The weekly examiner., 1901-04-06
w ATER B u R
The Cars Unhappy Lot.

The CZar'S Unhappy Lot.
 Some of our people are apt to look upon the people of Russia as barbarous. uncivilized and instinctively devilish. Never was there greater mistake. The Russian rulers and the Russian meth ods of government are inhuman, un- civilized, devilish, and belong to bar barrie times The people of Russia are all right The government of Russia is all wrong. It is as truly deyilish as is that of Turkey. The only reason why to the casual observer the Russian rulers do not appear so, is exactly be- cause the Russian people at large are, as a. rule, highly cultivated, civilized, freedom-loving and progressive in their nature and tendencies. The people of Turkey are cruel, uncivilized, murder ous, besotted with drugs, paralyt1cs through debauchery, low in morals, dirty in every act, every condition, every rule of their existence. They are exactly the reverse in all these quail ties of the people of Russia. These ener- vated, s1othful, 1ustful, effeminate and abominable Turks-mere animals in the twentieth century civilization need either total annihilation or des- pot to rule them. The Russian nation, of a type right the opposite, hate op- pression, are civilized enough to de- spise an absolute ruler and the neces- sarily accompanying despotism, and they know enough to feel such tyranny and to resent it. Intelligent people do not relish an absolute monarch over them, claiming his right to be such as divine and by his birth, who, at the same time and because of these same claims, asserts his power over every one of the people he claims to rule, of life and death. There is no such thing in Russia as protection to the 1nd1- yidual and his personal rights by law by court and jury. The will of the Czar-right or wrong-is the law of the land. To that will every man, Wo- man and child must bow meekly and humbly and low. A half bow means the lash, the knout, the scourge, an0 physical torture. A failure to DOW at all, even when the Czar's will is wrong and inhuman, means Siberian exile, a home in perpetual snow drifts, a death in deadly quicksilver mines. No won der, then, that such a people, in such century as the present, cannot en- dure a government like this. No won der that the popular instinct for free dom is ever. in conflict with A. rI11e and government inhumanly absolute and despotic No wonder that the cable flashes over the world every little while, as it did again last week, '.The Czar of Russia Shot At!''
 It is said that "A policeman's life is not happy one.' in the well known comic opera. But "a po1iceman's life'' is perpetual Heaven in delight, ysecur- ity and happiness beside the hiding, cringing, ever tortured existence of the man born to be the Czar of all the Rus sias. When he reads the annals of the house of Romanoff, of which he is the royal scion and present autocrat, he sees that none of his ancestors died natural death A Russia Czar either in time kills himself or is killed by his people. His end is always and inev- itably violent one. If God was un- just enough to millions he created to place over them by birth a tyrant by divine right, he certainly has placed no safeguards after birth over his des- potic life.