Show PROBLEMS facci AC nib STRICKEN lop WORLD shall chao or reconstruction in ei el rons row follow the tile great world war GRAVE MORAL ERROR forcible seizure of land understand Under able ble but to be regretted as t mak lb ing a precedent te to justify dishonesty arecia la by PRANK FRANK COMERFORD CONIER FOnD an examination of itu bluela sla the pa pl isitt jut beare the tile treatment buo started reveals veral are necessary t c mi lete the history and lid physical eliy ll tim u russia was 78 S pir cent illiterate tl Is means hat that nearly our fifth of 0 the tho people in rua could not rend read or arate 1 it does not riot ahat they ca lid nt vink ink there ie Is as great a dif ferrice be between tecia and in telli gence as here there Is between illiteracy nil an I 1 ignorance I 1 I 1 ime a e met many ninny peasants who ulio could not riot rend read or write writt who ho erd god bo nl nathe minis mints power pomer of reason reasoning ng homespun thinkers the heal aea 1 of euln had not been trained but it t was not empty there are man bensons ren real sons zons for or the illiteracy of th the great majority of kus rus a e an people the autocratic state wa thi the principal conspirator cow against the russian people getting nn an education e du cation the autocrats knew that ignorance la Is the greatest insurance against up urt likings tho the sedative to 1 keep lie the ghe from complaining the chunh church in kusin the orthodox church was used to keep the light from the people the czar was the little father he the divine agent rif god on earl earth nil oil 1 the I 1 unholy synod of the itil sIlan r boi blied lowed ed not before the christ but bent low before the czar vey betrayed christ ei een en as they bet rayel tie ile sons ant an 1 daugh of men tl it or own blood tl it e 0 peasants anti toilers religion their only solace the people of itu nu ausla sla held firmly to heir faith in god the rest and cage pefe their faith gave gae g ave them was inas the only comfort they had hat in moments of intense religious Wis communion they were lifted out ut f themselves and for geconis 18 forgot their bardini these seconds were ere long spaces of relief preen green spots in the endless desert wait waste of I 1 te fe I 1 how ow christ must have wept when he witnessed hi thi holy synod he the monkish aith w ath their sacrilegious icons silencing the protests of souls throttling the cry for freedom by quoting in his name that those who suffered most here would be high pst est in n lieben A blasphemy a err cr of the lowly one who used the word nord brother jod al to define equal ity sty an I 1 the fatherhood of go I 1 to ex pres the tile justice that man owed to man it lt was uns agreed by an ani I 1 I 1 erneen the holy synod and rind the czars that the kisslan Kus Rus ont ira of god must not I 1 now how to read or write his name so it wis was lint that the or orthodox thodor church of hussla used religion to in nult alt god and hoi hot I 1 his creatures creature in bon lage tage it wai nas tho the only groat great church in the world that did not provide prater bookfor 1 or its members it was a nr or gued eliat it if the tile people had prayer books they would learn to read and if they nad tl it e abri christ it message on the tile sabbath they might lead read other strange and dangerous books on monday and tuesday and the other days of the week vv eek they might misuse their still ity to read and read thing things like the american declaration of I 1 enre ence the churches of the byzantine pal the story of religion on the side of it its wall walls ahey gave the people an education by the picture book method we ue use for children before they have reached the kindergarten age bolshevism officially launched the birth certificate of bolshevism was issued on noveme r 10 1017 1917 the all russian congress of the he councils coun c its of so diers and rea Pea ants antal deputies decrees the form of the administration of the country TUB THE OF till constituent BLI 1 the provisional workers and in pa peasants government Is to be calle I 1 the council of people a 8 ct amis ion ers the a of the in 11 induni brandies branches of state life I 1 Is to be entrusted to board 1 the composition of which Is 11 to secure the carrying out of th h art gram proclaimed by the con gris gri s in elate contact with the organ iza tims of worker sailors colliers sold Rol lere liers lao I 1 ants and empires the ji br r erni eminent nent authority to the board an I 1 chairmen of tf uese elie hint that Is to the tile people 0 i and the right cf systematizing them belongs to the tile all russian COD congress gross of the tile councils of INor workmen kinens and pell pendants ants and soldiers Dele delegato gateR and is central executive committee rh ahe government of the czar was au an to cratic 7 not because it was a bad gov gor er eminent n ment end and thi people it w was a vo socrati u crati because tie vie people did not agre a olce joice in IL t A grood good government that denied th tha deop a voice would be equally as its autocratic with the fall ill of the K ren ky regime lenine end and and ani their dolace vik follow did id not have hare time thae and it was a not expedient or possible te to v morass it the emah wah and till will cf ef he the rw roo pic nt at once onci sy s they thoy sued hie tile promise promie I 1 hiie quoted