| Show I IX Chicago That there thero should be bl more or lees ies 0 Of oC bewilderment and nM mystery In the tho th stories concerning Count ex cx excommunication communication his tile connection with tho lb students riots antI and his banishment Is III I Inevitable from the system of ot news new suppression lon which prevails In Russia The fhe of the students outbreaks In ii St Petersburg occurred on the of o March but there herO was nothing In the tb local papers on the tha subject until March 10 19 I On iDa that date an nn organ The Tho Government Messenger printed a II review of o the disturbances from tho tb beginning under r strict Instructions from the authorities but no other paper wits was WI allowed to feay tin n a The St Petersburg and the tire larger public outside were vere compelled to get their In Information Information information formation from om the single report col colored color ored or d to suit the thc om lal taste Springfield That Tolstoi Inn his hlA old oM age has hils tuner been b en banished from sl seems Incredible Political expediency It If no other reason renson of at state stale argues against so extreme a 1 course Such evidence ns as Is allowed to t percolate through tho the censorshIp consor shows that the tho great author anti and reformer Is IR h popular The rumor of nf his expulsion needs to be verified Boston Transcript As we have hUI already said sAhl with reaped respect res oct octto to her present unrest Russia la Is yet et dominated from czar to tn peasant by n 1 ii system hl h line has been the tho development of centuries Site She cannot escape It In a 11 year or even een a generation He ICe covery Is III slow Time is the tM physician which must work tho the change Doubt Doubtless Doubtless Doubtless less Tolstoi would be bo willing to endure tho the pains of exile could he ho carry with him the tho assurance that thai he had hall been teen n a factor In the creation of ot a II new Hussla and an If It he lie is without honor In his hili own country countr so far as the government Is concerned It must be remembered that the whole broad civilized world Is III his 1118 country and the whole human brother brotherhood brotherhood brotherhood hood are arc members of ot this his family Baltimore Sun While criticism of ot modern Christianity will evoke voke nn an Indignant protest protect from rom millions of at sincere men mn and women thoughtful people Jeo le general generally generalI ly I will concur In what he hI has to tn say nay la about the evils of militarism There Thero liftS ban been a 1 sail pad recrudescence of the Iho military spirit In tn the past few years anti and the tho world Is more titan than ever an nn armed armell camp We Wo see ace the growth of this spirit among tho the peoples as 05 well as nil among the nations of Continental Europe Abolish the tho Im Un Immense menso mense standing armies mind and as the tho nu humanitarian well says the tho world will wilt be vastly better brUer because when whon there thoro are arc no armies tho th oppression op res ama sion to which the lie nations are subjected will disappear of themselves Worcester Gazette banishment will not affect the tIre spread and anti growth of the tho seed need which ho has been sowing Bowing for tor po so many years among the tho people Others will carry on tho the work ho lie had begun and even cven from afar he will yet et be able to oversee and direct the forces which have llave been loyal loal to him through all his struggles to secure SHuro ft n larger larr measure of freedom social anti and religious for tor the country and the Uie people with whom ho leaves lenns his heart In his banishment Sacramento lice Dec BeeThe The Tho count Is what may be called a II Christian Socialist far from danger dangerous ous Us While he ho has hall openly open 1 opposed ed the theIn institution In of royalty and amI class privileges rh leges of nil all sorts he ha tuna has condemned every ewry VOr form of violence Iolene and disorder There Is nothing of ot the tie Nihilist In his hll composition Ills His teachings are much like Ike those of ot Jesus Jenus so IO far tar as worldly life ife lit and moral conduct are arc concerned tad And he ho has ha sacrificed In hUt hlA own person nil iii distinction of or rank and caste c he garbs himself like n a peasant ant tolls toils in inthe inho the tho Held anti and nt at his bench and no so lives Ihs tho lie life lICe of or Industry and thatto that ho to would have halo others follow New Now York World Of at course there are millions of Hus Mans lane who believe o that Tolstoi has told them hem III m the tb truth that he has hn helped them hem with his mind as III with his hand hanl Lath puree purro Of Ot course courto these million millions read irati further oppression of at themselves In a tho the bitter punishment of the count But lut the church and government have nothing to do with all that What Shat Is la absolute power but vanity If It It must conciliate a mere mer public sentiment Tire The Iron Is the lie thing tiring In Russia Hussla But today that hand trembles even as It crushes and there thero Is III a faint heart henrt In tile the Imperial hotly body ball back of the tho lie outstretched arm of ot authority Tolstoi H is I out of the tho empire but hut his hits Ideas Ideals remain They rhey cannot be ban banIshed banished Ishell by any ukase nor killed by any decree |
