Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1904-11-25
NEW BUTCH E R
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In The KinswOrthy Building,
Opposite the Post Office.
Phone 157.
Geo. P. Watkins Q Co.,
Proprietors.
Russia.


John Foster Carr writes for one of
the November magazines a terrible in
dictment of the Russian empire. Some
of the things which he tells are well
nigh unbelievable, but he states them
with a dehniteness and a confidence
which Indicate that he knows what he
is talking about. He says that Russia
can be summed up in the stat 'ment that
it is an empire of graft in high places.
He charges that the population is sys-
tematically robbed by the mobiles, the
land owners, the merchants, the church
and the bureaucrats. He says, the
church, the merchants and the officials
have developed system of graft
(which is openly recognized, treated
with tolerance, even thought of with
respect" The bureaucrats get in their
work by multiplying the departments
of government. ut is seriously assert
ed" he says, THAT there are more
clerks on the pay roll of the office for
dog licenses than there are dogs in st.
Petersburg But the biggest grafters
are the grand dukes, consisting Of three
uncles and brother-in-law of the Car.
Tn It we may understand the reason Of
their almost uncontested rule of the
empire. Mr.. Carr gives us this picture
Of the czar:
"Diminutive and insignificant, when
he stands up at full height he must peer
up to see the eyes Of woman. He
has an inborn weakness which ap-
proaches effeminacy. His voice
saueaks in high falsetto, His educa-
tion has been grievously neglected, for
he has been bred entirely by women.
The car of all the Russians is weak
and vacillating, frightened by signs and
omens." Returning to the grand
dukes-a band of royal vultures, he
calls them Mr.. Carr declares that they
and their understrappers sell and bar
ter privileges which ought to be free,
steal from the public crib, and wreck
as they please the national prosterity.
They are all corrupt, and so shame
less that they a not affected by for
eign scandal at their acts. The three
grand ducal uncles are the trustees of
fund that has been collected to erect
a church memorial of Alexander II.
Work was begun twenty two years
ago. The money has been subscribed
several times over by the nation. No.
body expects that it will be completed
this generation, and yet the embezzling
trustees are the sons of the murdered
ear. One leads a VIGOROUSLY profit
gate and dissolute life. The second,
the head of fleet, is a patron of the
actresses at the French theatre. One
Of his mistresses lalely acted as a go
between in deal for the purchase OF
foreign ships. The third is military
governor of Moscow, and chief Jew
batter of the family. He is so rabid al
anti.Semite that he will not allow {
Jew to pass the night in Moscow. The
royal domain embraces territory
twenty-five times the extent of Ohio
To the royal family also belong most
of the mines of gold and silver, the
rich output of which would supply nc
small part of the money Needed fol
education and ultimate recovery. But,
in want and in debt, the grand dukes
engineered the famous lumber conces
sion on the Yalu; secured the czar's
consent; got him to invest in the specu-
latiUn; and, finally, as direct result Of
their intrigue, embrOiled Russia in
war with Japan. "
Summing up his bitter article, the
author declares that one-tenth of th'
Russian population gobble up every
thing the other nine-tenths can make
and his picture is Of nation seemingly
mighty, but which, in fact, is feeble
and fast weakening.