The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-09-18
CONDITION or RUSSIA.
Interesting Irterview With He'
turned Sau Franc sean.

rope, Greed Raymond arrived III Ine
city yesterday, and at once made his
way down to Fourth and Townsend
streets. When seen in his office there
during the afternoon Mr.. Raymond
looked much improved in health.
Il am more convinced than ever,
said he, "of the truth of the Chron-
icle's claim to large circulation.
Why, l saw il even in Sebastopol,
but "a my physician had forbidden
me to read or write, | could not Pc
ruse it, much though desired to do
so. Yes, | have travelled nearly all
over Europe, and have been in many
out-of-the-way places. / wish every
American, and particularly every
disconnected one, could make the
journey | have made. He would re-
turn home mighty we'll satisfied. This
is particularly true of Russia, where
| travelled extensively, going from
Sebastopol to Odessa, Warsaw, Mos
COW and st. Petersburg, making the
frontier journey, which few travellers
from America ever undertake.
"Divest Europe of its history and
art and it will not begin to compare
in interest with America. Russia, |
should say, is chiefly interesting to
American travellers there because of
the contrast between the condition of
its people and those of our country,
the difference being almost as great,
| imagine, as between heaven and
earth.
Nothing that have ever seen in
print has given an adequate descrlp-
ton of the masses in Russia. They
are just shade higher in intelligence
than brutes. Only one out of one
hundred in their country can read.
There is practically no moral re-
straint, and drunkenness is univer-
sal.
"Are the people FESTIVE? Do they
want to throw off their yoke of ty-
ranny? Not a BIZ of it. There are
few anarchists, but they count only
as drops in the great sea of human
ity. The Russians are the salt of the
earth, in their own estimation--no
more perfect institutions than theirs
can possibly exist. They worship
their Gar. Believe no one who says
they do not. They are at all times
ready to die for him, and the very
tyranny which he exercises over
them is deemed blessed thing. 1t
is useless for an American to waste
his pity on them, for they, believing
so firmly in their institutions, pity
all the other peoples of the earth,
and would bring them under the
Cars despotc rule could they do
so,
B." Is your Gar not afraid of as
sassination? | asked of an Imperial
officer at st. Petersburg. No. was
the reply, that is a false notion.
He walks about as freely as any one
who lreads the earth. Like all other
monarchs he runs certain risk
from the actions of crazy persons,
like your Guiteau. But no one
fears for him here. You have lost
two Presidents by assassination to
our one Gar.
"From what have seen in Rus
STA | regard the position of the peo-
pie as just as menacing to the peace
of the civilized world as if all our old
Indian tribes in America should be
banded together, armed to the teeth
and given fall swing on this CONT
nent.
"The Russian people do not want
education. They are so low in the
scale that they do not realize there
is anything better.
GAS for the Jews in Russia, their
persecution nay be traced to The one
sole cause--money lending-and the
attitude of the people toward them
is merely that of ali ignorant, embit-
tered and preiudced debtor toward
his creditor. The trouble has been
that the Jews have been too smart
for the Russians. The lowest Jews
of Russia are angels compared with
the lowest Russians, and in point of
intelligence they are so superior that
it Is no wonder they have gained as
cendancy over them in commercial
matters. The Russians look upon the
Jews much as our working popula-
ton looks upon the Chinese, and
throw about them even stronger re-
strictiOns.
"In high Russian circles there is
no lack of intelligence, feeling and
sentiment. met a priest of the
Greek Church who knew more about
the United States than | did. The
mobiles are nearly all fine linguists, it
being common thing among them
to know three Or four languages"
Mr.. Raymond spoke of his travels
in Turkey, Austria, France, Ger
many, Norway and Sweden and Eng
land, and then SAID;
''There is not mechanic in San
Francisco on 81 day, with a wife
and two children, who does not live
happier and enjoy more conveniences
than does the highest German noble
man, or even the Emperor himself
If the Emperor's palace were cut up
into apartments for housekeeping,
our mechanics would refuse to live in
1t. There is art there and certain
sort of grandeur, but there is nothing
that corresponds to the American
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