The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-10
CARS HOLY RUSSIA
An immense country, measured rathe r

| An immense country, measured rather
| Dy degrees than by miles. occupying the
| eastern half of Europe and the northern
part of Asia, extending her arms like a
gigantic octopus. grasping. a bsor bling and
| devouring everything in her reach, a
country of stupend1us possibilities and
of untold wealth; an pire with q popu.
lation of 100000 of ignorant and
] fanatically religious people; double
! faced Janus, old yet new, barbaric yet
civilized. noary with crime, dreaded
abroad, terrible at home-such a land is
Russia, the so-called "holy'. Muscovite
empire.
That huge country, the rising and
threatening giant. is ruled by one single
man. whose whim Is law, whose word
can hurl countless leeions upon the neigh
boring nations; whose ill will can plunge
Europe and Asia into one wild chaos.
Master over the life of his subjects, the
car is regarded by the Russian peas
antry as the ''shadow of God" on this
earth. and strange to say, the more des-
longer rememb ered. Ivan the Terrible,
a monster without equal, who murdered
and poison ID people in cold blood, VIII O
in Novgorod ordered $4,000 rebellious in
habitants to be drowned. who killed his
own son and heir-the said Ivan, mo re
cruel than Nero. more bloodthirsty than
his contemporary, the Demon OF the
South, is regarded to this day with adj
miration by the Russian peasantry, be-
cause he was lawful as the osstiny." In
a brutal force alone the Russian OF lower
classes sees the incarnation of power. In
his opinion God Is far, but the Car 10
near, consequently the czar represents
God on earth.
The late emperor. Alexander ILL.,, was
also greatly beloved by his ignorant SUBJ
jects, for he had all the criminal instincts
of Ivan the Terrible, modified by his sur.
youndings, circumstances aud the age in
which he lived. He did not murder nor
did he order people to be drowned by
thousa nds. but he psopled Siberia with
innocent victims of his persecution. He
abhorred capital punishment, yet he
looked complacently on when tender
reared girls and mothers were perisiing
under the lashes OF his soldiery. good
Christian of the Greek orthodox demon.
ination, he fanatically prosecuted his
non correlig ionists. Protestants, Roman
Catholics, Mahometans or Jews. In the
opinion OF the Russian monarch and his
infamous adviser. Pobiedonostseff, there
ought to be only one religion, as there is
only one car. Yet the Russian peas
antry mourned when this tyIant died,
for he represented brutal force and knew
how to WELD it. Beiure him they trem-
bled more than they did before God. He
was the trus czar they say, not at ali
like his father, Alexander II, who was
too good and too mild.
1t is scarcely possible to describe the
dread Russia inspires to other Euro pean
nd,Asiatic nations, end it must he con-
ceded that this dreaa is well founded,
Russia is conquering nation par excel
lence. She may be checked for a while,
as she was through the Crimoan war, vet
waiting and gathering her strength She
will continue her onward march. Slowly
but. surely Russia absorbs conquered peo-
pie, sprotee ts'' then annexes some coun-
try. especially in Central Asia. and then
Is ready for more. 1t IL taunht In the
Russian schools that the car 10 the heir
OF the eastern Roman emperors, and az
suct he will finally reign In Constants