The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 1918 Page: 3 of 8
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The Independent
V. .1 'Arnett
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1.00 The Year In Advance
Telephone No. '.I
Published Every Thursday
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SenuUMe German* Vl-joiioes 3xe
Freedom ot the World and Russia
Can ai Laager Resist
By CLARENCE L. SFEED
•Stti.Tiitary of the W ir Committee of tlrn
Union Laajfie Club of Chn-n.-co.
Dr. G. P DAVIDSON
VETERINARIAN
A calls answered promptly day or nighc.
Phono
'.Ve are m this war with Germany
because it is a war for freedom mir«
truly than ever before was a war
filtered at the (TashiOIl, OkluilO- fmignt for the liberty of man. In tiroes
via Post C loe us second-class
nail matter Jor transmission.
A Russian so dier tired three
times at Trotzky but missed his
mark. Too bad that that Rus-
s.an solder had not been trained
• it an American rifle range.
The highballs dispensed to the
Huns by the Americans at St.
MihieUvtie evidently too strong
a >ncoction L'o." the square-heads
past, it is true, mea Have fought for
freedom from oppressors. Sortietina« s
they have won and sometimes they
>ia e lost. But always there has been
a place in this big world where those
who had lost in the strode at home
might go and tind a country where
tht-v might enjoy the liberty they
loved.
Now all is different. Tf the forces
which are fighting for freedom in this
war are defeated, there will be no
place Ln the whole world to which they
may go to find a refuge from Prus-
sian domination. Every land under
the sua wi'l be directly or indirectly
under control of the victor: and if
the victor is autocracy, freedom per-
| ishes.
The land where freedopa Is most ira-
J. K. POLLOCK
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
v i
Scientists say that the world i
jumped OOgs about three years minently menaced by the legions o
ago and the change amounted to ! Prussian autocracy, at this moment
two or three hundred miies. Well
is the land where unwonted freedom
temporarily has run riot and has lost
we are of the opinion that this the power to fight for itself—Russia.
part of Ok[ahoma landed where ^"J ar* for the 'f
the Arizona desert was formerly
located.
The state democratic conven-'
tion at Oklahoma • hty Monday j
did not ask Senator Gore to
speak Before leaving for Tuisa I
Senator Gore said: "Individuals'
come and individuals go as the
flowers bloom and 'ade " It
It seems that .he frost c i disc ru 1
Russia, and must continue to fight for
it until Russia learns what freedom
meats, and is again able to fight. If
we do not. freedom will die in Russia;
Prussian autocracy will rule and ex-
ploit the country for its own benefit:
and the very forces which overthrew
the czar will be turned against the
freedom not only of themselves, but of
other lands.
in years gone by. when the fores*
of revolution were showing themselves
here and there in Russia, they had the
sympathy of America In spite of the
methods of terrorism of which we
toward the policies of the Admin- ,i*<1 uot approve. When the czar and
the kaiser, leaders of autocracy were
IStratlOii in >.S war measures nas toe Iced in a death grapple, Russia sill
his former followers.
nipped Gore's personality among had our sympathy, because she was
fighting on the side of those who were
seeking to safeguard the world from
Prussian militarism.
When the czar was deposed over
night American feelings were mixed.
There was joy at the downfall of an
old. and sometimes cruel autocracy,
but there was fear that Russia would
become too disorganized to fight fur-
ther, coupled with the thought that per-
haps th£ revolution had come too soon
to be effective.
military Then followed the brief regime of
A few more lunges by the Brit-
ish in Palestine and the kaiser
won't have any Turkey Thanks-
giving day.
Question 7. in questionnaire
Mention any previou
experience you have had
length of service. Answer,
married 15 years.—M. S.
Republican Ticket
County Judge
John AI. Graham
County Attorney
VV. A. McCartney
County Clerk
Russel A. Frakes
Co^rt Clerk
George H. Laing
Sheriff
George F. Long
County Treasurer
F. D. Dakin
County Supt.
Sarah Listen
County Assessor
W. H. Meade
and Rerensky, when it began to look as
y though freedom in Russia mi^r be an
organized freedom, prepared to fisrht
J for its rlgfcts. and all America hailed
the Russian revolution as a blessing.
, It had becoru^ absolutely correct to
! say that the war was a war of democ-
racy against autocracy. No pro-Ger-
| man could longer point to the czar,
whenever an argument arose.
Finally came the bolshevik! revolu-
. tion, ' in which Kerensky was over-
thrown. Russian industry and Rus-
sian society were disorganized, and
Russian armies ceased to tight. The
: fcaigt't's armies pressed on unopposed,
took what they desired ln spite of a
signed peace, and Russia appeared to
i be about to pass completely under con-
trol of Germany. America st^od
aghast at the prank freedom iad
played, and American opinion turned
largely against Russia, but thinking
men refused to g®e up hope, Rus-
sia was and still i* incapable of otter-
ing resistance, but Russia is not re-
timed to autocracy. It devolves upon
others, to fight for the freedom Rus-
sia must have.
The experience of other nations has
been that men who loved freedom
were willing to fight for it, and to die
for it if necessary. The Russian at-
titude of nonreslstnnce was something
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Saturday Night
Sept. 28th
A BIG
DANCE
will be given in the
33AWN HALL
Cashion Okla.
Music by Ader s Orchestra
•ooooo: co >00000 roc000
ome! Bring Your Friends
V
e\v In he world, and Is hard to un-
derstand. The bolsheviki represent- ,
ed the extreme idea of liberty. To
them freedom meant not the right of
the majority to chjose their form of
government, but the right of the indi-
vidual to be free from all forms of
governmental restraint. They would
tear down the old order completely,
it oue stroke, aud set up the mil-
lenium. They would divide the land,
the factories and the tools among the
workers, aud have no masters hence-
forth.
Kven iu Russia, however, there were
dissenters. Some took up arms; and
the bolsheviki, who fought the Ger-
mans not at all. fought their brothers
most ferociously. The result was an-
archy, lawlessness, massacre, the dis-
organization of the railways and the
failure of the food supply. The inll-
lenium refused to come at the m« re
decree of the bolsheviki. It was shown
that there must be organization and j
government of some sort.
Russia will not longer fight side by
side nlth her fornier allies. So lu-
siduous has been the German propa-
ganda that, iu many instances, Russian
hatred of the allies seems to be deep-
er than hatred of Germany.
Cecil Wilson, of near Casion,
was awarded the first prize in
the county wee at club contest.
The prize awarded him v. as;
living expenses while attending
the State Fair.
Mrs. A. B. Webb returned from
Hinton, Okla., U>st Friday. She
had been visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Thrasher there tor several
days.
Me'. Stoner returned Tuesday
evening from a two days trip to
Lehigh, Kansas.
R. C . Allen is entertaining a
crippled foot, caused by over-
turning his car near South Hav-
en, Kansas. E. G. said while
Therefore the United States cannot passing some children who wit'
reader direct aid to the struggling peo- tlrjvinji a car he skidded into a
pie of Russia, She cannot send them .. . . . <•
armies and supplies, for they have re- ditch and a pittt o it u
fused to do battle for themselves. To shield run through his foot. He
fight for Russia she must fight on the js buying cattle now, on crutch-
western front. She .mist do her share
toward humbling the kaiser, and fore-
ing him to relinquish his grasp on the
Enst.
That Is why we cannot talk peace
with Germany as long as the kaiser
has one single Russian province uu-
derJiis heel.
For Sale — Kerosene in
lots at 15c per gallon.
(I. T. Stent
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Garnett, A. J. The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 1918, newspaper, September 26, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc107416/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.