| Show MOURN DEAD CHIEF Russian Peasants Fall on Knees r 7 Before Urn of Ashes I Member of American Commission to New Empire Explains Keys to tom m Their Political Play r The The keys to the nu Russian political play are after all nil simple and to b bo found In t pimple events says pays Charles nu Russell who was sent by President President Pres Pres- ident Wilson with the American com com- to new Ru Russia lo Here Is one euch simple event as ns he gives it in Hearst's Magazine There Is IR n Q place on the Trans Trans- I Siberian railroad called Passing Point iNo No 37 a brown little speck on the Illimitable emptiness s of ot the Siberian plains On the tile of ot May Muy there came 1 I l marching up to It a n procession of ot farmers farmers about about tort forty of ot them I think carrying r red flags They tramped p d solemnly along what hat In Siberia by a violence of ot speech Is called a n road rond and Is is In fact not otherwise otherl than a atrall trail trall of ruts in black gumbo mudA mudA mudA mud A passenger train was ns coming from the east cast from Vladivostok At Passing Pas PassIng Pass Pass- Ing Point No 37 It took the sidetrack to wait for the train it was to meet Of Ot n a sudden Budden the were werf peen Flen to line up In front of or the baggage c cur nr to fall foll on their knees there to lift their hands in attitudes of prayer the while they uttered 1 strange e walling wailing cries and man many wept What were they crying about They Jm had 2nd 1 learned that In that baggage bog cur car were the Ule ashes of a Russian Russian- revolutionist revolutionist an nn time old-time hero of the long long struggle He lIe had been condemned liy hy the czar to one of tf ire e wor worst t prisons prisons pris- pris ons In coldest Siberia he lie had man man- to escape and in the end to get getto getto getto to America There he died and Dud his body hody was cremated Now his ashes In to o D draped memorial urn were were- being carried carrIed carried car car- ried In state back to that free Russia he lie had hac dreamed of at and suffered for But note nole Of Ot the peasants that fell on their knees before that handful of dust that day lilY about one-half one could not read rend All of them you might think lived In III a n region farther from the world and its affairs than is Cape Nome from the Bowery flowery Yet nil un of them knew well veil enough h the name nome of at this dead hero and nil atI his deeds and instinctively nil before his ashes that they might testify at once their reverence for him and the fervor of their own revolutionary revolutionary faith But what did that procession mean meon wandering red-flagged red along the black ruts rots of lonely Siberia It meant that the pC peasants were making a demon Demonstration about what Why If you will Ill believe me against the Austrian I governments government's sentence of death n against Frederick Adler r slay slayer T of the Austrian prime minister And there you are that Is Russia Russin Also you may see In this Incident how hO deep dep In the heart of every ery peasant and toller toiler are at nt le least st the rudiments of the revolutions revolution's creed |
