The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-22
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Hon. s. s. Cox passed mo on the streee
last night and stopped to talk . minute, 1
asked him what it had cost him 70 see
Europe g It cost just my Congressional
salary of 49, 200 TO pay mime and my
wife 8 expenses, and make . Journey of
eight months around the great circle oz
Europe. We went to Constantinople, to
Egypt, to Palestine, to Russia, 70 Nor
way and Sweden, and, Of course, wenk
where we liked in middle Europe For
that amount of money we stopped ct tho
very best hotels, had the best rooms and
attendants, and had the best commission-
aires to show rs about"
Were you q good deal troubled with
vermin, bed-bugs, etc. P
'sWell, some An the south Of Eu-
rope, the north Of Africa, and Asia, Il
course, have their pests. You begin 10
feel it at Constantinople. think we
were plagued more by sand-fy along
the eastern coast OF the Mediterranean
than by deas. Those spiteful flies kept
my wife in As great state of evaporation
~ she ever shows"
Speaking of the mail service, Mr.. Cox
said: assI wrote q good many news-
paper letters and all of them came
through safely but that one in which !
describe my presentation to the Sultan
It was the most interesting that i wrote
That never came to hand, and never
could write itagain. Lew Wallace, eur
minister, obtained the presentation for
me, while my wife was allowed. without
my company. however. to 20 70 the
seraglio, and to see the female lie q the
Sultan's household"
-. How did You find the consular serv-
ice Of the United States, Mr.. Coxis, b
81 was very agreeably surprised st In
excellence. Our consuls al along that
coast, as far As observed, were obscry-
ing, shrewd, good fellows, many Of
them badly underpaid. Gen. Lew Wal
lace is man of literary and worldly
talents. and makes q very good minister.
could find nothing of our consulates in
st. Petersburg. One of the best fell
lows / found was at Christians, Norway.
He was getting only 500 year out ot
his fees Since came back have had
him raised to $1,000 9 year. We fin
| ished the foreign service bil last Satur-
day I ann on the appropriation conn
9"What do You think of Russia, Mr..
CoxPs, s'.asH 8 - 8 8
o'Wen, Russia Is in avery bad condition.
arising from want of an industrial and
self-supporting society The govern
ment has picked out persons in every
province in Russia and educated them
thoroughly, given them fine technical
educa6ons, for its war purposes. in the
engineering schools, in the languages.
90 rs to make them accomplished tools
| of the Gar. Now these men have NO
occupation in Russia after they are edu-
Gated. There Is literally nothing to do
where they reside They have no bus
| mess experience Consequently they
| become nihilist- Nihilism in Russia II
1 the effervescence of the intellect de-
manding more and better institutions
than naked despotsm, demanding ca
reer, congenial occupation. freedom OF
speech and of action; in short, it Is ed
ucation detesting absolutism and idle
ness. The common people Of Russia
are devoted to the Czar. They call him
their father. The cabman that drove
rs around, the. laborers, all the bottom
stratum of society, are loyal to the soul,
against their holy and dead master, the
Gar. But these educated. unfiinching
nihilists mean TO transform that society
to the likeness of Europe and America,
or. to perish withit.n .ggsa5 fi.a. - o
.ssMr. Cox, do any Of them in Europe
live as well as we do in the, United
i States?'' .sia
..No; there is no country like this
anywhere, yet the wholly commercial
character of our life sometimes fatigue
the brain. n-Gath- 8,.ss .,9s