Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-25
RUSSIANS WHO ARE RUSSIANS AND
NOT TARTARS. ETC.

conclusions of our own concerning the Rus
san advance in Turkey are subjected to some
not unpleasant unfriendly criticisms. The
.;st of the article is to remind the Editor of
the MORNING APPEAL of the unworthiness Of
the Russians to be regarded with sympathy by
any Christian reople or with admiration by
philanthropist, Our neighbor asks us the
question: "Has our friend never read that
the Russians were of Tartar origin, the cruel
ist, the most implacable, the meanest and
falsest Of all the tribes of Asia" Yes, we
have, here and again, come upon some such
loose talk concerning the Russians and their
history and civilization; but it has been our
good fortune to learn, through the more en-
Hghtened and enlightening channels OF infor-
NATION just how untrue and absurd all such
statements are. if our neighbor had read
the most accurate and best informed writers
upon the Russian Empire and people, we
doubt if it would have committed this very
rave error-an error asegregrious as it would
he to confound the origin of the white set
ers of Arkansas with the Cherokees, or de-
scribe the Yankees of Maine as deriving their
pedigree from the Penobscot Indians. Speak
ing of Mr. D. Mackenzie Wallace's great work
on 'FTheTerrtorial Expansion of Russia, Mr..
John Morley in the Fortnightly Review ell
ploys the following language: The great
s.lualid empire which stretches from the Polar
Sea to the Southern border OF the Caspian,
and from Germany to China has been describ
81 i'll hundred works, has been the subject
- countless articles and IS every day spoken
Of arith the tI"e'st readiness Of entire ignorance
III every newspaper In England; and yet 1t IS
safe to say that the book before us gives the
,"'ne OF the 1&ctS best worth hlo"lhS aoooI
Russia social structure, her %''riii'iSlI"Il'e
SYSTEM her religions V"rie'lo@' the o''-i} HE
and movement OF hsr PeoPle'' ant 'l' forces
and conditions winch have brought rlem |"
TAer present Stage III '1ie i'i.uch Oh cFil'"'''
IN. Ant now referring 10 MI "iate
".lhLrao'e "o2-N' "iIa' do We learn concerning
lie "risl" OF me 1'5'>a.in 2sor--' " A'. IS 4
i'''s7iah. H-iA5 aux "'t' Is {" O0s'11A " 10
"'l' what IS 2 i',f1ar! Keeping III Hin" me
OF hllSs!a' we may III me more ftali'F APP
l'|ei49h" '-ie relevancy 81 WIZ" Is HeIe"'-,l
quoted, as t'II""S: 'I'5 9Eto@!AS al the MS
tory OF E''s'ia iroh lie ecoi!''llc point OF
We" we can at once detect 40 prominent
causes of expansion. i-ese are the result,
not ot ANY chronological Pccuianty, ont SIM
lily ot the fact that the kusso-5lalon4aua nave
always been an agricultural people, employing |
merely the primitive methods OF hnsbAndry. |
....''IO this kind OF colonization the Russian |
peasant IS by nature peculiarly well adapted. |
Peace-loving good natured, long suffering, |
always having at hand the soft answer which |
t1'rneth away wrath, and possessing a power
NJ self-adaption whicdwe headlong stih-necked |
Britons know nothing OF, he easily
makes friends with any foreign population
among whom his lot is cast ''Nhen
he goes to settle among a foreign people, even
when his future neighbors have the reputation
of being inhospitable and unfriendly to
strangers, he takes with him neither revolver
nor bowie knife 1t is upon such facts as
this, let us reply to the Enterprise, that we
rely when we declare our sympathy with a
movement which seems to guaranty that
Russia will now participate, full handed in
/ l,o af.i,.- Of F11ro-,n - nd NOW nc