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Show A DREARY ECHO. The release of Professor Alexioff Torogoni by the Japanese captors of Sahkalin, after the gifted man had been a prisoner for a quarter of a century, cen-tury, is but an echo of former Russian tyranny. If the great war will have the effect to beat down that brutality and make such injustice impossible in future, then it will not have been fought in vain. If the ruling power in Russia is forced to realize that the right of a government to maintain main-tain itself only exists when the people who have to pay the taxes and fight the battles approve of such right, then a great advance will have been made in that country. With it goes that other right of revolution when the tyrannies of those in power become intolerable. |