Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-10-20


! was no surprise 20 me, Tor 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 viii 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 sys-
tematically lied about nation on earth is
Russia, and that DO 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
logether-God save the president of the
United States, God save the queen of
England God save the emperor and EN-
press of Russial
] 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 coun-
tries to write up or rather write down
Russia, so as to divert commerce from that
empire or because of international jealous
les. Russia being larger than all the rest
OF Europe put together you can see how
natural would be the jealotrsies know
of two prominent European newspapers
that keep men on salaries to catch up
everything unfavorable to Russia and
magnify the incident. And the stereo-
typed stories OF Siberian cruelty In one
case out of hundred is true, but in nine
ty-nine ont Of a hundred cases they are
fabrication. And in the one case as soon
as it is reported the official is discharged.
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 writeup the slums as a speci-
men Of what New York is, or sent to write
up the American congress, should write up
some depraved politicians as a specimen Of
American craftsmanship, or, sent to write
up the sanitary condition of this country,
should send a kodak picture of all the
warts and carbuncles he could find as a
specimen Of American health | believe
can reverse the opinion Of any man antag-
onistic 20 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 one little
specimen of the falsehoods about Russia.
stood in London with my tickets for St.
Petersburg, Russia, in my pocket. 1t was
two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three
o'clock was to take the train. An Amer
lean physician came in and said, "You GER
tainly are not going to Russia" | said.
why notf" Then "A morning paper was
shown me, saying that in St Petersburg
here were two Thousand cases of virulent
,holera; the city had been divided into
hospital districts. and the doctors were at
heir wits end what 10 do with the number
If patients. The population was flying in
error. 10 was almost as bad IN Moscow.
While rejecting on these accounts two |
messages arrived from other friends protest !
ng against the foolhardiness OF my rushing |
INTO the presence Of two thousand cases OF |
cholera in one city. OF course halted. | |
ialted for four days. Meanwhile a tele |
gram from St. Petersburg encouraged me |
o go. ! went. There was not single /
'ase OF cholera in St. Petersburg or Mos
'ow, and there was not single case in |
'ither city until four weeks after | left
hose cities. But the continental false
rood had done its commercial errand.
Tens OF thousands OF Americans and
.nglishmen who proposed to summer in
Russia turned in other directions.
At the large hotel in ST. Petersburg at
which | STOPPED, though capable of hold
ng five hundred guests, aud months before
very room and every hallway and every
mattress and every pillow had been en-
jagged by telegraph by sightseers, all the
riders were cancelled, and instead of five
hundred guests should think about
hirty, and that including our party. And
o it was in all the hotels in northern Rus
ia, and the subtraction of that amount of
commercial profit from those cities YOU
nay imagine. But that whole subject of
SYSTEMATIC fabrication ! adjourn to some
Their hour. Yet must tell you of pic
ure of pathos and moral power impressed
pom my mind, so that neither time nor
ternity may efface it,
The ship Leo swung to the docks a few
tiles below ST. Petersburg loaded with
our from America. The sailors on board
uzzaed as they came to the wharf. From
yacht on which we had descended the
yer to the sea the prominent citizens OF
{. Petersburg disembarked. The bank
as crowded by prosperous citizens. who
God on the wharf, and back OF them by
DOR laborers, who had come down to offer
leir services free Of all charge for the re-
oval Of the breadstuffs from the ship to
le imperial freight train that took the
our to the interior free OF charge. While ,
e stood there the long freight train rum
ed down to the docks, the locomotive and I
Ich car decorated with fag-the Ameri. 4
IN flag and the Russian flag alternating. q
Though "A flag to some eyes is only S
oating rag. you ought to see how the ,
merican flag looks five thousand miles t
ON home. 1t looked that day like sec q
on Of heaven let down to cheer mortal |
sion. Addresses of welcome and responses
ere made, and then the work began, the
lily contest leing who should lift the
lrdest and be most expeditions. From
lip to rail train. From rail train to knead- .
( board. Frcin kneading board to oven. I
rom oven TO the white and quivering lips
the dying. Upon all who, whether by y
ntribution small or large, helped make
at scene possible may there come the y
nedietion of him who declared, II was !
Ingry and We fed me"
GREAT MEETINGS IN GREAT BRITAIN.
But | must also give a word of report
ncerning my other errand-the preach