Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-18

ties for growth among civilized ma
tons.
Now is the time for US to put our
selves on footing with Russia which,
in the days to come, when the skies
have cleared and order is re-estab-
lished, will make the Russian people
and the American people co-partners
in the exchange of produces which will
benefit both.
Other Nations Active.
"Other nations are doing it. The
Canadians are doing it, the japanese
are doing it, the Germans are doing
it; many others, We alone, with all
our enterprise. with all our Initiative
with all the habits and traditions and
the capacity for affirmative and Wig
orous and progressive action, built up
in the course of the last century dur
ing which we have made this the
great country what it is--with all that,
we alone hang back, That is some
thing which now the business men of
America can begin to see for them
selves; 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 re-
ceive from America some BENEFITS
other than the enjoyment of mere
rhetoric, something besides empty
words.
THE third thing I want to say is,
that Russia is the place for Ameri-
cans to fight and destroy bolsheNisn,
We are fiddling around here with
few bolshevik agents, and we pick up
a dozen or a hundred and make
great cutlery in the newspapers about
deporting them, a few among the
thousands; and the men who have
control of old Russia by the use of
German money, by the use of mer-
cenary troops, by the exercise of
tyranny and terrorism and cruelty
never surpassed in history-those men
are using the resources of that great,
rich country to pour out steady
stream of propagandists, who laugh
at our feeble efforts.
1--WE are like the physician who at
tcmpts to heal mortal disease by i
poultiCe 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 of prosperity into the peo-
selves to destroy holshcyism IL they
can hut have the means, TO support
life and to hold themselves together,
and to secure supplies and ammum-
ton and to pay their troops and to
furnish them with shoes and clothes.
and to make head against that horrid
group of cut-throats and assasslns
and tyrants who are now expressing
them. That is the way to fight boil
shevism, at its center, at its source,
the source of its supplies, and the
source of it's strength. And we sit
idle, doing nothing.
Has Faith i'm Future.
Il have lost no faith in the future
of Russia 1t is but short time, less
than three years. since the car was
dethroned. We made our Declaration
of Independence in 1776, and amid
turmoil and confusion and dissension'
we reached settled government only
in 1889, more than four times the
period that has elapsed in Russia; and
we had the advantage of great and
then unprecedented experience in the
art of government, for we had been
building up government for CEN
tury and a half. when our American
revolution came.
How long ii was before France
France with all it's culture, its science,
its art, its literature, its polite man
ners--before France achieved its rev
olution and settled government after
It, In 1893 she beheaded Louis XVI,
and then came the terror of the di-
rectoire and the empire and the re-
storation and the second republic and
the second empire; and two genera
tions passed before she reached her
goal of settled popular government.
1.-The, English beheaded Charles |
in 1919. How long it was before sha
attained settled conditions. Eleven
years later she so despaired of the
success of her attempt to secure pop
ular freedom that she went back in
the restoration of Charles H., and 1t
was not until what the English called
the glorious revolution of 1858, nearly
forty years after, that her affairs be-
came settled
Long before the expiration Of the
periods in which any of these nations
now at the forefront of popular self
government achieved settled condi-
tons, long before that period has
elap sed, look to see Russia work out
her own questions; work them out as
she is working them out now, through
bloodshed and suffering and travail.
to the consummation of a. strong and
competent democratic republic. And
where viii America he then? A friend.
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