| Show I Hl ht of Hf f from an any sympathy el 11 i antipathy that nia be felt for jor that tha particular social or 01 political propaganda ganda that took tool tho the Walling party part to tonu Russia nu ln it must be h said aid that the lbs imme- imme clinic an and frantic appeal on th theIr li h be behalf be- be half hair Lot for the protection of or the n c was based upon a false notIon nolton I or if f the rl right lights hl that arc aio conferred d hy h American citizenship It was perfectly I Ii light i ht for foi the representative e of 01 the United States to Interest Int hun him dt If In behalf of if r his countrymen men who were el in tho Limo hands of the Russian police but there Is hi no law of international right light t i that Plat calls callI for an intervention on oct his part palt further than to lo see that till the accused ac- ac cu- cu cud cuo d be treated humanely and with Justice In timo case cabo of 01 the Wai Va Wallings III Hugh 11 It tip alp pears that UlO they were cre In Russia engaged c I In the promotion of ot a a. socialist agitation tion lion of some somo sort soil or other To 10 the Russian authorities this titis foreign inter inter- J In tho the social and antI economic affairs of or their thell country must seem scout to have been without justification andIC and i If IC In the of or their educational education education- i al campaign the thc fallen i afoul of or Russian laws and RU Russian 1 prejudices they ha have e only S 'S to LO blame American citizenship should no more be relied Tolle 1 upon to lo protect pro VIt them from front the tho application of the Russian lu police pollee regulations regu than an won would Id Rus Russian lan citizenship create Immunity rom from an agitator who ml might ht seek In lii Inthis this count country to overturn 0 our s alt and political institutions and anti customs Of course courbe the tho Ideas of political and auth I social il f. f freedom In tho the two differ radically but that very cry differ nc t should hould make the invasion of or the Bus Bus- Ru I slap Inu field b by American agitators l one olle I io be G undertaken cn with a n full tuH understand understand- tand- tand lug ng of the lII risks i. i On Ott the facts aels as they have o come to lo us In tIme the cables It II would appear that Hint Mi Mr Walling Availing and his wife a tI law in got no more than thu they might have expected and antI tl ti l thc they have 0 been heen treated with Some degree de tie- gree gi-ec of ot consideration Indicates an aT un- un Unwonted wonted d forbearance on Oil the tile part of or the tH I St. St Petersburg police Pollee |
