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sure because democrats are now and will continue to 

 be in control of the government of Russia. 



I believe this statement will answer your purpose. 



Yours very truly, 



WHARTON BARKER. 



EVOLUTIONARY REVOLUTION 



A good thing about the Russian revolution is that 

 it is not revolutionary. 



No reports come of confiscations or chateau burn- 

 ings. The gutters of Petrograd are free of blood. 

 There is no guillotine. The czarina, under suspicion 

 as another Marie Antoinette, lives safely within her 

 palace. Life and property are secure. The army 

 is urged to greater loyalty to national self-defence. 



The Russian people have rid themselves of the rule 

 of an essentially alien autocracy. They have scat- 

 tered the archives of the secret police. They have 

 made a beginning toward eliminating internal race 

 hatreds, and Russian, Pole, Finn, and Jew are to have 

 equal rights. But so far no further. The change is 

 great, but Russia is not to be made over at once ac- 

 cording to the principles of social revolutionists. A 

 republic Russia may have, but a republic that the 

 extreme Socialist fumes at as of the bourgeoisie. 

 There are political democracy and liberalism, but not 

 yet communism. 



The less the haste of Russia the greater is likely to 

 be her speed. If a Jacobin party shall arise and over- 

 throw the Girondins of the Duma, it is almost certain 

 a counter-revolution will occur, even as it occurred in 



