The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-07-20

THE TOLSSTOI PROTEST
Ioletoi has once moro exposed the
81 government to the curse OF
ali men OF an creedB and religions.
This mighty warrior fer the advance
Dtent + humanity has. in the age
yhem most men are childish, dared 10
i say the l'eta And the truth IN Rus
sia IS generally followed by death
This old Warrior Of the pen. however,
has dared Russian autocracy and one
man Judgment SO often and so openly
that the government acknowledges It
is poReriess against his pen and the
mighty prodnct of his brain
An this Tolstoi. how simply he
states facts how softly he approaches
cliuisx 40 sputtering or travelling
ia circuits He strikes boldly and
aQuarely against whatever he believes
is wrong. He declares the hanging
ci Russian peasants or their execu.
tion for wrongs real and imaginary is
the crime Of all ages and will blacken
The Slav race for all ages to come.
He thunders the doufriDe or right
against the Russian propaganda OF
nrong aud wretcnedness, and the
Car, commanding 1900, 900 fighting
men has 70 give special orders to al
low no harm to come TO Tolstai, lesl
the government Of Russia be torn
asunder and royalty thrown into the
seas
Was there ever greater proof OF the
right over wrong?
This great Scholar, one OF the sa.
wants Of all ages. sits In his rustic
cottage ana thinks and thinks as the
NaSonette of the executioner drives
By each day Days grow into weeks:
weeks into months and months into
years before he has sufIielentiy
thought out the details of what
should be said He well knows the
anthorities VIII not comply with his
request for cessation OF the trage.
diesi How littie good for the fam.
iles to beg for mercy! And knowing
and seeing, when. finally the test hour
comes, he tells lRlRsia what It will
be Alrsady. he says, 1--WE have be
come by practice. the worst nation
pi all ages and have no right TO ask
Of any common request TO be heard.
That is a truth not denied
tie goes quietly 10 the prophesy
There Is no lament over the souls
sent 70 eternity Even intimates p
man dead is happier than any man
can be In Russia He calmly tells
what 70 expect He paints the hell
on earth as bad, and the one pre
dicted by other prophets he admits
lf Ut exist, is also bad, bur neither az
them according to@his faith could b,
considered other Than a paradise com
pared with the murdetous Russia OF
the future.
Russian authority shudders while
the tale Is being read. Russian al
tolutism knows that II can slay Tolls
toi but Knows, also, that his siayins
would provoke the awful reign OF To
Tor that must come For years We
nave been reading of the crimes com
mitted there in and under AUTHORITY
q the absolute law We have grown
50 accustomed 10 Il thar to SNEAK
of = thousand or so poor Slavs be.
tng executed causes little ia exces
q q shEdder The whlrr az the h,,Ile,
or The swinging OF the stranguiated
devils of peasant Russia are part al
tne daily labor but never crown ia
risen % say maze and the republi-
Nah nations have no ay Of going Ia
me rescue save hyivIolatIon OF ali in.
ternatioual law. -
ihe thunder Of Japanese artiller,
stopped the murder for a few brie
months, and then II was reOpened with
more atr0citics than before anf
crimes more fiendish. more imprint
able worse than murders We're placeo
% the list against the Car.
Accufsed of the world he and his
tpNafdiy assistants do not dare stor
through fe9r of the wrath swelline
20 me bint Of exterminating their
nome and family,
Though these atrocities nibilfsn
ana anarchy wore born to curse al
Aianklnd. The first s0ing as done
on fertile soils. and the curse OF the
world Tor afiowing brutal atrocities
nag neen sent 20 all-sent % slay ths
priests az he altars, the Protestant
minlflcrS IN the performance OF thei,
uHNea the presidents while preach
!ng Tor peace, and whatever author
Nies may have attracted the atten
uon of these maddened offspring 4,
butchered slres.
king here. a prince there. nav
safent then president. Tomorrow
70 one knows whom. hut AN the time
fne Shaving Of those IN authority b,
Organized madmen
Why?
tecaase for century or mora fhs
olRln1ed Christian nations of IN,
world have closed their ears fo avoie
hearing fhe cry foR afit tlsoin fha mar
tyrs in Russia: have closed their eve.
thaf the Naeoncfte OF Russian az
ticlal Duicheftes may not be seen.
our silence WAS the silence of COW
erdlce: oH lnaciion the slothfulnesi
Dl fauclad eecurifr And fhe d,.,,o
and me bomb only weapons the poo
nilfguided can conlrol oi coneea
have sent the missile OF death 10
ne innocent ones, because the hligh
Of nunanity aea on the Russlan sen
as AZ ayeuger too ignorant to under