Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-07-07
GOLIATH OF NATIONS FALLS
People Have Vet to Wrest Their Mao.
ma Charta From the Czar-Eman.
cipator Needed in Russia.

there is but one event, and that event
is the defeat Of despotism in the sea
of Japan. Russia has met her naval
Waterloo. In the face of the whole
world the car stands discredited. His
princes have become contemplate and
his bureaucracy has utterly broken
down. Men of heroism and of the
instinct of chivalry are beginning to
associate the car and his pasteboard
soldiers with Don Qulxote, Sancho
Panzo and their pasteboard swords.
Think of it! Russia with 14O,OOO,OOO
defeated by little Japan.
But yesterday Russia had a Gibral.
tar named Port Arthur-a fortress
surrounded by granite mountains and
iron hills. But yesterday Russia had
a line of forts around Mukden. Yes
terday she had one fleet in Korean
waters and one fleet in the Baltic
Sea. Today the fortress has fallen,
her forts have become heaps and
ruins, her battle ships and iron cruis-
ers have gone to the bottom of the
sea. Russia is a shell, delusion-
self-deceived and deceiving her al
lies. But there is a power in the
world that makes for righteousness.
Providence has turned the eyes of
all the world toward the Japanese
waters. There in letters of fire and
blood, written across the sky so that
the whole world can read it, are these
words:
"Despotism is a failure and liberty
alone is SAFE"
Tyranny is bad economics, bad poll
tics, bad in war; Tyranny wins no
battles.
Russia is the Goliath among the ma
tons. Great, big, hulking Goliath has
gone down before the STRIPPING David.
ter with Russia? The answer is near
at hand. Russia is now where Eng
land was in the thirteenth century.
The Russian people have yet to wrest
the Magma Charta from the car, her
people have yet to win the beginnings
of parliament and the right of rep
resentation. Another task is the task
of breaking up the vast estates num-
bering millions of acres of land, whose
princes count their serfs by the ten
thousand and call them chattels and
all but sell them with the land. Rus
STA has no bill of rights, no suffrage
for her people.
That bastile of iniquity named the
doctrine of the divine right of kings
still stands in Russia. The car is
still the source of law and thinks he
can do no wrong. Our house is our
castle and may not be searched. The
Russian peasants house is his dung
con. For the Russian who dares to
illustrate liberty of speech there
is Siberia, for the priest and the auth
or who dare protest before the palace
of the emperor there is the star cham
Der and the sharp AK.
Forty thousand patrician families
own all the lands, castles, jewels and
factories, stores, gold, silver. They
wear purple and are surrounded with
splendor. The remaining 140,0O0,00O
wear rags, eat crusts and live in huts
Today Russia needs a John Milton
to make plea for the liberty of the
printing press. She needs John
Hampden to win representative gov
eminent She needs a Jefferson and
Washington to prepare declaration
of independence. She needs Lin
coin to emancipate her serfs. Her
peasants and patriots needs the SER
vices of one good blacksmith who can
make an AK sharp, and she needs an
Oliver Cromwell to stand by while a
headsman uses it, in accordance with
the decree of courts properly consti-
| tuted
Tyranny also destroys patriotism
| Why did the Russian soldiers and
sailors fail? Because they had moth
ing to fight for. Our citizens have a
stake in this republic AS for our
| flag, our fathers blood crimsoned the
bars. AS. for the stars, they stand fer
states, of which our fathers were the
architects and builders Ours the dec
laration for freedom, ours the laws;
! the schools, too, are outs. Civic and
social institutions belong to us. The
stores we have builde.l. the factories
we have founded, the ships we haS e
| launched, are ours.
But what about the Russian peasant?
He has no laws that he has made.
He has no liberties to love. He has
no land that is his own. He has no IT,
tie deed to house in village or hut
in country. He does not own himself.
He does not know what he is fight
ing for. If he loses he has just as
much as heb ad before-namely, moth.
ing If he wins his victory leaves
him with what he had before-with
nothing.
The car and the princes gain all
Tyranny has dried up the springs OF
patriotism. Despotism IS unfriendly
to courage and makes heroism impos
sible. You can no more grow brave
soldiers and successful sailors in Rus
STA today than you can grow oranges
in Iceland on the side of glacier. To
day the whole world knows that tyran
ny and patriotism are enemies.
/
Russia's defeat also tells us that
the standing army is poor army
For centuries soldiers have been talk
ing about disciplined troops. 1t has
been said that if you want strons
army you must turn the nation into
military camp. This IS Russia!
theory; this is Germanrs conviction
this is Austria's method. But Japal
initiated our own country. In 1856,
our army was needed. At Lincoln.
call young men left the colleges, tn,
Office the bank, the store, the shol
and field. 1t was soon discovered tina