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Show I f ii Miserable Russia. $Jwf To udgG y tne dispatches, a great portion, f not tne mniry of tne People of Russia have 'u'wPi' gone insane, 'have taken on a homicidal mania. And this spirit seems to be extending to the class j ;j!H known as conservatives and is threatening the f wl "The reign of terror" in Prance seems to be ' Jfl! duplicated in a dozen places in Russia. We an- ticlpate that before long we shall read the news ' that the royal family has fled the country or been , Jl assassinated, unless a, part of the army can be trusted to shield their emperor with their bayo-' bayo-' li fiil Unless something is quickly done to pacify I f 'HBi countrv ue next natural movement will lie ' no "man on horseback" to appear, and in the t''Sjif name of liberty "wade through a sea of blood to a - HMm There may be a new Napoleon somewhere in Wjl the great army of Russia. It is generally so when ' 'p'$H a country becomes from any cause ungovernable. The sentiment of the world is changing toward $ 1 Jj Russia. The massacres of Jews in that country .', ;' place it about on a par with Turkey, as a country inhabited by a people not fit to be free. It seems so torn by factions that it is losing all coherence, and as yet no man, no company of men have appeared ap-peared that can command order and begin to arrest ar-rest the chaos that rules from the Baltic to the Euxine, from the Ural to the Dnieper. , Still, Russia has a multitude of great men, great scholars, great writers, great men of affairs, and men who should be great soldiers. The strangest feature of all is that the Russians Rus-sians are by nature a kindly, generous, hospitable and loyal race. What has transformed them into wild beasts? Three years ago the masses looked upon the czar as their rightful sovereign and the one who of right was the head of, their church. Now he is almost a refugee and all the hours of his days and nights are hauled by the fear of assassination, and his empire is little better than a water-logged wreck a derelict that can neither sink nor sail. It is difficult to imagine anything more pitiable or more alarming than the situation of Russia today, or to see from what source relief Is to come. |