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Show RAY OF HOPE IN RUSSIA. The news that the Czar is rejecting the advice of his inspired council and standing by Witte in his efforts to bring peace to Russia and start the huge empire on safe lines is most welcome. , There should be something done to enable the peasantry to plant a crop in the spring and have their minds turned away from thoughts of revolution. revolu-tion. Men do not rebel on full stomachs, and when they know their children are not hungry. Russia's greatest, need is to have her industries revived, her fields cultivated, her factories started and her wage-earners paid. The men who immediately surround the Czar have never been taught to sympathize with the sorrows sor-rows of the poor or to pity their sufferings, and the Emperor is wise to fgnore their counsels. |