San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-29
Russian Consistency.
For the LIGHT.

For the LIGHT.
IfyOu ever paid attention to the progress
OF reaction in the Russian civilization for
the last ten years, you will be greatly ed
flied by the following sample of hypO-
critical cOwardice. as translated from a
leading st. Petersburg daily. Russian
Life edited on the occasion of the ami
VerSary of the demise Of the Gar. Alex
andPr the End. on the 18th of March. 1891:
This day terminates the first decade
OF the reign OF our beloved master. a reign
1ull OF such cOnqueStS. such grand vic
tories in the exterior and interior life of
this nation, before which one involun-
tarily stops in wonder generalization and
deep prayer.
Wherein these cOnQueStS, over whom
and what? Not only we Russians and
SlavS are aware of it. but also the leu
TONS the GaulS, all nations and tribes all
over Europe. And still we do not intend
to discuss that what we have seen with
our own eyes: we are absorbed by anoth-
er thought; the thought about the origin
and source of this gigantic force: the
rOcEbed of that miraculous transfOrma-
ton of the once dilapidated. Inundated
and impoverished Russia into the present
rich, strong, great and imposing country.
able to establish by one word complete
peace at home and abroad.
That source, that evidently mystical
force is nothing but our rea Rakened sense
OF Irrational consciousness! We are humans
like all other humans, but our religion is
superior TO any other: our territory is
larger than any other in the world: our
country is endowed with greater wealth
than any other: hence our ideals are
purer than other peoples; our horizons
are the largest. and we possess more of
real wealth than Others. and therefore
we are better. stronger and richer than
all other nations.
Russia. under Alexander the I'd. with
a European and foreign character. not
with standing the well-intended reforms,
proved at last weakened, poor and SER
vile. But Russia, under Alexander the
Sd, is Russian; orthodox and there fore
strong, rich and powerful
Let us, then, thank the Lord and His
appointed one for this Russia, so dear to
us and essential and deSiable TO the well
fare OF all mankind, and though on the
close of the decade let us announce the
name of him, who saved the throne and
the nation from destruction, to which we
were about to be pulled in by people,
strange and foreign to our traditions
and ideals This name is universally
known as; kOnstantin PerOwh PObed-
enOScetf."
LIS ! ObtutuOSCfl, 'DtI- ITOCuESOr, or
General Attorney of the Russian Govern
ment is only the prototype of TOruuema-
da, the great Spanish in0uisitor in the
18th century. He undertook to cut the
gOrd1an knots of Russia perplexitieS by
a series of cruelties and violence. and in
deed assisted his master, Alexander the
Bird, upon his thrown by sending war and
terrible destruction in the camp of In
telIigence and modern principles Of HUI
manitv and improvement.
What smiles, scOrnS and grOans that SUBJ
timely satanic nation must awaken in the
breast of the suffering Siberian political
martyrs! What will say to it the vacant
halls of science, the crowded. heartrend-
ing chambers of torture in the fortress Of
ST. Paul and st. Peter on the Neva?
What will think :the robbed and OPP
pressed peasants? How must this edify
the prosecuted Germans and Hebrews in
holy Russia? | wonder if this tissue of
falsehOOd succeeded in raising the value
OF the Russian paper or the European and
American exchanges and markets, with
one per cent at least?