New-York tribune., 1918-06-29

other function. In civilized countries the,
restrain all persons, and restrain them all
alike, which is fair and righteous; but in
Russia such laws as exist make an excep-
ticn-our Family. We do as we please;
have done as We pleased for centuries. Our
common trade has been crime, our common
pastime murder, our common beverage
blood-the blood Of the nation. Upon our
heads lie millions of murders. Yet the
pious moralist says it is crime to assas~
sinate US. We and our uncles are family
of cobras set over hundred and forty mill
ion rabbits, whom we torture and murder
and feed upon all our days; yet the NOR
alist urges that to kill US is crime, not
duty.
1t is not for me to say it aloud, but to
one on the inside-like me-this is naIvely
funny; on its face, illogical. Our Family
is above all law; there is no law that can
reach us, restrain US, protect the people
from u.s. Therefore, we are outlaws. Out
laws are proper marks for any ones bullet
All! what could our Family do without
the moralist? He has always been our
stay, our support, our friend; to-day be
is our only friend. Whenever there has
been dark talk of assassination, he has
come forward and saved MS with his irn-
pressive maxim, "Forbear: nothing politi-
cally valuable was ever yet achieved BY.
violence" He probably believes it. II is
because he has by him no child'z book
Of world-history to teach him that his
maxim lacks the backing Of statistics All
thrones have been established by violence;
fvr Ia.
except by violence; by violence my fathers
set us our throne; by murder, treachery,
perjury, torture, banishment and prison
they have held it for four centuries, and by
these same arts I hold it to-day. There
is no Romanoff of learning and experiences
but would reverse the maxim and say,
Nothing politically valuable was ever yet
achieved except by violence"
In time, into even the soldiers breast
fatal day, day of doom, that! BY
and by, there will be results! How little
the academical moralist knows Of the tre-
mendous moral force of massacre and as
sassinat:on! Indeed there is going
to be results. The nation is in labor; and
by and by there will be a mighty birth
PATRIOTISM! To put it in rude, plain,
unpalatable words true patriotism, real
patriotism: loyalty, not to Family and
fiction. but loyalty to the nation itself!
There are 25.ooo.000 families In
Russia. There is a nan-child at every
mothers knee. If these were 25,o0o.ooo
patriotic mothers they would teach these
man-children daily, saying: Remember
this. take it to heart, live by it, die for it
II necessary: that our patriotism is medi-
avail, outworn, obsolete; that the modern
patriotism, the true patriotism, the only
rational patriotism, is loyalty to the No
tion all the time; loyalty to the gouerx-
ntemf sche,s it describes it." With twenty
five million taught and trained patriots IN
the land generation from now, my sue
cessor would think twice before he would
butcher a thousand helpless poor petition
ers humbly begging for his kindness ana
justice, as / did the other day.
1t Is a picture! To think that this thing
in the mirror--this vegetables an ac-
cepted deity to mighty nation, an In
Vulnerable host, and nobody laughs; st the
same time is diligent and practical pro-
fessional devil. and nobody marvels, mo-
body murmurs about incongruities and In
consistencies! Is the human race joks
Was it devised and patched together u
dull time when there was nothing mcfs
important to do? Has it no respect ~
itself? . l think my respect for M
is dropping, sinking-and my respees sess
myself along with it. There y ~
one restorstive--clothssl Twill put Them ~