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TWELVE PAGES
friday, may 2g, 1sto.
FAITH IN THE PEOPLE CANNOT
FA1L1
The political or party Republican of
to-day la denationalized, denaturalized
nnd demoralized. Not so, however, with
the Republican people. They are like
tho Democratic people In everything ex?
cept those opinions and sentiments
?which, In the Democrats, put the peo?
ple, their rights and interests first, and
In the Republicans, put tho govern?
ment. Us power and glory, as the chief
objects of the good citizen. The Demo
cratio creed best develops nnd secures
popular good; the Republican?govern?
mental or official preference and pre?
eminence.
This difference arises from the very
genesis of the two parties: the Demo?
cratic party was horn of a strife for
human light and liberty against the
pretensions and powers of official nnd
governmental usurpation on part of tho
British crown; the Republican, In n
struggle to maintain the Federal unity
und control with the efforts of St.i!--.
nnd people to establish a separate au?
tonomy. The difference, therefore, is
natural, logical and Inevitable. Never?
theless, the Republican tendency to ex
not the government above the governed
Is dangerous and Injurious to the peo?
ple ,no matter how honest and patriotic
It may be;~~uut it is the more danger
ous and injurious because the party
politicians and partisans take ad van t
Rge of It to further their own di
of pelf and power at the cost ot the
common weal.
The Democracy considers the people
and looks to them in every it itir of trial
or peril; Republicanism leni h on tin
government nnd ils powers, v. th no
card for the people except as subjc
whom loyalty and patriotism may dupe,
or arms force, to maintain nnd shout
for an ofllclality or an adn
against the people and their govern
ment ns represented, n.?t by partlzanry,
but hy the common v/111, or publi ip -
Ion, as defined hy the people under the
supreme constitution.
But tho people of no party. If ho
and intelligent, arc the thralls of ; n
and politicians always. A time come:
that compels every good citizen t.. i -
member that be is nn American
elgn rather than a slave or party i:
publican or Democrat?with powi rs and
duties vested in him In sacred trust
for his country, Its rights and Inter
and when that time comes, the partlzan
Jn office, or In arms, may well fear th .:
the people, without regard to party, in?
tend to resume government and make
Jt conform to the general welfare, bon?
ier and freedom.
Such a time Is now. The honor, the
liberty and the welfare of tho land an I
Its citizens demand deliverance from
the mlserahlo maladministration thai Is
a foul shame, an afflictive burden, and
a growing perl) to all our cherished In?
stitutions. Not party, but patriotism,
appeals to every tme man in this Im?
portant crisis; and "we the people" arc
the masters of the situation and n.-; in
Blble for Its results;?nor will the peo?
ple fall the reliance placed in them.
ONE SUN; ONE LIGHT I
The N. Y. Sun continues to render fin?
al Judgment ln^-nll disputes, with neat?
ness and dispatch. Its jurisdiction is
the universe, and It deals summarily
iinilsssftiisTfliim>tt<mi ?* ?mo *"d ?ter"*ty*
great and small, an If with equal eye
It observed all things, derided all
things, explained all things, dlrjf-eted all
things, infallibly nnd without appeal.
Religion, polities, business, science, art,
and all International, national. Statt-,
social, domestic and personal affairs
are on Its list, with the final word for
every case that curt possibly arise. How
happy are they who undoubtingly ac?
cept the Sun!
Alas, tins wicked -world, for Its sins,
will not accept the Sun unanimously!
There are aetually a number of inso?
lent dissenters -who deny the conclu?
sions of the Sun (and it has nothing but
finalities in stock), and actually abuse
It as a charlatan and a disguised im?
postor, with patent cure-alls In its
pockets!
Yet the Sun is a bright and shining
light, especially in all the dark places
where the ordinary human vision grows
dim and uncertain; and even we who
doubt cannot but admire the cheek with
which it meets and overcomes all the
errors that dare arise itt its pathway.
Great luminary! Impart to us but a
scintilla of the faith you have In your- j
self, and we shall unite in an appeal to j
the? powers, that we fear exist in spite j
of you, to extinguish all inferior lights
at once!
