Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-03-15 | Page 16 | Romanoff Rule

i t t I Romanoff Rule Rale RUSSIA has just hist celebrated the completion o othree ot of three centuries o or of n Romanoff manof rule over the thc great Slavic empire Tf It was ivas three hundreds years years' ago I that the lie first prince of the house became the sovereign sos sov oC or the Russian people then a comparatively small email and weak as well as backward nation t Even Yen in America this period does docs not seem miI imI impressively im im- mi- mi I I 1 re s long Ions The Thu first settlements were made madet madeI t I in Virginia a little longer ago New Ke KeYork York is almost I as oJ old as as' as thc Ro Romanoff dynasty Massachusetts will complete three centuries le less s than nine nino years yean from now hOW Columbus had llan discovered America years year I when hell tl the c reigning family oC of Russia gained royal royala I a power I The rhe truth is if that Russia is still in ill many any respects 1 I young oung and crude It is largely a land of or frontier i conditions not only in Asia Asi but in some parts of thE tho European dominions o of 01 the Czars It is a commonplace commonplace common common- I place that Russian resources remain in largo large measure meas mens- ure nrc unexplored d not to say fray unimproved and there I are aie vast possibilities of change in the whole Russian empire I But this is not the work pf of the That t family has hns g given the Muscovite nation several Re strong I rulers and two three have or 01 been heen remarkably enI endowed en en- I dowed with the great gift rarely vouchsafed d to tot toI t I despots of perceiving and acting upon the national I need oL of development along unusual lines On the theother I other hand many of or the thc Romanoff princes have been weak eak diE di dissolute wasteful tyrannical and reactionary I in ill the Iho extreme They rhey have written many black t pages of or their country's history and although gh the i blood of the reigning house is now no almost whon wholly I German through many marriages they have h been en ent t typically Russian in spirit and methods It is a n I trite sa saying that Russia Hussin in government as well as asI I in numerous customs is halt half oriental I Tho The first of the Romanoff emperors was wn elected J by the nobles and chieftains of his country The Thelast last of th the line whether the reigning czar or some t successor will ill doubtless be driven from power not I by the nobility and aud gentry of or the tho empire but by the peo people c. c I 4