Show WEAKNESS wo cannot appreciate our own country except by comparison with other countries imagine some I 1 lady ady gain coins say from georgia or mississippi to europe to attend an international exhibition hibi bibi tion there and being belli called upon to make some remarks at sonic some meeting she being filled with tile tho wrath which filled her rn mothers others soul thirty years ago when rho ehe was born should hurl imprecations at the government dovci ot of tho the united states we all know that such an exhibition would simply P provoke a finite of pity in this country but it Is different on the other side bide under european rules a lady so 0 offending afen ding would receive notice from the government of the united states that 8 ahe lie could riot not return to her native state that Is what russia has done with madams madame modjeska modjeska Is a native of 0 roland poland ifer ancestors received certain indignities from the russian government that thought though t has hall been burning in her soul all her me life when she first came to this c country nou twenty years ago she was very bitter e r again bl russia at the exposition in chicago the she gave cave vent to her dislike of 0 that country dut cut she anil and her husband have been citizens of tile the U blied states lor for probably sixteen years and sho she Is not in a position to undermine mud and overthrow the russian government but attempting to visit her native home this last year russia promptly gave her notice that site she must not come the little incident shows how bow far removed russia Is from all thoughts of 0 freedom for the citizen and how dull Is the corn comprehension of those la in authority in russia to make buell a display as they have made toward wa rd the great actress because it if they I 1 had and paid no attention to her her words would have fallen harmless As it I 1 Is they are arc being picked up and learned by heart by the peasantry OF oc poland and the wrong done to macanic nod jeska Is simply in their jud judgment merit a continuation of the wrongs which car nest and patri patriotic otle poles have been re rc belving ever since before that unhappy country was merged with russia 1 doubtless madame modjeska was imprudent because it Is 13 imprudent to denounce anything when denunciation amounts simply to a venting of personal spleen but after the words were spoken it would have been a sign of 0 self respect and self conscious rec rectitude it tor for the russian government t to 0 have paid no attention to what tho the woman in her excitement said in the career of nationality russia has not yet passed her schoolboy days |