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as demonstrated on December is. 1907,
when the sixteen battleships compos-
ing our feet. started m their cruise
around the world. 49,.
Leaving Hampton Roads it sailed
around South America and up the west
coast to Masdalena Bay: Drills and tar
get practice took place here. a Touching
in succession at Honolulu, Australia.
Japan: and the Philippines. the feet vas
given at every port a right royal well
come. @
while in Japan the enthusiasm wat
most striking. Beside the road where
our sailors marched were hundreds of
school children, shouts of ''banzai"
rent the air and a heroic effort was
made to sing 1.-The Star Spangled
Banner" The entry of the feet into
the Mediterranean was undoubtedly
robbed of it's due significance by the
almost simultaneous loss Of $50, 900
lives along the southern shore of Italy.
All the plans for the reception were
eliminated completely. In Sicily men
were sent from the dispatch boat with
surgeons and hospital stores to search for
the entombed victims Of the earthquake.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans was
commander of the leettuntil its arrival
in San Francisco :w,lhtere,he resigned and
Rear Admiral .ChaflesIsstS. Speny had
command up 10 theitimte of its return.
His wonderful personality disclosed
itself in port after port at which the
squadron touched. He. changed the esti-
mate in>which Americans are held by
foreign nations.
''What has the battleship fleet done?'
It has steamed.for more than AZ. 600
miles in fourteen months and six days
it has crossed the equator four times
it has made the longest run yer made
by a fleet without .coalina; it has
strengthened the friendships of several
foreign nations for our country; perhaps
it has solved delicate diplomatic
situation but best of all it has taught
the American navy the value of actual
service
1.-The Future of the Russian Peasant
was the subjectso of IN grafton by Archie
Palmer which showed careful study of an
interesting problem. especially as SC
many Of them come to this country and
North Dakota. The most important ideas
from this essay are contained in thu
following sentences:
1.-THE future of the Russian peasant i:
a problem that il daily assuming more
importance; the fate, of future centuries
is now being determined. You say Russis
has not only a ACKNOWLEDGMENT bu
an imperial guaranty of political free
dom and real ,%inviolability Of persona
rights, but il. is g. representative as
sembly that has no power and an i'm,
perial guarantee t6at affords no security,
In order to,sunderstand the signif'
canoe of events in the revolution il
Russia it is necessary to recall that i
has the largest area of any nation ant
a population Of one hundred. and fort!
million souls, including eighty million
OF peasants. The illiterate classes con
stitute Al least three-fourths of the popu
lation. During the last few years Their
has been a very rapid Improvement il
this respect by reason of the establish
ment of village schools. The Russian
workmen have vague and fantastic idea
of government and the meaning of tn
word Liberty"
when the peasants were given thei
freedom by Alexander the Good tn
government applied the socialisti'
principle that the soil belongs to, tn,
men who till it and each family wa
given six and a quarter acres of cult
waited land which was then sufficient t.
supply their wants. The increase il
population has cut down this average II
three and a half acres. The peasant
need the idle land which is held il
vast estates belonging to government
crown, monasteries. etc. This demand
has given rise to the present strife.
Among the most serious ant
threatening problems in Russia is tina
presented by the steady and progressive
impoverishment Of the people. There
are twenty million people in European
Russia who are living from hand tt
mouth. .
The Russian problemsas a gigantic
one: Its solution. one way or another.
will contribute a great deal TO the solu.
tion of the whole problem of mankind.
To the Russian peasant and all Russians
who have the cause of the peasant Al
heart, the outlook is disheartening.
Truth seems forever on the scaffold, :
Wrong forever or the throne. but
oppression in the final outcome of things
can never overwhelm the Right and 70,
the Russian peasant Truth on the
tScaffold, not Wrong on the Throne, ,
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