Show LIVES IN THE FUTURE Possibilities of the Vast Empire of the Czar VIEWED BY ENGLISHMAN RUSSIANS CONSTITUTE A WORLD IN THEMSELVES En1ightencd Prince Who Is Known as the AmericanServed Apprenticeship Appren-ticeship In Railway ShopsAmer icans Discover Immense Undevel opec Field Awaiting Enterprise Copyright 1SS by the Associated Press London Oct 29VIlUam T Stead writing from St Petersburg says When Sir Robert 11orier One of the ablest of British ambassadors was transferred from the court of Madrid to the capital of Russia he remarked on his arrival I have come from a country which lives in the past to a country which lives In the future Since then mans years have gone by Spain has almost used up its past in a vain effort to contend with the forces of the present while Russia is exhausting exhaust-ing tile resources of the present In order to be able to cone with the Immense poslbilities of the future Russia Is f the greatest aggregate of white men ever compacted into a state unit since V the world began The EnglishspeakIng familr alone xceeds in numbers the Russian but they know no one pOlitical allegIanCe such as that which hinds aU the Russians to the throne of Nicholas IL One hundred and twenty millions of I men constitute a world in themselves I large enough to absorb their energies I and monopolize their attention The indifference In-difference of the Russians to what passes beyond their frontiers is phe nomenJl Fifteen years ago one of the aidesdccamp of the then emperor falling into conversation with an American Amer-ican asked him to what country he be longed and was told America Amer lea America said the aidedccamp Where is America 7 An American traveling recently returned re-turned from Siberia gravely assured me that all the war news he could find in the Orenburg papers were brief reprints of telegrams describing the war which was raging between Spain and England Eng-land The Russian peasantry are not apt to male fine distinctions Mankind for them It has often been said consists con-sists only of two great divisionsthe Russians or speaking men and the nonRussians or those who cannot speak SOCIETY WATCHES EVENTS Thc small but highly cultivated minority mi-nority which forms Russian society the larger group which forms the ad Jllinlstrations and the officers of the army and of the navy are of course keenly alive to the evolution of events in America There Is M Fobedonostretl who is universally regarded asa kind of lay pope end persecutor general throughout through-out russla No milder mannered man I S ever doomed a schismatic to exile He I A is keenly alive to the American elolu I I J tin or as he thinks it degradation S T him Boss Croker Is a kind of som be portent of the doom that awaits parllamentarism or representative gov ernment In his TIefiectlons of a Russian Rus-sian Statesman which has just made its appearance In English be expresses profound alarm at the probable triumph tri-umph of the Roman Catholi relglol in the United States Prince Khl1lofl minIster of war and communications is known as the American He servcd some years in American railway shops he wears his beard In the traditonal American fashIon fash-Ion his letters arc written on a typewriter type-writer and he Is simply burning with lL desire to repeat in Siberia the grand industrial developments that the Americans Amer-icans achieved in the last 50 years west of the Mississippi I At the foreign office Count 1ura iefT bluff cynical Bismarcklan in his ambitions though not in his capacity has kept a careful ere upon the development devel-opment of American ambitions VhlIe scrupulously preserving the most rigid neutrality during the war he had a bias in sentiment toward the United States Great and growing powers have not much sympathy with states that are moribund and Spain had few sympathizers sympa-thizers among the ministers of the czar But the Spanish war interested I them but little It was waged as it i were in a distant plarlet Astronomers might watch it but it was not the business I busi-ness of the average man u1ERICA IX TIUSSIA I Americans are coming well to the I I front in Russia as they are discovering I more and more what an immense and I undeveloped field the lands of the czar I A offer to western enterprise Russia s t but at the beginnIng of a new epoch of I industrial development Before the next century closes she hopes to have achieved a progress as great as that which the United States has accomplished accom-plished in the closing century Xo one adequately realizes the immense agricultural agri-cultural resources of the Immense pnti rio through which the czar and Prince KhIlkofr arc runnng an iron highway OOO miles long Americans arc supplying I sup-plying many of the rails American engineers en-gineers