Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-11
orHER LANDS THAN ouRs,

OF the Finnish people. The feeling Is not
unnatural. for what he did then was the
most discreditable act OF his career. Fin
land has a constitution which dates back
to l752, and when the grand duchy was
ceded to Russia in 1909 it was upon the
cord'tion which the car. Alexander 1.
solemnly accepted, that the people were
u retain their ancient liberties and their
autonomous institutions. Every car since
then has kept his pledge and when he
broke II the weak though well-meaning
Nicholas committed a crime for which he
has abundant reason to be remorseful He
has now done what he can to make amends
and with this return TO sanity aud right
eousness the Firms will become again what
they always were before the ATTEMPT was
made to Russify their country, the most
\ prosperous, peaceful loyal and contented
OF his subjects. It would be well and wise
to pacify Poland in the same manner.
The suggestion that France should enter
into friendly relation with Germany finds
no favor in the eyes OF NJ. Jaures, the
cialst leader. He writes that there are
tendencies in German foreign policy with
which II is impossible for republican France
to associate itself, and which socialists
will never cease to combat. In order to
secure in Turkey and Asia Minor privi-
legged economic treatment Germany, he
says, has always supported and hattered
the sultan. It's policy is largely respon-
sible for the Armenian massacres and the
anarchy in Macedonia. The sultan, he
points out would have yielded to unani-
nous Europe. The special assistance Of
the German empire has secured immunity
for him. The German emperor, impatient
for the partition of China, had made him
self the prophet of the crusade against
yellow peril. II Europe shared his views,
it would submit Asia to a regime of svs-
tematic violence and exploitation. The
kaiser and the car, he declares. would
prepare the revenge of the white races
against Japan and the subjugation of the
Asiatc peoples. NJ Jaures considers that
German alliance would be for France
new and aggravated edition of the Rus
sian serfdom. He believes that France
should retain its entire freedom of action
toward everybody. but insists that it can
only use its influence for good purpose
by renounclng all idea of recovering its
lost territory by force Of arms.
Though Bengalees will not fight. they are,
and are reasonably proud of being the most
intellectual race in India. II is useless for
any student in any college there to COM
pete with a Bengalee rival In every ma
tive state they are in demand for the man.
agement Of finance. Next to the Parsees,
perhaps, they are the most successful trad
ers and they would not themselves admit
the partial qualification. Using with rare
Skill especially in satire a language a d.
rect derivative Of the Sanscrit, which is not
unjustly characterized as the italian of
the east" It is not fantastic to say that II
India ever produces a literature that makes
an impression on the west it will proceed
from the subtle students Of Bengal, who,
moreover though they display no capacity
for art and little for machine making, viii
probably rival the japanese in their pursuit
| of scientific investigation and as money
makers are surpassed only by the Jews.
The wealth of their great capital, which is
perhaps the second wealthiest city within
the British dominion, has been built by
themselves and by the steady orderliness
which has made of Calcutta a proverb
throughout the east. A man may be a mil
lionaire there and as safe as in Lombard
street The people, in fact, with their
cunning, their thinking ability and their
capacity for everything except art, con-
stantly suggest to the observant the char
acter which the Romans attributed to the
, Greeks.
Perhaps the most Illuminating account of
. |
, in, has come from the pen of Russian
Red Cross nurse, Olga Won Baumgarten,
who reached the fortress on February %.
A more heartrending account OF human suf-
fering IL would be difficult to find, and pre-
cisey as was to have been expected, the
hospital STATS are throughout blamed for
their ineficiency and barbarous treatment
of their patients. Assigned to a city hos
i, pital, this nurse, soon discovered that only
two or three OF all it's attaches were
worth a cent" When these men were put
TO the test they were guilty of inconceiva-
BILE roughness and brutality. The patients
= clothes were fairly torn from them, no mat
i, ter what suffering was caused thereby. As
: soon patients were brought in from the
: front, the entire force of male nurses with
: one exception got drunk "in order to be jol-
' Her." as explained to her But the
browning horror I'm the story of this brave
woman is the act OF a sanitary inspector
who insisted upon It that there was plenty
: of room in the hospital when every bed
. was occupied. He went from ward 10 ward
making room by turning out to suffering
: or death fifty sick and wounded, many of
u whom were not even in the first stage of
convalescence. Not even Bertha Won SUIT
ner's Ground Arms'' is a better peace tract
than is this simple story of Red Cross
nurse with its scarcely credible story of
that sum of all crimes'-war
Count Won Bulow has just received yet
. | another distinction from his imperial
master, that Of majoT-general of cavalry.
. The German chancellor is the most decor
: ated man in Europe, possessing no fewer
: than us stars, orders and ribbons, besides
> medals galore. A we'll known mathema-
tician has recently made nice calculation.
proving that worn altogether they would
: cover not only every inch of the chan
cellor's breast, but his back, well, and
his trousers down TO the knees. Until
= recently Won Bulow was a comparatively
II poor man having inclusive of his official
= salary, less than $1,000 a year. However
u the legacy left him by a Hamburg mer-
u chant now brings his income up TO e22 600
In addition to which he has the beautiful
20 Kenzler palace TO live in with an allowance
u OF $4,000 for entertainments and a stan OF
fifty servants. No advocate of the strenu-
T. Gus life, ne detests exercise or exertion OF
o any kind, and, like Mr. Chamberlain
e. never walks when he can ride.
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