The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCTOBER 9, 1903. RUSSIA’S HYPOCRISY.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1017, 9 October 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCTOBER 9, 1903. RUSSIA’S HYPOCRISY.

The clever writer “ Toliunga,” in the" Auckland Herald, has an excellent article, touched with line sarcasm, on the "subject of “Philanthropic Russia.” We need no longer worry oursqlves as to whether Mr Chamberlain’s scheme would, destroy the Umpire or not, nor asi to whether he has met his “ Waterloo” or has only resorted to the Fabian tactics that proved Hannibal’s road to ruin with empty victories. The last word has beeii spoken. Holy Russia claps her manacled hands at his “ fall.” The White Tsar allows his censored press to inform' us that “ the world has thus been rid of the principal elements against European peace.” Wherefore to your dens, ye Britishers ! If Russia is satisfied, if the Tsar is pleased, who would question ?. For do wq not’ all know that Holy Russia repre-

sents the hope of mankind, and that the Tsar is the benevolent despot of whom wise men have dreamed, and for whom the world has waited.

“ European Peace !” Ah, how dear it is to Russia,! How she has toiled for ft all " these centuries, since first the chief of 'Little Russia realised the use to he made of a

priest and the persuasive eloquence of the knout ! Ten generations ago (on both sides of the Baltic) were wretched Teutonic States, kindred

of ours, i who actually believed in sel

•goverance, and that if a man wanted to say something he had a right to say it. They presented a sturdy •barrier to the barbarian tribes that

[stretched from them to China. They fought those tribes whenever they Came westward on the warpath of Attila and Genghis Khan. Between whiles they fought one another—which is where they made the mis-

take. They reckoned without Little Russia, which raided and churched and knouted her way until today the peace of the Tsar reigns from the Baltic to Behring Straits, and there is not one troublesome institution, called of freedom, east of the Baltic.

For peace,, dejait friends,, uonl'y for •peace ! Is not the Prince of Peace enthroned above the Tsar, and does not the Tsar rule in that Prince’s name?' From every orthodox altar it is proclaimed, and woe betide him who dares to worship at another. It is proclaimed in every newspaper whose editor does not contemplate with enthusiasm the trundling of a wheelbarrow, to him chained, along the frozen petals' that run, out iin Siberia. It is proclaimed in every book that the Russian hook-dealer mar sell or the Russian hook-reader buy. It is told by every man and woman in Muscovy, who arc disinclined to emigrate to Polar regions, flogged along the way like the ungrateful dogs they would be. Peace, dear friends ! peace ! Russia lias made it over half the Eurasian con-

t-Knent, and when' the world is ri'd of the Chamberlains she will make it over the remainder—and over all oilier continents as well. For Russia is wise, as the Finlanders have found out —those! miserable Finlanders who preferred their laws and their courts and their institutions to the serving of the Prince of Peace, by his mouthpiece, the Tsar. They were like us, these Finlanders, far nearer akin lo the Englishman than the French-Cana-tlian, for they spoke a low Dutch dialect, and worshipped the Ctod of J.uther ; they had fair hair and blue eyes, and tlie refugees that have fled from the Russian peace to An-glo-Saxon lands will melt into our nation, in a single generation, as the river melts into the sea. Only they would not melt into the Russian. They were fool enough to think that the ruled have rights as well as the ruler, .that God Speaks as! much', f-oi the layman as to the priest, that although another flag waved over them than waved over their grandfathers, that they had not therefore lost what they stupidly termed the “ inherent rights ”of men. So Russia crushed them. And there is peace to-day in Finland as once in Warsaw—the peace that can come to an individual when a steam-hammer hits him, and to a weak people wnen they meet alone the clenched hand of the iTsar.” The writes, continues _ Peace ! You have it in Russia. From the Baltic to Behring Straits, from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea, there is peace unbroken. The voice that dares to speak unbidden is choked. The hand that dares to lift unbidden is cut off. The mind that dares to think the free man’s thought must cover itself with hypocrisy and cover itself well. And tilt; champion of this Russian peace —the God-sent autocrat—who speaks and uphands and thinks for a hundred million barbarians, eyes the rest of Europe, the rest of the frvorld in the firm, belief that it fs his mission to shroud the entire earth in the gloom of it. Chamberlain s “ fall ” be fcells to he a good-rid-dance. An Englishman has gone from office who was “ one of the principal elements against European peace.” Therefore, let ns rejoice 1 The Russian day is coming near in which there shall be no more struggling for progress, no inorp war for our British national ideas. European peace ! Where the Tsar rules there is .peace, there and there alone Tumultuous workmen have the insolence to he dissatisfied with their wages and hours—the Cossacks (whip in hand) ride them down ; if this does not pacify and content, try the sword, hall-cartridge, grape, in the Tsar’s name !' Unenterprising employers want to discuss strange things—give them leisure at Saghalien, amid whose horrors all men go mad 1. Meetings, petitions, resolutions’ protests! Nip in the bud every stirring of the sap in Freedom’s tree ! And so—peace ! W tli every man a conscript to extend by the sword the black peace of the White Tsar. And Chamberlain was the enemy of this, so much the enemy that Russia rejoices at his “ fall,” and the Tsar 'rubs his hands with satisfaction. What a wicked Chamberlain d Should 1 lie not be handed over to the Russian to be torn asunder with wild horses in the old Tartary fashion ? Would not the good kind Tsar like to knout him with his own Royal hands, or to build a special snow-hut oil the Old wherein to cool the Englishman s ardor ? For if Mr Chamberlain lives, lie may return to office, and then “ the disturbers of European peace ” will once more trouble the plans of Holy Russia. As it is, however, Russia need not despair. Like the trans-Baltic Germans, the British are too much occupied in squabbling and bickering over the way to spell “ right ” to interfere as they might with the spread of Russian peace. It is true that Chamberlain would most wickedly have solided us up, have made the British Empire an organised whole, instead of a cumbrous mass of hardly coherent atoms. That would have hurt Russia by strengthening enormously the. tottering system of free nationality,, which, to the Muscovite, is anathema maranatha. But we are. not going to let him do it too easily. The man who would persuade his countrymen to buy New Zealand butter instead of Siberian, to support their New ‘Zealand kindred rather than the, serfs of. the White Tsar is as much condemned by some of his own as ever a Tartar could curse him.

