The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-03
BRITAIN AND RUSSIA
BECOMING FRIENDS
Time Seems to Have Come to
Bridge Great Gulf Of Mu-
tual Distrust.
Future LIES TOGETHER
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Image wnicn FORMS IN tnelr minus ~ one
NJ \ snowy landscape under a lowering,
dreary sky OF people ruled by tho
krout. exiled in droves 10 Slberls.
whittier they are supposed 20 travel on
700, loaded with clankng chains. always
ready either to massacre Jews at the
in.tigstion OF the police or to begin
revolutions, which never get any FOR
rarder." under the guidance OF nihilists
painted by the popular lima gination either
a. extremely beautiful Young women or
as mysterious miscreants making bombs
IN sttcs, most OF them detectives in
6Sssuisei
II ia an impression which decidedly
rvpsr. And Russia does nothing TO cor-
fsct r. Russia, on the contrary. seems
Almost TO take pains to keep II up. She
hss discouraged tourists not only by in
dsting upon . passport system which has
become obsolete everywhere else but by
refusing until this year to allow the
harmless, necessary Cooks" % opsn
offices and ISSUE round trip tickets
On . Russian railway you cannot cvsn
cake q return ticket unles, you are re-
surning the same day.
Then there IL tho language dificulty.
made ton times greater by the difference
n IN. letters. And further. one has to
admit that the Russian writers who have
drawn and are drawing vivid pictures OF
Russian life are Scarcely known in Eng
land. They wr1to too we'll TO appeal to
ths mass OF readers; their tints are
monotonous to those whose appetite for
books must be coaxed with coarse navors
and cayenne.
Foreigners Like Russtv ms.
No country wins closer attachment
from foreigners than Russia does In
ths course OF three visits and OF much
wandering from the Baltic TO the Cas-
piAn, from the Crimea and the Caucasus
m the frozen north" can scarcely rec
olleCt meeting an English man or woman
settled In Russia who did not like the
country and tho people and tho life.
Russians. too, grow to like English peo-
pie when they really know them. But
they all say we are difficult at first."
nd In a general way. while they admire
England and respect the race, they are
aot fond Of us. There has been fixed be-
tween us until now a great gulf OF mu-
~1sl dlstrust
ITsppily. the time seems 70 nave come
mr. that gulf to be filled up. The two
Nations are going TO know one another
better, TO understand each others char
scter and aspirations. They WILL I be-
iisvc. refuse to allow dlplomatlsts and
politicians 10 SOW bad feeling between
them They will put away suspicion
sad see that the world Il largo enough for
h IN. For tho next 200 years the Brit
.sh Empire and the Russian Empire will
be the two greatest Powers In tho world.
They must mako up their minds to have
csne with pickering, to be sensible to be
CSlends.
looking beneath the surface OF things
! see this war as a struggle between the
british Empire and Germany for tho
twentieth century Each century In
modern Times has been dominated by ons
Power. The sixteenth was Spaln's cen =
Jury, the seventeenth Hollands, ths
eighteenth belonged TO France, and tn,
nineteenrh to England. Now II was
hear. as the nineteenth century drew
soar its end, that England alone could
ct hope for another term of supremacy,
But England had brought into being an
smptrc. worldwide, immense in populs tion
md In wealth. It seemed that the scep-
ts not Of actual rule. OF course, bu'
al physical or material domination, but
u influence by character, might pas.
nom the mother 20 the children
Disputea by Germany.
GERMANY alone disputed this order o.
~ war to-day. But Germany canno,
ecnuuor che British Empire she 10 break
Nc her nails against q rock. Therefors
30 that empire will belong the twentieth
oeutury. and to Russia, when she hai
awakened the intelligence OF hor peAsan
fniAitons and developed her resources, vii
surely belong the twonty-nrst. Lot "
hokh recognize this and live At pssos.
we havD In truth. more in common
WITH Russians Than with any other ma
ton We are. for Instance, obstinat
and inconsistent: 30 arc they. II VI
tAunt them with stitching 90 their oil
calendar. which Is thirteen days behin'
every ono else's, they can point in re
ply to our pi6headed and far more
inoonvenient retention of peculiar meas
ures OF money and weight and length
IN place OF the decimal system usst
by every ono else. When wo complain
that their alphabet has thirty-siI letter
In II their retort Is: TT enables u
10 spell as we pronounce. whereas ysu
spelling and pronunciation are not re
lated at ailw Englishmen who are ras
enough to pity Russians because the
Tack political freedom arc rominde
that there Is no Mrs. Grundy in Russl
20 check personal freedom with IA
more calling bond.
No Russian who knows the world Dc
MES that his country 10 behind the oths
great Powers both IN the common lsvs
o. intelligence and in mechanical con
venlsnoes This has advantages. now
ever. 1t Is annoying that PetroEra
should be so badly paved that laundris
should make = practice Of keeping you
Washing for three weeks instead a
emo, that there should 10 no rogulsrit
In tho postal or In any other service
whether private or state.
tribes IA General scheme.
nut thess are trines in the gensra
schemo Of life. II against such draw
backs we ret the comforts or stron
nerves few cities, no rush from the liant
no Industrial weakening OF tho create
part OF the population. tho balance wi
scarcely go against these, whether "
consider general happiness only or tax
into account the health Of generations
come
They have their effect as well upon IL
solidarity OF national sentiment. Ever
Russian wants 20 free Constautinople frOl
the Turk. Some want this because Russ
needs An outlet into the Mediterranea
end cannot any longer submit 10 n
Dardanelles being treated as private proI
arty. Some see that the chief deNelol
ment Of Russa's natural wealth must
in the south and believe that destiny
forcing her toward tho Golden Hqr
thpN haNA bee