The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-12
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! innumera bic occasions, one of the latest
and more notable being the day the
news spread through the Russian me
tropolses that the great inquisit Or,
| Pobiedonostzeff, procuratOr of the holy
synod, than whom no man, not even
the Car, was more hated in the en-
pire, had resigned. When the fact be
came known that Pobiedonostzeff had
refused to acquiesce in the proposed
overthrow of autocracy and had re-
linquished his post to emphasize this
feeling of antagonism, his act was
hailed with demonstra lions by the stu
dents and masses, who, during their
shouts of derision, cheered the name of
Russell, the former student of Kieff, and
leader in the later propagandas.
Since then the mention of DR.. Russo:
! has been frequent in the dispatches
from abroad, showing that his reVo-
Iutionary work has been bearing fruit,
as he predicted in his recent letter
from Japan. He has been generally
accredited to the revolutionary cause
that is threatening the existence of
the monarchy. Even the Car, through
his various means of communication
with the balance of the world, has at
tributed the present revolutionary
spirit to the writings and missionary
work of Russell and his colleagues,
among whom is George Pieheklanoff,
now eXiled in Switzerland, where his
pen has been working in harmony with
that of DR.. Russels in supplying re-
form literature to the people of his
native land.
| The latest achievement of DR.. Rus
sci was in the Japanese detention
camps at Hammadera and Himeji,
| where, since the fall of Port Arthur,
he and his loyal followers have been
working necessarily among the Rus
sian prisoners. Seemingly the Japanese
| have closed their eyes to the efforts of
! the revolutionists to breed discomfort
among the soldiers, who only a few
days ago, as already stated mustered
a force of thirty thousand for the pur-
pose Of welcoming the doctor and his
associates.
According to the dispatches from
Kobe. more than thirty thousand Rus
sian prisoners of war have been organ
lied under the revolutionary banner
and are daily singing the songs of the
new party while awaiting transporta-
tor to their own country. In his sew
eral months work at Hammadera and
Himeji DR.. Russell is said to have been
y
parties in the United States, which fur
nished him with adequate funds and
| literature for this particular mission.
| Where the next blow will be struck
| by the interchangeable doctor is a mat
ter of speculation among his friends in
| this country, but the conjecture is that
he will continue to work upon the
prisoners of war up to the time of their
transportation to Russia with a view
| of insuring their perpetual loyalty to
the cause of the Russian masses.
| Since the incidents of the japanese
detention camps the Cronstadt mutiny
/ has occurred and mutinous manifesto
! lions have been made by the troops in
Manchuria and other western portions
| of the Russian empire, plainly sug
t costing that the revolt against tyran-
! n.y. which DR.. Russell dWells upon in
his letter to his friend in this city,
is spreading and that suffrage is al
most within the grasp of the people.
One great fear has been entertained
by DR.. Russell in his propagation of
revolution and that is that, in the
absence of strong leaders at home, the
movement might be carried beyond
limit by the nihilistic element in the
empire and eventually recOil with dis
aSter upon the freedOm-lOVlng masses
that are simply seeking relief from the
autocratfc power that has dominated
so cruelty in Russia for centuries. Il
one of his recent letters the doctor
refers to this possibility, which he says
would lend in the revolution devouring
it's own Children
My hand trembIes with it's pen as
this fearful possibility dawns upon my
mind" he writes, "but I trust in the
Creator and pray that such an awful
calamity will not be the reward for our
years of labor in a cause which the
world knows is just
Seemingly the recent countless dis
asters to the existing dynasty of Rus
STA have added strength to the purposes
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