The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-06-08

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The Council Of tAe State with its
Princes and Noblss. aiding in making
the crusi laws. dictating in eccsssissd-
cal affairs is the department Of csa-
merce and finance. controlling Industry
and Science. The Imperial Senate
the Sups,ne court Of appeal in civil and
criminal case 10 the Disciplinary Tribu-
nal which tries public officers.
The large police force and the most
through detective system in the World
forms the link between these depart
ments and tie people learning more Of
the lives Of suspected arrivals in Russia
thaa their most intimate friends would
know. s's,A = t,4,,
This 10 the government - it exists in
Russia proper. Such province. -
Astrakkan. Kaxan, and Poltava' are
under the rule Of the Satraps, the small
Kings, whs account only to the Cazar
The preapt remittance of large sums
Of money is the only requirement
made Of those infamous instruments of
cruely dishonesty, these enemies OF
liberty . remittance possible only by =
heavy taxation Of . miserable people.
Over aii is Nichols IL, supreme dig
nified ruler. who upon taking the throne
at 26 wept like . child. Is this man
occupying \ jeweled throne, clasping his
scepter respondent with precious stones
with his brow encircled b y rubies and
diAmonds. or riding in his golden car
riage through avenues lined with column
Of armed men-Is Nichols IL, able to
develop this nation Has he sympathy
for the ignorant suffering subjects, who
drag out joyless existahee Of toll to
maintain his spiendor and power? Who
pays the well groomed guards protect
ing his majesty? Who pays the officers
despotic by his systems? Not alone the
wealthy citizens, who have purchased
exemption from unjust taxation, but the
impoverished people who spend their
lives in privation and toll.
Conditions in Russia under this modern
and tactful despot are appalling for here
yawns . great chasm social difference.
The richer class is privileged over the
poorer, or the peasants and the jews,
where exist no Third Estate, or common
people. BY influence with the Emperor.
these members of the royal family.
State officials, army officers and bribe
given rich practice injustice exempt
arrest as leng as no rumbling is heard.
The peasant suffering for the sins
of Royalty pay extortionate fines that
remunerate the largest police force
in the world for the protection Of the
rich from the hands of Nihilists.
OF the lower class, the peasant, once
serfs, freed in 1861, by the Emperor
and made small land owners are the
most inferior in any civilized country.
Marrow and sbping browed they are,
Villsri says, ofen found existing, twenty
persons with the pig to one low rooted
ill-lighted, filthy room, into which little
pure air enter.
Their food consisting of black bread,
the soup of cabbage and bit of dried
fish nourishes scantily. Their i'll afforded
but some times purchased alcoholic
beverage, the Khiva. deadens the facul.
ties until death results to many from
freezing in the streets.
The children of the peasants are
seldom educated, but must labor. The
parents taxed to the upmost to support
the irreverened and often unsympathet.
ic priestsand to adorn the churches with
gold and jewels are pious, prostratine
themselves in the dust before an image
Of Mary or Christ.
The factory or the field employs them
IL hours aday for few cents, all one
man 10 worth, as IL Russians in the
cotton factories operate 5000 spindles
where Englishmen would suffice for
the work. Even Invaluable in agriculture
contentment is replaced by fines. orders
and being driven from place to place
in vercrowded fields. No wonder they
are low, i'll, and subject to plaques.
Who could endure such an environment
and retain his inheritance of manhood!
In all Russia has no one awakened tc
the call Of. the oppressed? Yes: Hun.
dreds have been aroused but stifled a,
was Madam Brentkovskpy a Hoblewo
men, who wrote in behalf of the suf
fsring peasants. Torn from her infant
son, she was marched across the froxe,
plain to northern Siberia to exist alon.