Show MAXIM INDIGNATION The Russian novelist Maxim Gorky has been writing some Indignant let letters letters letters to friends in Russia regarding the manner In he has been treated here G complains because be ause several hotels have refused to permit him to remain ther e with the woman with whom he is traveling and to whom he heis heIs heis is not mar led He indulges in a lot lotof lotof lotof of gush about being wedded to his companion by Gods laws law and all that sort s rt of ro rort iott tr the sort that men have used from time Immemorial to justify offenses good morals Gorky seems to have specially bitter feelings against aga st Mark lr rk Twain as he has proclaimed that Twain because he re refused refused refused fused to have havo anything whatever to do with Gorky will never again be popular popular popular lar If Russians generally gener indorse the Gorky code of or morals If it they believe it Is proper for a man to leave his wife the mother of ot his children and travel about the world with another woman whom he intro introduces introduces introduces I duces as his wife then Mark Twain can very well afford to be unpopular In Russia It is altogether to the credit creditor of or Mr Clemens to use the writers own name that he would not give countenance to Gorky And It is altogether to the credit of or orthe the American public generally that Gorky Is discredited here that his mis mission mission sion zion has been made a failure We be believe belIeve belleve lieve In liberty here we believe In giving gIvIng giving ing aid to the oppressed of any land and of every land but apostles of free freedom freedom freedom dom must come to us with clean hands their personal lives and characters must be above reproach The Gorky case has served to give notice to the world that the American people believe In the sanctity of the home that wives and mothers must be honored and re respected respected respected and that no man however great however honored he may be in his own land can come here and vio violate violate yb late our most sacred conventions |