MEPFOTCD MATL ''TRTP.TTNE, MEDPORD. ORECJON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER (1. ' 1017,
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LAST DAYS OF
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AS LITTLE EVA
All Russia Thru With Czarism and
Glad of It Czars Character Cruel
and Heatless and Only Weakness
Prevented Him From Being a Sec
ond Ivan the Terrible.
This is another of 1 he series of
articles by Charles Edward Russell,
..who has just returned from Russia,
where lie spent three months as a
member of tho official United States
commission to the new Russian gov
ernment. (By Charles Edward Russell.)
(Copyright. 1917 by tho Newspaper En
terprise Association.)
The czar, he has gone to Tobolsk
Tobolsk in Siberiu.
It is a good place for him to eo
to. Any place m Siberia that is not
too luxurious would be a good place
for him to go to mid not return from.
The Russians arc the least vindie
tivu people in the world. Otherwise
this cznr person would not now be
in Tobolsk, nor in uny other spot
visible to mortal eye.
Justice Without Revenge.
There is, however, such a thing
ns justice without any mixture of
revenge. To anybody that knows
what the czar really was and what
monstrous cruellies he stood for ami
seemed to enjoy, Tobolsk in Siberia
seems pretty soft.
Instead of Tobolsk, where he has
1$ pleasant old chateau to live in,
a big dose of the Arctic would seem
about right. .
He sent thousands of men nnd wo
men to taste of that living death.
Foil. the crime of believing in human
freenom lie condemned them to tor-
tuos infinitely beyond anything wild
savages ever invented.
Hundreds of his victims went thru
this same Tobolsk. He went there in
a sleeping car and they walked along
the weary roads, prodded with bayo
nets by obscene and filthy guards
lie went to live in a chateau and
they went to dig in the mines and to
live in underground dungeons, loaded
with chains until they should rot.
Not only men; women and young girl
that were no more than children.
Czar Never a Humane Ruler.
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
exiles plodding day after day thru
bleak wildernesses, of the burnings.
whippings, outrages and brandings
in his name. If he has he must fall
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uck and the wonderful forgiving
spirit ot Ins countrymen.
The world is plagued with fakes.
One of them is the notion, adroitly
spread by the press agencies, that
this was a human ruler. No one thut
knows his real record is under that
delusion. If Providence had not
mercifully tempered his natural dis
position, with much cowardice, he
would have been marked for all time
ns the most cruel of monnrchs since
Ivan tho Terrible.
Some persons in this country ex
press the fear tlitnt his removal (in
n sleeping car) to Siberia will arouse
sympathy for him mining the lius
sian people and such sympathy may
bring about a monarchial uprising
nnd restoration.
No tear. When a tiling is iicnu
it is dead.
No Sympathy for Czar.
There isn't nny sympathy for the
czar in Russia. Kxcept for n few
gentlemen of his own taste in the
causing of human suffering, (most
of whom skipped over the border
when the revolution broke) nobody in
Russia gives a hang what becomes
of him.
Well, but before the revolution.
you say, the people used to call him
the "Utile Father'' and all that kind
of thing, looking upon him with su
perstitions awe ns the earthly repre
sentative of deity.
Vi. ibev did n D-enerntion ncro
and before that. This generation had
the old formulas on its lips and utter
contempt in its heart.
On the very next Sunday after
the outbreak of March 13, in every
church in Russia the prayers for the
czar and the imperial family were
omitted. Nobody told the church to
omit them. H dropped them instinct
ively nnd, I understand, joyously, ns
who should sav, "Well, thank the
Lord that bore is gone."
Kven In tlic Movies.
Wliiln I was in I'ctrognid there
was running at one of the film the
nters nn extraordinary picture play
on the Inst days of czarism in Rns
sin. So fnr ns I could discern, it
van not hostile, it wns not friendly
it merely sought to depict things ex
actty ns they were, including Rasputin.
It showed the abdication in the
drawing room of the czar, with which
we were so fumiliar; it showed the
czarina ns the neurotic she undoubt
edly was, and it showed the cznr a
prisoner nnd weeping in his' own palace.
I suppose yon might sny it wns a
pathetic figure. Many Englishmen,
who, of course, regret the full of
monarchy anywhere, asnred me sol
emnly that the figure was very pa
thetic nnd I ought to he much moved
by it. The cznr went tottering about
pulling his mustache (which was the
best thing he did) and evidently
dazed bv the events about him. Out
side the revolutionary crowds
marched by him with the banners that
proclaimed the new republic and their
bands played the onco prohibited
Marseillaise." And he could think
of nothing to do but pull his mus
tache and look perplexed.
