Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
VICTORY FOR GEAR
WOULD BIND PEOPLE
OF RUSSIA TO HIM
Success for Germany, How
ever, Would Be Dancer
Gus to Government and 10
Nations Civilization, Saw,
Correspondent.
By STEPHEN GRAHAM

| MOSCOW, Sept l6.-There ia ~, !.
preston of the national spirit in Rus,,.
There are no Strikes no riots. no ro,o,,''
.'onary propaganda or pessimism, bu,
instead an all-pervading cheerfulness ana
natural unahimlty, which even the mos,
optimistic could not have foreseen.
The peasants go to the front with srso,
enthusiasm, and radical and Conservative
alike cheer them on. Newspapers -,
all parties are one, and Liberal organ,
are as loyal as those of Extreme Right
There Is the same unanimity among Pole,
and Jews, and even Jewish volunteer
regiments have been formed.
The only sympathy with Germany lie,
in the breasts of the Films. The onv
instinct TO fall into brigandage and rs.
bellion Is among the Mohammedan tribes.
men OF Caucasus All is well, and i,
success crowns the Russian arms. ths
empire will become bound in happy
allegiance to the Gar as never before.
On the other hand, II the Germans gain
the upper hand. and innict vast slaughter,
the presence OF millions of armed Rus.
SLAMS In western Russia Is pregnant with
danger for all who have property and
culture and position there. This war is
a matter of life and death for Russian
civilization, as it is for all the other
States engaged.
The air is full of hope. All vodka shops
have been closed for a month, and Russia
has taken on the appearance of sobriety,
1t has been impossible to obtain alcoholic
iTttn Of " in1
drunkenness has disappeared from the
streets, and with 1t the great army Of
beggars. who only beg that they may
gather few kopeks for bottle
The absence of vodka has made great
blank in the peasants lives but that
blank has been filled up by war and tho
interest of war Ordinarily the peasants
feel they have nothing to do but drink,
but row 1t is otherwise 1t is as If in
war they found q real reason for exist
ence-as if in death they found the OBJ
ject of living.
My ears ache with the sound of wom-
ems sobs. All the way from the peaceful
and happy villages of the Altal the
sounds of wailing and crying broke upon
my ears. Here, however, in Moscow it
is different; some one has wiped away
their tears, and the women, with sun
shiny. If tear-stained, faces, are fever
ishly working for the thousands Of
wounded who have come back for their
care.
Already there are 5000 wounded in
Moscow, and they increase at the rate
OF i've trainloads daily. The streets are
thronged with Red Cross nurses. In
every house women are thinking OF what
they can do personally for the wounded:
how many they can take to nurse
Alas! We are only at the beginning
of sorrow, and for the thousands Of
wounded today there will be tens OF
thousands and hundreds of thousands a
week or a month hence. Even all the
care and thought OF those at home will
be too little to meet the suffering, and
many poor soldiers will die without the
touch OF one skilled or S2ntle hand.
Love for the soldiers is hysterical At
the railway stations where the wounded
arrive await large crowds of women with
baskets Of gifts, and when the huge
cross, which marks the ambulance train,
comes in and stops, there is new and
sweet invasion, all the girls running
along the corridors with cigarettes, tea
sugar, cakes and newspapers. Even the
German wounded participate in the gem
ernl hospitality, and YOU frequently hear
Russian women say Of wounded enemy
before ner: Poor one; is it his fault no
Is fighting us?"
The Germans. for their part are very
suspicious. asking If the tea is not vit-
riol, refusing to take medicine, and ask
ing: when are we to be hanged?'