Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-11-24
Llks AbUuT RUSSIA
DR.: TALMACE AGAIN ASSAtLS
JEALOUS STRAWBERRIES.
GnssiH Watched uyei America IN Ier
Cradle, aud Has Always Heen Our
Friend Why ShnuId We Reiieve tho
talshooda in,cntcd hy Eucmiess

uiN NlSiN 10 hNSS'u anu chlINVN hNliN
wrong impressions concerning that
empire md It's ruler After an cNposi.
ton of scripture and congregational
singing he took for his texts II, Peter
.; 10, "lrcsumptuous are they, self
willed, they arc not afraid to speak
evil OF diguities
Amit most reprchcnsiblo crew,
Peter here paints by one stroke the
portrait of those who delight To slash
at people in authority, Now, we all
have right TO criticisc evil behavior,
whether in high places or low. but the
fact that one is high up is no proof
that he ought TO bc brought down tits
bad streak of human nature now,as IT
was In the time of the teNtu bad streak
OF human nature that success OF any
kind eXcitcs the jealous antipathy of
those who cannot climb,thc same steep,
There never was David ON the throne
that there was not some Ahsalom who
wanted to get II, There never was "
Christ but the world had saw and ham
mer ready To fashion u cross ON which
to assassnnte him. out of this evil
spirit grow not only individual but ma.
tional and international defamation,
10 no country has more injustice been
lone than our own IN days that nre
past Long before Martin Chuzllcwit
was printed, the literature OF the
world scoifcd nj everything American
Victor Hugo, Ms honest Ms he was uu-
equalcd In literary power, was so mis-.
informed concerning America that he
wrote: "rhc most singular thing Is
the need of whiting, with which all
Americans are possessed, II is such
that on Sunday they give the sailors
little bits OF wood because II they did
not they would whittlc tho ship la
court Mt the most critical moment, the
Judge, whiting, says: Prisoner, are
you guilty. and the accused TRANQUILITY
responds, whittlipgi 4 am not
guilty"
There Is no country ON earth SO mis-
understood ms Russia, and no monarch
more misrcprcsented than Its Emperor
win 1t not be In the cause of justice II
! try To set right the minds of those
who compose this august asscmblage
and the minds of those to whom, ON
both sides of the ocean, these words
shall Gomez II the SANDER of one per
son IL wicked then the Islander of l20,-
! 600, 900 people Is ioO, 600, 600 times more
wicked In the name of righteousness
aud In behalf of civilization, and for
the encouragement OF all those good
| people who have been dlshcartcncd 10y
! the Capitalization Of Russia, | now
| speak. But Russia Is so vast
IA subject that to treat II IN one dis
| course Is like attempting to run Nj
agara falls over one mill wheel. De
not thinl, that the very marked cour'
tcsies extended me last summer by the
Emperor and Empress and Grown
Prince of Russia have complimented
me into the advocacy OF that empire,
for shall present you authenticated
facts that will reverse your opinions, II
they have been nntagonistic, rs mine
were reversed went last summer ia
Russia with as many balcful prejudiccs
rs would make an avalanche from the
mountain of fabrication which has for
years been hcnped upagainst that en-
pire. You ask, how Is IL pos
sible that such appalling mis-
representations of Russia could
stand? account for it by the
fact that the Russian language is to
most an impossible wall. Malign tho
United States or malign Great Britain
or Germany or France, and by the next
cablegram the falsebood IL 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 IL, Is to most local organs
an unprononncca BILE tongue, and II Mt
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,
What are the motives for misreprc-
sentation? Commercial interests and
international jealousy. Russia Is as
large as all the rest of Europe put to-
| gether. Remember that II nation Is
! only man or q woman on big scale.
Go into any neighborhood of America
and ask the physician who has small
practice what he thinks of the rhysi'
clan who has a large practice. Ask u
/ lawyer who has no briefs what he
thinks Of the lawyer who has
three rooms filed with clerks trying
in vain to transact the superintendent
! business that comes to him. Ask the
minister who has u very limited
audience what he thinks of the minis.
ter who has OVERLOOKING audiences.
Why does not Europe like Russia? Re.
cause she has enough acreage TO swnl
low all Europe and feel she had onig
half meal. Russia is as long as North
aud South America put together.
But" says some one, do you mean
10 charge the authors and the lect-
urcrs who have written or spoken
against Russia with falsehood?" by
no means. You can find in any city or
nation evils innumerablc IL you wish
to discourse about them.
II is most important that this coun-
try have right ideas concerning Rus
STA, for, among all the nations this side
+ heaven, Russia is Americas best
friend There has not been an hour
in the last seventy-five years that the
shipwrecx of free institutions in Amer
lea would not have called forth from
all the dcspotisms of Europe and Asia
u shout of gladness wide as earth and
deep as perdition. But whoever else
failed us, Russia never did, and who
ever else was doubtful, Russia never
was. Russia, then an old government,
smiled ON the cradle of our government
while yet in its earliest infancy. En-
press Catherine Of Russia in l776 or
thereabouts offered kindly interference
that our thirteen colonies might not
go down under the cruelties of war.
| Again, in 1915, Russia stretched forth
toward us merciful hand, When our
dreadful civil war was rigging and the
two thunder clouds of Northern aud
Southern valor FLASHED, Russia practi-
cally said TO the nations of Europe:
keep your hands off and let the bravs
non of the North and the South settle
their own troubles" rehearsed some
sccnes no the Emperor last July, saw