The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-01-19

begin to see for themselves; and the
effect will be that those poor fellows
in Russia whose course OF production
and of trade has been broken up by
the terrible events Of the last five
years, will begin to receive from Amer
ca some benefits other than the en-
ioyment OF mere rhetoric, something
besides empty words.
THE third thing | want to say is,
that Russia is the place for Americans
to fight and destroy bolsheyism. We
are fiddling around here with few
bolshevik agents, and We pick up doz-
en- &C hundred and make great out
cry IN the newspapers about deport
ing chem, few among the thousands;
and the men who have gained control
of Russia by the. use of German mon
ey. but the use OF mereenary troops, by
the exercise of tyranny and terror
ism and cruelty never surpassed in his
tory-those men are using the re-
sources Of that great, rich country to
pour out a steady stream Of propa
gandists, who laugh at our feeble ef-
forts.
I'VE are like the physicians who at
tempt to heal a mortal disease by a
pouItice upon the surface, instead Of
cutting to the seat of the infection
and curetting the wound. The way to
destroy bolshevism is to put, the
strength and heartiness and courage
and hope TO destroy bolshevism II they
can but have the means, to support
life and to hold themselves together,
and TO secure supplies and ammunition
and to pay their troops and to fur
nish them with shoes and clothes, and
to make head against that horrid group
OF cut throats and assassins and tyrants
who are now depressing them. That
is the way to fight bolsheyism. at its
center, al its source the source OF its
supplies and the source OF its strength.
And we sit idle, doing nothing.
~ have lost no faith in the future
Of Russia. II h but short time, less
than three years, since the c2ar was de-
throned We made our declaration Of
independence in 1870. and amid turmoil
and confusion and discussion, we
reached a settlement only in 1883, more
lNun lUuI litittN NUt DfiAtN thhA ho .
elapsed in Russia; and we had the ad-
vantage OF great and then unprecedent.
ed experience in the art of government,
for we had been building up self-gov-
eminent for century and a half, when
our American revolution came
How long it was before France =
France, with all its culture, its science,
its art, is literature, its polite man
ners before France achieved its revo-
luton and settled government after
IT, In 1898 she beheaded Louis ANl,
and then came the terror and the di-
rectoire and the empire and the restor-
alton and the second republic and the
second empires. and two generations
passed before she reached her goal OF
settled popular government.
"The English beheaded Charles | in
1919. How long it was before she at
tanned settled conditions. Eleven years
later she so despaired OF the success
of her attempt to secure popular free
dom that she went back in the restor-
alton Of Charles II. and it was not m-
iii what the English called the glori-
Gus revolution Of 1858. nearly 40 years
after that her affairs became settled.
Long before the expiration of the
periods in which any Of these nations
now at the forefront of popular self
government achieved settled conditions,
long before that period has elapsed, |
look to see Russia work out Der own
questions; work them out as she is
working them out now. through blood
she'd and suffering and travail, to the
contamination of strong and com
petent democratic republic. And
where win America be thenf A friend,
a true friends Or one faithless TO pro-
fuse promises with which we greeted
the revolution OF the Russian people
Every consideration of good faith, Of
honor, Of public policy, of selfish inter.
ests. conspires to make it the duty Of
American citizens to take thought now
upon how they can help Russia, prove