The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-28

cSSSt ltie4 STCdla dTllSlS, anu the N1nl- list must never be of the essence of both. He is the product of a need and an inspiration, the great need of the stricken Russian poor, the inspiration of new knowledge and freedom seen from afar.
 POOR IN PURSE AND POOR IN
 HOPES.
 He Is poor, to begin with. Not poor as a man may be who spares himself cigars and wine and theatres at a small cottage at Oxford, but pressed by a daily need Of mere bread, uncertain each week of the roof he lives under and the bed he sleeps on. So poor that idleness is an extrava gance, kopeck a thing to be careful of, pleasure a matter of adjustment of work.
 ''IIe is poor even in hopes; bankrupt, too. os illusions; rich only in dreams and strenuous industry. It is what he was born to. He cail look back to a boyhood when food was measured out by the crumb, to a sullen ferocious father, who had known serfdom and endured the lash. to a mother who prayed that her girls might never grow up pretty.
 "He had been put to work on the Hand ere he could frame his words clear ly; had toiled like acowed slave before he could count up to ten, taken a chance of charity education as mere relief from the wrench of bodily labor, sees his opportunity and battled through to the university. Workl They win exhibitions in Scotland by good work enough, but one needs a strain of the slave; q touch of the Mon gol, to work like this, f1inging ones self against the stone walls of poverty and unfair competition, but against the prejudice against progress and aspira- tion which tyranny fosters.
 EFFECT OF EDUCATION ON THE
 MoUJIK'S SON.
 Tt was as though he had climbed from valley to the crest of a hill, and saw from there all the cities of the world. He brought with him a mind lall virgin to initiative, unsldlled in crea- tion, to encounter all the most magnif- ieent material for universe makers. He learned that men who had suffered as he had, had seen the ingredients of greatness in their chains; that slaves had escaped, serfs become Kings, com munities rioted drunkenly among the corpses of law-givers. Can you irnag- inc the blaze of sunlight that suddenly swamped his benighted world? There was not an indiscreet blood-walloWing poet that did not fire him, no demago- que that did not win him by storm; he shed tears for Cromwell, prayed for the soul of Kosciusko It took hold of him like a fever, thrilled him, filled him, dominated him. It gave him an ideal, claimed him for a cause, set him all aim; and all the violent ghosts of liter ature stood around and elected him by acclamation to the great confraternity lrevolutionaries.
 I Tt was inevitable, and nothing but l time disDels the drunkenness of these convictions. The potential martyr, the volunteer for rr1artrydom, is terrible man. Saving a certain unhandiness, g kind of thick fingered clumsiness, there l is no worker in any cause of such awe some efficiency. You cannot harm him , you can barely avoid affording him his I desire. No lack of weapnns disarm hin
 while there IS a throat to fly at. And I this is what education makes of the lmoujik's son. He is now the enemy oi Iall authority. First of all, the author. lity represented by the Government oi Russia, to which the father paid the l taxes which kept him short of food but also all other constituted authority He has no perspective; he would exter. minate the rich and the powerful to- gether. ...
 | HIS IDEAL IS HIS DELILAH. "And in regard to the means by which he would accomplish this, he is no less |, futile and incapable. It is poets de- tachment, this impracticability of his and it is his weakness. His ideal is his Delilah. A simple murder, viewed as l the consumnle tion of scheme of jus tice, is incomplete for him unless there is bag in it, something violent and bloodstirring to place him forthwith ir the centre of the stage. It is here his Eastern strain abandons him; in point of method, showiness and scrupulous care for effect. he is rather American ! than Mongol. > .> -*...,.-.. ~~, ... Thus the business of watching him circumventing him, and, at the right mement, bagging him, and put, ting him finally but of actior is vastly simple. He is so wretchedly poor that there is of necessity a certain nri1ai4.r a hn,,4 1.iu r,r,,r ,e e.A.... laz...1