are everywhere One American is superintending the construction of new steel works near St Petersburg S Bates dredges are to deepen the Volga Vol-ga the Dnieper the Don and I know not how many Russian rivers besides The Iepresentathe of lessrs Worth ington is lang down OO miles of eIghtinch piping in the transCaspian region through which the Rothschlids oil combInation will ump petroleum by means of four pumping stations all of which will be supplied with the latest lat-est pumps The other day I met an American geologist and engineer who having Quit the post of engineer in a great Americancity has been spending the summer examinIng the gold mines of northern Siberia and before the day was over I stumbled on another who had been reporting on copper mines in the Khirgis Steppes The testimony of these AmerIcans was favorable to the labor value of the Siberian workman PEASANT IS DOCILE The Russian is docile quick to learn and docs quite as good work as the t skilled laborer In the states As a r4 craftsman he Is a past master with his only tool the ax and my American friends seemed to think that he would be equally deft with other tools if lIe had the training of the skilled artisan On the other hand another American Ameri-can declared quite as positively that i the RussIans employed in his works i work as mechanically as the machines they tend They never make a suggestion sugges-tion or propose an Improvement Their minds are sluggish and they are the most conservatIve men t There is manifest In certain quarters quar-ters a suspIcion that after a time the cordiality of Russian and American ia iJfisiiir cD L frIendship may undergo some little change The American element in the country Is a little yeast leavening the Russian mass with American ideas Russian workmen here and there nave been heard to observe that they had no use for a Tsar a phrase which seems almost pure American No greater contrast could be conceived than that between the feverish newspaperlit elect icdrhen democracy of the United Unit-ed States and the slow patriarchal despotism of Russia Consul General HollQwa of whom I was delighted to receive the best ac counfs subscribes regularly to nine American newspapers As the malls do not come in every day it is easy to imagine the perplexity of the unfortunate unfortu-nate Russian censor who has to examine ex-amine every column of every paper that passes through the post So the censor capitulate and taking refuge gladly In the rule which allows certain official personages to receIve their papers pa-pers uncensored It was decreed that the consul general should receive his mall Intact The Incident Is illustra live of much A thousand Americans scattered up and down Russia and Siberia SI-beria would let In a flood of light to many dark places and help to roll the Tsars chariot along a little more rapidly rap-idly than it moves at present 4 PENDOOR POLICY IN CHINA Another principle upon which Rus sins or rather some Russians see impending im-pending danger is the certainty with which the American ambassador here never loses an opportunity of emphasizing empha-sizing that the United States will stand no interference with the opendoor pol icy In China In Mr Hitchcock the United States has been fortunate to find a thorough business man who has spent years of hIs life In the Chinese trade He knows the value of China to American commerce and he had no Intention of allowing any obstacle to be placed in the way of its development develop-ment The action Wren by the czar on his own initiative In summoning a conference confer-ence of aU the nations to consIder whether anything can be done to secure an arrest of armaments affords an opportunity op-portunity for the friends of peace in the United States to do a stroke of good business both for the cause and their country The czar has been plentifully plen-tifully plied with cold douches of skepticism skept-icism ridicule and scorn The diplomatists diplo-matists and the sovereigns and the ministers of the old world have no faIth in the humanitarian enthusiasm of the young emperor Even among his min Isten there are many who have little smpath with his chivalrous crusade I of peace But Nicholas II means bud I ness and he is going through with this business as best he can with such support sup-port rlS he can command I If there be any real enthusiasm of humanity anywhere In the new world It j ought to be eabily evoked and strongly strong-ly expressed In support of his valorous declaration or war against the ruinous armaments of the modern world Of one thing Americans may be sure The more enthusiastically they make manifest man-ifest the response to the appeal of the young emperor the better it will be for the future relations of the two countries coun-trIes |