Show NIHILISTS AND terrorists according to professor raymond we have been doing an injustice to the russian nihilist by mentally associating him with ehst deeds of violence with bomb throwing and with assassinations it seems that he Is as innocent of these disquieting occurrences as the average american citizen and to this able counsel for the defense we can but listen alb respect and uth the gratification that ought always to attend the justification of injured innocence no cence it seems that nihilism originated among educated young men and v omen who had caught a glimpse of tho larger life beyond the russian frontiers and who wished to lead their own people inlo of liberty and national growth the movement was and h distinctly humanitarian and the terrorists the bomb and the assassins are but a few who believe that patience pat jence is no longer a virtue and that the walls of the russian jericho will fall before nothing less material than dynamite the true nihilist is a distinctly peaceable person but he has had to suffer for the violent sins of the terrorist the government believing that but for tho philosophy of the former there would have been no call for the dynamite of the latter the government Is probably right cor a wonder nothing upon earth Is so explosive as a new idea nothing can so readily shatter the fortresses of ancient wrongs when it became a calmo to speak of liberty ia russia dynamite was inevitable new adeas must find an exit and it exit bo denied to them explosions or a very material nature are professor raymond tells us that n the frenzy of punishment that fell alike upon the guilty and the innocent there were hundreds ot nihilisms nihilists lists gentle intelligent men and women who turned their sorrowful faces toward siberia having committed no other crime than to give tp their people a knowledge of tbt liberty that has been so great a blessing to other lands |