Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-15

morrow.
The working people and theiI
families filled the streets demsndini
bread. Nobody demanded a 'evolu
ton The troops were ordered a dis
perse the crowds. The crowds die
not obey. Order was given TO shoo
, the troops refused to shoe;
And this was the revolution.
One month after the revolution
asked for a foreign passport. "Wha,
business calls you abroad" | wal
asked.
Il go for Impressions.
travelling for impressions is moi
permitted"
And ] was refused a passport.
| had not been in New Zealand
and New Zealand is considered the
foremost democracy of the world.
Russian newspaper to go TO New
Zealand. study the political state o!
the country and write a series of ar
ticlcs.
ITO study the political state OF
the foremost democracy in the
world" sounded SO we'll to the con
temporary Russian ear. that when !
put my application in that form. the
foreign passport was granted me i'm
! mediately.
! left for New Zealand In Yoke.
hama | bought tickets for a steamer
| of the Canadian-Australian line, and
arrived at Honolulu in due course TO
get on board her. But by that time
] had found out that the state OF
| things in New Zealand would show
nothing new TO our contemporary
| Russia. Our ideas and aspirations
went far ahead OF New Zealand. Her
State socialism proposition now
appeared to us no more than a
childish prattle, when We desired
complete abolition Of private pro-
perry.
Probably several distressing years
Will pass before We, having gained
our liberty, will understand it is i'm.
possible by single stroke to change
unlimited monarchy into anarchistic
communism that the experience or
other and more cultured States must
teach us progressive, ways of action;
that the main thing at this important
Juncture should be schools, more
schools, and still more schools. i,
Our ignorant peasant at the pre-
sent moment does not believe even
those best men Of Russia, who by
their quiet, patient and unnoticed
Werk during decades made possible
this great change. The peasant
closes hospitals and agronomical
stations, drives teachers away from
villages, mistrusts every decently
dressed man. The men who sacrI
feed their lives for the service o..
the people found themselves Dstrang.
ers to the peasants, who no longer
believed in them, SO often mad they
been deceived .~.r -...
The land will be given to peasants
now, but until the schools. thousands
OF schools, are built upon this land,
there Will be no order in Russia, and
10 stable government
+ Wien, in the beginning of the last
century the Russian throne was to
! be occupied by Constantine, the peo-
/, PIE SHOUTED:
Long live Constantine."
and when those who, shouted were
asked If they knew what "Constitu-
! ton meant they answered, That is
; the wife of Constantine"
Many in the Russian villages pic
ture to themselves the Republic" in
the shape of something like the name
! of S<aritza.'' Others, with a little
more schooling, believe that it is a
state where there are no "authori-
ties. no necessity of paying taxes.
and where "all the poor will become
rich. Candidates who promise this
! are the only, ones who can be success
ful. and they will probably be elected
to the convention.
Russia is the land of paradoxes,
In Russia the impossible is possible
The Russian people will be one of the
foremost democracies of the world.
Perhaps, replacing France, Russia
VIII be the universal social labora.
tory. But years must pass before
We understand what government We
should have. Years must pass be-
fore we understand what is ner.
MISSILE and what is not permissi.
BILE. y,
On the second day Of the revolu-
ton in Petrograd the owners of an.
tomobiles had their machines taken
away from them. Who was taking
them away? Anybody who wanted
them. The chauffeur of a friend OF
mine suggested to his employer:
I'll get you an automobile. and
drive you. You will pay me So ron
bles day" :
My friend agreed, and the next
DAY the chauffeur arrived in an exs
cellent Packard car. carrying a re.
volver in his belt.
Where did You get the machhee"
Il requisitiohed it, replied the /
chauffeur. .' -. = -, :, = 3.
He drove my friend about thret
days; on the fourth. day he came !
without the automobile. 4 -
What happened to the carr"
They requisitioned it from me:
why did YOU give it up:e
How could | refuse, when there
were two men-and with Mausersi
at that"
In the streets of New York or
Russian tricolor is seen flying with |
the emblems of the other Allies. !
Should such flag be hung out at
present in Petrograd, the crowd T
would demolish the house where 1t