The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-30
FINLAND PEOPLE EXPRESS NO
THANKS FOR GRANTS MADE
BY CAR.
Great Britain, Germany and France
May Enter Into an lnterna-
tionaI Agreement.

LCN Jun, aug. oV."A>O SAPA NoSAOAA
of qualification over the cars grants
to Finland on the occasion of the bap-
tism of the Russian heir to the throne
have come from Helsinforce. 1t is
doubtful, in fact, whether that portion
of the people most vitality interested
have already been reached by the in
teligence for, together with their other
wrongs, there prevails dense ignorance
purposely fostered by Russia and an
indifference to the bondage long ago
made part and parcel of their existence.
Nor do the suffering districts send
forth the avenger. The cOnSpiracies
are Matched in the capital city and
grow out of deep sympathy with the
peasant class. which, however, knows
neither it's Oppressors nor it's friends.
Those that are familiar with the prac-
tees of Russian of1icialdom are in
clined to be cynical regarding the es-
innate of 81 100000 set apart for the
state fund for the landless people of
Finland. The permission granted to
the Firms, who have left their country,
without the sanction of the authorities
to return within a year is considered
rather an insult than a favor to these
who emigrated because of the cOntinu-
Gus swish of the knout over their
heads.
Finland is a peculiar patchwork of
natiOnalities, the home of men with
out a country, of descendants from the
forgotten tribes and people, and all
these miserable peasants want is the
right to till their ground and eat their
bread in the sweat of their brows
What is true of the grants to Fin
land may also be said of the other con-
cessions made by the Car Nicholas.
When he assembled the throne much
was hoped for him and liberalism was
considered within reach of Russia and
her dependents.
Barbarism Countenanced
Years of barbarism countenanced by
the young ruler have disillusioned even
the most sanguine. And his late gener-
Osity is considered by some the i'm
NJ, Of
again do not hesitate to charge him
with hypocrisy. But no one sees in his
eral government.
War is a great schoolmaster and in
the present crisis Russians of every
class feel as they never felt before the
stupidity of the government monopo-,
lies, which they have borne with such
extraordinary patience. Today one
may hear in Moscow and Warsaw, in
Odessa and ST. Petersburg. not among
students and artisans merely, but
among solid commercial men, words of
|'ioSo ooN anu w lllCIl Oll SUCH lips are Il
new and Ominous phenomenon. While
one arm of the Russian government
was busy with the process of i'm
perlal expansion, now proving so dis
astrous, the other arm was engaged
IN building up a wall around the east
ern frontiers and in planning other
measures intended to make the coun-
try f-suff1cing.' While the trust"
in England and in the United States is
but the natural revulsion from the an
archy of capitalistic competition, in
Russia it is the direct instrument of
the despotic state operated for the ben
eht Oh the state and a few magnates.
And now that these monopolies have
reduced the private commercial man to
a mere trader, dependent upon the va
carries Of good times" Russian mer-
chants have been dragged to the brink
of bankruptcy by the results of the
war.
International Agreement.
The Morgen Post states that nego-
tiatlons are proceeding between cabi-
nets of London Paris and Berlin
which, If successful will result in an
entente equal to the Anglo-French
agreement in Importance If not sur
passing it in view of the war in the far
east. The paper says:
winged war and Emperor William
have cojointly taken steps to bring
ABOUT an Anglo German-French enten-
te' winch, however, must not be inter-
preted as a coalition against Russia.
The recent reception to Baron du'
Estournelles de Constant, a French
deputy and we'll known advocate of ar