Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-13
C0SSACKS ARE RACE OF WARRIORS FROM
 EARLIEST HISTORY
A Race of FreenooierS and Lov-
 CTS of Widest Adventures, They Are True Sons of War God Mars; Fearless by Nature.

WASHINTON. D. "Apprenticed to Mars at birth, as were the Spar tans before them. the Cossacks. sur vivals from a young, nonindustrial, in-the-spur world are the most pie uresque fighters on EurOpe's battle fields. A frontiers folk like the peo- pie of our early West, mixture of many adventurous elements and con stituting within their own country class more distinctive than that of the American cowboy, they have finally been subdued to the needs Of the great Imperial government at PetrOgrad
 taken over just as they were into it's machinery, and preserved as a soldier caste A wild. conQuering. freebooting folk, the Cossacks have been brought within the fold of Russian civilization as soldiers, descendants of warriors and progenitors of generations of sol Giers to meet the future needs of Slav
 empire
 "It is with these Cossacks the men 1 who, in the leisure Of national peace,
 conquered the vast empire of Siberia
 for Russia, and who in each Russian
 war for the last 100 years, have form
 ed the Tsar's irresistible hrstline
 strength, that today's statement of the
 National Geographical Society deals.
 More nearly defining his military folk.
 the statement continues.
 "The Cossacks are a people of the limitless steppes a people of close cor poration, situated in Russia as a race
 apart soldier-caste, their state of military organization. their connection
 with the great empire maintained
 through the Imperial War Depart
 ment. the administration of their in.
 ternal affairs practically in their own
 hands. and their privileges as a caste |. almost as pronounced as were those
 of the Spartan soldier-citizen, or more
 comparable to the soldier-caste of old
 CT Indian organization. The Cossacks came of the original Slay stock, but they were those Slavs who never bow
 ed their heads beneath a yoke foreign or domestic. who lived free life on
 the borders of their races civilization,
 wandering fighting buccaneer Slay | tribes, who penetrated deeply into Tartar and Georgian lands, who lived . by the hunt and by plunder, and who , maintained themselves on the bord- CTS of Asia and Europe free of an seri. i dom.
 These sturdy Russian wanderers , assimilated many adventurous ele- - mi . Tartars and Slavs, and go, today the { Cossack type is a more or less distinct r one. The total Cossack population of 2 Russia is more than 100000 Some l years ago, they owned nearly l46,500f 3 900 acres of land, of which l05,OOOOOO g was arabic and 9,4OO.OOO forest land |. This land is held by the Cossacks in ( community partition as a State re- ? ward for their military service. ll s will be seen that the COssack holdings f amount to about SO acres for eacl ( man. woman and child of the people t There is an admiring, half envioui a Russian catchword about being a' t free and as rich as a Cossack.'
 IF "The Cossacks are the rough riders 2. or Europe. As the cowboys of th' l. American plains and the gauchos O. e the Pampas. the Cossacks are an in e terestng wild free. plain folk, wh'
 live in the saddle in the open places .t and whose rough democracy is the ex It pression of the same naive, rudiment s- ary culture as that of their Nev d World brothers-in.spirit. None O a their members are allowed to starve d and none of them have succeedel
 in winning oyermastering positio