The Arizona copper camp., 1920-03-06

elsewhere The vast 80 per cent Of
the people know what they want, and
have not followed any of the various
governments that have been organ
lied. The common people are deter
mined to have q voice in their own
future, and until they know that this
will be given them they will remain
passive. Nor will they trust the prom
ise of any form of Russian authority
unless the same is guaranteed by the
allies, and especially America, in
whom they have entire confidence.
"The allies have failed to under
stand this fact. The large majority
has not teen needed. We have tried
to build from the top down instead Of
on the solid foundation. The peasant
is the bulwark Of Russia and on him
we must build our future Russia
Never has he been reached by any Of
the governments. The only time
when it seemed as if he had under
stood and was ready to follow was
when the Czechs cleared Siberia of
bolshevism The peasant was happy.
He gave freely and gladly to the
Czechs because he trusted them. He
was ready to support any government
the Czechs would assist, for he seen
a real democratic army in which he
hod foi+ DA1ohox,;o,,o i i
in Siberia. Just as long as the Czechs
supported the new government, which
was at once organized, he, too, was
with the government. When the
change came, and the Czechs seeing
the trend of events, withdrew their
active support, so did he, and bol-
shevik propaganda at once began
work
A Common.Sense Fellow
Hence he is now either openly or
secretly against the government, for
the government has never done any
thing which might give him conf
dence. On the contrary, it has gradu-
ally been actively destroying any in
herent confidence that might have
been among the peasantry The gov
ernment has not realized that the
peasants condition is an economic
one, not political. His political plat
form is very simple-he simply does
not want the return of the old regime,
he wants to work and to obtain some
he wants education. He is a plain,
commoni sense man, and from him
much is to be expected. / find that
in my talks with him he does not deal
in platitudes and sophistries, but in
ordinary, good common sense The
intelligentsia say that he iseignoran1.
From their viewpoint he perhaps is,
but it is a pleasure to hear him an
swer yes or no to direct questions
and to clearly state his difficulties.
"In connection with the Russian
peasant it is worthy of remark that
few years ago an Englishman who
had lived years with the Russians
stated that Sometime America and
Russia will carry everything before
them by sheer warmth of heart
"The inherent natural traits of the
Russian are such as to make his peo-
pie great nat tion, but they must have
one and all. The peasant
knows this fact, but the intelligentsia
does not, and therein lies the diff
Guilty in establishing new govern
ment. The inordinate false pride of
die. They are all children and must
be treated as such.
"They cannot be left to themselves
to establish a firm government. There
are not great leaders, no executives
They must be led and guided at every
step. Here is where the difficulty
arises, for their false pride makes
them suspicious. They must be guild
ed and at the same time it must ap-
pear on the surface of things that
they are doing it themselves. Repre-
sentatives must te selected who can
lead the Russian and who at the same
time must keep in the background
and be rewarded only by the knowl-
edge of a deed we'll done. When they
get such men here it will not be diff
cult to handle Russia. Each man Sc
lected for Russian work should pos
sess such qualities. Hence anyone
coming to help Russia must be willing