THE CURRENCY REFORM.
We are authoritatively assured that
the currency program of the next Con?
gress is as follows:
The redemption of nil obligations of I
the government In gold on demand. j
Greenbacks, when once redeemed for,
gold, to be re-issued only for gold.
Permitting national banks to issue
notes to the par value of their govern?
ment bonds deposited in the Treasury,
Instead of 90 per cent., as at. present.
Permitting the minimum capital of
National Hanks to be JU?.OOO instead of
SO?.OOu. as at present.
That Is, to establish the single gold
standard by law, as against the gov?
ernment, though the government has
entered into no gold contracts in any I
of her debts or obligations.
Second: to retire the remaining green- 1
hacks, (which are a favorite currency '
with the people) for gold, which does
not circulate among the people, and
cannot do so except at too great a cost. '
and thus further contract the curren?
cy available for general use, its the '
notes are only to -he re-issued to those j
who offer gold for them.
Third: to allow the national banks
to have, not merely SO per cent, of the
amount of bonds deposited In the Trea?
sury to secure circulation, but the
whole amount in national bank-notes,
to supply a currency at from 0 to 12
per cent, j.er annum, instead of green?
backs to keep down taxes at no charge
nor interest. There is no hint that the
people would take these notes at cur?
rent Interest (TUB BANKS II AVK
THEM FREED and relieve the banks
of nil trouble.
And fourth and last: national hanks
in every village and at every cross
reads, with capitals of $25,000, to get
everybody Into their debt and devour
the country as well as the cities. No
State banks are suggested, nor any re?
lief from the Federal tax of ten per
cent, on old home institutions, of the
people, by the people, for the people.
That Is the Republican programme of
currency reform, and what else, In the
same line, they may do depends only on
the blindness and folly of a people who
Ore In the hands of sharpers, and sub?
mit to everything. Great God! Is there
no hand to save the people from this
system of bare-faced robbery?
PUT ICE ON THEIR HEADS 1
Neither doctors of medicine nor dl
' vlnity have yet urged the shaving of
. the human head as a moral remedy.
Yet It might be tried with good effect
on those apostate Americans who have
abandoned the worship of the goddess
1 of liberty, and gone over to Mammon
and the cruel cult of imperialism and
subjugation. The hend-shaving might
fail utterly on these people as a men?
tal or Intellectual relief, but It might
prove effective and benefit :.ii morally,
bt ? nuse tho moral sense, ns a rule, pre
cedes tho Intellectual and survives it.
Moral insanity nnd Idiocy are more
prevalent than is usually b< llcved, and
there are some who do t. ?'. think that
Insanity and idiocy have any moral de?
pendence at all, except Indln ctly
through the intellect; but ties j:i being
rapidly shown to be a great in.stake,
and that, perhaps, in.at .rallty and
lapses in tho moral sense and . harac
ter lead more frequ.ntiy t.- the worst
lunacy than other Causes. Moral ,,i>. r
s rations, loo, as parents, teachers, lec?
tors, laws and nil experience .1 ::. n
strate. are more amenable t ? physl
treatment than mental obliquities, i ven
in a few cases where' cold or cooling
applications seem equally alleviating
physically, morally and mentally. If
' wo could only semi the imperialists ami
their beef, in time, to one of the frigid
P >les! There is great reason to h ::. ve
that til.- imperial lunacy and the beef
poison originated in excessive heat, and
might l.e prevented by tho cold process;
"We wonder if the Rev. Dr. Charles
A. Briggs believes in .Jonah, now ?" - N\
V. Sun.
The question has never arisen about
1 .1' nah himself, as we understand it. but
j about that fish story. Pi.', he tell i: on
j himself, or was It told en him?
What regiments have we got that are
Immcdntely available tor British impe?
rial aggression In the Transvaal? It
seems thai the Dutchmen out .there
have been objecting to British treach?
ery and plotting against them, and
English honor can't Bland that The
sensibilities of wolves must be respect?
ed toy lambs.
Peffer's return to the Republican par?
ty, It Is feared, may make that organ?
ization too top-heavy. He may shave,
however, to allay alarm.
