Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-20

typhus fever and the small pox, that
they might administer to the suffering.
] sat at the dining table in the
house of one of our American
representatives beside Baroness
who had not only Impoverished
her estates by her contributions to the
suffering, but who left her own home
and went down into the worst of the
misery, and until FRUSTRATED by fever:
then reviving and toiling on until
Frustrated by the smallpox. She had
come home to get a little strength, aud
in few days she was going down
again to the suffering districts, and size
commissioned me to execute in Amer
lea literary enterprise by which she
expects with her pen more money, all
of which is to go for bread ito those
who lack it. Then there are the Bob
rinskoys. They are of the nobility, not
only the nobility of earth, but the no
bility of heaven. You know we
have in America certain names which
are synonyms for benevolence-George
Peabody, James Lenox, William f.
Dodge, Mr.. Slater and so on. What
their names mean in America, Bob
rinski means in Russia. The Emperor
has made larger contributions toward
this relief fund than any monarch
ever made for any cause since the
world stood, and the superb kindness
written all over the faces of the Elm
peror and Empress and Crown Prince
is demonstrated in what they have al
ready done and are doing for the suf
ferers in their own country. When
few days ago | read in the pa
pers that the Emperor and Empress,
hearing an explosion, stopped the
royal rail-train to find out what ace.
dent had occurred, and the Empress
knelt down by the side of 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 place
where they could be better cared for,
| said to my wife: Just like her."
When | saw few days ago in papers,
that the Emperor and Empress had
walked through the wards of the most
virulent cholera, talking with the
patients, shaking hands with them
and cheering them up, it was no sur
prise 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 as
cribed to them, and will join me in the
execration of that too prevalent opinion
that a 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 and morals and religion
than Alexander, the Third. So | put
all the three prayers together: 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 nineteen-twentieths of all the
| things written and published against
| Russia are furnished by men who have
| been hired by other countries to write
up or rather write down Russia. so
as to divert commerce from that
empire, or because of international
! icalouses. Russia being larger
than all the rest of Europe put to-
| gcther. you can see how natural would
! be the jcalousies. know of two prom
! incnt European newspapers that keep
men on salaries to catch up everything
unfavorablc to Russia, and magnify
| the incident. And the stereotyped
stories Of Siberian cruelty in one case
| out of Il hundred are true, but in nine
| ty-ninc out of a hundred they are fab
rication. And in the one case as soon
as it is reported the official is dis
charged. They who have been sent
ito write up" Russia and Siberia have
done as that man would do who,
sent to write up New York,
should write up the slums as a speci-
men of what New York is, or
sent to write up the American Con-
gress should write up some depraved
| politicians as IA specimen of American
craftsmanship, or sent to write up the
sanitary condition of this country,
should send kodac picture of all the
warts and carbuncles he could find as
| specimen of American health. | be-
heve can reverse the opinion of any
man antagonistic to Russia who will
give me an honest hearing, as my own
| opinions have been reversed by what
recently saw and heard.
Before passing to the other field of
my summer observation, give you ore
little specimen of the falsehoods about
Russia. ] stood in London with my
tickets for st. Petersburg, Russia in
my pocket. 1t was 2 o'clock in the af-
ternoon, and ut 3 o'clock | was to take
the train. An American physician
came in and said: You certainly are
not going to Russia" | said: !Why
not?.' Then "a morning paper was
shown me, saying that in ST.
Petersburg there were 1000 cases
of vlrulent cholera; the city had been
divided into hospital districts, and the
doctors were at their wits end what to
do with the number of patients; the
population was flying in terror.
Meanwhile telegram from st. Peters
burg encouraged me to go. | went.
There was not a single case of
cholera either in 81. Petersburg or
Moscow, and there was not a single
case in either city until four weeks
after left those cities. But the Con-
tincntal falsehood had done its COM
mercial GRAND. Tens of thousands of
Americans and Englishmen who pro-
posed to summer in Russia turned in
other directions. At the large hotel in
st. Petersburg at which | stopped,
though capable of holding 800 guests,
and months before every room and
every hallway and every mattress and
every pillow had been engaged
by telegraph by sight-seers, all the or
ders were cancelled, and, instead OF
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