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Show A WOBBLY ALLY. H Three years ago if anyone had said that American B safety and prosperity depended in the least degree on such H , a remote creature as the Russian peasant, he would have H been called crazy. Yet the stock market, which reflects H business temperature, rises or falls according to the news H from Russia. H If the crackpots and featherheads of the new regime H .-seem to have the ear of the dazed and bewildered moujik, H i down go our stocks. Obviously if Russia is to be a quit- H ter, the American task is made twice as great and the war B 'prolonged. K Russia is simply crazy if it imagines it can play any Hj lone hand. The domestic nations will have to hang to- B gether or hand separately. If one of them defaults on the H field of honor, who will go to her help next time? The H 'dreamy Socialists of Russia think they are working for Hl a Utopian peace where the lion and the lamb shall become H playmates and everything be lovey-dovey. Actually they H; are playing the Kaiser's game and should be rewarded H. i with the iron cross. H Also if Russia is to be a real republic, it must have a H' Teal election and have it right away. The excuse is given H; that the peasants are too busy farming to stop and elect H' their officers. If that excuse had ever been given in this H i country for the postponement of an election, it would H have been obvious that it was contrary to some one's in- H 'terest to let the people have a voice. Provisional govern- H' -ments usually provision themselves only. It looks as if H the crowd in control at Petrograd were fearful of the H '.sober sense of the Russian masses. H America is represented at Petrograd now by an able H -mission. Meanwhile let us all remember that it is for B ! the interest of our enemies to see that all this unrest is H -reported to Russia's allies. There used to be riot and dis- H order under the old regime, but it did not get by the cen- H fsorship. |