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Show jHjft - HZZiZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ It is true that America docs not exile wt 'If 0110 '',en'1 or nnn onc 011 ne Kn"0ws lair AnitaritPflYl r Pro'e3t"'g ngainst the government. Hut ItHlf' , i nevertheless it has its lynchings and, what LjVJI Ijibcrty is far worse, its judicial murders. It has ItBBL w its great railroad casualties by which thou- t l -S , Eands arc killed by the criminal carcless- S DoOIllCd nc?s 'lc rtn' corI'ora''ons) aI1d besides .,1' - i by tho rich. i f I f By COUNT LEO TOLSTOI. 4 All this proves that government can ,.1 .ft; not improve the moral nature of man, and ij Wi ZSIZIZISSIZZZSZZZ that brute force always defeats its object. 'If There can be no coercion of the fouI. Every i ! jb law must havo the sanction of the free will. I ' )r Where America surpasses Europe is in its personal liberty, which is the horitage of a rnco of heroes. But this is doomed to be extinguished by lu x the legislatures of n time-serving generation. The greatest indictment against any country is the prcsencb of capital punishment which exists in 'SRHMHI i such form as if Christ hnd never been born., Tho judge WM-t " t' who scntcnces'.h criminal to death is ten times more j guilty himself. Oh that ideas of humanity could end W'1 ) this tyranny, this black hyprocisy of legal procedure im i 1 tinder which so inany crimes are committed ngainst HS '"'H $ 'I' humanity! , j W 1 ' ' Yet the Joot of nil tho evils of civilization lies in f; $ the perverted teachings miscalled Christianity. Tho ' w'iS y, & I I modem church is the greatest foo of man, and the ffit'r- 1 '' x churchgoer u blind dupe. mMa.T Ji. fo |