The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-10
Our Attitude Towards Russia


i the most loathsome group of brigands cutthroats,
i oppressors and murderers that modern history
knows"
the learned editor his opinion and vents his wrath
in sentence There is to the article but 1t is al
equally bad Let
Since 1917, Lenn, and after his death, Stain, have
changed Russia from awful despotism to Communst
government. From largely uncvzed and backward
try to the second industrial nation in the world They have
lifted the people from state of almost utter ignorance to
degree teracy that being swiftly definitely improved
The Very Rev. Hewitt Johnson dean of Canterbury and third
highest church official of England considers the educational
system of Russia to be the most remarkable in the world
And all this in less than 25 Nowhere in the worlds
history there such record of achievement Remember
that these changes wrought in of 876468
square miles containing 1872 900 people The stage
which this drama enacted wide
When November 1917 the government of the fell
and this people with awful suddennes from
their political moorngs there doubtless thought in the
minds students of history that they would be thrown
into chaos and continue there for until order would be
SLOWLY and painfully restored and law establish itself This
would have been the the leaders of the Revolution had
not been strong and determined
The adherents of the old ORDER white Russians they
called and they had the backing of the
Allied governments who had just the But the Red
these people been unitedly the
Revolution, it could not have been done
These people had never known freedom. They had no
experience in working of governmental institutions They
had lived for centuries under Gar whose word law and
from whose decision there appeal.
The land owned by the crown the mobiles and the
church The Gar the nominal head of the state He
weak incompetent He dominated by Gar
the
bestial monk, Rasputin.
appears that it is we'll wipe despotsm
that exacts peoples blood and toll and gives them nothing
in return.
that Revoluionists not been harsh
They have They have wiped out the opposition In other
could much have been accomplished in short time
They have chosen Communism to live under. We may
agree with them their choice but it is still
of It is a matter of their internal policy
They have religious tolerance but have abolished the
church. This action denounced in countries have
state churches without tolerance Again. that the bust
of outside Russia their private problem and
they alone will have to solve it.
Curse their politics please but DO NOT forget that
form of forced them the outside
not possibly fit them so well as of their choosing
And their critics live under widely different
Why don't THEY agree the best form.
Curse them for their lack of religious institutions if you
want to- but remember that there be much religion
Russia there anywhere else That deeply
nct Also if religious people wanted to offer them
egon would take not less than hundred years
decide among just which your many
ietes you would offer them.
don't forget that both the Russian
church must have outved their usefulness they would
lot have down easily Men don't quit their old
If doing and thinking without
An oak tree stands in the forest thousand years
lad its period of growth maturity and decline So with
Institutions of When the heart of the sufficiently
often and gale hits it, its fall sudden and it's ruin complete
hat is what happened to Czardom. d
In almost precisely the span of years Ger
changed from constitutional monarchy respon
ble despotsm From country where science, music
terature lowered to military machine that has wed all
but science and has changed that from
rogress to of destruction
Germany has violated every rule decency and moral
She has made slaves of nation after nation with whom
had quarrel and from whom she had nothing
he pledged word of Hitler the counterfeit coin of speech
Ter history is being written in the blood of the innocent Her
rowh tree that watered with the of her
people and of her small neghbors Where Russia has
in the scale of freedom and government Germany
as fallen
For of the Russian revolution who has been
qudated Hitler through his monster Heinrich Himmer Il
lied tt
Yet the editor of the Montana Standard places the leaders
Germany above those of Russia. WE'LL let him It h
only his opinion and well to know where he stands He
not fit in with the thought of the nation whose mail
TRY his paper. NJ
Some of the high and mighty of the earth have cursed
aim Winston Spencer Churchill He characterized "
ain assassin of freedom All that Stain has
mated the regime of the Gear and Raspu But sup
that the honorable gentleman prefers that regime with
tyranny and degradation of its people to the order
Now Russia and England allies Mr. Churchill in 81
png the alliance said that he would of
ALL Its his story and he's going to stick to it. Has anyone
ked the honorable gentleman to unsay it? to
He that speech irrevocabe When clothed
thought words and them wings they