The Peace Jublleo at Washington has
too much war in Us celebration: sol?
diers, guns, cannons and salt-pctre,
with all their martial noises, contin?
ually disturbing the peace.
The Filipino tiger has been forced to
succumb to the American lamb, and beg
for terms of peace. Tigers must learn
to beware of lambs of the American va?
riety.
Tho Peace Conference at The Hague
already shows an inclination to say lit?
tle of disarming, and to devote all ener?
gies lo mediation and arbitration. Even
tho beaten Cubans are opposed to dis?
arming.
In tracing Iiis family name from that
of the Asterga family of Spain, Mr.
Waldorf Astor omits to state that his
Spanish ancestors have usually doubled
the S in their name in abbreviating it.
Hut it sounds loud enough in his voice.
Snow still obstructs the railroads in
the mountains of Colorado, and dyna?
mite is freely used in aid of snow
\ shovels. In the meantime, in the East,
Ice-combines and trusts are forming
rapidly. It Is a cool spring. . I
Tho Cubans persist in assuming that |
they have licked somebody.?Washing?
ton Post.
It seems, however, that in ?Washing?
ton Post's estimation, the greatest
crime of the Cubans is that they will
not do any American boot-licking, If
they can help it.
Hang somebody for these frequent
I ocean disasters?if necessary, without
judge or jury. It will have to com? to
that, sooner or inter, and the sooner,
the fewer lives will he thus thrown
away through carelessness, or to gain
an hour or two on the "record" In cross- ]
Ing the Atlantic.
The Republican combine In Ohio
against Hanna grows larger nnd fiercer
daily. Put Hanna t ell b serenely on the
trusts that have capitalized the Repub?
lican party, not only of Ohio, but of
all the larger Northern States. Are the
Republican voters Included In the trust
deal? They should look Into the mat?
ter.
The Nebraska regiment now on duty
in the Philippines counts only 300 men,
or less, to-day. Last year it arrived at ;
Manila 1.200 strong. Put this sacrifice
of 900 men In one year from one regi?
ment has made one or two Nebraskan
officers quite notorious. Nebraska
wants glory, not pence. So we are
told.
The form of government proposed by
the American Commissioners to the Fil?
ipinos is absolute despotism so far as
they ore concerned. The President and
Military Governor are of unlimited
power; and Judges and nil are Ameri?
can, except an advisory board of "mix?
ed" Americans and Filipinos to amuse
the Filipinos, If they are to be pleased
with a rattle and tickled -with
a straw. In the forum of Intelli
i gent Justice, those men who have shap?
ed this business against the Filipinos
are guilty of the basest treachery to
man nnd the meanest crime against lib?
erty ever perpetrated.
Every rational person has a respect
for wealth and money, unless he has
some special reason to the contrary,
and his regard for the lucre, grows with
every thousand dollars added to its
merits. As the thermometer rises or
; falls with more or less ligai_u? the air,
I so one's affection expands or contracts
wth more or less money in the pockets
of the object of bis devotion. This Is
not so obvious in all persans. Some
feign an Indifference, like the cat that
has apparently fallen into profound j
slumber as she watches the mouse- |
hole; others, like the last Harrison inj
tho White House, worship Cod and
j Mammon with tin equal and nicely rcg
; ulated fcrvldlty, and are hot or cold as j
I the subject of their attentions is sane- ;
j titietl by a big hank-account, or render?
ed wick- d by the smallncss thereof.
Dtiss, (Cornelius M.) is secured and es?
timated in dollars, and is a line illus?
tration of Republican principle and
principal, if not of human nature with
pockets.
According toVthc N. V. Sun and the.
Richmond Times, it was no; until the
latter days of the 19th century that vir
tuo and wisdom found a full and per?
fect exponent ami representative?and
that in the trust! So. That is. they
say so; and on that proposition they
fi und not only the perfection of all
things controled by the trust, but the
perfectibility of human nature. Hut.? ]
suppose trusts should betray human
and other Imperfections? Suppose
they shoud not exhibit tho unalloyed
wisdom predicated of them? Or fail
In that scrupulous honesty and virtue j
, imputed to them?
