Show A SAD STATE OF sOlETY Coant Tolstoi Thinks That ThJ > gs Are Be V ter In America Than Zis whore In tho London Standard given an admirable account of an in restiug interview in-terview which a Russian journalist has had with Count Leo Tolstoi The journalist had befcwhand apprised ap-prised the count of his inrntion and stated that tho theme of eJnvCTs 011 wished to start would be the vicious tendency of society or rlltf yi inbred Bin and the count cons Jd to give his ideas on the subject us follow Suppose for a moment said hot that six tigers had been brought ina solid iron cage to somo jaenagerio in the government of Tula Goon to sup poso that the beasts had broken loose and spread over the plain4ind forests attacking the inhabitants Naturally if these six tigers wero hived or caught and shut up again in th < jvr cages the mischief would bo at an eni Some people peo-ple seem to think that jSJit case of vicious vi-cious men is similar in1 which they are altogether mistaken jjfritinted human beings are nottigersinT la but wolves wolves which regrilfg pBrced there and have done so for I szferations and which it is abaolutel z > ajjossible to es terminate You propose tb ci4nt I declare that j KT that n mown m-own house fleas J IMlfing J it vould be strange for inT Hp catch these insects one bjvjD HHiuch suapler way is to clertjH BJBPtkc dust and dirt from the > < Kn > flej will disappear oft post i And wliat KB by 1l of the rapid tie lId chan Gi lliJ tendency h2 1Tpy this Wlow I even in theJjorro c tIt t-It is duo ue ensa THER and of love fOW so I ciety of tod Ine thing abnor H ost I its footing tJ is I conspicuous gazin sad Inbred sin zi JI pleads l to grewsomo cnsequencevM cially because be-cause it is never possiLlji to define tho form in which it is like y to manifest I itself or the vicidms predestined for it i If a dyffig horse in the Sweet lashes out j In spasms any pass rpy iby fall under I bishoof 47l Y u1iiv l J 4 4 Y gf r 13g ili i is all tfie same I mean an abnorpqa animal just in the same condition ran r-an abnormal manof vicious tend l1 oy And which nation do you consider I the most abnormal at the present time Americaiil French English Germans Ger-mans At any rate not Americans To their credit Y or WARitEl5 Septeni national self lan 4 in l-an abnormal particle August p-article on Arne or Utlans In which I did ° the latter with for L HaliidI UtafS I sent the MSS o eking would be accei eagerly ea-gerly as my 01 bit of it The different eclito n cepted and finaj frqct tQ Rtyt tQ England If not America count then > Why France Can nnybQdii onSid er France as normal where such things as Panama occur vere men occupy ing high positions in society are ready to commit any crime for gold Is that a normal state A thousand times nol |