Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-03-09 | Page 14 | Poor Russia's Dark Future

POOR RUSSIA'S DARK FUTURE. After picturing the suffering, the unrest and the spirit of revolution which make Russia almost a chaos, the New York Times thinks the only hope for the great empire is that the Duma itself may develop de-velop a leafier, such a leader as. according to Car-lyle's Car-lyle's hypothesis, rendered forever unverifiable by the death of his candidate, the Slates General would have developed in Mirabean "had he lived another vea r." It seems to us like a faint hope, unless the Times means a leader like Julius Caesar, or like Xapoleon Bonaparte, a man great enough and magnetic enough to draw the masses to him and with determination enough to carry the right, even though it swept over the throne and over the nobility of Russia. Perhaps a Cromwell kind of man would be more appropriate, one from the commons, one who has no respect for royalty, no care for ancient prestige, one simply intent on lifting his country out of the paralysis pa-ralysis that is upon it and making it good by giving the people a chance and at the same time holding the people under the rule of righteous laws. We can think of no nation in history that was ever in so deplorable a state as is Russia. A good-hearted good-hearted and weak sovereign, one who would like to see his people happy, and yet one who believes he has the divine right to rule; one who rises in the morning with good resolutions, but who is swayed out of the path by the nobility, nobility that has no respect for the poor; the poor given to drink, the poor who have suffered so long in abject poverty that they doubt the mercy of God and the good will of man. who are ignorant and vicious, and to crown" all. millions of them dying from starvation. It seems to us a hopeless case, unless something can be started for peasant and Czar, alike, to respect and through the slow process of education and hard work to finally bring out the real strength of the Russian people. ( It is a deplorable state. It shows the effect of the tyranny of priests and kings as no other country on the globe does, and the pall upon it is too dense for anyone to see clearly any path that promises to lead up to order and peace and make it possible for the energies of the people to work out their salvation.