is the method to make the realization of the revolution
impossible. And this is the reason why I consider it my duty to warn you
against adopting such methods.

It must be evident to the reader that Russia is at present being ruled
by a system of pyramided majorities, many of which are doubtful popular
majorities. In the name of the Red Party Lenin and Trotsky rule. They
themselves admit it. The dictatorship of the proletariat, and similar
terms are used by them in referring to their highly centralized control.
We Americans are in the habit of overturning state and national
administrations when we think one party has ruled long enough. Even a
popular war president at the pinnacle of his power found the American
people resenting, so it has been positively affirmed, his plea for the
return of his party to continued control in 1918. Can we as a
self-governing people look with anything but wonder at the occasional
American who fails to see that the perpetual rule of one party year
after year which we as Americans have always doubted the wisdom of, is
the very thing that Lenin and Trotsky have fastened upon Russia. Russia,
that wanted to be freed from the Romanoff rule and its bureaucratic
system of fraud, waste, and cruelty, today groans under a system of
despotism which is just as, if not more, wasteful, fraudulent and cruel.

There are sincere people who might think that because the Bolsheviks
have kept themselves in power, that they must be right. We can not agree
with the reasoning. Even if we knew nothing about the bayonets and
machine guns and firing squads and prisons, we would not agree to the
reasoning that the Bolshevik government is right just because it is in
power. We prefer the reasoning of the greatest man whom America has
produced, Abraham Lincoln, whose words, which we quote, seem to us to
exactly fit the present Russian situation:

"A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and
limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of
popular opinions and sentiments, is the only free sovereign of a free
people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to
despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a
permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the
majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is
left."--Abraham Lincoln.

The Chamber of Commerce of the United States has, through Frederic J.
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