| Show 01 Portland Oregonian Devout subjects of or holy have hlo been liten to the tho extremes extreme of or Joy mind and un woe 00 within n a few ew days 1111 In connection with the tho Laster celebration Truth to say city 1111 they thoy seemed to enjoy uric ono extreme as ns much as ns the tho other celebrating both with great greot pomp and lint Now ow prostate I before the spectacle of or orthe the crucified Je Jesus Jenis us and nil now IIO feasting casting and amid making merry over oer tho iho thin scene the people have faire passed ed from one on extreme extrema to 10 o another nail anil are ore ruady r to wake make war star with Ith nil all their might In Inthe Inthe inthe the minnie namo of or pence pease on earth good goot will to 10 men Inon Human nature In Its it most ex IX extravagant tra mood moo l Is an Interesting study and the presentment nt at lit BL Petersburg has hos been lieen unusually lUll line Springfield In tho time past has hns never been the equal of ot sumo some of the tho western coun count countries countries tries In ht wealth Industry agri agriculture nun culture education II r 1 II mind and culture Yet somehow she has hils come carne up un Somehow with her hel crude organization mold and germ gen general eral poverty she Rho has hams borno borne the thu sue silo successive ce economic nits political shocks of ot great wars ware Somehow as an II her hor ter march to thu Pacific line has Ins proved elms phe he has hns shown an tin Incontestable superiority In iii force forre to 10 the with whom she hoc has come In la contact except i II sst SI bly 11 the th Japanese Even the tho warlike Turk Turl line has succumbed before her If It wars warn me are III the drastic tlc tests testa of ot a n nations economic I soundness nail political co coherency coherency and national fiber then has not lIot successfully met train from the tho time of ot Ivan the tho Terrible to the present day Bevil of Reviews In Ut short hort Is a u highly civilized nail Christian nation Her Iler expansion lolI Into Siberia and jurke tun has been heen for tor forthe the time good of or those countries Her main mis mission sloe sion has been heen to establish order to de develop develop the th resources of or the time country and 10 to look after the general ivell being of ot both the population and the tho new ne Bottler settlers that have hn crowded In It should bo hI noted also ulso that the Asiatic prow provo provinces inces of ot Russia have been acquired by 11 less bloodshed than thon those ot or almost nay other power and that In their subsequent relations with the natives the tho t he passions It have hn 0 been heen peculiarly for fortunate or In lu establishing good fueling feeling tl lIng Our own on opinion frequently expressed In these pages Images has long keen been that Is in In Manchuria for tOl pur purposes purposes poses es of at raid civilization mind will permanently i remain U It is 18 true 1110 that certain Gentlemen holding civil nail and military attires under the time United States Slates government were wro recently quoted as 18 ex ox expressing pressing shong predilections In favor of ot tho the entice cause Such remarks were ro not Incompatible with wItt Ith the time strictest oh of ot neutrality by our govern government government ment but hut they were tumid and In III Sun Sail Francisco Call C all Hussion return I In Is out of at the tho question Thin Tho Ih autocracy under the time thumb of the tha Holy Synod lies has stubbornly withstood all pressure for fUl reform The 1110 brains of or Hus II represented by h Tolstoi oro Iru under the tho lour bun Not content with Ith political cal ml persecution the time Holy Synod an mimes climes to shut Intelligence out nut of heaven by the lie solemn process of or ex excommunication communication from the thc orthodox church Russia HU In III no way II represents the tho th civilization the time intelligence tho the civic Institutions the aspirations or re 10 religious liberty of or the tho white rare rf I anti and Americans will repudiate at al olleo any In such pretense Worcester Spy SP Darker n a 1 Philadelphia fi n financier formerly to I agent of ot f tho time government In iii time the United States Stales fays anys ho was Wil told by the tho Emperor Alexander 11 II of or the determination to con consider consider sider elder Great recognition ot or tho Iho ho Confederacy as a 1 cases casus belli bell mind and for tor tint that reason aerie sent the tho fleets to toNo toNet New Net No York and Sun San Francisco Tim The Novae remarks Russia hills has not mint forgotten how mow to 10 honor the time Hag flag raised In III 1863 by I Russian squadrons tit lit New ew York and San SlIn Francisco I The Americans who were w ro at tut iro that lint Ia da day know ow hv how to 10 appreciate the HUH Him plans friendship for or during the th Civil Itil 11 war var nr |