"Ah. but." say the Sun nnd the Times,
with that confiding simplicity that is
so attractive and pleasing in infants,?
I "honesty is the best poli.-y; and the
i trusts will not only make all their com
' modltles >of the best materials and In
j the best manner, but will sell them at
j the lowest prices, having no competl
! tlon as thus they will profit most on
1 the smallest prices and quickest re?
turns."
All of which sounds suspiciously like
a quotation from the prospectus of the
latest swindle. Meanwhile, where is the
newly discovered land where business is
done on this policy? Whence all this
fraud and adulteratlont
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POPULAR STUDUIS IN LITERATURE.
XIV.-TOLSTOJ.
REVIEW OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE.
BY THOMA8 MARC PARROTT. PH. D.
(Princeton L'nlv? rally.)
Russian literature, like the Russian
nation, entered late into tin coated ru
lion of culture built up in v. - stern Eu?
rope. Even to-djuy it lias not wholly
sloughed oft the mark? of its barbaric
origin. ''Scratch a Russiun and you will
bud a Tartar," mys the proverb, and
even in the works of iho noblest Kite
sinn author wo find at times a primeval
wlldness, at times on abjeclness ot re
nunciution which are alike Impossible
l?> the nations of the west. Tho lute in?
troduction of Christianity, the centu?
ries of internal anarchy, the deluge ot
the Tartar Invasion. are SUtflc ? it
causes to account tor the lardy tie-,
velopmcnt of Russia. I; la not till the
reign of Pe er the Client (1633-1725) that
she definitely enters the European are?
na, nnd \\i:h Peter Russian literature
begins, for We m~y dlsrr-:?rr! I'll Hi Uly
the mars of folk lore, lege -ds. epic bal?
lads, pseudo-science, and Gr H120I0
k.v, that existed in manuscript b C ir?
itis time. These are not with nr. inter?
est as the I"...:-: ' of a barbarous and
semi-Asiatic p< iple, but from the time
of peter the Oreat, Russia in literature
as in history-, belongs to ihe western
world.
We may divide Russian literature,
beginning at this lime, into three pe?
riods: Tho first, from tin- reign of Poti r
to the second decade ? f the nineteenth
century?a period of Imitation and
would-be clnsslclsm. The second, cov?
ering about a score of yea:.-- - a period
of romanticism, Inking its tone from
England and Germany, but dealing for
the most part with Russian t:i imes.
Byron of Russia," was The descendant
'toy the mother's side of Hannibal, the
negro slave whom Peter the Great made
a Uussian noblemou. As a child he was
nourished on tho old Uussian leg. nds
and folk songs, at the same time de?
vouring the French library of Iiis fath?
er, 'l ins is typical enough of his after
life, dtstructcd between his genuine
Uussian love for simple, un?
spoiled characters and for the
wild ami gloomy aspects of
nature, and Iiis Insatiable crav?
ing ror the dissipations of a licentious
and Gallicized society, such as Tolstoi
; has described in "War and Boric ." As
1 a youth lie become Hi. tor ions for his ex
I cesses, and was banished from Court by
Alexander 1. la company with s> \ ? :?
al frit hds he Journi yed to the Caucasus,
1 and the deep impression mr.de upon him
by the wonderful in mntalii scenery
mingled with and confirmed the influ?
ence ef Byron, whose Works he now
{rend for tho llrst time. His poems ef
the next few years (182I-1S21), "The
iTisrrtrr?rri-tb,. Caucasus.rhe I :?".>
bei- Hand,.fhe Gypsies," and others.
show iriost plainly the influence of By?
ron In their n mantle and glo imy he?
roes and their tleilancc of the conven?
tionalities of society. Pushkin was re?
ceived Into Imperial favor in 1825 by
the new t'zar, Nicholas I., and at once
became the lion < f th.- literary world
of Moscow. Ii:.- drama "Boris <; ..i
n'riw" tlsttl). ti historical play modeled
after Shakespeare, raited him to the
highes! rank of Russian poets. Perhaps
his most famous wot!: i; "Eugen Ori?
gin," an autobiographical satire, com?
posed at Intervals during a period of
seven or eight years, li Is a seathing
.attack upbn Russia 1 so tit ly a:; Pushkin
knew it, diversified by humorous, ro
Tho third, nnd l>y far tho mor.: Import?
ant?a period ?'f realism, beginning with
Gogol's Cossock stories, (18:;1). nnd still
continuing In Tolstoi'n Intest t ales of
Russian peasant life.
