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Friday, J iy 5 1918
THE RALSTON TRIBUNE
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WHY WE FIGHT
We are in this war with Germany
because it is a war for freedom more
truly than ever before was a war
fought for the liberty of man. In times
past, It Is true, men have fought for
freedom from oppressors. Sometimes
they have won and sometimes they
have lost. But always there has been
a place In this big world where those
who had lost In the strugle at home
might go and find a country where
they might enjoy the liberty they
loved.
Now all Is different. If the forces
which are fighting for freedom in this
war are defeated, there will be no
place in the whole world to which they
may go to find a refuge from Prus-
sian domination. Every land under
the sun will be directly or indirectly
under control of the victor; and if
the victor is autocracy, freedom per-
ishes.
The land where freedom Is most Im-
minently menaced by the legions of
Prusslnn autocracy, at this moment,
Is the land where unwonted freedom
temporarily has run riot and has lost
the power to fight for Itself—Russia.
We are fighting for the freedom of
Russia, and must continue to fight for
it until Russia learns what freedom
menns, and is again able to fight. If
we do not, freedom will die In Russia ;
Prussian nutoeracy 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 forces
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
did not approve. When the czar and
the kaiser, lenders of autocracy, were
looked In a death grapple, Russia still
hpd our sympathy, because she wns
fighting on the side of those who were
seeking to safeguard the world from
Prussian militarism. *,
When the cznr wns deposed over
night American feelings were mixed.
There was joy at the downfall of an
old, and sometimes cruel autocracy,
but there wus fear tliut Russia would
become too disorganized to fight fur-
ther. coupled with the thought that per-
haps the revolution had coine too soon
to be effective.
Then followed the brief regime of
Kerensky, when it began to look ns
though freedom In Russia might he an
organized fre«*doni, prepared to fight
for Its rights, and all Americn hailed
the Russian revolution ns a blessing.
It had become 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 holshevlkl revolu-
tion. In which Kerensky was over-
thrown. Russian Industry and Rus-
sian society were disorganized, and
Russian armies ceased to fight. The
kaiser’s armies pressed on unopposed,
took what they desired in spite of a
signed peace-, and Russia appeared to
be nbont to pass completely under con-
tro. of Genua ny. America stood
aghnst at the prank freedom had
played, and American opinion turned
largely against Russia, hut thinking
meu refused to give up hope. Rus-
sia was and still is incapable of offer-
ing resistance, hut Russia Is not re-
signed 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 nonresistance wns something
new In the world, nnd Is hard to un-
derstand. The holshevlkl represent-
ed the extreme Idea of liberty. To
them freedom meant not the right of
the majority to choose their form of
government, hut the right of the Indi-
vidual to he free from all forms of
governmental restraint. They would
tear down the old order completely,
at one stroke, and set up the mil-
Ionium. They would divide the Innd,
the factories and the tools among the
workers, and hnve no masters hence-
forth.
Even In Russia, however, there were
dissenters. Some took up arms; nnd
the holshevlkl, who fought the Ger-
mans not at nil, fought their brothers
most ferociously. The result was an-
archy, lawlessness, massacre, the dis-
organization of the railways and the
falinre of the food supply. The mil-
lenmm refused to corne at the mere
decree of the holshevlkl. It was shown
that there must he organization and
governmeut of some sort.
Russia will not longer fight side by
aide with her former allies. So In-
slduous has been the German propa-
ganda that, in many instances, Russian
hatred of the allies seems to be deep-
er than hatred of Germany.
Therefore the United States cannot
render direct aid to the struggling peo-
ple of Russia. She cannot send them
armies and supplies, for they have re-
fused to do battle for themselves. To
fight for Russia she must fight on the
western front. She must do her share
toward humbling the kulser, and forc-
ing him to relinquish his grasp on the
East.
That is why we cannot talk peace
with Germany as long as the kaiser
has one single Russian province un-
derbids heel.
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