The Nome nugget., 1902-02-12

careleSsness of the men in control would cause an explosion, alongside of which the French revelation of a hundred years ago would be mere bagatellc, and which, if it should take place, might result in ne total destruction of all the European civilization. Time and time again the Russian govern ment has tried to loosen the strings which hold down the Russian people, only to clap on the letters again quickly, frightened hy the strenuous cOntOrtiCns of the strong and ignorant monster, and the world would deride the reactionary party in power. A great responsibility is resting on the Russ an statesmen in control. They have to be exceedingly watchful and patient with people just beginning to rise after centuries of suppression, or else they will get beyond their control. and in the eXuberant licenliousness of the newly found freedom make a chaos out of civilization. The very fact that Russia found an outlet for it's surplus energy into Siberia and Asia has been | its salvation.
 How often has the Siberian exile system been condemned in the American p,pers. About fifteen years ago it was for q while strongly advocated to make Alaska an American penal colony: but. even letting this aside, by what right can we condemn what suggested itself to the Russian state>m man d. a means of safety and al the anne time as means to balld up new and strong empire. We are toia that men. who by our standards form the best elements of a community, are in Russia eXied for small political otfenses into Siberia. This is true. Matches are considered things of great utility and little harm, but the man who would give his chil drcn matches to play with would be looNed upon a, dangerous to this town. Liberal ideas are very dangerous mltches to play with in the hands of an ignorant people, who are likely to start with them confiagralion which would not alone consume their own house but the houses of their neighbols. as well. Few people will pause to think that during the nineteenth century Russia has been doing in Siberia what during the eighteenth century was done by Eng when some of the best English stock was transplanted over to America. were the martyrs of their advanced i,aS, our free institutions have sprung up, and they formed the germ out ot which grew the greatest republic ever koNn. So there is bound 10 grow up in time in Siberia from the iorcibly transplanted political exiles large commonwealth that will live and grow great in the enjoyment of that freedom which is never the birthrig ght of a na tion, but must be earned by it with suf- ferings and sacrifices. Through such a continuous process of political selection new and free nations are perfected, as the species have been perfected through natural select on.
 The Russian government and Russian people, as a whole, are very friendly inclined towards the United States and will rather buy from them today than from any other nation on the globe. If it were not for the fact that the aver age American citizen is prone to con stitute himself an apostle of liberty and while selling his goods to press on his customer his advanced and, no doubt, su ,,erior ideas, indigestible as yet to t Ie average Russian, there would be nothing to interfere with harmonious q ld mutually beneficial relations be- tween the two great powers of the Pacific. Extremes have met before and existed harmonionoly Slde by side on this globe; Opposites attract each other: between persons diumetrically opposed in character and temperament tHe Sfedtest ilieuusIipS are frequent, which is all, perhaps, traceable to the primary principle that two bodies spinning free in space side by side but in opposite directions, will not alone not n erfere with each other, but will give force to each other and increase elch others velocity.
 CONRAD SEEM. ITO be continued
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