An adjourned meeting of the Harbor Board will be held to morrow afternoon. A special meeting of the Borough Council is to bo hold to-night on the subject of amalgamation. East Capo reported yesterday : —“ N.E. fresh breeze, bnromotor 30-29, thermometer 56, gloomy weather, sea moderate.” Captain Edwin tolegraphod yesterday ' “ Strong winds to galo from between north-east and oast and south, glass fall, tides high, sea heavy outside, heavy rain.”

A meeting of supporters of amalgamation is to be held at half-past four this afternooD, in tho Borough Council Chambers.

Little Gulliver, of the Sheridan Company, who is 34 yeart of age, and only stands 4ft high, causes screams of laughter with his absurdities and eccentric dancing. The Timaru Harbor Board has increased the salary of its harbormaster (Captain Clarkson) from £3OO to £350 a year, with free house. While a youth named John Bowe was leading a horse attached to a loaded dray at Collingwoad, Victoria, he slipped and fell, and the wheel crushed him to death. In order to givo country people an opportunity of attending the production of “ A Trip to Chicago ” by the Sheridan Company on Tuesday night, arrangements have been made with the railway authorities for a special train to leave town at 10.45 p.m, The Auckland Herald says : —Mr Sheridan in “ The Lady Slavey ” created a sensation in a marvellously rapid change into

the character of a kilted Scotchman. This was so quickly done that it could scarcely be followed with the eyo. It evoked storms of laughing applause. At the Theatre Royal last ovening the

Italian Band, which is at present in Gisborno, kindly volunteered its services and played several dances. The visitors intend to give a sacred concert in the Recreation Ground on Sunday afternoon, when no doubt there will be a largo attendance.

Avery enjoyable dance was held in the Theatre. Royal last evening. Upwards of fifty couples were present, and a programme of twenty dances was gone through. Mrs Fernandez officiated at the piano, and the music was of a high order. The floor was in excellent order, and everything passed off satisfactorily. Mr W. Webb performed the duties of M.C. in an efficient manner. After payment of expenses the Committee intend to hand tho balance to tho Cook Memorial Fund. Tho following team has been chosen to represent the combined Lodges against the Druids and Hibernians at football tomorrow,- afternoon: Pettie, Delamere, Pollock, Coleman, Wilson, Ball, J. Hay, A. D. Sherriff, Williams, Freer, Hansen, Taylor, Gray, Watson, Webb; emergencies, Grinlinton, Dobson,Wallace, Bennott, W. Kennedy, Donkin, Nicol, Hickey, and McConnell.

