Show THE RUSSIA OF TODAY Professor Profesor KO I Ik a nn n ex member of the second duma whose voice oleo of protest protest protest pro pro- test tins has never ceased to lo be heard hearn dUrIn during during dur dUr- In ing thes these years Cars o of Ine Incessant sant and In Increased increased In- In creased d persecution o of all that Is III noble and Ideal In In the tho life lite of the thee Russian people pea peo pie I says S 'S that the retro retrograde rado movement mo begun wIth ith the dissolution of or the first and s second cond duma dumas has not paused for forone or oron on ont one Instant Tho The arbitrary measures to repress ever every manifestation o of Individuality utility and all views that thai do not meet th the approval aJ of th the administration and of the classes benefited b by the existing regime continue continuo without nb abatement tem nt and Russia's noblest men arid and women omen aro ao ruthlessly sl scattered to the four quarters of ot the globe With Tolstoi at PIlCO peace under his oak Gorl Gorky y In Capri kin In r London ondon Viera FI Figner ncr In Brussels Madame Madam In her hr Ic icy exile at Siberia Korol Korolenko awaiting a trial and probably destined to Imprisonment imprisonment in thO fortress of or the Kresty In St. St Petersburg president lIld nt of the first duma dumn and that able editor o of tho the the Messenger of oC Europe deceased d. d the tho Russian Rus Rus- sian filan Fronde has lost a majority of oC H It its earnest and fearless carlesa defenders Never before beCore has a Il handful of or worth worth- 1 less Jess 86 and I Ignorant men ruled Russia with s ch Irresponsible violence nc Form Formerly rl some Fome man of merit was usually to be found foun among tho administrators Toda Today not a man o of ability talent nt or brains helps helps' to bring up the average Q o of th the min mm- I It is a fi reign of brutal force guided d b by the most short hort sighted pOlicy polio pol pol- Ic io icy Woe Toe to a 0 nation that has lost faith In Its Hs courts of Justice to a people that bartt barters Justice for vodka Irr In- the r lower courts and where tho the hl higher tribunals lI listen ten with strained attention to the views of th their lr superior We c no longer wonder onder at the popular of or the th gesture o of the equestrian statue of Peter tho Great tho-Great In front of the senate with outstretched hand tho gi gigantic gigantic I gi- gantic tsar tar points point to the Nieta a and warns warn tho the Ru Russians that thal 11 it I Is hatter bettor tr to ho he drowned d' d in the river r than to plead Inthe inthe In the tho Alexandra Delano In Harpers Weekly p kh |