Show I RUSSIA ALONE TOX LAGS r Every nation in tho the world Is s advancing save advancing pave one Russia persistently declines to advance Turkey furkey Is getting a l parliament Even China H is emerging from the seclusion lon o of centuries Japan has amazed tho the world with tho suddenness and I Ithe the thoroughness of or Its progress into all aJl the tho en- en of this splendid age ago But nut Russia declines declines de de- e- e clines to learn anything and refuses to forgot forget any any- thing It is IR the mossback of or nations One can understand how tho the people of or nu Russia sla were held In servile bondage in the tho old days before there was a revolution re In France Franco before there was dignity and effectiveness IT In the commons of England before tho the United States had made their independence and proved the permanence o olife olife of life In a republic But Dut how the tho Russians could have remained in bondage e through all the years of or the last how could have ha century they seen een France rise and England prosper and America spread its lis Influence and Its power over the tho whole face faco of tho the earth and never shed its shackles shackles- that is more than thon tho the observer can cnn understand Tolstoi's arraignment is a n. most t scathing one and It is tho the more moro scathing because it is true But if ir Russians Russians rulers rulers and ruled will ruled will not be he awakened awakened awak awak- ened b by tho the war with Japan their case seems hopeless hope- hope loss less under their pr present form form of government Maybe tho the parallel between nations goes far Maybe as Franco suffered without hope until revolution came in the eighteenth century so the tho bonds that hold the tho nu Russian people can be dIssolved dissolved dissolved dis dIs- dis- dis solved only in blood |