The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30

Copyright, 1898. by the Associated Press)
London, Oct 29.-William T. Stead.
writing from St. Petersburg, says:
when Sir Robert Morier, one OF the
ablest of British ambassadors, was
transferred from the court of Madrid
to the capital of Russia he remarked
on his arrival, have come from a
country which lives in the past to a
country which lives in the future.
Since then many years have gone by.
Spain has almost used up its past in
a vain effort to contend with the forces
of the present, while Russia is exhaust
ing the resources of the present in order
to be able to cope with the immense
possibilities of the future. Russia IS
the greatest aggregate OF white men
ever compacted into a state unit since
the world began. The English-speaking
family alone exceeds in numbers the
Russian, but they know no one political
allegiance such as that which binds all
the Russians to the throne of Nicholas
II.
Zone hundred and twenty millions of
men constitute a world in themselves
large enough to absorb their energies
and monopolize their attention. The in
difference Of the Russians TO what
passes beyond their frontiers is phe-
nomenll. Fifteen years ago one of the
aides-de-camp of the then emperor,
falling into conversation with an Amer
lean asked him to what country he be-
longed, and was told America Amer
lea. America said the aide-de-camp,
Where is American
AN American travelling recently re-
turned from Siberia gravely assured me
that all the war news he could find in
the Orenburg papers were brief reprints
of kilograms describing the war which
was raging between Spain and Eng
land The Russian peasantry are not
apt to make fine distinctions. Mankind
for them, it has often been said, con-
sists only of two great divisions-the
Russians, or speaking men, and the
non Russians, or those who cannot
speak.
SOCIETY WATCHES EVENTS.
''The small but highly cultivated mi
nority which forms Russian society,
the larger group which forms the adj
lninistrations and the officers of the
army and of the navy, are, of course,
keenly alive to the evolution of events
in America
There is N. Pobyedonostreff, who
is universally regarded as kind of lay
pope and prosecutor general through
out Russia. No milder hammered man
ever doomed a schismatic to exile. He
is keenly alive to the American evolU-
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To him Boss Croker is d kind of SOM
bre portent of the doom that awaits
parliamentarism or representative gov
eminent. In his Reflections of a Rus
sian Statesman which has just made
its appearance in English, he expresses |
profound alarm at the probable tri-
umph of the Roman Catholic religion
in the United States.
prince Khilkoff minister OF war and
communications, is known as the /
American He served some years in !
American railway shops; he wears his |
beard in the traditional American fash !
ion. his letters are written or q type
writer, and he is simply burning with |
a desire 10 repeat in Siberia the grand /
industrial developments that the Amer |
leans achieved in the last 80 years west /
of the Mississippi.
AT the foreign office Count Mura- !
vieff, bluff, cynical, Bismarckian in his |
ambitions, though not in his capacity, |
has kept a careful eye upon the deVel- /
opment of American ambitions. While /
scrupulously preserving the most rigid /
neutrality during the war, he had bias |
in sentiment toward the United States.
Great and growing powers have not /
much sympathy with states that are
moribund and Spain had few sympa-
thizerS among the ministers of the
car. But the Spanish war interested
them but little. 1t was waged, as it
We're. in a distant planet. Astronomers
might watch ii. but it was not the bust
ness of the average man.
AMERICANS IN RUSSIA.
Americans are coming well to the
front in Russia, as they are discovering
more and more what an immense and
field the lands of the car
offer to western enterprise. Russia is
but at the beginning Of a new epoch of
industrial development. Before the
next century closes she hopes TO have
achieved a progress as great as that
which the United States has accom-
plished in the closing century. No one
realizes the immense agri-
cultural resources of the immense prai-
RE through which the car and Prince
Khilkoff are running an iron highway
5000 miles long. Americans are sup
plying many of the rails, American en-
gineers are everywhere. One American
is experimenting the construction of
new steel works near St. Petersburg.
Bates dredges are to deepen the Vol
ga, the Dnieper,' the Don and 1 know
not how many Russian rivers besides.
The representative of Messrs. Worth
ngton is laying down 200 miles of
aight-inch piping in the trans-Caspian
region, through which the Rothschilds
lil combination Will pump petroleum
oy means Of four pumping stations, all
If which Will be supplied with the lat
est pumps.
The other day I met an American
yeologist and engineer, who, having
Iuit the post OF engineer in a great |
American city, has been spending the
summer examining the gold mines of
northern Siberia, and before the day
vas over I stumbled on another who
lad been reporting on copper mines in
he Khirgis Steppes. The testimony of ,,
hese Americans was favorable to the
abor value of the Siberian workman.
PEASANT Is DOCILE. 5
1.-THE Russian is docile, quick to learn
md does quite as good work as the
killed iaboTer in the states. AS a
craftsman he is past master with his !
My tool. the ak, and my American
riends seemed TO think that he would !
,e equally deft with other tools if he .
lad the training of the skilled artisan. F,
'On the ether hand, another Ameri- :
an declared quite as positively that :
he Russians employed in his works =
york as mechanically as the machines
hey tend. They never make a sugges-
ion or propose an improvement. Their
ainds are sluggish, and they are the :
lost conservative men.
There is manifest in certain quar- :
ers a suspicion that after time the I