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Music, program verses absolute, 208 religious ideas, 214 Natural bridge, The making of a, 276 selection in the inorganic world, 346 Naval experiment, A costly, 562 Negro, A Republican thrust at the, 407 as a business man, The, 266 disfranchisement in Maryland, 235 Why negroes are black, 485 New-York-city campaign, Aspects of the, 563 New York Life's campaign contributions, 441 New York's Smart Set, "Fads and Fancies" of, 200 Norway, Dark predictions for, 493 Norway's quandary, 256 "Radiobes," a possible explanation of Burke's, 453 before Burke, 348 More remarks on, 246 Rain-storm, Feeling the pulse of a, 212 Religion in fiction, 619 Is it a dangerous topic? 215 Religions, Wealth of new, 250 Religious cooperation, A great conference for, 458 emphasis, The new, 279 What the negro calls, 620 Revivals, The influence of, 461 "Rip Van Winkle," The passing of, 569 Rockefeller, Mr., Change of sentiment toward, 523 Roman Catholicism, Human element in, 216 Romance, The veering weathercock of popular, 272 Republican opposition to, 519 Submarine trip,,339 Trip to New Orleans, 475 works with the envoys, 300 Rubber stamp, How to make a, 487 Russia, Boycotting the new "douma" in, 426 Domestic condition, Trepoff on, 462 Half-representation in, 540 Impossibility of revolution in, 623 Is there any hope for? 183 menace, new, to Europe, 495 Need of new allies, 218 Tolstoy, Henry George and "Russia's great iniquity," 285. Tolstoy on Jewish question in, 186 Useful books on 344uma" means for Russians, What the new 268 Russian autocracy and party spirit, 315 cabinet, Planning the new, 494 diplomacy, 423 Jews in America, 375 naval rank before and after, 265 officers, Expert criticism of, 389 peasantry religious? Is the, 536 press on the peace, 462 reformers again baffled by the Czar, 355 warning from Italy, A, 494 Russo-Japanese War: Effects of the Portsmouth treaty of peace, 369 Peace outlook at Portsmouth, 233. Peace plenipotentiaries and reporters, 164 Peace. The terms of, 333, Predictions of a deadlock at Portsmouth, 253 Roosevelt, President, as peace referee, 270 St. Louis bridge monopoly, Investigating the, 562 Sargent's pictures, Revelation of character in, 482 Schools, Medical supervision of, 535 Science, Frenzied, 244 in the library, 247 Scotland, Literary decadence in, 302 Separation" in France, Views of the, 249 Seat No. 334-Quartered Church Oak. 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Sky-scraper, Stability of the, 118 Sleeping sickness solved, Mystery of the, 613 Smith, Goldwin, and "rational Christianity," 538 South Carolina's dispensary scandal, 406 Spider as an engineer, The, 346 Spider's web, Photograph of a, 246 Spinoza, A newly discovered portrait of, 527 Spiritualism and electricity, 174 Squaw-Talk," 207 Steel-making by electricity, 308 Sterne, A good word for, 530 Chimney My Index explains all these things fully and inter Story of the Month, Best Short: Victory (Helen estingly; tells how to care Palmer), 543, Street-railway traffic shown in curves, 307 The electrical, 211 Subway tavern, End of the, 338 Swinburne's novel, 449 Taft trip to the orient, Results of, 478 Some fruits of the, 263 Tainted money," Acceptance of the famous, 446 problem for the Pope, A, 391 Religious press on acceptance of, 579 Tammany, Break-up of the opposition to, 474 Telegraphy, space, International aspects of, 178 Temporal power, A Catholic indictment of, 310 Theology and art, 249, passed the zeniths? 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XXXI., No. 20 NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 11, 1905 TOPICS OF THE DAY. LURID DAWN OF LIBERTY IN RUSSIA. ΤΗ WHOLE NUMBER, 812 edge of present conditions, they felt confident that these manifestations of satisfaction and delight would soon give place to sullen distrust and enlarged and irrepressible demands for greater concessions. And such was the case; for on November 2 the council of workmen's delegates at St. Petersburg exclaimed in commenting upon the Czar's proclamation: 'Freedom of meeting, but the meeting surrounded by troops; freedom of speech, but the censorship remains; freedom of learning, but the university occupied by troops; inviolability of person, but the prisons full; Witte given, but Trepoff remains;, constitution given, but autocracy remains; all given, nothing given." The belief entertained by the American press that troubles would surely result was not created by any dispute as to the terms of the proclamation, for, as the New York Tribune remarks, it amounts to an abdication of autocracy"; nor by any doubt of the sincerity of the Czar, for, as the Philadelphia Press points out, the pitiable and abject plight of this bewildered ruler makes him only too willing to yield up everything to save his throne and neck; nor by any lack of confidence in the ability of Count Witte, altho, says the Salt Lake Tribune, his dual capacity as friend of the people and counsellor of the Czar has put upon his shoulders "the gravest responsibility that has been thrust upon a man in recent times." But the misgivings of the press seem to be due to peculiar and discouraging conditions existing in Russia. As the New York Journal of Commerce says: HE rioting and bloodshed which followed the Czar's promise of a constitutional government to Russia occasion no surprise among the American press, altho these new disasters appear to be the worst that have happened in the Empire. Kishineff has outdone itself and Odessa has outdone Kishineff. In Odessa, the despatches say, five thousand men, women, and children in the Jewish quarters were sacrificed 'to the fury of the mob; from Nicolaieff, Sebastopol, and Kherson, in the BlackSea region, come similar reports of pillage and wholesale murder, where bands of "patriots" and "loyalists" glutted their rage with the blood that the government authorities could not or would not keep from flowing; the whole Caucasus is again aflame, and widespread disturbances are prevented only by the firmest military measures; Finland is in open revolt, and the Finnish people hold possession of all their principal