Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-05-20
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in
Europe Follow the Great
World WARP
RUSSIA'S GRAVE MORAL ERROR
ForcibIe Seizure of Land Understand
able, but to Be Regretted as Max
Ing a Precedent to Justify
Dishonesty.
Article XIX.
BY FRANK coMERFoRD.

tient just before the treatment wa
started, reveals several findings whicl
are necessary to complete the histor!
and physical examination.
Russia was 7S per cent iIiterate
| This means that nearly fOur-tifths OF
the people In Russia could not reaC
or write. 1t does not mean that they
difference between illiteracy and in.
telligence as 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 reasonng-h0me-
spun thinkers. The head of Russia
had not been trained, but it was not
empty
There are many reasons for the H.
llteracy Of the great majority of Rus
the principal conspirator against the
Russian people getting an education.
The autocrats knew that ignorance is
the greatest Insurance against up
risings. the greatest sedative TO keep
the slave from complaining. The
Church in Russia, the QgthQdox
sChuEch was used to keAs thee light
fFs:IA HA9islf l'h@ 2sss Size
sIsiklle AAJlers1 \ the dlrfne scent Of
God on earth, and the "Unhoiy Syfiodr
Of the Russian Church bowed, not be-
fore the Christ. but bert low before
the ear. They betrayed Christ, even
as they betrayed the sons and daugh-
ters of men, their own blood, the Rus
sian peasants and toilers.
Religion Their Only SoIace.
2 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 deser- waste
Of life.
How Christ must have wept when he
the "Holy Synod" the
nonkish rascals, with their Sacrilegious
cons, slencing the protests of souls.
hrottling the cry for freedom by
quoting In his name that those
Who suffered most here would be high
st in heaven. A blasphemy. cor
upton of the Lowly One, who used
he word brotherhood to define equal.
ty, and the fatherhOOd of God to eX.
,ress the justice that man owed to
nan.
1t was agreed by and between the
Ioly Synod and the czars that the
tussian worshipers of God must not
now how TO read or write his name
o 1t was that the orthodox church
Russia used religion TO insult God
nd hold his creatures in bondage. II
as the only great church in the
orld that did not provide prayer
Ooks for its members. 1t was ar
led that IL the people had prayer
Doks they would learn to read, and
they read the Christ message on the
lbbath they might read other strange
nd dangerous books on Monday and
uesday and the other days of the
eek. They might misuse their abll-
Y to read, and read things like the :
merican Declaration of Independ-1
ice. The churches of the Byzantine
tinted the story of religion on the !
de Of Its walls. They gave the peo- .
e an education by the picture book y
ethod We use for children before y
ey have reached the kindergarten Z
e. p
BoIshevlsm Officially Launched. q
The birth certificate of bolshevism y
Is issued on November 10. 1917. IN
"The All-Russlan Congress of the Il
unclls OF Workingmen's. Soldiers p
d Peasants Deputies DEGREES the Il
I'm OF the administration of the Il
lntry, PENDING THE MEETING A
THE CONSTITUENT ASSEM- II
". The provisional workers and VI
asants' government Is TO be called ia
. Council of Peoples Commission
!. The administration of the indl. pt
ual branches of state life Is to be m
trusted to boards, the composition III
which Is to secure the carrying out of
the program proclaimed by the con- ia
'ss In close contact with the organ an
tions OF workers, sailors, soldiers ov
lsants and employees. The gov w
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