The Detroit times., 1917-11-10

fof All fhe recent sfra0Ee happen
I ings in Russn Freedom. that an
4 absorbing and Nttle-understood
4 word crowded everything else from
i the popular wlnd Military. INDUS
J trAl. social. and economic chaos
7 resulted FROM .he plain fact that The
/ unframed brains on the Russian
I peasant have been unable suddenly
Z ta grasp fhn tremendous impilca-
I lions 0f democracy Ihat fhis Is so
\ Is entirely ,he fsult ~ thr al-ocracS
! which So long casf tfs plEatns
hslop over The minds 20 che
people
Hard go me heels 90 the revolu-
GOA came -se radicals tta iuprac.
deal lrcamers and the vicious an-
archis.s These extremists have tha-
ortas about everything in The pn.
verse ana they want so make over
heaven and earth 10 Q day SO they
have uO uue for religion Their
propaganda beef me definitely anti.
religious Assoclating the church
wHh tha police az che old regime.
and wifh capitalism and sutccracy
and immortality, they tid their ur.
NOSE 81 associate re.eious reaction
wth rero'Gucu. er3 to make The
latter definitely en hnu-church
movement
Freedom az ira press aAettet this
rraiec t- 1e rwe Frankly. both
free speech ana q free press have
been abused n Russia simply oe
cause fho people were unaccustomef
ts tna use of either So mAuE the
countless new periodicals that be
gan o pour forth from tho p~intins
hr-ses were many which adopted
tko German type OF humor The
yulEar'fy 0f these cannot be de-
scr,teG in an American newspaper.
nor could thelr cartoons BE trans
mittai thr- the mails Coarse and
dirty. are words scarcely adequate
% describe them "Rabelaisiac- ts
the adjective that VIII convey my
meaning 70 the Initiated Obscene
attacks upon the czar the czar.na.
ihe priests ana the arisfocracT. al
wavs wtth Rasrutln as q ccrE Ell emf
text Rave become almost 8 staple
a. cons mproa q ,ne cities as wea
as I'D the country districts 90
nor read Russian bnt I have seen
dozens ~ t6ese pictures.
Court Scandals and RaspJtin
After tho radicals bad made At
armed demonstration In Petrozrad
and had been beaten, talnss
changed. TIE flight * the army
and food shortage duo 20 Industrial
REORGANIZATION sobered the people
The Naximallst leaders became DIS
credited Nov there IS manifest q
return 10 religion People ara once
more giving heed 20 the church
Interest ls perceptlbiy en- The in
crease. I am told by those who
should know
Even The old dream OF the cross
on s. Sophia which had been
dtumed by the red glare of the reyo-
luton. Is beginning 20 geassert 81
self Favorite icons. or sacred pic
lures Ike that az The house ~ Peter
the Great. are surrounded hourly
by worsbipers A significant fact IS
ne large proportion o. the intelli-
gencia among The worsh.pers whom
ore may see a. any time IN me
church - PetroErad Az 81 Isaac
and the Kazar cathedrals for in-
stance. found fuly 50 per cent
of NE worshipers 10 be officers and
other cultivated folk
Rasnutin was a tsvoTite boyle ~
the radicals ln trying 20 discredit the
church Now Rasru'3n was neither
priest nor a mons. but a peasant
with personality. AMI strongly mys-
teal religious tendencies BE
claimed 70 b. both a healer and q
teacher That he was az erotic
monstrositv IS beyond doubt Ills
lie IA PetroErad, especially after
he took 20 drinking and % re.
qQenung public places, is we'll
known. and X was vile beyond
words That his influence n court
circles was wholly evil is also clear
Here. as n America. The West
stories ara told o. him, In connec-
ton with the highest persr77-Fs-
He p freely represented IN tho illus
.rsted press 20 which ! have ailEd-
"a as IN association even with tho
empress From several quarters.
however sar ahove the gossip of
the street. have been reliably So
formed that the espersi0ns gpou TIE
empress are cruel slander Her
interest n Raspatin was wholly id
behalf OF her son. over whose health
she believed him 20 have great IN
fuence. Apparently, also % was