The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-10-19

few days she was going down again 10
the suffering districts, and she commits
stoned me to execute In America liter
ary enterprise by which she expects
with her pen more money, all OF which
is to go for bread to those who
lack 1t. Then there are the Bob
rinskis. They are of the nobility
not only the nobility of earth but the
nobility Of heaven. You know we
have In America certain names which
are synonyms for benevolence-George
Peabody, James Lenox, William H.
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 since the world stood, and the
superb kindness written all over the
faces Of emperor and empress and
crown prince is demonstrated in what
they have already done and are dong
for the sufferers in their own country.
When few days ago read in the
papers that the emperor and empress
hearing an explosion, stopped the royal
rail-train to find out what accident had
occurred, and the empress knelt down
by the side Of n 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 a few days
ago in the papers that the emperor and
empress had walked through the wards
Of the most virulent cholera hospital,
talking with the patients, shaking hands
with them and cheering them up, 1t
was no surprise to me; for said to my
self: "That is just like them" Anyone
who has ever seen the royal family will
believe anything in the way of kindness
ascribed to them, and will join me
in the exccration of that too preva-
lent opinion that tyrant is on the
throne OF Russia. II God spares my
life, I 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 peo-
pie in education and morals and reli-
gion than Alexander III. So l put all
the three prayers together: God save
the president Of the United Statesl God
save the queen Of England! God save
the emperor and empress OF Russial /
will, whether In sermons or lectures,
have not yet decided, show that nine
teen-twentieths of all the things writ
ten 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 interna-
tional jealousies Russia being larger
than all the rest of Europe put to-
pether, you can see how natural would
be the iealousies. IlSnow Of two promi.
nent European newspapers that keep
men on salaries to catch up everything
unfavorable to Russia and magnify the
incident. And the stereotyped stories
Of Siberian cruelty in one case out OF a
hundred are true, but In ninety-nine
out of a hundred cases they are fab
rication. And in the one case as
soon as II Is reported the officia
Is discharged. They who have beer
sent to write up Russia and Siberia
have done us that man would do who
sent to"write up" New York should writ'
M the slums as specimen Of what
New York Is, or sent to write up the
American Congress, should write W
some depraved politicians as aspecimer
OF American craftsmanship, or sent u
write up the sanitary condition OF thii
country, should send a kodak picture
of all the warts and carbuncles he could
find as u specimen Of American health
I believe / can reverse the opinion o.
any man antagonistic to Russia wh'
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 on'
little specimen Of the falsehoods abou
Russia. stood in London with my
tickets for st. Petersburg, Russia, In my
pocket II was o'clock in the after
noon, and at o'clock / was TO take thu
train. An American physician came II
and said: "You certainly are not goinI
TO Russia" said: "Why not?" Ther
a morning paper was shown me, say
ing that in St Petersburg there wer,
two thousand cases OF virulent cholera
the city had been divided into hos
pital districts, and the doctors wer
at their wits end what TO do with tn
the number OF patients; She population
was flying in terror. 1t was almost n
bad in Moscow. While rejecting oi
) these accounts, two messages arrive,
7 from other friends protesting agains
the foolhardiness OF my rushing int
5 the presence Of two thousand cases O
cholera in one city. OF course, l halted
= l halted for four days Meanwhile
I telegram from st. Petersburg encoui
! nged me TO 90. I went There wa
i. not single case in either city unit
r four weeks after left those cities Blu
: the continental falsehood had done II
4 commercial errand. Tens of thor
l sands Of Americans and Englisf
a men who proposed 10 summer In Russi
d turned In other directions. At the larg
? hotel In St. Petersburg at which
+ stopped, though capable Of holding fiv
: hundred guests and months befor
d every room and every hallway an
; every mattress and 'evory pillow ha
: been engaged by telegraph by sigh