Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-21

give the sailors little bits of wood because
if they did not they would white the ship.
In court, at the most critical moment, the
judge, whiting, says, Prisoner, are you
guiltyP and the accused TRANQUILITY re-
spends, whiting, 4 am not guilty."
Lord John Russell called us ga bubble
bursting nationality" But our country
has at last recovered from such caricature,
and there is not a street in any city OF Flu
rope or Asia where the word "America"
will not win Difference. But there is n sis
ter nation on the other side of the sea now
going through the process Of international
defamation. There is no country on earth
so misunderstood as Russia, and no mon
arch more misrepresented than its en-
peror. VIII il not be in the cause Of justice
If try to set right the minds of those who
compose this august asSemblage and the
minds of those to whom, on both sides of
the ocean, these words shall come? II the
SANDER of one person IS wicked, then the
SANDER Of one hundred and twelve million
people is one hundred and twelve million
times more wicked.
In the name Of righteousness, and in be-
half of civilization, and for the encourage
ment of all those good people who have
been disheartened by the standardization Of
Russia, now speak But Russia is so
vast subject that to treat it in one dis
course Is like attempting to run Niagara
falls over one mill wheel. Do not think
that the very marked courtesies extended
me last summer by the emperor and en-
press and crown prince of Russia have
complimented meinto the advocacy of that
empire, for l Shall present you authenti-
Gated facts that will reverse your opinions,
IL they have been antagonistic as mine
were reversed.
! went last summer to Russia with as
many baleful preiudceS rs would make an
avalanche from the mountain of fabrica-
tion which has for years been heaped up
against that empire, You ask how is it
possible that such appalling misrepresen-
tationS Of Russia could stand? | account
for it by the fact that the Russian Ian
guage is to most an impossible wall Ma
lign the United States or malign Great
Britain or Germany or France, and by the
next cablegram the iaisehoUd is exposed,
for we all understand English, and many
of our people are familiar with German
and French. But the Russian language,
beautiful and easy to those born to speak
it, is to most vocal organs an unprOnOunc-
able tongue, and if at st. Petersburg or
Moscow any anti-Russian calumny were
denied the most OF the world outside of
Russia would never see or hear the denial.
DISCUSSING MISREPRESENTATION
What are the motives for misrepresenta-
ton? Commercial interests and interna-
tiGnal jealousy, Russia is as large as all
the rest Of Europe put together. Rcmcm-
Der that a nation is only a man or a wOman.I
on u big scale Go into any ncighborhood
of America and ask the physician who has
n small practice what he thinks of the
physician who has large practice. Ask
a lawyer who has no briefs what he thinks
of the lawyer who has three rooms filled
with clerks trying in vain to transact the
superabundannt business that comes to
him. Ask the minister who has very
limited audience what he thinks of the
minister who has OVERLOOKING audiences
Why does not Europe like Russia? Be
cause she has enough acreage to swallow
all Europe and feel she had only half
meal. Russia is us long as North and
South America put together. "But," says
some one, edo you mean to charge the
authors and the lecturers who have written
or spoken against Russia with falsehoOd?"
by no means. You can find in any city or
nation evils innumerable if you wish to
discourse about them.
said at St. Petersburg to the most emf
nent lady OF Russia outside of the immortal
family. Are those stories of cruelty and
outrage that have heard and read about
true?" She replied: mo doubt soms OF
them are truc. but do Won not in America
o,,,, 1o,, ,,pi,ors ~ ~, lc,y cr,,,l md ant
ua(.aa,,, IN thair troatr,o,+ ~ afrandars,
NJ ,, ,,t ba,,a ,,,boro tio,lioa
~, i,nnoo+ ,ors5
~, ,,,bnra ,,a,,,l, ~, I,.;af a,,4
it1, Oct nrrnoa,tirsr re,liad we ,,,o
Is - Tha, g., saij. u1J-i,, .,,,s +ba ,,,nId
Ioi4 o,,n ,,n,arnn'ont r,s1on.it1. for oy
-, 7,,.se ,l,.,, ai4,i,,I
" ro,,n% to ho crnol no innnodiataly Iosas
10 ,,ia,'oT
NJ, ho.bo,,,,,t ,,,,.solf No tho ,oo,lo
:. t,,i,, l.I5 ,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,+ - w
III ll'' "'l'' Ctlo EO''i i'''oiiU az w '''"
lnstoh responSioie lor Cne hotiiesOeau
rloSs OF lor rai'roa9 ,hSurIeev.oils' OF lor
the loren Oh 'he within uhaI consumes ne.
DOCK oi houses Ut l1r Ol1 l" 'l.
VINO arrest r''i lr"ln 'naNIIS Ine pa9Sen