The first period need not detain ns.
It was a period of awakening, a. Ru -
sinn renaissance. The gre.it Czar and
his followers set themselves resolutely
to the transformation of the Russian
people. The literature of the period
was the servant of the rulers of the
slate, and devoted Itself to tho realiza?
tion of their ideals, social and politl
cal. it was a literature of education,
crowded with translations and adapta?
tions from foreign tongues, ridiculing
the benlghtc 1 conservatives who still
duns to tho po. d obi ways of barbar?
ism. Bui it was a literature without
originality or national self-cons lous
ness. The Ideas Of the Kreuch philoso?
phers dominated the Intellectual life of
Russia, and the classic forms in t'n-ir
new French dress, were the solo pat?
terns of literary art.
The second period open? to the reign
of Alexander 1. The literary circles Of
Russia bad caught the passion for ro?
mance, kindled is> the eighteenth cen?
tury by tho German poets, and fanned
Into flame by the wars of the Napoleon?
ic era. Its beginning Is marked by a
flood of translations from Buerger,
Schiller. Moore and Myron. Along with
this passion for romance came the new?
ly awakened spirit of nationality?due
in great part to the roie Russia had
played In the overthrow of Napoleon,
And In the llrst original poet of the po\
riod. the first Russian poet to become
known beyond the borders of his fath?
erland, the famous and unhappy Push?
kin, both these notes are blended Into
harmony of surprising sweetness.
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), "the
I mantle anil sentimental episodes, after
the fashion of its prototype, "Don
. Jti in." Pushkin met his fate i:? a duel,
la victim to the conventions of a society
:piscd, hut was not able to rise
above.
The third period begins with Nikolai
Oogol (1S09-52). lie was by birth a
Gossai k, and after a troubled and i? ?y
crty-stricken youth, spent partly on th"
su;:..s and partly In the alleys of St.
Petersburg, he attracted the attention
of Pushkin. On the'hitter's advice he
began a series of sketches of Cossack
life, "Evenings at a Farm." Me f .1 -
lowed these with a number of s:r,rie:<
of life In the capital?tho narrow,
crushing, hopeless struggle for <;:i.s:
ence ?f the petty official, the unkn >wn
artist, and the social outcast. Along
with much that la fantastic and exag?
gerated there appears In these tales for
the first time In Russian literature a
! sense of the realities bt life. Gogol Is
'? the Russian Dickens, In a lively hu
I mor, his tendency to cnrlcatttrc nnd his
sympathy with i he poorer classes. Hlsj
j prose epic, "Tarns \$u\\ |9 the story
of the Cossack wars with Poland. His
I comedy. "The Inspect ir," :.. h fierce
i satire on the corrupt and Inefficient
bureaucracy of Russia. In hid master?
piece, the realistic novel ??!> an" S als"
(1SI2). he combined nil the qualities
that had marked his earlier work
fancy, humor, satire, and sympathy?
and adde.i to these a c ?ns ems realism
and power of characterization that
wore absolutely new. The success of
the book was Instantaneous, and its
effect upon succeeding writers Incalcu?
lable. Gogol Is the father of the Hus?
sion novel as i: exists to-day. lie said
of himself: "I have studied human life
as It really Is ?not In the dreams ot the
imagination." Gogol's realism, it must
be admitted, Is of a somewhat crude
type, uninspired by any controlling
Ideal. Such an Ideal we find in the
worlc of his successor, Dostoyevsky.
Not that the latter la untrue to life;
on the contrary, his grasp on reality
it* firmer than Gogol's own.
Feodor Dostoyevsky (1821--1881) was
born in a charity hospital In Moscow.
