Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-10-17
B. II. LEABO, Secretary


race. The nobility of Russia have moi
only contributed most lavishly, but
many of them went down and staid fol
months amid the ghastliness and the
horror and the typhus fever and the
smallpox that they might administer to
the suffering. sat at the dinner table
In the house of one of our American rep
resentatives beside baroness who had
not only impoverished her estates by he1
contributions to the suffering, but who
left her own home and went down in.
to the worst of the misery until pros
trated with fever, then reviving and
toiling on until Frustrated by the small.
pox. She had come home to get little
strength, and in few days she was
going down again to the suffering dis
tricts, and she commissioned me to exc
cute in America literary enterprise by
which she expects with her pen more
money, all of which is to go for bread
to those who lack it. Then there are
the Bobrinskies. They are of the nobil.
ity-not only the nobility of earth, but
the nobility of heaven.
THE NOBILITY OF KINDNESS.
You know we have in America Ger.
tain names which are synonyms for
benevolence-George Peabody, James
Lenox, William E. Dodge, Mr.. Slater,
and so on. What their names mean in
America, Bobrinski means in Russia.
The emperor has made larger contribu-
tions toward this relief fund than any
monarch ever made for any cause since
the world stood, and the superb kind
peror and empress and crown prince is
demonstrated in what they have already
done and are doing for the sufferers in
their own country. When few days
ago read in the papers that the EN-.
'peror and empress. hearing an explo.
sion, stopped the royal rail train to find
ont what accident had occurred, and the
empress knelt down by the side Of a
wounded laborer and held his head until
pillows and blankets could be brought,
and the two wounded men were put
upon the royal train to be carried to a
place where they could be better cared
for, said to my wife, "Just like her."
When saw few days ago in the pa
pers that the emperor and empress had
walked through the wards of the most
virulent cholera, talking with the pa.
tients, shaking hands with them and
cheering them up, it was no surprise to
me, for said to myself, THAT is just
like them" Any one who has ever seen
the royal family will believe anything
in the way Of kindness ascribed to them,
and will join me in the execration of
that too prevalent opinion that tyrant
is on the throne of Russia.
If God spares my life will yet show
by facts beyond dispute that the most
slandered and systematically lied about
nation on earth is Russia, and that no
ruler ever lived more for the elevation
of his people in education, morals and
religion than Alexander III. So / put
all the three prayers together-G God save
the president of the United States! God
save the queen Of England! God save
the emperor and empress Of Russia! !
will, whether in sermons or lectures,
have not yet decided, show that nine
of all the things written
and published against Russia are fur.
nished by men who have been hired by
other countries to write up or rather
write down Russia, SO as to divert COM
merce from that empire, or because of
jealousies. Russia being
larger than all the rest of Europe put to-
gether, you can see how natural would
be the jealousies. know OF two prom
inent European newspapers that keep
men on salaries to catch up everything
unfavorable to Russia and magnify tho
incident. And the stereotyped stories
CT Siberian cruelty in one case out of
Is true, but in ninety-nine out
Of a hundred cases they are fabrication. |
And in the one case, as soon as it is re- |
ported, the official is discharged. Those
who have been sent "to write up" Rus |
sia and Siberia have done as that man |
would do who, sent to 'write up" New
York, should write up the slums as a |
specimen of what New York is, or, sent
to write mp the American congress,
should write up some depraved politi-
clans as specimen Of American states
or, sent to write up the saui-
Lary condition of this country, should |
send q kodak picture of all the warts and !
,arbuncles he could find as specimen
of American health. believe can re
verse the opinion of any man antagonis-
sic to Russia who will give me an honest
hearing, as my own opinions have been
reversed by what recently saw and
heard.
A sLANDERED NATION.
Before passing TO the other field of
my summer observation give you one
little specimen Of the falsehoods about
Russia. ! stood in London with my
tickets for st. Petersburg, Russia, in my
,ocket. 1t was two o'clock in the after
loon, and Mt three o'clock | was to take
he train. An American physician came
n and said, "You certainly are not going
o Russia" l said, "Why notl" Then
! morning paper was shown me, saying
hat in st. Petersburg there We're 1900
ases of yirulent cholera; the city had
'een divided into hospital districts, and
he doctors were at their wits end what
o do with the number of patients; the
opulation was flying in terror. II was
lmost as bad in Moscow. While re-
Getting ON these accounts two messages
rriyed from other friends protesting
gainst the foolhardiness of my rushing
ato the presence of 1900 cases of chol-
ra in one city. OF course halted.
alted for four days. Meanwhile tele-
ram from st. Petersburg encouraged
40 10 go. l went. There was not a
Ingle case Of cholera either in st. Pc
'rsburg or Moscow, and there was not
single case In either city until four
'eeks after l left those cities. But the