The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-07
, KEIvKNINa. TOM THE FIELDo.

tries? Look at your own Congress
and State Legislatures. What an evil
work they have wrought! In their
midst thrive envy and party hatreds,
and among your people they have scwn
the dragons teeth OF malice, and ell
observation-disclosures. You Americans had
new and beautiful land out of which
your fathers sought to realize Heaven
upon earth. and how has 1t ended? In
no part of the world is class so ar
rayed against class. You have repro
duced European conditions in their
most exaggerated forms, thanks prin-
cipally to what you call representative
form OF government and what you call
patriotism.
"Oh! how hate that word! You
Americans use It and misuse 1t all
the time. / really believe that this
idea which the subt!esm who rule
| you for their own purposes call patriot
| ism has done more to retard the growth
OF the individual than has our Church
| In Russia with all it's shackles and
chains, mental as well as physical.
You have tried popular development en-
masse, why not try the development
q. the Individual? The State cannot
| be stronger than It's weakest link. You
must build up the individual before
you build up the State. and If you do
this. why then the State is unneces-
sary.
How can you take an interest in
the Douma? And you say the people In
! America take interest In 1t, too! The
little good n Legislative assembly like
the Douma might do under conceivable
circumstances is. as nothing to the
i evil 1t Is sure to do at present One
i can say, and surely will say, but lit
tie that Is good OF our present Govern
i ment in Russia; but certainly 1t Is
4 more favorable to the development OF
i the perfect man than was that OF
4 Herod and Of Plate. And vet under
i their rule He lived, and In spite of al
4 obstacles He taught His lesson. Count
Hess generations and millions Of ind1
i yiduals have tried to follow in HI:
4 footsteps. but no one has ever at
tanned Els perfect manhood. So W.
seek to alter conditions rather thar
ourselves. suppose because we fint
1T easier. Now, why are you interested
In the Douma7" i;
Work of The Doumn.
This time the Count would take n,
denial. and I forged ahead, thougl
realizing that 7 was n worm about t.
he crushed. told him that 7 had sn
! In the Douma for six weeks. and hat
!, found It to be DELHI eratiYe assem-
!, bly much moro orderly than most. j
I (which all classes of the empire wer
more or less fairly represented, includ
ling. perhaps, the terrorists and the ex
! propriators told him had bee
, struck by the sound common sense o
! many Of the speakers, particularly Q
: the pensant members. whose constitu
ents number four-nfths of the iphabl
: tants OF the empire. I thought tina
: * was possible that In the Doumsl
!. fair statement of Just grievance
: might be reached. and that n ma
!, might be sound capable of rcdressin
hem-approximately.
o "Of course in America" said, "w
k do not know whether any large nun
d her Of tho Russian people are fit fc
Q self-government. outside OF the DO,
: ma they seem to be daily furnishin
4 much evidence that they are not,
+ the history of your once great and frt
! cities. such as Novgorod, Tyer an
= Pskoff.s 1t Is demonstrated that repre-
sentative Institutions We're entre
successful, and that there was mue
y happiness and prosperity in these RI
n gions OF Russia until Ivan the Terrih
i and others OF his kind reduced II,
: citizens to slavery, Then, Of coura
n you must remember that we take
= sentimental interest In the snread
10 manhood suffrage. Three ,hundr'
d years ago we Americans We're bar
IS of exiles cast upon an inhospitah
"a shore. We have, grown great ~
y strong, and We believe that, und