Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-25
AS KERENSkY Sees RUSSIA
Former Leader Looks For Salts.
factory Outcome.
OUTSIDE SHOULD QUIT INTERFERING
The People Are Not in Symapthy
With Lenine's Ideas; But They Rec
osnize the Existing Government as
Representative ct Russian Sover-

Tomely but facinating is Alexander
Kerensky, erstwhle Russian leader
as Vicente Blasco Ibancz. the Spanish
novelist, picturesQuely but with char
acteristic good nature. portrays him
Slender, exotic, interesting, and Of an
original ugliness-"ugly as only Rus
slams are ugly"-thus the Russian
looked to Ibanez when the Spanish
novelist took walk with the ex-Rus-
sian premier about the streets Of Paris
recently, and the premier told the
novelist what he thought about Boil
shevism. Ibanez says he first met
Eerensky in 1917 when he sought out
the Russian because he was eager to
see a man who could make speech
twelve hours long and get away with
it. Now, on closer acquaintance.
lbanez opines that <erensky could
make a speech even twenty-four hours
long and not be affected in the least.
The Russian has a mouth like cod
fish. we are told, and when he perks
up his lips to speak the result is
cross between a megaphone and the
horn Of a trombone. He will sit Or
walk for long periods without saying
:. word, his yellow-green eyes half
closed "Then suddenly something
takes place inside him. An enthus-
iasm begins to stir deep in his spirit
ual organism His face is transtig-
ured, we read, his forehead seems to
grow higher and broader, all the bril-
lancy Of the yellow in his eyes is re-
vealed, and he begins to speak. His
voice booms out "strident. resonant.
metallic. vibrant as bell" and pass
ars-by pause and look around to see
what's happening. When he converses
in a closed room the walls seem to
shake, and one wonders whether the
people upstairs will not be calling
the police" while "out in the Bo!s de
Boulocne he always seems to start 4
breeze" 1t was this wonderful voice
that kept 4 million soldiers at the
front in 1917, we are assured, and
IbaneZ adds: You can listen to 1t by
the hour without getting tired Of it,
The former leader has kept close track
Of the tread Of events in his native
country, and he expressed himself
freely to Mr.. lbaneZ regarding both
the past and the probable future Of
Russia. Kerensky's opinion is that no
military man will ever put an end TO
Bolshevism. Wrangel will go the way
of Eolchak. Tudenitch. and DeniEin.
he thinks. In his own WORDS, Lcninc
will never he overthrown till he is
left face 10 face with the Russian
people, without intervention of any
kind from the outside He deplored
the interference Of the Allies in Rus
sian affairs, especially the blockade.
This outside interference. and the at
tempts made by anti-3olshevik lead
ers TO start cnunter-revolutions, have
served, in Kerensky's opinion. to keep
the Russians from giving attention to
their own internal condition. If Rus
sia were opened wide 10 intercourse
with the rest Of the world everybody
would bet "close-up" of I.cnIneS
paradise. thinks Kercnsky, and then
it would he all off with Bolshcvism.
The account o: Mr.. llanez's interview
with the Russian appears in the New
York World, and contains, among
other things, the story of kerCnsky'S
downfall as related by himself:
You see, had two formidable
enemies to fight: the Czarists and the
Red" extremists Oar new Russian
Republic had been organized demo-
cratically b" the Constituent Assem- :
bly,. Our own government was SO.
cialistic but OF the so-callcd reform =.
ist type, recognizing the value OF the
individual and of human liberty, re-
pudiating the class struggle. ANA
trying to remedy injustice by pro
gresSivc experimental reforms and
not by unrealizable ttopias. You
known what happened. Incredible as
it may seem, the Allies refused 10
support me. They sided with the
CZarists, and the result was Eornilcf:'s $
uprising. or course, it was easy 10
put that movement down, but the i'm
mediate consequence Of il was thh'
The soldiers lost what little respect
for their officers they still had let.
They thought the military leaders
were hostile TO the revolution. TE,
Entente, by halasSinS me In this WAY.
cleared Il level path for the trump,
Of RolsheviSm.
Alr. kcrcnSky expressed the opin-
ion that the Russians apparent adhe-
Sicn TO RolShevisln is not due to their
love for I.eninc and his works so much
as to their fear that tho monarchy may
be restored. In the hatred the RUS
sian people felt for The old regime
lies the secret Of the stability of the
'T2ed" rule i'm Russia. he said. This
also explains. according 10 kerensky
the troubles of the generals who start
counter The people -:r
always afraid such moves may brin"
the Gar back and restore the land tG
the mobiles. and SO they arc ready tc
oppose il tooth and nail. for. little aS
thn,- like cOpInIIniSn they feel that