The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-06-14

steamship. Social progress is depend
ent upon freedom Of trade. Ships are
couriers of democracy. Just as honey
bees, flying from orchard to orfhard,
fertilize the fruit, SO ships, going from
continent to continent, fertilize nations
widely separated with the principle of
liberty and self government. Does Ste
phenson develop his engine for Eng
land? The ship brings u model to the
United States, and soon the locomotive
moves around the earth. Not other
wise the ships spread all the tools. I'M
til the reaper, the printing press. the
steel plows, the monographs. invented
I'm one country are carried to all conn
tries.
Steamships as Honeybees of Trade.
No man can Ovcrestimate the influ-
ence of the steamship upon the prog
ress of mankind. But the nations of
western Europe determined to forbid
Eussia the use Of the steamship. Dur
ing the most important part of the
ycar-namely, the five months that fol
low after the gathering of the crops-
she was denied an outlet They were
willing that Russia should have port
on the Arctic ocean, which is frozen I'M
seven months in the year. They were
willing she should have n part I'm ST.
IBERIA and Il port on the Baltic because
the mouth of the Ncvu ut Petrogrod +;
locked with Ice until April. But three
fourths of kuSSia's crops follow her
rivers, like the Nolga. 1000 miles long.
southwrd into the Black sea. More
than thousand craft large and small
laden with Russian wheat, barley, rye.
oats ana various treasure were locked
north of the DardancllSs when the war
broke out. During the last seven years
two Balkan revolutions have closed
the D"rdanell"S. But Russia cannot
live and prosper while the Dardancllcs
have been open only two and a half
years out of the past seven.
England's Fear.
England was afraid that If she al
lowed Russia to own COnStantinople n
Russian tlcct would stand at the SueZ
canal ana be II barrier between Eng
land nnl India. Germany ana Austria
feared the competition of Russia If she
developed great shipping lines through
her port on Tie Mediterranean sea.
open twelve monthS I'm the year And
so these nntiOnS COHSpircd to support
Turkey rs II buffer state. midway be-
tween Russia and the Mediterranean.
The Russian giant struggled long. like
some hu%c samson. but It was all in
vain. Often it looked IA If Russia
would force the gate of the Darla-
ncllcS, but then Il new conference was
called, and in Berlin bismarck and
biSrncli, with the emperor of AuStr ria
and the president of Franco. forged
new fcttcrs for Russia and placed now
weapons in the hands OF the sultan.
Therefore RuSSia's life was an ingrow-
; ing life. Her IDEAS were inbred IDEAS.
( Russia suffered al the disaster Incl
dent to inbrecding. with results disas-
trouE to the people. The responsible
ty. therefore. for Russian nutoCraCy
with the denial OF liberty Of the press.
liberty Of speech and liberty of re-
liGlon. lies ut the door of cnvious ma.
tions of western Europe. But now nj
last better days have come England
and Franco have pledged the Darda
ncllcs TO Russia, and n new era IS ON.
! Russia's Contribution.
1t Is singular fact that If Russia
has been rcactionary In the main
tcnancc OF political autorracy on the
ono hand. that she has made Il great
contribution TO society through the
group system on the other. England
contribution during the last century
was the factory system: Germany :
contribution was industrial efficiency
that saves the wastes. RuSSias con.
trihution has been the group method
in the mart toward agricultural work.
ers and the ArtZcl toward the work.
crS In tn" factories. Ey common con,
sent Cavour, the architect OF the new
Italy, ranks with Bismarck of Ger.
many and Gladstone of England and
Lincoln OF our country In lis me.
moirS tavour says that RISsiaS group
system Is destined to spread into all
tl!c earth. To understand the Russian
Mir. Imagine II tract Of land four miles
SQUARE. At the center lies circle
"nc-h"lf mile in diameter. In the con.
ter Of that circle stands the village
church. the village school. the village
warch"us" ana the village office build
ih"I. Round about are the little shops
and the farmers houses. Behind each
house lies II narrow strip OF land, each
SiIip and house having its own NUM-
be- once i'm seven wears the maVOl