Show I 4 fr I I r Russia A Awakening I r Il INDICATIONS TIO S a are e that bolshevism has has- run its S 1 course in Russia and that the future of this storm tossed countr country will be marked by a r return turn to a representative form of gave government From the outset intelligent people have held little tittle faith in bolshevism predicting the failure which seems imminent The Russian people have paid an enormous price for the experiment with Soviets They ha have ve suffered and sacrificed hoping the honeyed words of Lenine and would find fulfill fulfill- ment Listening to the tempters who vho declared I that the millennium was at hand they suffered themselves to a handicap of years in the march marchI of national progress Bolshevism came to the Russian people when they were worn and Veary weary with the burden of war The suffering and distress they felt in the discouraging ging days of conflict made them easy victims for false fatse prophets They grasped rasped th the I golden promise of of Lenine and Tr as a drowning man clutches a straw placing implicit faith in abstract and untried theories Everything that the tired human heart could desire was promised the Russian people in the new order Peace prosperity life without effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort absolute freedom for the individual these individual these were the promises of the new order It matters matters matters mat mat- little tittle that the wiser counsels saw that they were but but pledges of perfidy ma made en jn in the interest of confiscating the powers of oJ the state the state the masses failed to see and th the deception ion was made I complete I IOne One by one the promises failed under the test of time Russia is the last of the nations to see the dawn of peace Her prosperity has been mortgaged for years to come The promises of easy liv ng and complete freedom proved slavery I of the most abject sort So it is that the dream is dispelled and the Russian people awake to the cold realities of life When this realization is made complete bolshevism must must die a a contemptuous contemptuous con con- death and its leaders flee I Meanwhile the national treasury has been looted i the country has nas gone to ruin tI the e people I are are in a worse worse predicament than the French and Belgian victims of of- the war torn areas Russia's plight is but the inevitable result of a trusting faith placed in false prophecies Only Onty the bitter experience of years could prove them wrong |