New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20
DELIGHTED WITH RUSSIA.
A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT SAYS ENGLISH
NOTIONS ARE ALL WRONG.

A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT SAYS ENGLISH
NOTIONS ARE ALL WRONG.
From The London Chronicle.
This summer two English members OF Parrfa-
ment Mr. Kearley and Mr.. Lough. were invited to
visit Russia by General Annenkon. a famous Rus
The ostensible OBJECT Of the tour was to give tho
General some advice in the development OF his es-
gantc distances over which they were taken b.
the General and the state with which they were
Mr.. Lough frankly holds brief for the Russian
Goyernmen we We near , hGthns oyer here he
side Of the has neen heard enough. want
RUSSIA work of government very similar 20 ard
scarcely smaller than is being done BY ourselves IN
is that The arguments against constitutional gov
eminent which are sun valid in India are also
OF Russia mere drops In an ocean Of ignorance
and poverty-a few millions OUT Of one hundred ard
as its populations: that its frontier is continually
In mueh the MAY ~ our b Indian
e.mpi1l~ as far as the peasants are concerned. Is
our representative shocked and astounded at
seeing so sre"t cnins IN on WON ne had al;
radcalism. He had heard of such conversions be-
fore. and Of the methods ~ which the Russian
there mad obviously been no employment Of force
Mr. Lough's countenance forbade all thought OF
Russian dungeon. So our representative. with al
irrelevant kind Of logic. turned ne subject TO an
inquiry as 10 the nature OF Mr.. Loughs tour and
the way In which he had enjoyed 1t
HUMANE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.
Never enjoyed tour better" said Mr.. Tough:
General Anncnkof, you know, is such swell
that a special wagon was attached to every train
rooms and everythins provided de, as axuriously as
every provincial capital We were introduced to tne
saw everything and drove everywhere. To the Ger,
eral every door was opened and living on ms es.
the army General Annenkofr is one Of the greateX
he I who inobilzei the Russian Army after the de.
feat Pn' ard he who Sat the
ne went he could show Us the troops and the rest
our re pres 5ega MO 10 nndersand
Well, and did ne introduce you to many NJ
We ore. She a young with
short hair. smoking cigarette. She was walking
ncnkofr nudeed me and said Look, There is !,
Nhllst.' | asked him about them. and he spoke
said ' I ike the Nihiiisis They are generally
Sou2g Women nt ssTssn twenty G v and thirty Later
But in spite OF that the General puts them 10
AS to that. all English notions are wrong.
was told by the British Consul at Moscow Mr..
Once FOR that arduous post ard who has JUS;
spent four months in Siberia-hat the stories about
the treatment OF prisoners shockingly exag-
ggerated The Russian penal system is far more
has quite a good time when he goes 10 Siberia.
me Mih.i'Sti being generally cultured man; sus'
All.
lowed far greater freedom than our political prs-
0ners. and after time is allowed 10 have his own
Of prisoners being conveyed down the volga in a
hey %re IN IN afgs cage guarded b.
have been placed in England.
their treatment as In regard TO the Nihilists? II
S the Nihilsts are provided with happy homes ir
OF bencvolence did you find that State exercising
toward the Jews
THE HAPPY JEWS
1--WE have ave, not got clear grip of that problem
s hi. r,is SAID Mr. h0ush unswsrvnsy eOntinun
carried out against the Jews are not new but old
They have existed for very long time. and
aimed not against Jews so much against usury
AS long as the Jew keeps to some regular industry
ana ah can BE CLASSIFIED under trade or profession
LIVING by being Insurer on the peasantry. drawing
stance. the Russians expe him But even th,
course has only been taken by few provincial
Jews vng as p"ac"v anS oi Epssa ioIhs
Jews In England. The provincial governments have
the power Of putting these laws into force and ths
Imperial Government has not stopped them"
AND therefore, put in our representative lis re
They would not have been able 70 sst them.
selves against great wave of popular feeling such
as eX's's II, Kussa on the Jew question. The peas
not defend the expusions. but this is the Russiar
locker - '"o r'"sNs" VI"
very kind to the Nhs uss mam IeT
thing for the peasant?"
Precisely We in England have no idea Of thu
progress IN liberal government made in Russia during
freed but thy ysa NOT only have the serfs been
ne landlord has been rid Of Every peasant hac
nxed tenure and cannot be evicted He cannot 10
distraned on for the necessares of life and crsios
has 70 leave him sufficient stock and housegold goods
on which 10 subsist Is there anything in constitrI.
tional countries to compare with thise After neary
seventy years of democratic government our land,
iord system remains as il Ireland is governed
worse than any province Of the Russian eEmnrs
Evicons and dlstrants are EVERYDAY matters In ~.
United Kingdom. In Russia the peasant has hold
on MS dwelling which no landlord can dispute
HOME RULE IN THE PROVINCES
Then look cried Mr. Lough waxing enthusiastic
IN MS panegyrc look AZ tine Russian system OF local
government Every village has its little assembly
and its head man Throughout European Russia
peasant OF Russia worshps the Car. and that he
CARDS with litt.e favor the party which was foolish
10 msrSer the peasants great emancpato
Blu! how about religion and sducationthe Rus
the progress Of these Il report be f0'
Vel" said Mr. Tough. honestly, there mus,
and the country schools close in Nay Tor the sum:
the children forget in the summer what they learn h,
The winter and the great bulk OF the peasaniry in
does little to promote education but the real enemy
p all progress , Is the Church. which is the wors, IN
,yeryt,hins The Greek Church in fact the mos
surely and s srcssy rf s'''
luce on all this mass of iEnorance?'
= The army Is the only great educational force:
many go home and become the chief reader; and
writer's s IN their villages Eighty per cent Of the adult
hey come" '""' '"es ~ '~eA LAT DETER '"H'