Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-03-14
'ome Features off The BsasAkssrenulal j edfERebellioa Are Point.
ed Out; And Reasons Giiyyss1nI. WY Movement May Sue
coed; Coup EtatL likkeeLlyytto 4 axe Place, With Result.
That Alexander Kerensky Become. Head Of New, Gov
eminent; Reports On Revolution Are Conflicting, But
Thesfact Of General Unnrestls Not Denied. \
lBy G. S. ~strandyoldl

& Hourly the dispatches arrive from
Moscow, Petrograd. Kronstadt, Hell
5singfors, Riga, London, Copenhagen.
elOne report contradicts the other.
Rarely is a dispatch confirmed-fre-'
fNuently denied. Details are, not given,
but the abrupt bulletins, form, taken
together in all their picturesque in
consistency. a story of revolution.
/ suffering humanity voices it's yearn-
stngs through the brief flashes OF news
and between the lines it is possible to
afead, in letters that can never fade;
the assurance hat whatever may hap
Spen these next, few days or weeks. the
great Russian nation cannot die, car
mot sink into oblivion.
S8aEE There. is a political and economic
Ssystem doomed to collapse. but the
sEnIatior. will live on, and will some day
Ssin a not, remote future, f1pd itself in
Fa position to appreciate the more, its
n prosperity because it
Nhas been writhing in the hell which
war and s%el1shness' built around it.
Il A,Fatoful Hour. /,
Even though4sthe news dispatches
from Russian cities and from neutral
and other centets are scattered and.
H. may NC SdnOl " b III
ed that the fateful hour of Bolshe-
vism at last has arrived. +
That theory, carried into practice
by men who were as constituencies as
they were Vainglorious,s will not sur
vive in Russia. Observers WHO have
watched developments closely for
months, have constantly predicted
thai. the Bolshevist collapse was ap-
preaching rapidly, and it has, in fact,
H.aoV Soi6 fror1,onf1>y thottfho 40 $oe-
trophe wouldstaks place%Searly in the
spring. ;iysiyy:s1ssssaa ~ :. y 3 3. 81, s#
guesswork. t1t was alogicaI eoncluss
ion, seemingly, Inevitable In view, OF
the premises, known to the outside
It may be, of c6urse; that the Bol !
shevist governmental physically
stronger than has been suspected. In
that s the anti Bolshevist rising
will fail-his. time. But 1t. will recur
soon, and then the end will come.
rs Leaders Unpopular.
One reason for predicting the coll
lapse Of Russian Bolshevism is the in
ideas, and leaders. The. immense
rural population of Russia has for a
time been intimidated intot obedience,
but it never believed in the doctrines
preached by Lenin and Trotzky.
The population of the cities has for
many months been disguised with the
Soviet regime. Pledges were given
.by the so-called government. Prom
Uses, which are always cheap, were
scattered all over Russia with gener-
,osity and clock-like regularity, and
they looked fine on paper. 4
But these pledges and promises
neyers:were fulfilled Hence the surge
Of dissatisfaction which now sweeps
p4rtsi1$stS4esn f1a The bloody name q
the revol1tl1n. Sss ~ 81 SO
ut was atone time fondly believed
that the Soviet administration would
he an essentially democratic one. 1t
was called representative, and a vast
machinery of county and district Sow
lets was built up, all being finally
fused into the ALI Russian Soviet: In
Sthe general body, however, only a
: handful OF. strong individuals ruled,
and not a single enduring reform was
accomplished.