Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1917 — Russian Brotherly Love. [ARTICLE]

Russian Brotherly Love.

“I saw two processions meet on the banks of the Neva.” writes Lincoln Steffens in Everybody’s. “One was of jolly Russians; men, women. girls and boys, soldiers and workers; the-other of Tartars, Mongols, and Chinamen, workers who did the dirty work of the city—-street cleaning, sewers, draining. They were shy, abashed, hot sure. The two processions cheered each other; then, moved a bit, they halted to sing the revolutionary song together; and then, at a moment I felt —everybody

seemed to get import of it—the two or thrge rapes rushed together, and embraced, and wept. A moment, and they recovered their dignity and marched on their way. But the Mon-gols-were not shy ahy longer; they looked a bit astonished at one another, but their step was sure."