The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-02-10

of the car really have little to do with
the great cloud of discomfort which is
gathering in the largest country in the
world. The period of revolution will
cover as many years as that of France
and probably more.
With the history of the French rev.
olution still a field of battle which none
car tread without emotion, DIR. Steiner
is careful to base his prediction on we'll
grounded reasons. He has studied
Russia as best he could during his
residence there, and he says:
Il do not know the interior. No man
knows those people or knows what is
evolving in their minds. If any one
comes with a message from the dark
and ignorant portions of the country,
he is a deceiver. The actual condi-
lions cannot be learned, but this | do
Know: They are being slowly schoOled
for a revolution.
in the country there are 1885, 1000 900
people. over 100000 of them can
neither read nor write. They have no
communication with national life at
the capital. AS is frequently stated,
we know more about what is happen
ing in Russia than the people within
a few hundred miles of ST. Peters
burg.
But listen. These people are COM
ing a few at a time to the industrial
certers of the monarchy. 1t is there
they learn the lessons of social democ-
racy, or of powers which the people
should demand from the great white
car. They are enlisted in the small
army of Intelligent w~orkingmen who
will be the fathers of the great revolu-
ton in Russia. When they return to
the interior, they take the message
with them. But it is hard to explain
TO a mar who has always paid a trib-
ute to the car, that governments are
built by men and cars only allowed
their thrones by the stupidity of the
people. With only six cities in all
Russia which may be considered in
dustrial centers and schools for evo
lutionists. it will be a long time before
the movement is under Roadway.
Then will come the intervals of
calm and torpor. then the tempes will
break out again and one of the great
est revolutions in the history of the
world may be dragged over a two
score of years, or over full -four score.
Today is merely he inexperienced be-
ginning. the first -disorganiZed protest
against monarchy.
Great bodies move slowly" con-
linued DIR. Steiner. and You know Rus
STA is colossal. The empire of Rome
would have had to multiply itself by
four to fill the vast country. There
is a feeling among the people of the
interior which we cannot understand
The car is not looked upon by those
ignorant peasants as simply n ruler, a
man IKE themselves WHO mas uSuTpeQ
their powers. There is an idea of ia
therhood allied With of sovereignty
which has grown in their hearts and it
will be years before the idea is up
rooted. q generation, perhaps two gen
crations. Their ancestors We're ruled
by IN autocrat. Deep in their nature is
the old tribal instinct to look to their
leader, the head of their family or
tribe. with respect and TO bow in
obedience to him. This exists in the
hearts of the peasants of Russia today
and to stir them to revolution is nc
easy TI2tter."
"11e heterogeneous character of the
people is another difficulty which thu
leaders of the Russian revolution viii
encounter in spreading the reactionary
spirit and sowing the seed of their So
cial democracy. Within the land rulec
, by the ear at least forty different Ian.
} uages are spoken. This makes com
l munication of ideas and the progress o
my popular movement almost impos.
t sible. The leaders have succeeded il
communicating their spirit TO only
: small number along the western coas
: of the country. There is a thin venee.
of the revolutionary spirit in Russia
, Just as there is a thin veneer of en-
: lightenment n western civilization.
The people will not get the powe
, they demand in the present crisis.
/ continued DR.. Steiner. "The czar wi!
feed them platitudes, and not commi
/ himself to any avowed policy, but it i
understood that he will never give tn
people the power they demand. A
o least it is understood by the minister
and OLD dukes around lin. The Rus
a sian people are diplomats. Though tn
empire Of the car is behind Europe i
other things. there is no doubt but tina
it is the equal of all Europe when
: comes to diplomacy. The car tdoesn'
say things directly. If he wants to ex
rl,t, wharo hjc loft aor &c cit,,ata5 II
r*,uld not raise his left arm to poir
: it out. but he would cautiously slip hi
right hand around his head and desig
n nate With it where the left member
n situated. This policy is pursued by a
n Russians who are intelligent enoug
! to know anything, and it is the polio
Y which VII be pursued by the car i
dealing with his. own people,"
: That the Russian people will not &
thci. demands in the present crisis Is sa