Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-11-26

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Calumny the first: The emperor and
oil the imperial family are in perpetual
dread of assassination. They are prac-
tically prisoners in the Winter palace.
and trenches with dynamite have been
found dug around the Winter palace
They dare not venture forth, except
preceded and followed and surrounded
by q most elaborate military guard My
answer to this Is that never saw n
face more free from worriment than the
cmperor's face. The Winter palace,
around which the trenches are said to
have been charged with dynamite and
in which the imperial family are said
TO be prisoners, has never been the resi-
dcnce of the imperial family one moment
since the present emperor has been on
the throne. That Winter palace has
been changed into a museum and n
picture gallery and palace of great
levees. He spends his summer in the
palace Mt Pcterhof. fifteen or twenty
miles from St Petersburg; his au-
tumns at the palace ut Gatschina,
and his winters in palace Mt
St Petersburg, but in quite diff
ferent part Of the city to that occupied
by the Winter palace. He rides through
the streets unattended, except by the
empress ut his side and the driver on
the box. There is not person in this
audience more free from fear of harm
than he is. His subjects not only ad'
mire him but almost worship him.
There are cranks in Russia, but have
we not had our Charles Guiteau and
John Wilkes Booth? But" says some
one, did not the Russians kill the
father Of the present EMPEROR Yes.
but in the time that Russia has had
one assassination of emperor, America
has had two presidents assassinated.
But is not the emperor an autocrat?
BY which you mean, has he not power
without restriction? Yes, but it all de-
ponds upon what use man makes of
his power. Are You an autocrat i'll your
factory, or an autocrat in your store, or
an autocrat in your style of business?
1t all depends on what use You make OF
your power, whether to bless or Cypress,
and from the time of Peter the Great
that Russian who was the wonder Of
all time, the emperor who became in
cognito a ship carpenter that he
might help ship carpenters, and a
mechanic that he might help me-
chanics, and put on poor mems garb
that he might sympathize with poor
men, and who in his last words said:
MY Lord, am dying, o, help my I'M
belief" say from that time the throne
of Russia has, for the most part, been
occupied by rulers as benefcent and
kind and sympathetic rs they were
powerful.
Calumny the second: If you go to
Russia you are under severest espion-
age, stopped here and questioned there
and in danger of arrest. But nv opin-
ion is that if a man is disturbed in
Russia it is because he ought to be dis
turbed Russia is the only country in
Europe in which my baggage was not
examined ] carried in my hand, tied
together with cord SO that their titles
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books, all of them from lid TO lid ours
ing Russia, but had no trouble in TAX
ing with me the books There is ten
times more difficulty in getting your
baggage through the American custom
house than through the Russian. l
speak not for myself, for friends inter
cede for me on American wharves and
am not detained. ! was several days
in Russia before was asked if | had
any passport ut all. Depend upon it,
if hereafter man believes he is uncom-
fortably watched by the police of st.
Petersburg or Moscow it is because
there is something suspicious about
him, and you yourself had better,
when he is around, look after your
silver spoons.
Calumny the thirl: Russia and its
ruler are SO opposed to any other relig-
ion except the Greek religion; that
nothing except persecution and i'm
prisonment and outrage intolerable
await the disciples of any other relig-
ion. But what are the facts? l had q
lOuR uuO AIo ouO-
urbs with the project, a brilliant, eff
cient and lovely man, who is the high
est official in the city of st. Petersburg,
and whose chief business is to attend
the emperor. ! said to him: 81 suppose
your religion is that of the Greek
church," "No," said he, Il am
Lutheran" What is your religion?"
l said to one of the highest and most
influential officials at st. Petersburg.
He said: II am of the church of En-
gland" Myself an American, of still
another denomination of Christians,
and never having been inside Greek
church in my life until went to Rus
STA, could not have received more con-
sideration had ] been baptized in the
Greek church and all my life wor-
SHIPPED at her affairs, / had it demon
strated to me very plainly that mans
religion in Russia has nothing to do