Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-02-20

y. year and the grape rlpens,
bfy '.oont land which the Romans
D pls "d and which their descend
SoDit tSa Roumanians of today, in
~ y, ~. .sougb under Russian rule. We
ere at Kishinef' ,o,a
l Contempt, Nikolai cherished an
o 'll,0Sasable love for the land OF his
a'pp' That was the magnet that had
pI him back. Exiled in childhood,
q '' ,.+b her, vast lands confscated on
l., ,r Of his adhesion to the abor-
Ea'I in.urrection of 1863, he had re-
W ~ dozen times to aid the people
ll NJ unhappy country, risking i'm
.iOnment and death.
MI, was during the blacklist year
' %o reign of Nicholas, when the
', eroaned beneath his oppression
: his troops, desperately resolved
.,uch out the revolt, diverted the
,,t,sd and prejudices of the mobs by
,,,nizing massacres of the Jews at
asr rulers command.
N through the district the mas
ares had spread, from the borders of
GERMANY to the south. Everywhere
% and the sword had made women
TdoVs and children fatherless; age
M SEX was sacred to the fanatics.
\ was because they were heart and
m with the movement for freedom
aa the car let loose his hordes upon
hse people. And every time a new
mort of a revolted city reached the
sDOt covering in his palace upon
NJ Baltics shores, the order went
birth for another riot Of blood.
Ne had reached Kishineff, the scene
1.-THE first slaughter, in the guise Of
lnerCan commercial agents. Even
ret the streets bore witness to the
mneS Of giolence that had occurred.
FhdOw8 we're still broken, doors
burst in, ominous splashes of blood
aoEed darkly upon Lodges and stairs.
Ind the cars yoke was still heavy
VOl the victims of his fury.
and yet again he planned to let
hose his soldiery and his Black Hun
haiS Whispers of a coming massacre
IEe everywhere. We heard them in
@ hotel; they floated up to our win
lows through the still, summer air;
SangerS ceased speaking and looked
tI with startled eyes as we passed
hem Most ominous Of all, bars of
a& steel fastened the shattered
nCE Of houses and churches.
KnShevan, the organizer of the laSs
1l&acre, wrote in his newspaper:
The time has come to make an end
II these traitors TO church and car.
We wait only the word Of our illus
nous ruler. Humbly, with barred
leads and throbbing hearts, we await
May it come soon!"
NEOlai flung the sheet away as
a90gh it were something venomous
Ha mclean, rested his chin upon his
-aaS and remained silent, motionIess
Va statue for long time. At last
RFOuSed himself and burst into such
Qfrent Of execration that l trembled
" lear his words would reach the
an Oh some spy lurking behind the
~l Partitions of our bedroom walls.
II Is the desperation of impotence,
winners" he said to me when he
Es' Calmer. "The monsters throne
Wuering. You know that the peo-
y are armed, that a new spirit of re-
sAa mas taken hold of them, that
Wy are prepared to resist massacre
eos desperately than their fore
sIVs resisted Titus and his Romans.
! ! uls determination could be turned
. me right channels, the imperial
none would fall.
LOOK at the facts, Summers" he
s-iaued. Five millions of them are
!, :, INTO a small square of Russian
@u'Ory' They number at least half,
y ~''u lnree-fourths of all the popula-
= :. u TIE cities. They are organ
y dlo their adversaries are not.
s3 IS splitting into fragments.
~ nlllion-an army Of five hun
Nv w thousand men, more than the
49,, ssS were who overran Europe and
.~ ,ss Down the thrones of a dozen
Il s,.'OGS-why should they not suf-
Ssn T" SET Russia free and establish
ps-SglVeS as nation?"
!. n III a cigar, pulled at it furiously
- ., sDOde up and down the room.
s.S WV is the time" he cried. LET
NJ, use here in Kishineff and fifty
IA VA VIII follow their example. They
sSi,r "uE some leader. some oppor-
head moving Nikolai, I knew that
81 " Ne dreamed of himself as both
MD Sauer and that opportunity. But
~ nothing, and presently he out
n. u NE the plan he had formed.
Ia people of Kishineff, he said,
sp.sl!s ahlzed under the leadership
,bosa 'ol Jacob, a man of middle age,
b, N,a Intense piety nevertheless had
SSes slIse,ehted him from identifying
b a.. secretly with the revolution
SSess Nause' While they dwelt on
aspns'.,' terms with their Russian and
lev d.. neighbors, it needed but
IN " Siinks of vodka and a few words
mn0 Nc priests of the Greek churches
sSrts s'e the latter's murderous in
n, SUPPOSE cold Ny;1~oIa; %1,ot