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Show THE LITERAL BOLSHEVIKS. Ernest Poole, a novelist, said at a Socialist meeting In Troy: I "The Bolsheviks are applying to the Gormans tho Tolsloian principle of non -resistance to evil, but they are following Tolstoi too literally. To be too literal is to be ludicrous. "It's like tho case of tho brakeman who was learning the ropes on a first trip. " 'I'll yell out the namos of the stations,' sta-tions,' his teacher said to him, 'and you listen and then yell the same at your end.' "So the train started off, and, when the first stop came, tho veteran at tho front of the car yelled: 'Iola! Iola! and then tho new ninn at the roar door yelled: " 'Same at this end! Same at this end!" "Washington Star. |