Poor Russia.- by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 29, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 48.

Poor Russia.—

By Editor

It is impossible to give our readers in a note any adequate idea of the particulars or details of the awful revolution which is sweeping over the Russian Empire. The Russian government had hardly congratulated itself over the so-called diplomatic victory won over Japan, when the pent up fires of revolution and revolt broke out and have extended from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok. A professed Christian state is a theater of wild barbaric savagery. In a score of cities mad, drunken, superstitious mobs, egged on by police and government officers in cases not a few, have burned and pillaged and killed like wild, mad brutes. Thousands upon thousands of Jews have been wounded, maltreated, and robbed of every earthly possession. Thousands have been killed. Some women and maidens have suffered that which is worse than death. One paper remarks: “Even the hands of the Russian clergy are not clear of blood.” Troops have actually been withdrawn to allow the mad mobs to work their own wicked will. Under pressure, the Czar has made great concessions, to be carried out under the present autocratic regime. The whole world hailed his liberal program. But disaffection is in army and navy, and present indications are that the mad populace, which know nothing of self-government, will not stop till the revolution in the government is complete. Russia is now reaping her sowing of tyranny, oppression, and ignorance, a double tyranny of state and church.