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Show L? N INCIDENT of the great German strike sug-$2 sug-$2 If. Basted to me the means and method by which fs" B!'such desolating wars as that between. Russia ft '""id Japan will be prevented in the future. & Au E"Blish trades union subscribed .$10,000 a W? wock t0 tnc support of their German fellow tjiiSf :Nov.', I havo myself no doubt at all that In iJrecgnltion of a common interest will extend Jgf, jconomlcnl to social and political questions and Z D'cnt such wars as Cowpor describes and uui1 : cat ifif "F'nces have great playthings. soek diversion In tho tented field, 5 nake the sorrows of mankind their sport. 3i ?r a came which, were their subjects wise, jfi Should not play at." tl certainly their subjects will grow sufficiently jfl t0 "cognize that thoy havo a common ln-'S ln-'S Lh tho subcls of other princes, and that this M common Interest Is not served by dynasllc or aggressive wars. After a sleepless night In a country inn Curran said at breakfast to a friend: "T give you my word ot honor, if the fleas had been unanimous last night they would have punhed mo out of bod." That Is an unsavory Image, and unjust also, since the people in all countries aro not tho parasites, but the prey of tho parasites. However, How-ever, It expresses what will happen to such princes as "make the sorrows of mankind their sport" when their subjects becomo sufficiently wise to be unanimous. The' Russian army today Is a sufficiently heterogeneous hetero-geneous force of conflicting elements; but it is uniform and unanimous compared with the army that invaded Russia under Napoleon, which consisted of 30,000 Weat-phalians, Weat-phalians, -10,000 Bavarians, 10.000 Wurtcmburgors. 3000 Grand Duchy of Berg. 20.0C0 Prussians. 20.000 Austrlans. 5000 Badenese, 60,000 Poles. 300,000 Swiss, French, Spaniards, Span-iards, and Portuguese, and 20,000 vnrloUs. What appalling appal-ling sntlerlngs all these various nationalities, except tho French, underwent for a man to whom they owed only the brutal trampling down of their own countries! Hero is a hundredfold stronger and stranger case than that which confounds Teufelsdrockh when ho describes tho thirty cunning craftsmen unlisted and dragged .from Hih English village of Dumdrudgc to meet In the south of Spain thirty cunning craftsmen enlisted and dragged from a French Dumdrudgo: "Straightway the word 'Fire!' Is given, and thoy blow the soula out of one another. In place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen the world has sixty dead carcasses car-casses which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had theso men any quarrel? Busy ns tho devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entlr-oat entlr-oat strangers; nay, in so wide a universe, thero was even unconsciously by commerce some mutual helpfulness between be-tween them. How then? Simpleton! their governors had fallen out, and. instead of shooting one another, had tho cunning to mako theso poor blockheads shoot." But the foreigners In tho French army invading Russia died miserably fighting for their worst enemy and against their natural ally. Col. Wcllesley in his recently published "With tho Russians In Peace and War." thinks tho Russian Government Gov-ernment made a fatal mistake in substituting the German Ger-man system of universal conscription for Its own method of enlisting such simple peasants as suited it. When tho conscription is universal necessarily many goats will bo enlisted amongst tho sheep to the demoralization of tho fiock; whereas, under the old system tho sheep, uncor-rupted. uncor-rupted. went to the slaughter without question.- Indeed, the colonel's description of the ordinary Russian peasant recruited under the old system recalls to me Cnmpancllit's lino socialist sonnet; 1 "Tho people Is a beast of muddy brain That knows not Its own strength, and therefore stands Loaded with wood and stone; tho powerless hands Of n mere child guide it with bit and roin; Ono kick would bo enough to break the chain; But the bonst fears, and what the child demands If does: nor its own terror understands. Confused and stupefied by bugbears vain. Most wonderful! With it,? own hands it ties And gags itself glvca itself death and war For peace doled out by kings from its own storo. Its own are all things between oarth and heaven: But this it knows not; and. If one arl60 To tell this truth, it kills him unforglven." Col. Wcllesley, speaking of his experience of Russia Rus-sia a generation back, gives some amusing Instances of tho corruption of the Russian officials of that day. When the "Grand Duke Nicholas, the Czar's brother, remon- PH ' rated with a Gorman manufacturer upon the high PPH prices of his tondor for some Government contract the pjjPfl ' manufacturer replied: "You forget, your Royal Highness. PPPJ that I have to bribe every Government official, from tho PPPJ doorkeeper . upward." "Certainly," retorted the Grand PPPJ Duke," "and why not? I, the Czar's brother, have to PPPJ bribe Government officials to purchase tho produce of m" PPPJ . Siberian farms, and why should you, a foreigner, bo PPPJ cmpt from a recognized and universal tax?" PPPJ The ironclad 'Peter the Great was laid down in Rus- PPPJ sla at tho same llmo that the Devastation was laid down PPPJ In Encland. and when the Devastation was launched thp PPPJ Czar naturally looked for the launch of his rival mun-of- fJPPJ war. "When will Peter the Great bo ready for sea?'' he PPfl asked his Minister of Marine, who answered falteringly, PPPJ "In In three weeks, your Majesty." in three weeks the IPPH Czar went down to Inspect the vessel and found it- ai- IfJjPS parently ready for 6ea, oven to the point of getting up PPPJ Hteam for its trial trip. As a matter of fact, however. IPPPJ the smoko proceeded from funnels made of canvas and IPPH from straw kindled bolow! It was palntod to give Its un- PPH protected-hull tho appearance 'of being Iron plated, while PPH - its turrets were of wood! PPH |