New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-03

democratic country before. but l
don't see complete freedom.
America is suffering from two
diseases which We have not IN Russia
money slavery and the slavery OF public
opinion. Individuality IN this country IS
sacrificed on the altar of public opln-
ION. The average OF education is hlgh.
! admire your public schools and UNI
versities, but people seem TO think that
when they get through college their ed
ucation is complete.
Your institutions or higher learning
turn out graduates Just as Henry Ford
turns out motor cars. The product Is
Of general excellence. but Of uniform
mould. The man or woman colcge
graduate has 70 possess a very strong
individuality TO raise himself or her
self TO a higher level than the average.
have met people who have kept on dc
veloping mentally and spiritually after
leaving college. but they are few.
Now. let ne give YOU an instance OF
the abominablc slavery Of public opln-
ion in this country Billy sunday. Al.
most everybody knows what he 49, and
yet | have never seen IN any paper
anything against him. Everybody says
he is all right, and the papers give hum
the price Of white paper is high.
81 have never heard Billy Sunday hut
] had the Christian patience TO read
ono Of his sermons, and not one single
word Of value did find. Billy Sunday
would be impossible and inconceivsble
in any country except the United states.
But ! greatly admire his managers.
Under such management rs his any
fool could he cuccoee
Thinks Russia Safe
Count Tolstoy said he believed Rus
sia was safe, but he did not discount
the dangers Of the extreme radicals.
He said he thought, however, that the
Provisional Government would be able
TO weather all storms and hold the
ultra-radicals in check till the meeting
Of the national assembly. al which the
future permanent form OF Russia's gov
eminent will be decided upon.
Colonel Roosevclts message TO the
Russian people. addressed to Count Toll
stoy. is rs follows:
II send my most hearty coneratu-
lations to the men who have led the
Russian people in this great move
ment for democratic freedom. !
speak to them as fellow democrat
and A fellow radical when ] urge
them for the sake of the ultimate
welfare of the mass of people Of Rus
STA TO see that their striking victory
| is used with such moderation and
wisdom as to prevent all possibility
Of reaction. | have the keenest sym
! pathy with your programme for re-
J iigious, political and industrial free
/ dom for all, and for equality OF op-
portunity for all.
! at is not a very easy thing to carry
I through such a programme. ne
! danger at the point you have reached
comes almost as much from well
meaning unbalanced extremists, who
favor the revolution, as from the re
dictionaries themselves. The torch
of enlightenment fred the revolt.
/ See that the light of the torch IS
not dimmed by any unwise and eK-
IRENE action. and, above all, no;
! bv any of those sinister and dread
/ full deeds which. a century and a
quarter ago, in France, produced the
Red Terror, and then, by reac-
ton, the White Terror.
All Love Liberty
"All Of US who love liberty, who be-
leve in political and social and in
dustrial democracy, are now looking
with eager hope to Russia, and not
only for your sake, but for our own
sake. We beg you exactly az by cour-
age and dsinterestedness you have
forced through the revolution, so by
wisdom and self-control to secure
for your country the permanent bene-
fits Of the revolution"
Count Tolstoy will leave New York
this morning for Vancouver His jour
ney to Petrograd, via Japan, Vladivo-
stok and the Trans-Siberian Railroad,
will take about a month.