The Oregon daily journal., September 27, 1908, Page 33, Image 33

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QlU.PPOSE- you dived-in Russia; can - saying far, fat.
ij you imagine pnat;rwowaoeK ine usilthan you
manner of your existence, as a Rus- were d o in ,
sian manqr xvoinanfX ' f y t -- wand you xvouU '
Can you surmise whar ybu'ywouid-be be doing far,
yi"Z ding, ktyinZ, ' this day and this' Ifar) Uss than
yhourf": :, '- .., V,, ; :v ou xverethinkinr.
r It is not impossible to know. I, ou So, like those maimed yet 'terrible :
need not levy on the vagaries of thought 'mutes produced by the crude cruelties of.
transference to va ft to you impressions of. the. Middle. J res moufmnitld i,htn h
that distant li) 'e or, hire a Hiniu fakir to. dumb,, you voW aim to be deaf , yet aU- reKrS;XS
do astral projection for the difficult project, uvys you . xcbuld be a Ihin r menace, ripen- military tchoofc I"
mactc, timytj tun juur eye, jvU i?. $itg for some Horrific outbreak, tne product : :no
see yourself, if you uere born a. Russian, of youTurongs, your: wretchedness, and nh' fhnt
and still fettered to yhe; dire fortunes of the inevitabU revolt of your innate tbink
your birth, enraged in every action, word ' hood. ' -
and, thought that rules 'and moves your ;; Today nooovoa would be whisper- - Hut still open inward.'
small children Already we hunger continually.
If I were gone, they would perish."
"Is it not true that the speech of Guchkoff,
in the Douma, when he proved that all the grand
dukes are dangerous to jhe army because they
sre above it, has made it certain they must got
Do we not know that Peter X icholaeivitch must
quit as inspexTtor" of engineers, that Constantino
ent of
Who knows P
may retire with honors, and we may
re rained a Tictory."
But the Fortress Peter and Paul has doors
great, all-powerful czar in taking heed of the
epochal address to the Douma by M. Guchkoff
on the intrusion, of grand ducal influences in
the conduct of the Russian army.
The czar was so profoundly impressed with
the facta disclosed in that Vehement arraign
ment of the hereditary curse of Kussia that he
consulted with if. Khomyakoff, the Douma's
president. Soon, despite the rigid censorship
exercised over printed news throughout the
desolated empire and despite the terrifying
espionage thst lacks in wait for the rashly ut
tered word, the presage of a new dawn tinted
faintly the haunting nightmare of the national
existence.
If you were a Russian and very young and
sanguine with the leaping pulse 'of youth, you
might believe that the czar of today is to be the
czar of tomorrow. But if ; you wore mature,
with a man's mind stored with the bitter lees of
a man's experience and observation, you would
know your czar for the vacillating man he is,
cursed with his indelible record of aspiring im
pulses fizzling out; in renewed impotence. re -newed
odium, enewed out-Herodings of Herod .
in the slaughtering of innocents.
And vou would doubt, very hopelessly, the
rescue ? of any single solitary department of
Russian life, that promised loot, f rom the grasp
of the grand dukes, a grasp which until now has :
been as inexorable as it. is universal.' '
- If you wero a Kussian, you would not be able "
to choose what sort of a Russian you should
bo any more than with all your ambitions and
work you have been able to become the sort oi
American you want to be. : ' -
Indeed, your range of aspiration in that field
of absolutely limited opportunity would be so
infinitely little, compared .'with'' the range
America offers you, that you would have scarcely
one chance out of 100,000 to chango your sta
tion, against the 99,999 chances you have here.
MILLIONS FACING FAMINE - ,
So if you were born in Russia, even as late
as the last census, in 1897, and if you were now .
only 11 years old, the bitter "chances are 97 out : -of
126 that you would be a Russian peasant, for .
then 97,000,000 out of the 126,000,000 people in
the Russian empire were peasants, nothing
more. - ,.
What kind of a peasant? 'Well, the chances'
are one out of 'two at best that you would be
chronically hungry; one out of seven t beat that .
you would now be starving. . c , '
If you lived in the fertile black soil province
of Voronezh, the best in the land for crops, the
net profits of your ground ,woulc!( be hardly y
enough to pay the tAxes on it.
As late as four years fcgo .if yours were one
of the 23,295 families in Yoronezhyou would
have had just one chance out of two for eseape
from the condition of perpetual hunger, which
has since: beset 13,967 families out of the total
A quarter of a century ago,, the proletariat -that
class of the population who are ao poor
that their utmost endeavors cannot earn their
being. f ' ; -V . ' , , f. ' tng to one neighbor, out of many a who had
1 - " To begin xuth, your whole habit of uttered in the past such othep whispers as
life would reversed. You would be assure you he does not -dare betray you.
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LL of the grand dukes are to go." harmless, unsuspicious . human" being rav.
"It is not true, little brother, thirty feet away. You wait. dumb, alert, untU a
Only one has goneNicholas, from ; shout could not reach his ears. Then you twe
uc rouncu ior ni lions i aeiensev wnispcr again: - -
:But the Grand Duke tWge llichaelovitch," ; ibe louma hat cut all the claws in the'
the inspector rnral ef artillery, has esigw., army." " - . .
T c' I .iVU VDtiI tht rtsifD4tion -Thee are words for SiWria." Utile brother.".
ttttetbihl : . "Dott thou fear to hrar tbem. Irc-thefP
,An utml -Le a man a oiJiEary, "Greatly Eat go on, yt speak lcrer. I have -
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Thou art again afraid."
I have little children, brother."
' . I am dumb once more. But there is now a
bope."
Tor the army, yes."
,V "But for the people P
"I must go, littlfl brother."
"Farewell, then." l
That is what you wr!d be saying, and the
way you would be sayii.jr it, ia Russia today.
xiow i.p we n. now bcj d bread amounted to 5 per cent, or one ia
n, you wouju comprenecu yn uc tTOnf, .mnn- th. RHS9;.n p-onl
dawn
the Russian people, a son of those serfs who were
emancipated from slavery into barely nominal
freedom and into realities of want and oppres
sion beside which the candid, feudal' brutalities
of your ancestors' serfdom are now remem
bered as the bliss of a forfeited paradise.
You would tight I They havo fought. You
would ' submit! .They have submitted. You
would eonspiret '. They all conspire. You would
flee ! They do Bee, if they can.
twenrv amomr the Russian people.
In 1SS1 the proportion of the prolrtariat had
risen to 15 per cent, or three desperately hungry
people out of every twenty. There are now
nearly 25,000,000 composing the prc!c''riat, or
one out of five of six who constitute t!: enor
mous army of the ravenous. ,
Simply Russian' subject, r.ot with to it
chance limited hy your pitiful c:tat e a j -
ant, hut with all the adtantays of t' t
V."" w,"' -"v." . -. i. j Twnnlation admitted to lve rs
i?aj j;usin ct the Kusun,yeur longaefpair- , im unui io ussuwriie , ' , , , .f
i t t ' i n: .A iu t;u f hA would have 42 cnarv r, xl
Wr. nu K. on th-Tutimer of here " failed would you resignedly die. And after how to read and wri c if jr. wrr-1 M.r
Lei J out during the summer by the action of the that fashion, too, they are dying.
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