The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-08-08
A CAR OUT OF A JOB.

| A CAR OUT OF A JOB.
The ex-czar wants to know II
the new Russian government is
going to support his family
while he is out of work. Nicho
las, like every prudent man IN
these times, realizes that he
must take some thought for the
future. AS things now look,
there is no telling when he will
get another job. Business in mis-
| line is dull. Unlike other lines,
the war does not seem to have
benefited it. The car industry
is closed down entirely, and the
notice tackled on the door init
mated strongly that the hands
thrown out of work will not be
needed again.
With this prospect of an idle
winter ahead and with the cost
of living going up steadily, Mich
olas shows wise forethought in
putting the alarming situation
up to the government without
further delay. Where else, IL
deed, would he turn? The gov
ernment's chief business, accord
ing to all authorities with which
he is familiar, is to take care of
him and his family. That is
what he has been taught and De
Ireve, heerd anybody around the
court advance any other theory.
Some rumors to the contrary
| may have reached him lately,
but he cannot believe they have
any foundation. The government
may indeed have some minor
concerns, like the war, but it
would be incredible that such
details should be allowed to in
terfere with the fundamental
purpose for which Russia set
up business.
On the whole, and until re-
Gently, that purpose has been
kept fairly we'll in mind. The
cars and their families have
had little cause to complain of
Iinattention or neglect. Taxes
have been little slow in coming
! in at times and occasionally it
has been necessary to apply
some slight discipline to persons
who got wrong ideas into their
heads about the objects for
which Russia was being conduct
ed as a business. But those are
things that will happen in all
enterprises. The car has not
complained, even when he heard
about them, and engrossed, as
he always was, in larger affairs
meaning his own-he was
rarely disturbed by these UNI
pleasant incidents, unless an un-
usually large number of wrong
headed persons got themselves
killed or transported to Siberia.
But of late the business has
been badly managed. Agents
whom the car relied upon to
conduct his affairs proved in
capable or untrustworthy. The
wrongheaded persons with the
obstinate ideas about the pur-
poses of government edged
themselves in, spread their per-
nicious doctrines and got all
Russia stirred up. Now the gov
eminent is being run by them
on the most unheard of prin-
i. ciples, and the car is not even
on the payroll. He can hardly
believe it. In fact, he doesn't.
He still has faith in the purposes
for which governments are in
stituted. That purpose is to take
care of czars-to take care of
"the bows" as the city hall would
say. There is evidence of that
faith in this present demand. It
shows he has not abandoned
. hope that the government will
yet come to is senses when it
learns the fix he is in with Win
ter coming on. And, indeed, it
is inconceivable that the suffer
ings of this family should go
unheeded, when every other
family in Russia is having a
good time attending the ballet
and spending the whole Of their
blessed lives trying on their
bnndrod aod fo,.+yy different sl1itS