The herald., 1896-12-27
HOW NEW YORK SPENDS IT'S MILLIONS HOLIDAY GIFTS

tional ways Of thinking. The Holy synod.
a body Of immense Importance in Russia,
has been stirred to deep wrath against the
reformer because Of his biting criticisms.
The Russian army is against him because
of his intolerance of militarism, as 1t ex-
lists in Russia, and royalty is more than
displeased because of his most recent con-
domination of the despotism OF the Russian
system.
class against class. It only needs substan-
tiation Of this claim to make him an exile
for life 1t is not believed that the govern
ment would have the temerity to Danish
him to Siberia and kill him by inches with
hundreds of other political prisoners. That
would raise hue and cry all over the
world More likely he would be banished
from the country and would spend the re-
manning years of his life in Paris or London.
both of which cities have great colonies of
exiled Russians.
THE CZARS DETERMINATION.
,, Tolstois threatened banishment is a fresh
example of the determination of the yonug
czar to manage the affairs of the Russian
empire as he pleases. He is his own prime
minister and his own councillor of state.
His father tolerated Tolstoi and his grand
father not only tolerated but respected him,
and in their reigns the internal condition Of
Russia was much more dangerous to royal
ty than it is today. In fact, both Of these
sovereigns would have regarded it as a loss
If Tolstoi had ceased his activity for the re-
form of the nation.
Although an enemy to the government.
Tolstoi was and is one of the strongest bull
warks against nihilism, as his doctrine OF
non-resistance by violence to evil has de-
tered hundreds and thousands from join
ing the ranks of the dynamiters and gov
ermental reformers of that ilk.
Pamphlets explaining his views on this
subject have been sent into nearly every
home in Russia, and their influence upon
the minds of the readers has been great.
In these he claimed that the doctrine of
non-resistance to evil was in accordance
with the teachings Of Christ. He declared
that violence as means of redressing
wrongs is not only futile, but an aggrava-
tion of the original evil, since it is the na-
| ture of violence to multiply and ramify
itself in all directions.
THE FUTILITY OF VIOLENCE.
In one of these pamphlets he said: 1.-THE
revolutionists whom you see in Siberia un-
dertook to resist evil by violence, and what
has been the result? Bitterness and mis-
cry, and hatred and bloodshed. The evils
against which they took up arms still exist,
and to them has been added mass Of pre-
viously non-eXistent human suffering. 1t is
not in that way that the kingdom of God is
to be realized on earth.'
Tolstois life has been equally divided be-
tween condemning the government and
preaching the futility OF violence to reform
ers of more active kind. He believes in
confining resistance to the evils under
which the people of Russia live, to persua-
sion, protest and argument. In the end, he
hopes, these will win.
Tolstoi will be So years old on August
| 2Sth next, and today he is as hale and
strong as q man of so. He has home in
Moscow. but the greater part of his time
Il spent on his estate. Yasnaga Polyana.