The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-12
TOLSTOY PUFFS
CICARETS HERE
AND RAPS ROOT
Tells Miss Abbott Separate
Peace Is Impossible
in Russia
HERE TO PREACH LOVE
ny MABEL ABBOTT

ment Of Mr.. Root or the Rus
alan commission. In sending
him az chairman, America
makes itself appear a plutoe-
raey. Instead o. democracy.
Il 10 a plutocraoy. but ! should
not think u we'll TO show II on
such a commission. The idea
Of sending the commission was
good. but II laNannlhliated by
the selection o. Mr.. Root az lts
head He Will be very badly
received by the Russian demo
erats, and instead OF uniting
Russia and America, ! think u
will have Just the opposito e.
feet"
Al the Washington hotel. Count
llya Tolstoy. aon OF the great phil
osopher. gesticulating with the In
cvitable cigarot In itp brown mouth
piece. thus frankly spoke his dis
appointment with the new commits
sion TO Russia. whose personnel
was announced yesterday by Preai-
dent Wilson.
They'll Look at Chairman
Il do not know anything about
the rest OF the commlaalon." he
said. but the Russlan people VIII
not be 10 Interested In the others.
Who is nj the head That is what
will interest them"
Tolstoy arrived on the evening
boat from Vancouver Friday. abso-
iutcly alone. without even a single
secretary to follow at HIS heels, and
Vas met by O. a. Pattison and Rolf
Macdonald. OF the Canadian club.
under whose auspices b. will speak
at the Metropolitan theatre tonight
Looks Like Great Father
lie is a Slavic figure. even IN his
plain brown business suit. with his
thin. gray beard. his high check
bones and cloKe-set eyes. and his
head. bald on top. IN shaver 10 bald.
Nets everywhere else. Give him a
beltcd blouse and bare feet. and be
would look Starilingiy like the pic
lures OF bis great father.
lie has French shrlg. an Amer.
lean direcineHs. and a very fine
command Of the English language.
\ have tire. sons In tho war. -
he said. settling himself In a tap
estry covered chair and lighting tho
cigaret Il myself served Nith the
Red Cross In the CRrpathians. In
. the Caucasian division. In Calicla.
under Duke Michael was at Lem.
berg and that name you cannot pro.
nouncc -- Prxemysl." ills eyes
twlnkled under their shaggy browa.
Ne breaches Love
II came 10 America 20 speak OF
my fathers ideals He found the
only solution for our problems IN
the ideas OF Chris, love and non.
resistance. The three great eyils--
the three great 'iAms which have
! produced the war. abNolutIsm. ma.
? tlonalism and capitalism. can only
he completely abolished by applying
tho ideas OF Christ--only by the
force OF love.
Now ! am going back 10 Russia.
To take part In the roconstruc.
ton OF the government $500 h.
shruggcd-"Well. have hoped 10
escape that fate. but 7 feel I shall
be drawn into a. All the people
now in power are my friends for
many. many years. No. am no, a
member OF tho provisional duma.
These Russians VINO are flock.
ing back TO Russia thru Seattle
do not know that the movement has
any political significance. I think
they are just homesick.
Separate Peace impossible
II they. or any one else. talk OF a
separate peacc-it IN impossible.
II IL practically impossible. for who
could make such a pcace7 The pro.
visional government ~ against Il.
and there - no other government.
Even " one or two 81 our lnnumcr.
able pariiea were for separate
peace. u would not prove anything
Democracy At Bottom
n is not our fault that YOU Amer.
leans do not know us. n is yours
IL you knew NJ. you would know that
our democracy is older and stronger
than yours We have always been
a democracy underneath. Our VII.
lagos and districts and communities
have been democratic In every re-
spect for hundreds OF years. Only
on top was the government auto.
cratic. That was all that was need
ed--that some one should lift the
government OF.
THE provisional government. you
understand. ~ only until the nation.
al assembly Then We shall see
But we shall never 80 back to a
monarchy"