The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-12-03
,,,r.seas-Russia.

u .overs stretch OF SIX tnou-
~ " v st to east and two
pP' i'' h,,rdred miles from north
Hl' s,tbeast Europe and north
% W. .han eighty per cent. of the
S0'' y 10 be fit for cultivation,
u ,.,ls more than twenty per
are vet cultivated, much
n'1 ,otrsl part being black and
fe r no fertilization. There
si'' ,.srs Of timber. There are
II ~ rasources untouched. The
56'i' ,bs main sparce, though
'' . ~ at one hundred and sixty
a,th an annual increase in
''7 s,imated at one and a half
V- Europe the high school and
IN evidence, but in Asia
IN the main ignorant.
.,s.y four provinces in Eu-
' .-.rrg. twoin Asia, each hav-
NJ a9vernment, account
r.,ar There are said to
5r- u the empire, speak
.s Russia in Asia has
.r.. much to representa-
- hat European Russia
rs past been repre-
legislative body called The
ne hundred and six
....r. our eyes, with all
rigions, political
.J-trles and aspira-
would be varied and
d-ion of the En-
isiian church, with
trails and monas-
If churches, the
patriarch. There
uman Catholics and
Of Mohamedans,
and religions, all
0.s Jews have until
) to repression.
We Muscovy came
raIsand years ago,
...- er history is short
Her state craft and
.,s been i'll the main
An, try, due perhaps
1al elements in her
ch she has had TO
-... lie world owes her a
a g, and leading on the
.,,-z Ter European white
Nm, -.- nam of Slavic de-
A,m o- the great Aryan or
,,us 4c,s, descended from
.s-ss5- t central Asia, cousins
Gruse5, cousins to our British
.c Tr- EASTERN side of this vast
,s largely Tartar and Monaghan,
jn all Of the Orientals. Europe
5 ali human probability be now
M 5y Tartar barbarians, but for
ghty staying hand of Russia in
at three hundred years, through
gt Imlnation, under the firm
lScs. iaagisn monarchs, the an
of the present Gar. The first of
o to show his head above the
iOt baTbaTi4us was Rurick in 1862.
l.. distinguished was Peter the
l6-2l725 who went down to Hol-
I'D as an artisan learned to build
then vert back to build up indus
d8nayy, and lay the foundations
.zat01 The most interesting of
ag from our point of view, and
our recollection, was Alexander
in our young days, heard much
tie partition and spoliation of Po-
: Austria, Germany and Russia.
.el re oHusder, however, in the
gil Of history, that Poland by in
liSSeGs ons was in a state little
ta1arc7Y, when she was dismem-
and that ike Ireland and Finland,
sheen chronic kicker. Had she in
ence today, she might be offering
promising spectacle of Bulgaria,
her petty powers of southeast Eu-
Russia however, is now giving
tan assurances of autonomy. IT
tsi follow the present shocking
federation of European powers,
may do we'll with her promised
ny The Jews, too, have been
% npy senses than one. great
5 great statesmen, great finan-
greet muslelans-great kickers.
T7 receiving some noble decora-
DO Promotions, in bearing a part
great Russian army in this great
'af To human history they are
I'r an outrage greater than the
Y OF little neutral Belgium; but
'ef "iIl' IN The unerring judgment
iaa history, have its own mark
on lts forehead, so that he who
az read,
I'D today seems thrilled with a lof-
pose, wholly characteristic of the
WI house especially exemplified
1s'aet i'll. In 1861 he issued an
more than twenty mil
lis N his domain, granting them
, j, for forty-nine years, and
!" titles thereafter, many titles
'As resting in communes. He
'Suong letter of encouragement
s''ernment in that dark year for