Show mm drad DEAD CHIEF C HIEF russian peasants fall on knees before urn of ashes member of american commission to new empire explains keys to their political play the keys to the russian political play are alter after till ill simple and to be found in simple events says charles 3 rdward award russell who was wag sent by president wilson with the american commission to new russia here Is one ona simple as he gives it in hearses He arsts magazine I 1 there Is a place on the ams siberian railroad called passing point no 37 a brown little speck on the illimitable emptiness of the siberian plains on the of may there camo came marching arching in up to it a procession of farmers about forty of them thein I 1 think carrying red flags flag they tramped solemnly along what hat in siberia by a violence of speech Is called a road and Is in fact not otherwise othenia e than a biall of ruts in black gumbo mud A passenger train was coming fro from in the past east fr from am vladivostok at al inri iniz point no 37 it tools took the sidetrack to wait for the train it was to meet inept of a sudden the feua acro seen to line up in fiant of the bagger car to fall on their luces there to lift their hands in attitudes of prayer the while they uttered strange walling wal I 1 ing arlei and ninny many wept i I 1 what AN ere they crying about they bad learned that in that baggage car were tile the aspios of a russian revolutionist ti tion an old time hero of the long on long struggle he had been condemned by the czar to one of t ce e worst prisons in coldest siberia he had man aged to escape and in the end to get tv tu america there he died and his body atvas cremated now his ashes in a draped memorial urn were being carried in state back to that free russia h hi had dreamed of and suffered lor for kut but note of the peasants that fell on their knees roces before that handful of dust that alay shout about one half could not read all of them you might think lived in a region farther from the world and its affairs than is cape nome from tile the bowery yet ull all of them knew well we enough the name of this dead hero find j nil all his deeds and instinctively all knelt before his bis ashes that they might testify at once their reverence for him and the fervor of their own flonary faith but what did that procession mean wondering red flagged along the black ruts of lonely siberia it meant that I 1 the peasants were making a demonstration demonstration about what why if you will believe me against tho the austrian governments sentence of death against frederick adler slayer of the austrian prime minister and there you are that Is russia also you may see in this incident how deep in the heart of every peasant and toiler tire are at least the rudiments of the revolutions creed I 1 |