TuUietlc as Little Kvn.
ITc tried to walk out of doors
and two sentries presented their
bnyonets nt his breast. So he sighed
and shook his poor head and pulled
his mustache and toddled awny up
stairs and looked thru the window
curtains at the marching crowds in
the streets.
It might have been ns pathetic
as Little Eva for all I know, but
the point is that to the crowds that
looked at it the thing was not pa
thetie at nil. Whenever I could I
went to that play, and I interviewed
others that went to it, and I never
could discover that nny Russians,
at least, gave signs of any emotion
except n quiet satisfaction.
Certnin alien influences have tried
hard to work up a' lot of smypalhy
for the fallen grandeur nnd all thut.
They will never get anywhere in
Russia with it.
ItussliULS Thru Willi Czarism.
When the Russians are thru with a
thing they urc thru with it. They
don't want it hanging around under
another name.
You will find now installed in one
of tho' most beautiful and imposing
of the many vast palaces of I'etro
grud, the headiiiarters of the Social
revolutionist party, the most pow
erful nnd one of the most radical po
litical parties of Russia. The gor
geous halls swurru with clerks, the
priceless paintings look down upon
long lines of what used to be called
the rabble, the ball room resounds
with the click of tycwriters, where
the banished grand duke used to re
ceive in state come now blacksmiths
and farmers .'to confer about tflio
Russia they rule.
Yon enn accept that ns a good ex
ample. That is your fallen grandeur
u ml about nil the appeal it makes
to the common sense of the Rus
sians.
Bitter is the pill, I know, 0 Cavo
Dweller. But I guess you will have
to take it.
Granted only the defeat of German
militarism in this war and your style
of grandeur has fallen around the
world nnd will never get on its two
feet nguin.
Hut the other kind, which is real
and consists of rule by the common
people for the common good, that
lias come to stay for all time. And
you can be sure it lias.
I
OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 15. (Corre
spondence ot tho Associated Press.)
The trend ot democracy In Japan
Is discussed in a leading article by
the Osaka Mainlchl, which questions
the policy of the Teraucht cabinet be
cause it is "eager tor the preserva
tion of clan and bureaucratic influ
ence.!'. ; ''.! ';' ;
"For our part," the'papor says,
"Wo believe in a. possibility, of the
harmonious exlstonoe siclo by side of
monarchy and democracy in Japan.
The throne has made it clear to the
people, that democratic principles
should he made the basis of adminis
tration. In these circumstances there
Is no need for the surprise which
seems to be evinced by Count Terau
cbi and other bureaucrats at the news
of the Russian revolution.
"Great Britain, Japan's ally, the
United States, Russia, as well as
China, are all countries of democrat
ic sympathies, and so there is no jus
tifiable cause for fear if democratic
ideas have caught hold of tho Jap
anese people. Kven in Germany a
veritable stronghold ot militarists
and bureaucrats. democracy appears
to be making steady progress." .
The newspaper concludes: "Not
withstanding the general tendency in
the world in favor of democracy, the
Terauchi cabinet, which is eager for
the preservation of clan and bureau
cratic influence, seems bent upon
checking the growth ot democratic
ideas, contrary to the general current
of thought throughout tho world.
Even the leaders ot political parties
professing democratic sympathies do
not hesitate to bow their heads to
bureaucracy. The position of dem
ocracy in Japan, therefore, may well
be Imagined. The wisdom ot the Te
rauchi government in attempting to
stein the rising tide of democracy is
open to grave doubt."
ESCAPE TO JUTLAND
LOXDOX, Sept. 6. An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen
gives the story of Germnn sailors who
escaped from the armed trawlers run
ashore last week on the Jutland coast
near Rlngkjobing and destroyed by
British vessels. The Germans say
that four trawlers left early Friday
morning in pairs, with great steel
nets between them for catching Brit
ish mlne9. Two submarines accom
panied them. The sailors assert that
they made several trips successfully,
enabling the ubmarines to pass
through the British mine field. While
the German sailors were standing on
the Danish shore after their rescue,
a German warship appeared and sig
nalled orders to tho Bailors to em
bark In Danish fish boats and pro
ceed to the warship. They refused
and the commander ot tho warship
sent a motorboat to fetch them. This
boat capsized. Its crew was saved by
fishermen.
