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Show SOVIET FAILURE. The progress of the anti-Bolshevist forces has been sufficient to cause the soviet of Tetrograd to instruct the so-called so-called people's commissioners to propose pro-pose the beginning of peace negotiations negotia-tions with the allied powers. According Accord-ing to cable advices from Copenhagen the Pctrograd soviet is anxious to make peace on any terms. Conditions in the Kussian metropolis are said to have become be-come intolerable. Famine, disease and insurrection are doing their work. Meantime, Omsk advices are that the offensive undertaken by Kolchak in western Siberian sections is progressing favorably, although the exact nature of reported successes is not divulged. Sak-haroff's Sak-haroff's forces and the army under .Lokvitsky are pushing steadily past the Bolshevist front positions, whilo operations op-erations against the Bolshevists in the Lake Onega region are declared to have been so complete that London expects an early movement toward Petrograd. Ii may be that it is this anti-Bolshevist success which has frightened the soviet of the capital into ordering the opening open-ing of peace proposals. ' ' The failure of the soviet system of government in Russia seems to be thorough. thor-ough. Doubtless when the truth becomes be-comes known the world will be astounded as-tounded at the consequences of tho assassination as-sassination of common-sense which gave Russia into the hands of the adventurers adven-turers and half-baked theorists whose rule of the proletariat has proved to be the ruin of the social fabric in that once powerful and self-reliant nation. For orderly processes of government chaos has been substituted and the insane in-sane notions of social and fiscal management man-agement have engulfed tho proletariat along with the hated bourgeoisie and capitalists in the whirlpool of national disaster. And this is the system of government which American working-men working-men are asked to encourage and substitute sub-stitute for the government of their fathers! |