The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-17
WAR A GOD-SEND
 ID THE RUSSIANS
OPENED THE DOOR OF HOPE TO A NATION THAT HAD TO EX-
 PAND SOME WAY.
Means That EngIand's Domination Over the Big Empire Will Never Be Felt Again After the Conclusion of the War.

The wonderful advantage opened mp to Russia by the present war, which requires England to pull off the watch dogs, and give the big empire chance to get it's breath, is well outlined in the following interesting and histori- cal resume of the situation from the Memphis News Scimitar:
 While Russian warships are trying to make their way to Constantnople and make that city their own, this is by no means limits the dream of the Russian people. They have been cramped and confined for centuries, and must find a place in the sun or become suffocated.
 Russia was sparsely populated and many nomadic races moved from place to place over the vast eXpanse of ter- ritory: but in forty years Russia's population has increased 90 per cent, and the resources of that country are beyond computation. Russia has more fuel food and building materials than any other country on the globe.
 -tu acres of the finest of timberland in one forest alone. By piercing the earths crust, oil spouts out in gey' sers. lief mineral deposits are only being discovered, and she is already leading the world in the production of cereals. She has all abundance of cheap labor, and is capable of putting ten million soldiers in the field to fight
 Such a country must have an out let and access to the markets of the world, where she may dispose of her surplus products, Russia has had very many eminent publicists in the past to predict and prophecy the destiny of that great country, and these realized that in order to attain her fullest greatness Russia must not only con- trOl herself and her vast territory, but a large part of the world.
 England has kept her bottled up for many years, but as England has n- vited her to come into the field and aelp whip Germany, it is not prob able that the task of driving her back again will be an easy one. Russia has been kept in a backward condition by the system of slavery or serfdom that existed in that country until within recent years
 "The rich were rich. and the dukes and other noblemen were all-power- ful, but the element of savagery re- mained long in them, and even in the days of the late Lord Macaulay Rus sian noblemen and great ladies ap. peared as diplomats and visitors at the courts of Europe, bedizened with gold lace and sparkling with costly gems, while they permitted vermin to creep over them unconcernedly and as matter of no importance.
 "The Russians have made great progress in late years The serfs have been liberated, and for some time they were in a much worse con dition than they were when in bond age.
 Like the Southern negroes, they were made the prey of adventurers and dishonest people just as soon as they lost their masters. But while they suffered temporarily, they are in better condition now than ever be- fore, and this war has been of ines timable value to them.
 They are not only given permanent employment at largely advanced wages but they have been deprived of their demoralizing drink, vodka, and are saving their money, and developing spiritually and intellectually as well as materially. But not the publicists, the diplomats, the noblemen nor yet the warriors quickened the con- science of Russia.
 That task waited long for her lit- erary men, such as Tolstoi, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and others. who had en- abled their country to find it's long lost and dormant soul Tolstois won- derful directness, honesty and sim plicity were irresistible, and swept away the prejudice and privilege to a large extent.
 The high cultural achievements of Turgenev did not betray him in com pleXities or psychological involutions. His note was a simple one, and this is the master note of all the great Rus sian writers of the present and recent past.
 Less prominent than his co-labor- CTS, spurned condemned and eXpatri ated, unconventional to the point of being a great sinner, Maxim Gorky did perhaps as much effective work in assisting his country to find it's soul as any other individual. This marvellous man was born and reared in the squalor and poverty of the low. est slums, and when he was able to leave there he improved his condition by becoming a tramp through the country, from time to time doing the most menial and laborious work to gain a mere sustenance.
 During the years of his vagabond- age his life was tinctured with a Ii. centiousness that was measured only by his physical powers of endurance but in spite of it all his was a voice that compelled attention. Ten years ago he was driven from his own coun-