The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-15
GERMAN CULTURE AND HUMAN
PROGRESS.

lNCONNI
Russia today presents q startling
Illustration OF the results to be eX-
pected from a people trying to realize
in sudden revolution the ideals Of Wis.
ionaries which may and may not ma
terialize in orderly institutions in the
course of ages of human progress
Americans who have accepted made
in.Germany socialism as the last word
in scientific analysis Of political prob.
lens have now an obvious reason to
suspect the sincerity OF their teachers
and the soundness OF their doctrines.
The primitive Russians. imbued
with the teachings Of Tolstoi are not
altogether unlike that philosophical
anarchist of whom we learn in the tale
Of the Arkansas Traveller I'm their pres.
ent attitude toward the problems fol.
lowing a revolution in which they had
begun to attain to the independence
of the American forester
But that forester crude and unCul
tured so far as cXtcrnals were con
cerncd, was product OF centuries Of
social discipline under free institu.
tions and of extraordinary conditions
in the development of a country in
which the land had long been the
heritage Of the people, to make their
homes I'm the wilderness as they
should desire
In Russia the land has been the
property of a privileged class and. uu.
til a comparatively recent date In their
history the tenants of the land have
been sorls. subject ass lahorcrs and sol
diers 10 the discipline of the kuuut
and whatever other corporal punish
ment their masters might see lit tn
mnict
The madness of the French rcvolu
tion has seized the Russians following
their apparent Liberation from bond
age In disposIng of the imperial
regime. they have also sought to dis
pcuse with most important require
monts of orderly government tu say
nothing of the necessity of military
discipline.
The scmicomic performances of the
committees ot soldiers ana worlmcn
sailors and soldiers and others In at
tempting TO regulate the government
must eventually result In chaos some
what like that of the reign Of terror
In Paris unless some leader shall ap
pear capable Of commanding popular
support sufficiently to check socia
dissolution and of meeting the insidi
GUS German propaganda II would
seem that In the present crisis such
"a leader would necessarily be- a mill
tary chicftain possessed of somcthmr
like the genius of Napoleon who mad,
Of the French republic the most mag
niticent fighting machine ever organ
lied The Russian character and tenn
permanent are radically different. how
ever. from those of the French and
there is vast difference between the
France of limited resources which
faced the tcudal Europe of the cigh
trcnth century and the Russia Of to
day whose poicutiantips ol develop
mon. are Iucompuahy greater thar
those of amy other European couutr,
except Germany
The pu,lhUWogs publication of q
prophecy ut TuIstnis shortly bcIor,
the beginning of the present world
var which was predicted therein. to
rcthcr with the rerudcsceuyp of bon
tcrpst 700 his teachings following th,
events oft the war; have become oft his
tugg Importance iu the development
of Russia
Ono U. Che predictions Was that l'
Che conclusion of universal cunUID.