Show PLEA FROM TOLSTOI writes a better to the czar la of opples ed people A dispatch from london says with a petition of women begg ng to allowed to join their husbands in canada tolstoi has writ ten the following letter to the czar tens of hundreds of children suffer trials as heavy and of ten heavier under the present rel cloua persecution that in inconceivable mad ness spreads wider and w der over enss a but which enlightened men and the government have long come to regard as fut ie and stupid injustice I 1 have long felt it be my sacred fluty to endeavor before I 1 die to open your eyes to the senseless and horrible cruelties perpetrated in your name this touching appeal of the ivonen forces me to delay no longer thousands rhou sands and thousands of men deeply rel bious and thus representing the nation s truest and chie feet strength have been brought to ruin imprisoned in exile or driven forth from russ a take this matter into your hands heed not the counsel of the men who instigated the persecutions heed not an evil obstinate hard hearted man bom out of hie time nor a short sighted superficial man but revise or appeal all the existing stupid repugnant shameful laws enjoining religious persecutions which have long ceased to ex st in every civilized country except russia |