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Show u THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA It will take the world a long time to get over the Russian Rus-sian upset and the deposing.,of the Czar, but it should not, when one stops to consider that the eternity-old land of China turned over in a night its musty and dusty form of government, though it has since had its troubles and really gone back and forth, from republic to monarchy, several times, is now on a high road to enlightenment and better things. What has most caused consternation in this latest case, is the fact that Russia has upset herself and her government gov-ernment in the very throes of a great European war and when her aid and that of her deposed head means so much to one side, and when the lack of this means so much to the hopes of the Kaiser. Russia, like most other countries of the old world, was in a bad way. Her best men were being killed off and the people were starving because of the war. There was a strong pro-German sentiment prevailing and which materially affected the Russians for success or failure- While the Russian people themselves did not think so much of the English, the Czar was rather inclined that , way. His wife, however, is German, and domestic affairs could not have been very agreeable. Indeed, it is said that the Czarina has done much to foment sentiment in favor of Germany. The whole trouble has been predicted, but on the ground that the unrest was caused by scarcity of food. There have been bread riots. The Russians, like the rest of Europe, had no doubt come to the conclusion that they were all fools to be fighting battles for kings. The wiping out of vodka perhaps had something to do with the clearing clear-ing of the brains of the peasantry, who were in the trenches, trench-es, and the fact that they were in the trenches had a great deal more to do with it, for the good reason that it threw all the many Russian elements together for the first time, where they could talk over affairs in general, when not dodging bullets or shooting down their fellow men in the other trenches. Whatever it was, the great change has come and it is even more complete than at first reported, for the whole Romanoff dynasty has been obliterated, wiped out, cast into the discard, and the people of Russia are ruling themselves- A great fire has been started and it is fondly hoped by the world that it will not stop until all the people of Europe have done away with the useless, expensive, ex-pensive, trouble-making little group who claim that by right of birth they have the right to lord it over their fel-lows. fel-lows. Ex. - |