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Show RUSSIAN OUTLOOK. To encourage the American people, representatives in the United States of the Kerensky government have compared com-pared the new revolt in Russia to the I. W. W. disturbances in this country. 'We have been told that the followers of Leniue are but a handful, that they do not control to any extent outside of Petrograd. and that the mass of the Muscovite people are opposed to them. We should accept these explanations with reserve. The Maximalists and the city proletarians approximate, perhaps, to the I. W. W. of this country in numbers num-bers and in objects, but they are only a small part of the revolt which has taken control of Petrograd and Moscow. When officials of our own government pointed out that the Maximalists had cast only about 10 per cent of the votes in the recent elections, and when they took this as an indication of the weakness weak-ness of the new revolution, they "were deceiving themselves. The Socialist Kevolutionist party is the peasants' party. It is a kind of farmers' alliance with a Socialist programme. pro-gramme. It wishes to divide the lands more or less evenly among Russia's 1S0.000.090 inhabitants. And it is this party which gives the new revolution its power. In a word, the peasants and the proletarians of the city have joined forces. On the other hand, it is difficult to estimate the real strength of the Socialist Social-ist revolutionists. Recently Chernov, aiinistir of agriculture in the Kerensky cabinet, estimated that 80 per cent of the peasant population were Socialist Revolutionists. V.'e are assured by the Xovoe Yremya that only 1 per cent of the ;pulation ever has been in attendance at-tendance at the district meetings, and if this he true, we may suspect that Chernov i3 counting heads rather than hearts, so to speak. He has no means, of kno.ving whether the millions of pea-ants are heart and soul with the political party which a'-umes to represent repre-sent them. We know that the peasants, for the moii part, have refrained from carrying into en'-r-t the chief plank of 'ho Socialist Revolutionist platform. Ihv have not seized and divided the land. The -Maximalists have incorporated in 'heir platform this demand for a redistribution re-distribution of lan-l", their purpose be-Mig be-Mig to gain the support of the peasants, for without the peasants no revolution an suceed in Ru'-da. Most of the in-iinMlants in-iinMlants of Russia be.'ori:r to the peasant peas-ant class. It rcuiaioa to be -ran wh'-'her the ma-'.rity ma-'.rity of the peasants have any yennine -mpiitiiv for the v.ild-e.Vfd theories of J.einne and Trotzkv. the soap-box orator i'lorn .New fork's Kn-t Side. t.'s.ially the pedants of any Ian. I are in. lined 'o be conservative. They do not rosh to wild extremes. Tli"v move slowly, while the radicals of the city are led -wit'tly from violence to violence bv tjrebrand orators. eve-theleoUi lrn fjn, ,(, ,,r(1,.. tarians and the peasant, party allied by acts of their leader-. They are work-"'2 work-"'2 loge-i,er jn harmony for the present. The;.- J,a .! the f.ernl. hin. e of being able to control the government, not. only in l'etro..rad, led ! -..1,,-rr- , itmw,, and ''' tiir; ad lici ....,. ,,( important, units of the arm-.- and navy. And yet we well ni'i'.' doubt v.hether t.iere any unity of OKiiiori b.-aeati, the sarfa.-e of politi ' 11 "dcr-bip. We so-ped. that, rifts mav occur in the ranks of the tactions a a v ilnc, ' c taial .... , i, t i -tril,. ,t iom ol :" band b-gii,:. civil v.ar -.ill l,r";il out. I" '" l:rt place, ti,ere is not irioiiLMi and e- ej, iu Hio I,'a--ian eiupir,. to ..;,( it..' t i," .IC U .-. Of I "l,l(..:,. .,,i,., ''..',-ca.v there fire millions of pen-unit I ropr'cf ar ' v.fio woo!. I re-i-l the epro pi.alioil Of Hie',, laud-. If the ,-,.,,: 'ril.ulion is confine, I to Ihi- .ln.-. of 1 lie naail.t , I ,c, c , ; . ,, iu, I, I,., .i.id to go aru no -I. ;.ot onl Hie ,cas ." I ..-in I - - an! land, 1,,,! I he , , I -.-.url.f w well arc . I . in a ii . ! i u g tluur II..- aie all I,,,..,, el.n.cnl-. to i.c . a ! , -I .,; ! A ii, I v hal ,..ll! I ..,,. ol lei i t -,- V -i.il. I he in l ioll , a I e l',.,,' lug i..r Hi e land ' V. ill in, ,. I- ,,,i,l , ,.... , - - ,. nl.- ' '.'.' 1 1 nol ,...!.... in all , . .1 I. a I . . .,!! ,; ..- V. II ,,,,1 mill on-i of workmen be without wages and, fherefore, unable to buy food from the peasants ' We see at once what anarchy is threatened by the Petrograd theorists. Although they dream of obliterating a hateful system, ' ' they have nothing immediately to replace it. If they take charge themselves of industry they are i sure to fail because of disagreements. Where everyono is a manager there is no management. But it is not our purpose to demon-si demon-si rate the unwoi kableness of the socialistic, social-istic, commonwealth. We are merely eiting circumstances which indicate that the new regime in Russia is on the road to ruin from the very beginning. |