Show I RUSSIA AND HER PEOPLE I Mr HavcVck Ellis in tho Contemporary Contempo-rary Review writes of Russia and the Russians He likes them asa whole but he ilnds In the people what he I calls a temperanKnlal 1 barbarism and then goes on to say All the troitB of the Russian character and of Russian life the hospitality o the people peo-ple their copious repasts the profusion of color in cooz their costumes and their cities the bizarre Incoherence of their thei architecture the mixture of tenderness and cruelty in their dispositions their expansive thel cxpanslQ frankness anti emotionality these are all traits which 1 trnl are strictly barbarous I I Well if that Is true then trle what about the French They like a profusion of I colors In their costumes and their cit o ies They have the full mixture of ten tions derness and cruelty in their disposi They are emotional beyondall account Perlmpn Mr El f Usdoes not use Just the wordhd wants because barbarism has an underlying Uilcll II meaning of cruel savagery and we do not know that the Russians aro any ntoro re markable In that respect t1tlCpect than another an-other people They are a klndluarlod race They are the best colonizers in tho world except perhaps the English r nglsl ihey are better than the English In one respect When England colonizes a country of strange pnoplo that have another toneue beside the English l EnlIRh and are brought up under altogether different i differ-ent methods while the colonization Is a success the races remain distinct with Russia when she le goes Into n strange country she haM conciliation and firmness enough to make the people all RuHsIana In 3 little while Probably there are no more loyal subjects of Busala In the world than the men and women of Turkestan but uome of us remember when Prussia went there by main strength and conquered that race and took possession or the country with those But her people mingling people have mnde them glad they were conquered Wo think 0 better view of I Russia would be that It practically was I In a state of savagery until that old I i halfsavage Peter the Great started j 1 the country on Its upward modern way that since then it has progressed faster I than any race In the world and Immature Im-mature Is bettor word than barbarism barbar-ism In two hundred years more about I the finest people In all tho world will be the Russians n scholarship in art in arms every way they wH be a I mighty and great and learned people I Is I a poor country the people are I general abjectly poor millions of I them are unlettered their lives are fled with suffering but there Is more hope for them in our Judgment than I I for any other people In the East I |