SWEDISH VESSELS
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept. 6.
Three Swedish freight steamship:
the Afrlcanlc, Magda and Brls
which have been held here for sev
eral weeks loaded with cargo for
Gothenberg and unable to sail on ae
count of the embargo, were today or
dered unloaded and the vessels prob
ably will return to South American
trade, according to a representative
of the line here. The cargoes of the
J ships consisted of grain.
COPENHAGEN, Sept. C Herr
Von Heydehrand, tho conservative
leader whose 111 fortune with nn ear
lier prophecy that the submarines
would crush England within two
months and end the war is fresh in
mind, has again ventured a forecast.
This time he predicts that the war
will not last through the winter and
probably will be ended by the new
year.
Herr Von Ileydebrand Is opposed to
any extension tne war to present
neutrals, saying that Germany now
has enemies enough.
OF LAW TO BAR
SARATOGA SPRINGS, XI V., Sept.
G.. The story of three years of viola
tion by Germany of tho covenants ot
The Hague convention, during the
Teutonic occupancy of Belgium, was
told here briefly toduy by Gaston de
Laval ot Brussels, to members of tho
American Bar association, In conven
tion. :
Many articles of The Hague con
vention, when tested by tucts In Bel
gium with the invaders applying their
own interpretations, "proved almost
valueless," Mr. De Laval said.
The imposing of excessive fines,
the punishment by death and impris
onment of Belgian men and womon
and children unwarrantedly accused
of treason and lesser crimes, and the
deportation ot his compatriots into
slavery were discussed by Mr. De
Laval from the legal viewpoint.
Notwithstanding "all the suffer
ings and tyranny to to which tho Bel
gian population has been subjected,"
tho speaker asserted, the people aro
as patriotic as when they stemmed
the German flood at Liege.
"So matter how much the Germans
have advertised tholr victories nd
how powerfully their military system
has impressed the Belgian popula
tion," he said, "that population 1b just
as hopeful as during the first days
that the cause of civilization will tri
umph and that tyranny will be
crushed, because they know that
right is might, that right is tho only
might and that the Lord has said:
'Blessed are they which hunger and
thirst after righteousness, tor they
shall be filled.' "
USUALLY SPY
POPE PREPARING
SECOND PEACE NOTE
COPENHAGEN, Sept. fl A dis
patch from Lugano, Switzerland, to
the Vossischo Zeitung of Berlin says
it has been learned from a clerical
source that tho report that l'opc Ben
edict is preparing a second peace note
is correct.
EXISTS IN GERMANY
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept.
(1. Cork is nt n premium in Germany,
ns tho country does not produce nny
and the entente blockade has inter
rupted all channels of supply. Used
corks, ' especially of chnmpngne bot
tles, are eagerly purchased and they
bring high prices.
Two chemists of Plnuen, Saxony,
have upplicd for a patent for mnk
ing artificial cork from a tough spe
cies of toadstools, which grow in pro
fusion in the Saxon forosts.
Yos,
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RUSSIAN MINISTER OF
MARINE RESIGN OFFICE
PKTROGHAIl, Sept. 0. Lieuten
ant Lcbcdeof f, acting minister of ma
rine, has resigned in order to devote
himself to (lie orugnizalion of a spe
cial volunteer corps in the interior of
Russiu. . Boris Savinkoff, assislunt
minister of war, will take charge of
the ministry of marine. .
PETROGIiAD, August 15. (Cor
respondence of the Associated Press)
The German soldier who is fond
of friilcriiizing is more often a spy,
uooording to u, diary found on a cap
tured Teuton sergeant, says u Pet
rograd Gazetn correspondent at the
front.
Only those German soldiers (nulli
fied for their aciitcness in observ
ing are allowed to fraternize with
their Russian opponents, this diary
shows. The ducument disclosed thut
its writer had been supplied with sev
eral bottles of vodka, which with
characteristic German thoroncss had
been specially brewed for distribution
turning the Russians.
The diary contained a niinlue rec
ord of the fralcrnizer's acts and ob
servations, carefully headed, sub
heailcd and iiiunliercil. Among the
headings were: "Attitude towurds
peace talk;" "Invitations to Future
meetings."
Among the entries were: "Rus
sians warned that their artillery was
about to fire;" "White peace poster
pasted up;" and '.."Russians report
they will not listen to orders to at
tack us."
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