The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-08-11
RUSSO AMERICAN
An ALLIANCE AdITATED FIFTY
YEARS AGO BY HERTzEN.
The Leading Paper Of St. Petersburg
Reprints story Of Early History
Has a Bearing on Present Situation
He Was ExiIed for His Advanced
Ideas.

The republication at st. Petersburg
in the Novoe Vremya of an article
written in 1859 by Alexander Hertzen,
the Russian author and political agi-
tator, in which strong plea is made
for q Russo-American alliance and In
which the American and European sys-
TENS of government are compared
most favorably to that Of America, Is
not without interest and is considered
significant, particularly with the gen.
eral political situation and the fact
that Russia today is upon the point
of establishing a representative assem-
bly, and granting the country some sort
of a constitution.
The presence OF the Russian pleni-
potentiaries in the United States also
adds significance to the republication
Of the article, as likewise does the No
voc Vremya's relation with the gov
eminent. The Novoe Vremya is fully
aware that the relaunching today of
Hertzen's ideas is acceptable to the
government, and in fact, the printing
of it may be called semiofiicial.
| Hertzen died in Paris, January 81
1870, after many years of exile because
of his advanced ideas, which were not
acceptable to the Russian government
During his exile he published in Lon
don a newspaper Of liberal tendency
called Kolokol (the Belize, and ir
which he carried on a relentless propa
ganda for the constitutionalism Of Rus
STA. The circulation of Hertzen':
works in Russia was prohibited unit
within the past few months, wher
the ban was removed.
The opening paragraph of the article
published by the Novoe Vremya> is I
strong and logical plea for an ALI
ance between Russia and America
lquoted by Hertzen from Philadelphia
newspaper printed in 1850, and citini
philosophical and political reason
therefor. The idea of a possible ALI
ance is one of the principal theses o
the article, which, continuing, say
that Russia should free herself fron
the old world prejudices and fallacies
, and turn to her great neighbor acros
the Pacific and learn a good lessO
from her political and commercial SUI
cesses.
} Russia having reached the Pacific,
| says the article, there. stands betwee
the two nations only the broad oceal
but naught of antiQuated prejudice
l or envy. II Russia can free herse
, from the st. Petersburg tradition, he
best and most natural ally is tn
\ United States of America"
al Hertzen notes lack of sympathy o
l the part of other European nations fc
z Russia and refers to Americas kindl
8 ness to that country. Both countrie
overfiow with strength, energy and tn
j, Esprit Of organization" continues tn
! article, both are without pasts an
both began their national lives b
breaking with traditions"
q Hertzen commends Americas han
4 ling of questions of state, declarin
4 that American institutions fulfill q
i. the demands of the democratic repu
n lie. He eulogizes the American const
0 tuition and the electoral system, sayir
. that Russia should study these car
fully and follow many of the feature
f. thereof. He says that the Europes
n systems of government mean war, mi
f. cry and poverty, and asks why Russ
d follows Europe.