The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-03-24

ance and illiteracy of the peasant
classes. Gorky, who has been selected
by the peasants as their leader, is as
a writer, frightfully obscene, more so
than lola, but his ability is to be adj
mired. Count Leo Tolstoi is the grand
old man of Russia, and is the only Rus
sian who can freely criticize the car
and yet be admitted to the palace lie
is the one who told the peasants to
stop your drinking, take book and be-
gin thinking" Russia will be Won
derful power when awakened, and she
lis just beginning to open her eyes.
Church and state are so interviewer
as to be almost a unit. Father John OF
Cronstadt is the biggest ecclesiastical
humbug in Russia.
There is no place in the world equal
to Moscow for the amount of graft
going on. Among other Things to be
seen there are $4,000 captured cannon.
Pictures instead of words are plac-
ed on the business signs, for 9S,O00,00O
of Russia's l4S,OOOOOO population can
not read. The Jew will own Russia
if he keeps on, for it is saying that
when the Jews have gone out of town
there is nothing left.
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and pictures of the Russian generals and
admrals who have come to the front
in the war. Mr.. Robertson paid high
tribute to Gen. Kuropatkin, whose
lustre as a leader would shine in the
pages of history, Notwithstanding his
defeat, he said
Turning to Japan, Mr.. Robertson said
that where his welcome in Russia had
been to have his hat Knocked off and
his camera broken, in Japan he had
been accorded the kindest reception, as
the custom of the people in this respect
is very different from the Russians, who
are as a nation silent and reserved. OF
364 members of the japanese congress
PIP are graduates of American colleges.
Marshal Oyama's wife is graduate of
Vassar. The best friend that we have
today in all Asia is the mikado.
Education in Japan is compulsory,
and great advances have been made in
the past forty years. If we want to see
the old Japan, we want to go quickly,
for the ideas, customs and even the
costumes there are changing The peo-
pie are very polite, and spend one-sev-
enth of their time in bowling, and use
highsounding and but meaningless
phrases.
Mr.. Robertson said that in spite of
his favorable reception in Japan, and
thes progress that the people are max
ing along some lines, he had no conf
dence i'll the Japanese and no. use for
them. Those who have lived there long
enough know that their first favorable
impression is due merely to veneer,
and the Japanese cannot conceal this
fact. They are an immoral people. In
one city of one million population there
are 10000 women who had better be
dead. a man who is in debt will loan
his daughter out for life of shame for
a month, and when she returns, the debt
will be cancelled and she is looked upon
as of virgin purity. Oh, what terrible
fate for the east if Japan succeeds
there! Tell the truth about Japan. Pull
the blankets and counterpanes off and
you will find frightful madrass there,
for no country in the world is so
frightfully low and immoral. The pan
acea for this lies in the girls who are
studying the Scriptures. Asia wants
Bibles not bayonets, teachers not sol
diers, school houses and churches not
fortresse.
The Japanee do things in a fantas-
tic manner. Antique articles that are
guaranteed there to be $50 years old
will, when closely examined, be found
to bear the imprint of the manufactur-
er in Kansas City, made perhaps few
years ago. There is not bank in Japan
that has a japanese cashier, for they
are afraid to trust them. The cashiers
are Chinese.
MIR. Robertson showed the pictures of
the leading generals and admirals; also
much beautiful scenery.
The last entertainment on the course
will be given April 18th by the Gather
inc Ridgeway Concert company.
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