MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 120,
THE SOUL OF RUSSIA,
There has been brought from Mos cow I letter addressed by M. Vidinir. Tebertko to English, friches.
M. Ezhertkoff was one of the test devoted friends and disciples of the Tate Count Leopold Tolstoy,savs the Manchester Guardian, and has been since the latter's death one of the exccutors of his wilt. He Eved many years en Christchurch, Hampshire. whehe. maintained a large printing press, fremhich Tolstoyan Bern ture for people in Russia was issued.
In the course of this long letter, which is dated October 6. M. Tchert- kalf explains the rst escesses in Russis after the revolution by coas parison with a dammed-up stream of which the dyke suddenly gives way. to realisy, only a portion et the Rus- sian people werk involved, and this wave of fun and insanity soon ar sided.
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comthues.
On the other hand, in another sphere el action in which the people had hid time definitely to make up their mind. our working ausses accomplished une of these hystrical achievements the significance of which for the whole future et mankind is so tar-reaching tha: can squrcely be adequately p preciated by the present generation. By having the runks and resolutely returning to their homes the Russian saldiers demonstrated to the world that wars can be arrested by nations independently of their Governments.
Even perhaps in a yet greater de ree are rite Russian working-masses; at the present moment outraged by and tired of the civil war which is, tearing asunder our country. --this case, however, the problems more complex invetving, as it does, vari ous long standing religious: social, and economical grievances. The more independent and cerscientious nucleus! of the Reussian people that Karnet in which whether quantitatively it he great or small, are concentrated the vital brees and coming possibilities of evary marion-this inrinsic nucleus is!
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who have attained it with the deter mination in surrender all in the ser- vice of that which is true and right,
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Ar the present tipe ace may affirm, Pan Ya... with certainty that the working masses fret. Black-fsk Chang of our country, to whichever part of fret, White-Pak Chong... dissevered Russia,they may belong. Ma
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of the endless civil war in which they 4 Tat Shi Yo afe compelled to participate. ficially divided by their political rulers.-Tao H174 into various opposed groups, they are
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Kenk Yu strile. Their rulers of all camps arc absorbed in endeavours to arrest universal desertion from the ranks and
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the dissolution of their respective depraving the weaker portion of the armies. One might therefore hoperation, which is susceptible to evil That this odious civic war would auto-
inauence. Other nations can con- arically exhaust itself for want of tribute to this necessary pacification combatants, if it were not for one
by the one and only means of refrain- disastrous circumstance-namely, that
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How dreadful a responsibility falls on the European Powers, including vik" nor a partisan of any form of England through this interference, compulsory Government I think I am which is prolonging the civil war now able to judge of what is taking place raging in Russia! All the suffering pround me without giving preference and ruin connected with our civil war to any of the striving parties. I do ened Russian whole-heartedly anxious all the blood that is shed, afi theo close my eyes to the fact that side for the emancipation of our working atrocities committed now, le directly by side with the brightest manifesta-
at the door of those Powers which tion of our nation's life we also wit- deliberately pour oil into the flames ness much that is intensely ignoble el this strife. However we may and evil, sympathise with or dislike any one
people from all oppression and co- moralising influences, above all, de- sires one thing that our ration be allowed to grapple with its great issk other of the various Governments concitision that our country is perish inn without any intervention from f
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