| Show communicated A ario POLITICS tem northern nort bern part of 0 scandinavia to 18 ha is well known inhabited by a nomadic people known as laps in toe the high latitudes where these people endeavor to wrest from nature a scanty living so BO agh agriculture culture is possible the soil being covered with me several v deml feet deep deeplon dee PlOt of snow during the greater part of the year but the laps possess in their reindeer herds all they need lor for their maintenance the flesh and the muk ot of these animals furnish their masters with food the skins are used hortents lor tor tents and clothing the ahe bones are carved into spoons knives and var various lotis utensils as well as ornaments ornament the sinews are made into threads threads thre aas a end and cords A lay lap to is considered wealthy when he possesses 1 deer an and many count their herds by several tho thousands uWe the habits of these reindeer are pe C ullar cullar they know ow instinctively where to go for and the owners have to f foiw t their animals on their yearly wanderings wrin rings 1 which are very reg ular ularand and ex extend tend from the coast 0 of f the atlantic to the coast of the white sea it now appe appears armi that the russian government have prohibited the laps mm entering the russian assian domain ou on i the customary routes new routes are laid out anybody who knows the knows what this means toe the reindeer relo deer will instinctively follow their meir customary routes and it is a next to impossible to drive them any other way A prohibition to prevent the laps from travalo trav ilak llo on their usual roads means nothing less leas than endless trans gres sious on me lae part of these wandering cu children ildren of nature for which they cannot cauuet by any rule of justice be held beld accountable it means mat atie hussian overn meLt will roii rot 1 lueke poor wretches of their only means of subsistence their herds will gradually dimi diminish dimini nisa and th the people be slowly starved to death this is another instance of the cruelty and violence ot of man an outrage watch the civilized powers ot of europe augut to prevent it if possible or at least to protest against the laps in question are swedish subjects and it is all that the cruel tion Is aa to provoke a quarrel with that power in order to sive give russia an for seizing ing upon the northern parts of acau di navia a project which the great mant aas in order to obtain a harbor tor lor her fleet murd more convenient than is now to be found in the vast empire |
