"To the Editor of the "NomrH-CuiNa Day New:
Siti congratulate "A Russ jon his letter published today. an example of ranting and canting it is admirable: as a reply to my letter, not 20 geod, In my previous letter I said something to the effect that on a di ference of opinion there are fools who will tear their hair and yell Bolshevik." "A Russian" is out to justify this statement and if he has enclosed @ handful of hair to you, it, he need take no further steps to convince me. I am convinced—{f T'were to meet him T should hesltate to tell him his watch is five minutes slow fest he adduce additional proof of his rental condition by-again yelling "Bolshevik."
quote a paragraph from my last This is, of course, quite untrue, or, as "A Russian" puts it, nonsense. But when that gentleman wrote, "here was personal liberty, free} press, law, free commerce, " prosering industry, ete." what exactly id he imply? Tt {s'a precis of my words and therefore concentrated nonsense.
That passage of mine quoted above is pronounced by "A Russian" {be nonsense. What then is. he arguing about? The picture T have given is not of a Utopia but the common condition of any civilized ud, and this Russian says it is consequently untrue and non-existent, Can one wonder there was a revolution in Russia when Russians "who are the beat judges" admit that the ordinary Drinciples of life, common rules of government, were absent and violated!
Tam satisfied that "A Russian" has learnt something" of primer history, albeit in the public press, I fam sure, though, a eat or a bull would have required less training and as for a monkey—after whom "A. Russian" ardently aspires—auch instruction would be insulting, 1 fear that "A Russian" has forgotten the subject of this corre Pondence and seems to think ita discussion on the personal. merits and demerits of the Tsars. I warned all quibblers that by Tsar" T meant the regime which he repre-tented, and my letter was an explilt attack on the darkest institution the world's history. It is an unstable reason which permits a man to say that because one denounces the Tsarist regime one must accuse all monarchist governments. A com. Parison between the. monarchic f Russia and England, for instance, is as congruous as a comparison between a snake and rose, Therd fs little T can add to my previous letter, for' not a sing! point has been impugned by "A Ri sian" who merely blares "lies" and asses on to subjects, such as dogs, more within his understanding, 'A government, a regime, that corrupt, that enslaves the people, ersecutes and oppresses them and allows them to wallow in supers! tion and ignorance, has neither Tight nor reason to exist and it would indeed be a very inferior people that would submit to the scourge without vigorous, and if necessary violent, protest, The cure may be worse than the disease, but the application of a remedy, no matter how rude, isin. itself evidence of awakening, of a consciousness of evil and a desire for enlightenment and improvement.
"A Russian" must decide whether to oppose this sentiment or subscribe to it. If he takes the former attitude, it will be a confession of inferiority, of a spirit cowed and broken that knows no self-pride; and if, perhaps, he finds there is reason in what I say, lo will be less prone to fatter Bolshevism by Attributing all noble sentiments to that doctrine.
"A Russian" asked "Sanat" to state a case when Russian nocent people and "Sanat" replied; "The Russian hero, Skobeleff, massacred 20,000 Turcomans, " men, women and children at Geok-Teppe. Now this Skobele was one of the cdizeatéa classes, so was the pitedttod that blessed this massacre, To this "A Russian" delivered Whi he thought was a brilliant coup-dewrace:—"Skobeleft was a general part in the Russo-Turkith war of 1875. To this I have nothing to add." There was a massacre of thousands—that he passes. The priesthood blessed this massacre—this also he passes, Skobeleff was not a priest but a general—therefore there is nothing more to be said about the massacre and the who always functioned at these events, Not such a brilliant eoupde-grace after'all!
To this I have nothing to add. Tam, ete, Mars.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.