Arizona weekly miner., 1877-06-01


 S-,s ubk bus Il has preserved the SlaYonian 's S Sssapawer. X thousand years are but aS ,s;sys lay lu th. life ot great race, and the a Ss iaacl pat n ot 2D,o1O,000 Says was coevJl eea ia tn D., mlllcnary anniversary of Russian cs fstence. IL l> this possible cc nuomic rcvO- Tsss ton which make, the possibilities in
 iyeu ln the present war >o momeatouS. VI lsSia Is an Empire. but it k also a De a' h. eracy. l. k not what We maintain. . ',e- oyernment ot the people tor the people," 's.rs a gpvernm snt of the m .S>cs by Chief, ses slally without caste to hinder or priyi- les. ss to destroy perS pual rights. A a q s-
 stisnl, II k the highest type of personal S SS'sis .wer, but it rests ol the broad shoulders
 the peasant and the worker, It holds kS erea what th, lat.>t and b,~t authar>, on ,HS assia, declare, to be the oniy institution
 hich has genuine, spontaneous ildepcnd-
 { liic in IL, and does not require tp draw
 tlvanic vitality from central authority
 eonly piece of self government which cN- -',s s ls in the country. The Commune alone ass Is deep roots in the traditions, the habits, lssS d thc everyday interests of the people s to the future of Russian autncracy, l ss : a diSpaScd to believe that the Commune, s7s- hen disciplined, being essentially Demo sfss atic, will surely be it's cnn1urror. But it ass ust have road out to the broader civi- .s sstion. This nee -Ssity has ar,iculated ssl self, first, in the aggressive demand for va, sse onstantinoplc, and later in the effort for avoniln unity
 In this war the Russian soldiers march ' eneath banners that bear a double cross h, lat of the Greek Church-indicatin that irp~ iey have gone forth to fight for their faith ss id to relieve their fellow ->ectaricS opprcSS- s 1 by rhr Tnr&. AS matter of fact tha ss reek Christians are not oppressed by the - erte itself, though it k a necessary con,e-
 uencr of it> rule. that the local adm;ni>tra-
 On do.S oppr->S, ani greatly too. the 'us hristian Rtiah l. k also a m1ltcr ot fact.
 ,at the ariiculatc portion of the Greek
 nurch in Turkey regard th, Russian Cltha-
 ew a schi>tcma;ic, that is. the State Church "a so considered. Peter the Great divided .~ is Church and made himself spiritual anu : 0iitic1l head of the leading Church Tlc ssu ireek Church has been dpgmaiic and Demo .N ratio in rule ali tendency. The Roman sss as been autocratic in discipline ndpurp,se. As he Second Mnlnmmcd'S S-C inquest of Cen- :: ' santinoplc, May eo, C practically de- su troyed the democratic tendency e. control. 70 hrongh itS disruption of the Bylantium @ hurch. D.. Draper ~ay~ in hs Intellectual
 levelopemcnt of Europe, that the Turkish - ggre>>ion lci to the staying Of ;he demo
 ratio outbreak in the bosom of the C.urch
 the ah>talniug for a season uf any further rs apse of the ptpal auto'rIcy.
 s< Tho "old faith >cctdri.," of Russia Whp s. rave never practically acknowledged the rg. piritual leadership of the Car largely ou.-
 umbcr the So-caiicd orthodox >cCttri,-
 10th are however one in the present >,ruG- = de. Of late wears the government has in
 nany wav- recognized the "Old Faith" and
 Is right to liberty of conscience and prac- ss ice. Politically, in it> relations to other f ,owers it seems almost Ccrtiin that the pres ' snt C,ar'> government would not have sought x he present war. The R'mlnrt~ are a fam } iy With decided German lcluiB--. Ger ainly Gcrmany cannot have desired war. But the southern Slavic movement was grow = ng too strong, and might easily slip
 rom control. The popular passion ot Rnss a MS on its side. Tn. aciieuhtc s so,cc> ot that people have urged. n th' { ssur, itself, the Cc-arviyh. ihn heir apparent , hinlSet was and k the lender of ihr anti , Serinan party and th' recognized chief of < lhe Imperial wing of the old Russian party. which k Pm Savonic to the extent ot Rus !, sias lrad,r>hip-no more His wife. prin- ! sess Dlgmlr of Denmark. the ahlc~t woman poiiticial now living, anim1tes the anti ; Germanic Jcndcncic, of her husbands party. She s'cN> to repay Persian robbery of Nchic~- wig II pl>tisn. by aiding to make Russia a foe to a P.u~>auizcd Germany. Outside of the court. the classes who begin to speak what some have long thought aud all have fell more or less distinctly. are flr the war, becausc it is certain Co lifl Russia and thn slaS The peasant k for Holly Russia, heeausc he sees thereby his race and religion