Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-08-21
A WORTHY CAUSE.

people signed by a number Of Sena-
tors. deputies. former cabinet minis
tors and members ~ the Institute and
Academy They extol the outlawed
Douma. look cheerfuly to SIN
stronger Franco Russian alliance. ex-
press the hope that liberty rs near
Boo Russia and declare that "represcn-
tatiyc government and individual lib-
city are the only certain means ON
which a nation can found progress and
prosperity
Fronchmcn can consistently. In this
manner, interfere bon Russian affairs
France. as the ally OF Russia and
Frenchmen as creditors. must Do exc
pocted 10 take an interest in the well
fare ~ the Russian people and no ex-
ceptlon can be taken 90 the friendly
advice offered But other countries
ought TO follow the example o: French
citizens and join them iu the appeal
made. Too tho name of humanity that
can consistently be done. Tor the cause
Of humanity is universal.
News does not flow very freely from
Russia. but even the little that finds
IL, way 10 the outside world is appall-
Ing The severe nogging Of a young wo-
man bon ST. Petersburg. storming the
jail al lvanovka, attacking the villa OF
helpless woman in Yalta, numbering
two policemen n Kle0. shooting from
ambush a coachman IN SANTANA. as
sassInatiug the chief Of police Of Nots-
laysk shooting the acting chief Of po-
lice of Chita killing forty-three aud
wouuding d hundred persons I'm War
saw and throwing bombs In LODI, such
is the record Of one day recently. and
there Is no reason 20 believe that II
was very exceptional Does not such
conditions call for friendly intcrter-
ence. I'm the name Of humanity
The effects OF the daiN-occurring
horrors upon the Russian people, are
simply awful 4 contributor 10 the
Novoe Vremya truly says that the
moral sense Is becoming blunted "You
watch this struggle. YOU listen TO IL
with alarm and heart-burning. and
little by little your moral sense gets
bmnted. you grow accustomed 10 IT,
II Is hut short time since sensa-
tional murder would have moved and
horrlfed you, but now you daily read
how in one city a police officer was
blown into fragments by bomb, how
IN another the revolutionists executed
two women for giving evidence In a
court Of law, putting S. bullets
through their bodies, In a third how
they bound the condemned persons 20
a tree and fired ten bullets each into
them. He tells ~ how cases Of in
sanity are becoming frequent "a
short time ago" he says. "a policeman
IN Moscow began to FIRE indiscrimin-
ately along the street without any yisi-
bic cause Arrested he was found TO
be suffering from an acute NJ Of mad
ness Nor Is II to be wondered at. For
many months. going his rounds, he
went in expectation Of death, and as
the apprehension finally became un-
endurable he went mad
The same writer points out that
children are learning TO become MUIR
derers. and that acts Of savage cruelty
are gaining the approval Of the un-
thinking crowds Speaking Of this fea.
ure Of the situation. he says
On one proletaIian journal there %
am account written with the relish oI
delight ~ how intelligent wOrkmer
took obsCurantist reacti0naries. de-
priyed them ~ their boots and SOCK
aud set them barefoOted on red-ho
iron slabs, after which these so.Calle'
black hundred men confessed thei
. errors and became intelligent
/ In another organ of the same colo
there T. an account Of how a uumhe
of other Just such wild half-humAn
wanted 90 cuf to death with "a pair o
scissors q ,tmi-bliud man among th
vorkmon because of his rcactiouar
political views
such results arc only what may b
locked for, from thc prevailing am
archy But they form a valid reaso
Tor just such an appeal "a that mad
by French citizens Of iu0uence. an
the French should boz supported
their efforts by citizens ot every civil
lted country That would be a worth
cause for which io procure mI.liU
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