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not got them and OF course she will get them
out of all this turmoil and trouble Business
can get along much better with representa-
tive institutions than with an autocracy and
of course we felt sure that the autOcracy
would show itself infficient, which 1t has done.
Think of that Russian admiral disbanding his
Black Sea feet because one ship OF the heet
had mutinied. 1t is subject fit for comic
opera We cannot conceive of Dewey, Samp-
son, Schley or Fighting Bob Evans ever
thinking of such course. Russia has proved
that she was simply big, not great And out
of the impending anarchy new nation or
nations will come up, who will become good
customers of ours. Think of the vast Oppor-
tunties for business with business govern
ment in Russia and Siberia. We are only
sorry that the task OF recognizing the gov
eminent of Russia on business lines could not
be entrusted to Rockefeller or Morgan
or Carnegie, and 1t would be done much bet
ter, much quicker, much cheaper and the
doer of it would get big fortune out OF 1t.
But these men will come later.
We need not be surprised II the people OF
Russia are hot against their late bosses.
We were hot against our bosses last Tues
day. Our way of expressing our indignation
doeDnot go to the point of violence because
it is not necessary, but it goes to the point
of contempt, hatred and serious contempla-
ton of the penitentiary as their future abode.
Suppose we had had Murphies and McCarrens
and Coxes for centuries instead OF years ana
saw finally one man striving to rid us OF
them Would 1t not be our part to come to
that mans assistance with all our might,
even though that might strayed over the lines
Of law? The Russian people have borne SO
much have been fooled so often and have
been so wickedly treated that they cannot be
expected to treat the revolution as friendly
lawsuit. They are mad to the core and ter
ribly In earnest. Revolution may be averted
if the people are convinced that their mas
tiers are sincere in their abdication, but 1t
may go to any lengths il suspicion OF the
motives of the car are not entirely removed
by frank dealing. minneapolis Journal.
Undoubtedly the massacre OF Jews which
is going on all over the Russian empire iS
the grayest indictment of all the counts in
the black arraignment OF Russia's beated
civilization. Nothing more convincingly
shows it to be but little yet about the slough
of the Dark Ages Europe It Is especially
damnng when 1t appears as 1t does, that the
massacres have or have had till the fall
of the political head of the Russian church,
some sort of official prompting and authorlza-
ton Pobedonostseff had prescribed for the
cure of all the ills of Russia the reduction
of the Jewish population to one-third its ex-
listing size one-third to be sent out OF the
country, and another third to be disposed OF
by the process now in full fury. 1t is dis
grace to the nineteenth century and all Chris
tendom-Boston Transcript.
1t is a wonderful dream that Russia Is
dreaming Here is one-fourteenth OF the
worlds people aroused and angry, hungry
for liberty, and determined to have 1t at any
cost Opposing them is a bureaucracy al
ready partly deposed and trembling for its
life, yet controlling for the present great
military machine. Between the mad masses
ard the bureaucrats and the army Is De
White, the man Of the hour, holding back
with one hand the impatient people, while
with the other he strives to fashion the re-
forms that they demand. In the background,
impelling the people on, looms dark spirit