From his earliest years he was "a frail
bundle of Irritable nerves," subject to
epileptic attacks and horrible halluci?
nations. Jlis first novel, "Poor People,"
O?lG) attracted the attention of the
foremost critic of Russia, who saw in
him the successor of Gogol, in fact,
this first work shows Gogol's Influence
more plainly than any other. But a
new note Is struck Ik Its passionate
sympathy for human suffering, a eym
pathy tiiat extends not only to physical
ill-being, but to the deeper Borrows of
shame, disgrace, and grinding poverty,
whose bitterness had sunk deep Into
tlic author's soul. In 1819 Dostoyevsky
and a number of his friends were ar
rested on tho charge of high treason.
Aftt r eight months of almost unbroken
solitary confinement he with twenty
others was condemned to death, a sen?
tence which was commuted on the scaf?
fold to exile to Siberia. Ills crime had
been his connection with a free-thlnk
in!t nnd carclees-spoken students' club,
where I he forbidden topics of govern?
ment, tsoclcty and religion were de
bated by a group of youthful theorists,
in Sib trla Dostoyevsky spent five years
in prisui and four as a private In the
army. In the tenth he returned to
Itussln a changed man. He never com?
plained of the injustice ot his sentence,
im the contrary he thanked the Czar
who hnd saved him, so he said, from
,i course that would have ended In mad?
ness. In his prison he had pored over
the pages of the New Testament, the
one Ii allowed him. nnd had become
i sine ore convert to tire religion of aor
! iw, Buffering, and resignation. He
had discarded till his (theories of revolt
I idi ii reforms, and now preached
the passive endurance so characteristic
> t : he Uussla :i race.
l>:s flrsl work after his return, "Me-,
m Irs of a Dead House." or "Burled
Alive." is an autobiographic novel, re
counting under n thin veil of fiction his
ex| rlence I" Siberia. In the misery
? :' his . sllc he bad come to recognize
the brotherhood of man even among
tho lowest erlmlnnls, and as a result
i ? I time, as has been well said, the
poet of the proletariat, the advocate of
the dumb and helpless pariah. In I860
he published his great work. "Crime
and Punishment," "the profoundest
?'i ' eil study since Macbeth."
Faulty us the book often is?Dostoy.<v
sky was a reporter rather than an
nrtlst, nnd never revised or corrected
his . orfi Its superb grasp of character.
Its i i i found insight Into the hidden
places of t ho heart, and, above all, its
h mndli ss passion of sympathy, make
it one of the greatest novels ot ? all
times and ruccs. The keynote is struck
where tho hero falls before, the outcast
Kouya and kisses her foot. To her
led outcry, "What are you doing?
Thai ?to me!" he answers, "Not to you
lot do 1 prostrate myself, but to the
win le agony of Ihe human race." The
effect of the novel was simply over?
whelm ttu'. "All Russia was made 111
by it." and, indeed, it is not a book
lo i ? immend to readers with weak
nerven.
Dostoycvsky's later works show a
fulling off from the heights attained In
"Crime nnd Punishment." He became
a Pun-Slavlsl of the most pronnflMed
typo, nttneked with increasing bTT?r
ness all the Ideals of western civiliza?
tion, nnd denounced the political con
ccptlons of th" nihilists, against whom
hla "Possessed or Devils" (1S73) waa
directed. At the time of his death he
was. however, tho most popular author
in Russia, exerting an Influence al
il incredible to the western mind.
It Is said that lo.OuO peoplo followed
him to his grave.
Note -This study will be continued
.lime 1.
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CATES.
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weel s. a series of questions on each
.-. prepared by Professor Seymour
Raton, will be'{published in the Vlr
? - ii nn-PUot, nr.d blanks containing ths
ons v. II be furnished every sub?
scriber making application f?r same.
Two weeks will be allowed ?fter the
,. mrscs cii so, for the receipt of exnml
nation papers contatning answers.
These papers will be referred to a
! ;: ard of Examiners, who will assist
Professor Eatoh, and as soon as the
' work of examination Is complete, tho
result will be reported, and certificates
i-ru^riMo the students entitled lo them.
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