind in popula-
t!un. wealth and III agricultural. mineral
and industrial production. She has
nearly eight millions Of SQuHr" miles or
land against IN" United States nearly
three millions Uf sQuar" miles. and her
proportion Of barren land IS about the
same as that nf our country.
Today several motives ar" combined 10
draw Germany and Russia together
/, There g the desire Of tn" Germans to
exploit Russia. and also the necessity OF
Russiu for leaders. There arc tho mutual
hostility OF the German and the Russian
people toward tho Pole. And third. there
is tho rcvulsion Of tho Russians from
the Bolshcvism that is the most lawless.