The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-06-05

side of the Atlantic. For years the "Douks"
were looked upon as a joke and Canada was
laughed at and ridiculed, but now there is
different tale to tell Most of the stories that
brought the immigrants into contempt were
based upon the doings of a small minority OF
the communists, religious zealots whose fervor
led them into extravaganza of conduct such
as could be explained only by mental de-
rangement These zeaots went naked in the
middle OF winter pigrimages through the
snow in search of the Messiah. They would
not work and they would not sanction work
by others. They even turned loose their
horses, cattle. sheep and hogs (given to them
by the Canadian government, because they
didn't believe that horses or oxen should be
made to toll for man or that sheep or hogs
should be eaten by man.
The majority of the immigrants. however
were industrious and painstaking and had lit
tie sympathy for the fanatics. These indus
trious ones have built up the community prop
erty until now the Doukhobor colonies are
among the best in the Saskatchewan country
They are as deeply religious as ever, and they
cling to their old Quakerlke customs tena
ciousy but they no longer are looked upon
as problem by the Canadian government and
there will be no more talk of dispossessing
them from the magnificent domain they oc-
cupy.
The Doukhobor has made good.
The first shipload of Doukhobors left Ba-
toun in Asatic Russia, in January, 1899. bound
for Canada, and by the middle OF that year
more than 1000 of them had settled in the
far northwest. Now the number OF these pc
culiar religionists in Canada exceeds lO,ooo
The creed of the Doukhobors is somewhat
vague in many details The principal points
of their belief. however, are these: There Is
one God the Holy Trinity is beyond compre-
do not bplipVp
temples made with hands, and say that all the
ceremonies Of the churches being useless,
were much better left alone Luxury In FOOD
or dress is condemned, and going to war car
rying arms or taking oaths OF any descrip-
ton are forbidden Their mode OF lie Is
strictly communstc, all laboring for the com.
mon good. They are abstainers from aicono'
and tobacco and, for the most part are Vese-
tarans.
For many years the Doukhobors lived ID the
neighborhood of Kief in what is called Lit
tie Russia" In the reign of Alexander H.
thew all were banished to the Wet mountains
of Georgia In the Caucasus. There they nVed
for many years among the haltsaVaee MA
hometans who have been the rulers OF that
region for centuries. The crisis In their lot
tunes came In 1887. universal conscrlptioh
was declared throughout Russia every
healthy adult male was ordered to be ready for
service in the army
For the next three years the Doukhobors
were prosecuted unremittingy There were
innumerable banishments, imprisohmehts'
noggings and tortures that cannot De ue'
scribed but the Doukhobors were inilloVaole
Their condition was pitiable In the eAueme
when Count Tolstoy and the society oi
Friends i'm England came to their renei ny
raising funds for their emigration to Canada
There was little difficulty about obtaining
sufficient land at little price for the 'ooo
Doukhobors who came to Canada during the
first year Each male over IS years old was
allowed to take up 100 acres subject 10 pay
ment OF $40, which was three years deterreu
The Dominion government also gave sran'
of So to each man, woman ana eniiu' VINO
reached Winnipeg before June 49, 1893,
The region where these Russian eA'eS N"''