The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-14

| Inc car, ne mas gone TO loDoiSk-
| Tobolsk in Siberia.
| 1t is a good place for him to go to.
Any place in Siberia that is not too
luxurious would be a good place for
! him to go to and not return from.
! The Russians are the least vindic-
tive people in the world. Otherwise,
| this car person would not now be
! in TobolSk, nor in any other spot Wis
| IDLE to mortal eye.
There is however, such a thing as
/ justice without any mixture of re-
venge. To anybody that knows what
the car really was and what mon
| strous cruelties he stood for and
seemed to enjoy, Tobolsk in Siberia
seems pretty soft
Instead of Tobolsk, where he has a
pleasant old chateau to live in, big
dose of the Arctic would seem about
right.
| He sent thousands of men and wo-
men to taste of that living death For
| the crime of believing in human free
| dom he condemned them to tortures
infinitely beyond anything wild saw
| ages ever invented.
| Hundreds of his victims went
through this same Tobolsk. He went
there in a sleeping car and they
| walked along the weary roads, prod
ded with bayonets by obscene and
| filthy guards. He went to live in a
chateau, and they went to dig in the
| mines and to live in underground dun
geons, loaded with chains until they
should rot. Not only men; women
and young girls that were no more
| than children.
As he walks about the grounds of
| his chateau, Siberia must suggest
many things to him. He must have
! some visions of the long lines of ex-
lies plodding day after day through
| bleak wildernesses, of the burnings,
whippings, outrages and brandings
! that were done in his name. If he
has he must fall on his knees and
| thank God for his luck and the won
derful forgiving spirit of his coun-
| trynlen.
! The world is plagued with fakes.
t One of them is the notion, adroitly
! spread by press agencies, that this
was q humane ruler. No one that
knows his real record is under that
delusion. If Providence had not mer-
cifully tempered his natural DISPOSE
ton with much cowardice. he would
have been marked for all time as the
most cruel of monart MS since Ivan the
Terrible.
| Some persons in this country ex-
press the fear that his removal Tin
| a sleeping card to Siberia will arouse
sympathy for him smong the Russian
people and such sympathy may bring
about monarchial uprising and re-
storation.
No fear. When a thing is dead,
it is dead.
There isn't any sympathy for the
car in Russia. Except for few gen
tlemen of his own taste in the caus-
ing of human suffering, (most of
whom skipped over the border when
the revolution broke), nobody in Rus
STA gives a hang what becomes of
him.
Well, but before the revolution, you
say, the people used to call him the
Little Father" and all that kind of
thing, looked upon him with super
stitious awe as the earthly represen-
tative of deity.
Yes, they did-a generation ago
and before that. This generation had
the old formulas on it's lips and utter
contempt in it's heart.
On the very next Sunday after the
outbreak of March ID, in every church
in Russia the prayers for the car
and the imperial family were omitted.
Nobody told the church to omit them.
1t dropped them instinctively, and, 1