alwi th the arlt of f tilse are printed in CUPI capital t at kt itt ten it was their moral obligation to keep tide tilts pr promise onale made to the tile people it was necessary nw iry to beep keep it if there was to be a genuinely free raisla abo ho etall auh anticis ite ant an I 1 who bo would dare write out pud ond put into operation it lie e plan of government without ahing lall ell of tile 1 peole of atti ahta a chance to III finiw i pen min the be plan 1 ami and help formu ate late it tl rough ameir own aun chisen rp rip ml this was nas hie the first promise tie the bol hot lien elien e lk ik len lers nia ma ic it to the russians Kux the 1 broke it it hai hau neer been ful tille title I 1 in the constitution tint and deemes nf of the tile anict bey they lime tried to eil lain cucu aul nut coriline con cor lone ilone till b of prom promise lse airey 1 airly in oil all they hae liae am saki in de le beup of this abuse of power this ito n of tru Is in substance nub stance it was mas nv avsar ns isar sar to dis bissol sol the aon conall 11 duent ks seon 4 inal bli it might ha hae e inget rw fert I 1 will our plans tt it hrs tool eoj soviet 1 lint till they ther haie to think net act ant le let ile I 1 ie for the people en on more chaft the had 1 in tn and vt ratings I 1 benine and haie bae since in a belled way su gestel that the peasants elected members of lie the il middle liddle chaa to ampre ent hem thein antea 1 of pens ants nta lilt hit or of it it if the tile peas ants ints mike mistaken mista kea they will wt him end lend pruitt by their takes they annot become until they aget a chance to 1 indel on lk N na i man i can an bet get muscle by letting an other lier fil fi a ow use the dumbbell dumbbells ibe be pea peasant tan tit u arkers and olie anre all human belange and a goern government ment to be democratic batic must be ai as I 1 lincoln put it I 1 of the tile i borle cor the people and by the tile people A Bourn ment that Is agrall of the influx nce and power of three or four per cent of lie the people isn lent t able to 11 live e and it doeing to gladly obeyed lenin lenine L lanine 0 nine issued hia his fanilu order I 1 vea seize the land this com wn uns obeird with great entrust tim TI tiry ey forgot all about freedom bial an I 1 the constitutional convention understood what hat inn I 1 meant tt ej ha I 1 been beon taught that met hy heir I 1 jen len iod 11 I 1 it t they knew ie le political po III bases rases rind fran wk wc the or riar ter I 1 selie seize tho tile land lore tore the sieres their hea heaviest lest chains lenane became their liberator hia lils v vas its the oice that said seize thi land probably Iro Pro bubly tie peasant peasants would have lono it anyway disorder and unrest had destroyed all respect for property ra rights tilts property rights had a different meaning in russia than elsewhere property rights meant the right to beat bent human beings to buy atil evil sell serfs yet the fact that lenino had uttered the words made then reverence and arn respect him even ae as a man will be thankful to one who has told him to be careful of a hole bole in the sidewalk the fact he has already seen it bolshevism started ath great popularity this was the bechet of it ot or course the order to telia seize the incel all land was based on the idea wea kimt the owners of land held field titio by ana through their own wrongful con duct god had made the ground and Rum shine and those who ho hud had token taken tills to it had only inked ed on an I 1 forced other off thil this Is tho the way the bol hot sli alka reasoned and from this point of lew few they were consistent arom the worlds i arid a point of view it was con it was dishonest u people believe that acquiring property Is frequently the result of industry and thrift n some caseb the till to I 1 ir perty Is based upon cunning aelem e ern ing and force all of us u know that there are some who are without anny private prope t because they prefer to their time dissipate title and the chittle in streit after alt all it la Is a matter of opinion and arora the point of view of the belshe taha the order Pea peasants selie seize the land may have been justini justl nI 4 rat ilat 1 wien I en the order wu wa given le peasant peasants seized it not for the community corn but to own it privately oa on this point there can be no difference if t pinion opinion among amon honest impartial fair minded men and when the peas ants seized the land to hold use and oars it as their private property they we ere guilty of taking title by the very means etheri had taken the ind lind l cul agat agattia tit whom they had bad complained and tried thief I 1 tahe kutan people have the power to think they realize that they have 11 property by the very methods ethoda nu they have always condemned in oth ers natural may coni train them to keep this property tie 11 sufferings brings they have gone through i lay iny mitigate the offense sc but one ef et flet was wn inevitable and that effect the tile most serious that could happen to a people on I 1 tl e threshold of a tree free tu fu lure ture I 1 refer to the meak weakening enIng of their moral nature the making of a prec precedent Went j dishonesty dieb I 1 have fount the III ei acts of this net on lie tie patient 1 in every sub sequent symptom hopnicht copi Cop right lt IM kotora newspaper lilon |