The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-05-27
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in
Europe Follow the Great
World War?
RUSSIA'S GRAVE MORAL ERROR
Forcibe Seizure of Land Understand
able, but to Be Regretted as Max
ing a Precedent to Justify
Dishonesty,
Article XIX.
BY FRANK coMERFoRO.

! An examination of Russia, the pa
| ticnt. just before the treatment was
| started. reveals several findings which
are necessary to complete the history
and physical examination,
Russia was IS per cent illiterate.
This means that nearly four-fifths Of
the people i'm Russia could not read
Or write. 1t does not mean that they
could not think. There is as great a
difference between illiteracy and in
teligence rs there is between illiteracy
and ignorance. | have met many Rus
sian peasants who could not read or
write, who had good native minds,
genuine power Of reaSoning-home-
spun thinkers. The head of Russia
had not been trained, but 1t was not
empty.
There are many reasons for the IL
literacy of the great majority of Rus
sian people The autocratiC state was
IN" principal conspiratOr against the
Russian people getting an education
The autOcrats knew that ignorance is
the greatest insurance against up
risngs, the greatest sedative to keep
the slave from complaining. The
Church in Russia, the Orthodox
Church. was used TO keep the light
from the people. The ear was the
Little Father" the divine agent Of
God on Garth. and the "UnhOly Synod"
Of the Russian Church bowed, not be-
fore the Christ, but bent low before
The car They betrayed Christ, even
MS they betrayed the sons and daugh-
terS of men. their own blood, the Rus
sian peasants and toiIers.
Religion Their Only Soace.
The people Of Russia held firmly
to their faith in God. The rest and
ease their faith gave them was the
only comfort they had. In moments
Of intense religious communion they
were lifted out of themselves and for
seconds forgot their burdens. These
seconds were long spaces Of relief,
green spots in the endless desert waste
of life.
How Christ must have wept when he
Witnessed the holy Synod" the
monkish raScals, with their SacrilegiouS
icons, silencing the protests AZ souls,
throttling the cry for freedom, by
quoting in his name that those
who suffered most here would be high
est in heaven. A blasphemy. cor
ruption Of the Lowly One, who used
the word brotherhood to define equal
fly, and the fatherhoOd of God t~ eX-
press the justice that man owed to
man.
II was agreed by and between the
Holy Synod and the czars that the
Russian worshipers of God must not
know how to read or write his name.
So It was that the orthodox church
of Russia used religion to insult God
and hold his creatures in bondage. 1t
was the only great church in the
world that did not provide prayer
books for It's members. 1t was ar
gued that If the people had prayer
books they would learn 10 read, and
If they read the Christ message on the
Sabbath they might read other strange
and dangerous books on Monday and
Tuesday and the other days of the
week. They might misuse their abil
fly TO read. and read things like the
American Declaration of Independ-
ence The churches of the Byzantine
painted the story of religion on the
side Of It's walls. They gave the peo-
pie nm education by the picture book
method we use for children before
they have reached the kindergarten
age.
8olshevism Officially Launched.
The birth certificate Of bolshevlsm
WaS issued on November 10, 1917
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