The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-02-13
Idea Of Russia for the Russians
to Govern as They Please
Gains HeadWay.
GOMpERS SCORES BOLSHEvlSM
Germany objects to Extradition Of Ae-
cused OFFICERS and SoIdiers-Juoo-
Slavs Reject Adriatic Compromise
Edwin T. Meredith Appointed
Secretary Of Agriculture.
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARD.

Observation-Disclosures Siberia-fOr the
Russians, to do with as they please
and govern as they please, is the slo-
gan that seems likely to win in the
vast realm that the cars once ruled
And though just now the bolsheviki
are the controlling faction In almost
all Of European Russia, and in much
of Siberia. they are discarding much
of their 'bolshevikiness" and other
factions are coming around to the be
| lief that If they cease fighting, the
most radical leaders will speedily lose
their power and the country will set
tie down under liberal government
and will be able to make peace with
the rest Of the world. In southern
Europe the Don Cossacbs are still
holding out, though with waning
chances of success. In Siberia, when
the Czech forces have departed, the
liberal Russians will find themselves
opposed only by the reactionaries who
have the support of Japan. The latest
cables from Vladivostok tell of an
abortive revolution there by soldiers
who feared they were to be disarmed
by the Japanese troops, and therefore
started an uprising against the lib
erals who had planned to take over
the government peacefully. The reb-
els were taken prisoner by General
Rozanoffs student officers, after
which Rozanoff proclaimed amnesty
for all political prisoners and let the
peasant prisoners go home with their
arms. The Siberians. 1t is said, be-
lieve that their country will join hands
with the Moscow soviet government
as soon as the Japanese have left. and
that bolshevism will then rapidly dis
appear. How soon the japanese troops
will depart Is not known. The Ameri-
can evacuation is already under way
Delayed dispatches from South Rus
sia say the Cossack federation which
met I'm Ekaterinodar decided that they
would continue to fight the bolshevikl
unless their independence were rec
ognized. They wanted Denikine to
remain as their commander In chief
with the understanding that he should
have no voice in civil affairs. This
: proposition he probably rejected, as
later dispatches said he and his staff
had taken refuge on British vesse
, at Constantinople. Meanwhile the Dol
3 sheviki moving westward from the
; Caspian were threatening the Cossack:
D | in the flank and rear.
\ Admiral Kolchak. 1t develops, sur
l rendered to the Siberian revolution
5 lists on the advice of General Janin
the Czech commander, in order Il
i. avert a fight In which the Czech
: might have been annihilated. Kol
chak is TO be tried by court-martial
Russian officers under Semenoff's com
:, mand are so enraged against tn
Czechs that they have formed leagu
whose slogan Is Have Janin's blood.
In England organized labor contin
: ues to urge complete and immediat
peace with soviet Russia. at the sam
b time disclaiming any belief In tn
= soundness of the political and socis
+ theories on which the soviet Cover
ment Is based.
n Realizing how bolshevist props
a 1 &aDQd IN aUtTiCd Is itupciIihS III
American Federation of Labor, 1,
president. Samuel Gompers. has CON
out with an article In which he COZ
dennis bolshevism completely. fnall
= and for all time" He thinks that III
y propaganda which emanates froI
those who say they are quite free froI
&c Russian influences and Russian pa
n esnectaIIy dangerous and he decri<