Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-31

sian people. the descen, of the Morse
men upon the country, which instiilei
some cf the fighting blood Of the north
nto the natures growing stoiid and
lugSish.
Thn came the Monogram invasion
rom the east. to pull back toward bar
larism the nation which was then
'a.-ly beginning ID see the light
Has Ne, Confidence in People.
Because the Russian rulers have no
'onid nee in the people VAS declar-
d one of the great reasons for the
present tragedy of fate in the land OF
ac S,av. Russia presents the ano-
maly of an upper class of ripe culture
and a lower class of extreme ilrtoracy.
- per cent of the peasants being un-
able 10 write their own names. Will.
the percentage in some districts runs
90 %. There is an abysmal distance
between upper and lower classes. And
the upper classes are dreaming OF en-
pire while the peasants are crying for
bread. Why do they stand it? Be
cause Russia is half European, half
Asiatic Anglo-SaXons would have
solved the question long ago. But the
Russian is physically, mentally and
morally behind the average European,
and Russian 200 years behind the
times. IS
Rev. Fineshriber's discussion of the
Bureaucracy was one of the most val
liable portions of his discourse. He
described how it grew up. America
,iv h, Lcfnur
the originator of graft. 1t came to
Russia with the invasion from the
east. So the prevalence of graft in
Russia. where the bureaucracy has re-
duced it to a science. has weakened
the moral fiber of the people. The
lower classes expect it,, through long
familiarity
ZemStVOS Described.
The eloquent speaker described the
zomstvo given the people by the rul-
rs. but always dominated by the lat
ter; the courts, in which ruled not the
Judge. but the chief OF police: the
church. controlled by the state; the
indifference 10 religion among the rul-
ing classes. the deeply religious nature
of the peasants. amounting to dogmat-
would destroy they first make mad,
quoted the speaker. II is blind. degen-
crate madness. he said. for Russia 10
attenat TO force the Finnish people,
more enlfghtened than their conquer
ors. to bow % their idols, adopt their
barbaric tongue Hence Ninilism. IN
it's origin is an academic movement
While NihiIism has been condemned
in the past. the world is beginning ID
question. said the lecturer, in the light
of he effusi0n OF blood in the present
war. II the discriminate warfare OF the
Ninilist is TO tally TO be condemned The
a assassin Of Won Plehve is a hero in the
eyes Of millions Of Russians, and his
name VIII be revered by them through
out the ages, not because ne killed
Won Piehye. but because through Won
Plehve is struck at the incarnation
Of bureaucracy.
How Plans Ere working Ont
Here the lecturer, drawing near his
close. called attention 10 the way the
plans of Nemesis were working out
Russia. debased By Mongolian in
yasion. had returned 20 the cast, and
by the sAock Of the meeting vita an
other Monaghan race. vas to be re
stored to her place among the nations
again. through the publication that
would follow the working ont Of the
drama in the east Political rect.tudc
and restitution would come again in
Russia forced upon the mad giant by
the little men who had made q quick
or and farther leap toward ciyil-za-
tion on their tiny islands than Russia
On its vast stelscs an plains Pre-
sentIng an inspiring VOID picture q