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Title: A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1897.
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: United States. President Richardson, James D. (James Daniel), 1843-1914, comp
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Publisher: New York, : Bureau of National Literature, Inc.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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the Soviet regime beyond the most narrow boundariesto which a discussion of an armistice can be confined. That the present rulers of Russia do not rule by the will or the consentof any considerable proportion of the Russian people is an incontestablefact. Although nearly two and a half years have passed since theyseized the machinery of government, promising to protect the Constit-uent Assembly against alleged conspiracies against it, they have not yetpermitted anything in the nature of a popular election. At the momentwhen the work of creating a popular representative government, basedupon universal suffrage, was nearing completion, the Bolsheviki, al-though in number an inconsiderable minority of the people, by forceand cunning seized the powers and machinery of Government, and havecontinued to use them with savage oppression to maintain themselvesin power. Without any desire to interfere in the internal affairs of theRussian people, or to suggest what kind of government they should
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PROHIBITION CELEBRATION. The foregoing illustration shows a procession of prohibition advocatescelebrating the advent of prohibition in the United States by constitutionalamendment. Other celebrations of the occasion were held indoors, and wereof a somewhat different character than the parade shown on the opposite side. Woodrow Wilson 8865 have, the Government of the United States does express the hope thatthey will soon find a way to set up a government representing theirfree will and purpose. When that times comes the United States willconsider the measures of practical assistance which can be taken topromote the restoration of Russia, provided Russia has not taken itselfwholly out of the pale of the friendly interest of other nations by thepillage and oppression of the Poles. It is not possible for the Government of the United States to recognizethe present rulers of Russia as a Government with which the relationscommon to friendly Governments can be maintained. This convictionhas

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