The daily sentinel., 1907-02-11

any civilization is the condition of its
people" He then dwelt interestingly
upon the condition of the common
people before and after Cromwell's S
time in England. Then he crossed
to France and pictured the dire con-
dition of the peasants when finally
starved and subjected to every cruel
ty they sprang up and all France was
| bathed in the blood of the French
Revolution was graphic. France
bathed in the blood of a revolution
DR.. Hills description of the be-
ginning of the French revolution
was graphic indeed France then
grasped the five liberties" at one
time, in this mighty deluge of blood.
England and America grasped the
Eve liberties, one or two at a time
DR.. Hills turned to Russia and
spoke of the conditions there today
He declared that the Russian people
are slowly coming into their own.
He spoke of the mighty victory the
common people of Russia gained last
year over the Czarism when under
powerful pressure they wrested
from the Gar the right of represen-
tation in a Legislative body and the
privilege of owning land.
DR.. Hills declared that a crisis is
near at hand in Russia today and If
the Car continues to throttle the
millions and millions of peasants
there Will come revolution such as
the world has never known and the
people will come into their own. The
speaker has no words of condem-
nation for the Russian revolutlonists.
they are simply fighting for liberty.
why did the Russian soldiers lose
every battle in the war with Japan,
why did they lose their ships and
their forts. why did Japan defeat
them on every hand? 1t is easy to
answer, those Russians had nothing
to fight for, they would be no better
OFF win or lose, oppressed, down
trodden. robbed of every liberty. how
could they be inspired to fight for
the Gar" declared the speaker. He
then told how the Russian peasants
were forced into the army, torn away
from loved ones and their home to
serve year after year. Each peas
ant must serve In Russia. FIVE years
in the army. Speaking OF the rule OF
Russia and other European nations
to train their young men for years
in the armies while America does
not. the lecturer said, Not so with
us, we give our boys years at least
in colleges or schools. then he has
the five liberties and II necessary In
five weeks we can make him the best
soldier on earth. We make MEN.
Russia makes SOLDIERS in name
only"
DIR. Hills optomism was clearly de-
monstrated in telling of the oft heard
wish that tho good old days" were
back again. With biting sarcasm,
backed by facts. he denounced these
good old days" of England and
America. He declared that we had
only to read history and find that
there was more rotteness, more
graft, more cruelties. more injustice.
more wickedness. fifty, one hundred.
or two hundred years ago in America
and every other country than there
is today.
DR.. Hills declared that "Ameri-
can people We're never SO honest as
they are today. railroads were never
moro honest. politics were never
more clean" He showed that the
upheavels of scandals connected with
the various Investigations of late
years We're simply signs that the
world is better and growing better.
Throughout his whole address was
interviewer cromwell's life and in
huence, application of the work of
the father of the common people'
was made in dealing with the many
momentuous questions of the lecture
He told of how history had misused
Cromwell and his ironic references
to the falsity and worthlessness of