Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-21

My answer to this Is that l never
saw a face more free from worrl.
ment than the Emperor's face. The
Winter Palace, around which the
trenches are said to have been charged
with dynamite and in which the Impe'
rial Family are said to be prisoners,
has never been the residence Of the
Imperial Family one moment since
the present Emperor has been on
the throne. That Winter Palace has
been changed into museum and q pic
ture gallery and place OF great levees.
He spends his summer in the Palace at
Peterhof, Is or 90 miles from St. Peters
burg; his autumns at the Palace at
Gatschina, and his winters in Palace
at st. Petersburg, but in quite differ
ent part Of the city to that occupied by
the Winter Palace. He rides through
the streets unattended, except by the
| Empress at 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 Gull
teau and John Wilkes Booth? But, F"
says some one, ''did not the Russians
kill the father of the present Emperor"
Yes, but in the time that RUSSIA 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 1t all de-
ponds upon what use man makes Of
his power. Are you an autocrat in 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 to OPP
press, and from the time Of Peter the
Great-that Russian who was the won
der of all time, the Emperor who be-
came incognito ship carpenter that he
might help ship carpenters, and me-
chanic that ne might help mechanics,
and put on poor mems garb
that he might sympathize with poor
men, and who In his last words said:
my Lord. am dying. Oh, help my
unbelief."-I say from that time the
throne of Russia has, for the most part
been occupied by rulers as benefcent
and kind and sympathetic as they were
powerful. To go no further back than
Nicholas, the grandfather of the pres
ent Emperor: Nicholas had for the
dominant idea of his ad ADMINISTRATION the
emancipation of the serfs. When it was
found that he premeditated the freedom
Of the serts he received the following
letter of threat from a deputation Of
noblemen: "Your Imperial Majesty:
We learn that the Council and Senate
OF the Empire have before them for de-
liberation, with your sanction, the plan
to abolish serfdom throughout the Rus
sian Empire.
WE ARE PERFECTLY WILLING
to abide by yonr Maiecty's decision in
this matter and to Loyalty support your
will, but there are in Russia a large
number of small owners of serfs, who
are dependent for actual subsistence on
the labor of those serfs and who conse-
quenty will be left wholly penniless and
without any resource by the operation
OF emancipation. They will then I'M
doubtedly resort to desperate measures
and In the extremity of their despair,
will put she life Of your Majesty IN
iiSso0TRSa9rdy;m The Emperor replied o. n n
"Gentleman if l should die because OF
nv devotion TO such cause, l am
willing to meet my fate" When, under
an attack Of pneumonia from exposure
to severe weather in the service OF his
people, that Emperor put down his
head on the pillow of dust, Russia lost
as good a monarch as was ever crowned.
Calumny the Second: If you 90 TO
Russia, you are under Severest esplon-
age, stopped here and questioned there,
and in danger of arrest. But my opin-
ion is that if q man is disturbed In Rus
STA it is because he ought to be dis
turbed
Depend upon it il hereafter a man be-
lieves he is uncomfortably watched by
the police of st. Petersburg or Moscow,
il is because there is something sus-
picions about him, and you yourself had
better, when he is around, look after
your silver spoons.
Calumny the Third: Russia and its
ruler are so opposed to any other re-
ligion except the Greek religion, that
they will not allow any other religion,
that nothing but persecution and I'M
prisonment and outrage intolerable
await the disciples of any other religion.
But what are the facts? l had a long
ride in st. Petersburg and its suburbs
with the PTefect, brilliant, efficient
and lovely man, who is the highest
official In the city OF st. Petersburg,
| and whose chief business is to attend
the Emperor. l said to him: 81 sup
nose your religion is that OF the Greek
| church," mo" said he, II am Luz
thersn." what is your religion?" l
said TO one of the highest and most in
auential officials at ST. Petersburg. de
| said: ~ am OF the Church OF England. "
l had a most satisfactory
TALK WITH THE EMPEROR
about the religions OF the world, and he
thinks and feels as you and do, that
religion is something between man
| and his God, and no one has right to
interfere with 1t. You may go up to
St. Petersburg and Moscow with your
Episcopal liturgy or your Presbyterian
catechism or your CongregationalistS
liberalism or your Immmersionisf:
Raptistry. or any other religion, and II
Won mind your own affairs and let 9th
ers mind theirs, you will not be molest
ed.
uCalumny the Fourth: Siberia is den
of horrors, and to-day people are driver
like dumb cattle; no trial is atforted tc
the suspected ones; they are put intS
quicksilver mines, where they are whip
ned and starved and some day hnC
themselves going around without an!
head. Some of them do not get so Ia
as Siberia. Women, after being TIED u
stakes in the streets, are disroped, ant
whipped to death in the presence o