cities, while throughout Poland the flags of rebellion were flown immediately upon the receipt of the news of the proclamation, and Warsaw was again bathed in blood on the very day she gained her freedom from martial law. But these disorders appear to be such a natural result of racial prejudices and revolutionary spirit when all restraint was removed, that not a few of our papers foresaw in a general way the events as they came to pass, and are still predicting that the Russian people have a long, treacherous, and hard road to travel before they can expect to enjoy in complete security the fruits of their desperate struggle for liberty. The joy and gratitude which moved the populace in St. Petersburg and other cities to march through the streets singing "God save the Czar," and crowd around the mounted Cossacks, pat their boots, and bid them go home, saying, "We need you no longer; we are free," did not deceive these papers; for, draw- to only 66 per cent. of the whole." ing conclusions from examples in history and an intimate knowl Copyright, 1905, by Underwood & Underwood, New York. 66 Without counting the nomad or semicivilized races inhabiting the sparsely settled regions, there were at the last census, in 1897, 6,000,000 Finns in Russia, 9,000,000 Poles, 5,600,000 Lithuanians, and 11,000,000 Asiatic tribes of various origin and different religions. The Germans of the Baltic provinces number 1,000,000; the Rumanians of New Russia and Bessarabia, 850, coo; and the Greeks and Armenians as many more. The proportion of the population returned as Russian Slavs is, indeed, a majority, but it amounts Besides these elements, there are in the population large POST-OFFICE ADDRESS-Instructions concerning renewal, discontinuance PRESENTATION COPIES.-Many persons subscribe for friends, intending that numbers of Jews whose well-known characteristics have aroused the most ferocious enmity against them in the cities where they are gathered. But while all these various peoples are inspired by the common cause against bureaucratic oppression, their differences in race, language, and religion are thought to make unity of purpose and action impossible at present; and there is fear that the warring factions which add to this confusion of nature will keep up their fight until at some inopportune moment the Czar or some other autocrat might slip into the position recently relinquished, with the assistance of the conservative classes, in order to protect the nation from chaos and disintegration. Thus the Baltimore News remarks: "That there is vast doubt and uncertainty still ahead it would be folly to deny. Revolution in Russia is not only subject to the vicissitudes and instability which are characteristic of revolutions in general, but is affected by a quality which differentiates it from any ordinary political revolution. Civil liberty is what the Czar LAST OF THE RUSSIAN AUTOCRATS, And his son, to whom he may bequeath less power, but more happiness, than he has himself enjoyed. and Count Witte propose to establish; but civil liberty is not by any means the object in the minds of all those who have been active in bringing about the revolution. Anarchy is the ideal of some; Nihilism was long the watchword of many; Socialism is the goal aimed at by a large part of all the leaders; and, perhaps most serious difficulty of all, the notions entertained by probably the great mass of ignorant followers of the leaders are of a vagueness and crudeness-compounded as they are of a sense of economic suffering and a desire for political rights-which we can not easily realize." The most encouraging facts which the press see in the critical situation are that Count Witte is now in practical control of the Government, while the revolutionary forces are showing some tendency and capacity for organization under the leadership of those who are directing the general strike of the workmen on the railroads and in the factories. Of this strike the Springfield Republi'It represents the final perfection of the revolutionary can says: propaganda after a generation of confused and muddled agitation." Count Witte is credited with forcing the resignation of Constantine Petrovitch Pobiedonostseff, Chief Procurator of the Holy Synod, and the "Torquemada of Russia," with dissuading the Czar from using his army to suppress the disorders in the disaf TREPOFF. The people demand his sacrifice, but the Czar and Witte feel that they can not spare him just at this time. So with a strong and trusted man in charge of the Government to counteract the influence of the bureaucrats, and with an organization of force and adhesiveness at last among those who are striking for liberty, it is believed that the Russian people ought to win if they show the courage, patience, and good judgment which the crisis requires. This hopeful view of the future is expressed by the Washington Times, which says: "From the first attempt to exercise the new rights there will be appeals to prejudice, self-seeking, intrigue, and corruption heightened by all the devices of a rotten court. From the first only a very small proportion of the nation's new citizen-body can possibly know how to use the liberty which at last they have wrung from their sovereign. It will be impossible for many years fully to realize all the fruits of this marvelous revolution in practise.. recover "The great struggle of the Russias has, in fact, but begun. When peace is restored, or when new disorders plunge her cities again into violence and rapine, the factions that have yielded so much will very reasonably attempt to the ground they have lost. The ordinary difficulties of popular government that here in America weigh at times so heavily on the shoulders of all good citizens will in Muscovy weigh a hundred times heavier. But in the progress of the nations away from one-man rule toward the rule of all men equally, leaders have never been lacking and the cause has never permanently lost ground. That this may be true of Russia is the hope of all the freemen of the world." POBIEDONOSTSEFF, Whose resignation does not seem to excite any widespread regret. |