The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-30
MORRILL, SEES DOOM
OF CAR IN REVOLT
Minneapolis Minister Says
Revolution Is Sure to Fol-
low Massacre

Russia, Riot. Revolution" was the
- theme of the Rev. G. l.. Morrill's discourse
at the Unique theater, Minneapolis, yes,
terday. He preached against the prin-
ciples of the government of the czar, and
called attention to the rottennesS of the
institutions of the great empire which, he
said, covered one-seventh of the surface
of the earth and contained six-sevenths of
the misery of mankind.
The late uprising of the working people
he justified and maintained that they had
merely gone to their ruler with a peace
full plea for bare existence, and had been
met with charging Cossacks and showers
of rifle bullets. He dwelt upon the palpable
weakness of the Russian autocrat and
took a fling at the idea of the divine right
of kings.
During the discourse he said:
Russia contains one-Seyenth of the
globes land surface and six-sevenths of
its misery. From the time semi-savage
Peter the Great built st. Petersburg. in a
year, on the dead bodies of 100000 slave
laborers, its common people have been
forced to make bricks without straw.
Last Sunday Russia's position on the
map of Christian civilization was ex-
changed for corner in he'll. In it's lurid
light we read history Of tyranny, brutal
1ty, Indulgence and corruption. Might
made right. The working people had no
rights selfish autocracy a brutal bu-
reaucracy, a murderous soldiery or re-
ligious oigOtry were bound to respect.
Asked to See Ruler
Sick. suffering and starving the poor
people asked to see their ruler. The
humblest Of them had the right to petition
him for help-him whom they worshipped,
had prayed for and to whom they had
given their sons for the Japanese war.
They came. led by no general, but by a
=, priest-with no followers but their wives
and children-with no arms but the up
lifted cross
"Their labor grievances were fairly and
briefly stated in meek propositions. They
We're all included in the prayer. BE merci-
full to us. Let us live Their attitude
j, was one of peace and good will. Give us
a voice in making the laws, let us have a
constitution-right our wrongs and the
answer was bullets for bread, sabers for
sympathy and death for life.
1.-The little father listened to his heart
less advisers. turned a deaf ear to the cry
for Justice, ran away from personal duty
and has been in cowardly hiding since.
The Mighty Fallen
Gear of all the Russias! How are the
mighty fallen! How has the descendant
of Peter the Great become Nicholas the
Small, How has the ruler lost the con-
fidenee and love of his people, which no
future promise or performance can atone
fort
1.-The divine right of kings is often the
damnable wrong of the people. Nobility
is a quality of mind and character. and
not condition of blood Nicholas might
rather have been killed and died honored
than live disgraced. Today he is a dwarf
on the stage of European politics. The
author of The Hague peace conference is
the agent of pitiless havoc at home and in
the Orient A noble opportunity was ig-
nobly evaded. He chose infamy instead
.1l.& &..1l 1nA r,<,f
a patriot
Heaven pity his i'll advisers! 1t would
have been a good thing for the cZar
and the nation If the soldiers guns had
been trained on the grand dukes and the
reactionary ministry. They have blind
sed .Belshazzar's eyes to the handwrit-
ing on the wall, Weighted, wanting, di-
vided.' Weak, reckless ruler! All Rus
sia's past lessons are lost on him.
Another Bloody Chapter
Relentless Russia has written an
other bloody chapter in her history, pune
tuated with tears, paragraphed with
groans, sewed with the knout, to be read
and despised by men, to be remembered
and punished by God.
.'As in the time of Louis XVI, it
will some day be no longer revolt,
but revolution. The tares sown with
dream of peaceful revolution will be
reaped. A heartless vladimir and bloody
Trepoff will find war to the knife. Then
farewell cross and cries; welcome daggers
and dynamite.
"The way to common goodness and
greatness viii be marked by the royal
mile, posts of barracades, bombs and
blood.
Last Sundays plea of petitioners
was the beginning of sometime Rus
sian revolution Out of death will come
life; from prisons light and from Sibe-
/; rian exile law. From destruction will
grow reconstruction. From carnage will
= come the constitution; from red slaughter
the safe republic will grow