The following civil cases were disposed of by Mr Barton, S.M., yesterdayA. M. Lewis (Mr Blair) v. James Kelly, claim £2 11s, judgment by default with costs £1 14s ; Primrose and Leslie v. Matene Kaipau, claim £3 17s 6d, judgment for plaintiffs by default with £1 ‘2s costs ; same ,y. Ereata Bangiwhaitiri, claim £3 3s, judgment for plaintiff by consent with costs 12s ; same v. Turanga Hinaki, claim £1 2s 6d, judgment for plaintiffs with costs 17s; J. D. Harries v. T. N. Andrew, claim 11s 6d, judgment for plaintiff by default with costs ss; A. H. Giliman (Mr Blair) v. Moki Tamaha, claim £7 7s lOd, judgment for plaintiff by default, with costs £ll7s 6d,

A range-breaker is being constructed at the present time in Tirnaru Harbor. Carpenters are wanted in Christchurch at lls 6d a day, and first-class plasterers at 12s 6d a day. The Christchurch City Council gives each of its four inspectors £5 per annum as a bicycle allowance. During 1902, 175 patients (120 males and 55 females) died in the various lunatic asylums of the colony. A meeting held at Launceston, presided over by the Mayoress, has decided to form a Woman’s Suffrage Association. The Queensland Agricultural Department is inquiring into the question of a glut in the market for Cape gooseberries. Recently Miss Staines, of Sunny Corner, New South Wales, was bitten by a snake on the hand, and died from the effects. A. Helm, licensee of the West Clive Hotel, was fined £i 10s on each of two charges of Sunday trading, the license also to be endorsed.

Mr W. F. Naylor, of Nelson, has been appointed organist and choirmaster of Napier Cathedral. There were fourteen applications.

At the Stannary Hills mine, Maruba, North Queensland, two men were seriously injured owing to a defect in the gear for lowering the bucket. The Wairarapa Age reports that the kumara is gradually winning its way into public favor as a vegetable. This is good news, because this taber is not only palatable, but health-giving.

Late the other night a man Darned Joseph Chaffe, watchman on hoard the Union Steamship Company’s steamer Manapouri, at Newcastle, fell down through the hunker batch and fractured his right thigh. It is intended that those who came out

to New Zealand by the ship Brother s Pride, which arrived at Lyttelton in 1863, shall celebrate the fortieth anniversary of

that event by a reunion in Christchurch on December 9.

Leaving Krugersdorp for Johannesburg to be married, a young lady was saying good-bye to her friends on the railway platform, when she overbalanced and fell on the line in front of a passing train, which killed her.

Mr Akers Douglas, the Homo Secretary! declared at a meeting held at Lambeth Palace for the purpose of inaugurating a fund to assist volun'a.y schools in the diocese, that education under the board schools was dangerous to the country.

While making preparations for his wedding on the following day in Berlin, a man was cleaning a revolver, which was to be fired during the festivities, when it suddenly went off, killing his fiancee on the spot.

■At Masterton the Railway Department requires cab-drivers plying to the station for hire to take out a license and pay a fee, but the magistrate lias decided that the Department has not statutory authority, for doing so.

It was stated at a meeting of the Christchurch Hospital Board recently, in reference to the appointment of a collector, that last year only !£927 had been received from patients while the expenses of treatment amounted to £10,500. Primitive Methodists, meeting in conference at Newcastle (Eng,), adopted a recommendation against the appointment of anyone to an official position in their body who is engaged in the liquor trade, or holds shares in a company engaged in that business.

Columbia University, New York, has acquired a largo collection of anarchist documents, printed and manuscript, including the death warrant of the late President Carnot, and announcements of attacks against most of the rulers of Europe.

On arriving home at night, Henry Grainger, of Winsted, U.S., found a tramp asleep in his bed, He tied the intruder down with ropes, and then went for the police. Tho man was struggling desperately under the bedclothes when arrested.

After undergoing a severe oral examination over the telephone, Percival Fansler, an engineor, of St, Louis, U.S., had a degree conferred upon him by Purdue Universty. He was unable to reach the examination room on account of floods.

Stops arc being taken to erect swimming baths in Masterton, to be available both for the public and the school children. They are to be 150 ft by 50 ft, with dressing-rooms, hot and cold shower baths, and other conveniences which will make the baths equal to any in the colony, the cost being £OOO.

It is reported that an expert of considerable American experience has been engaged in making an examination of the Christchurch roads with a view of establishing a motor-car service between Kumara and Springfield. He asserts that the road is an ideal one for motoring, and passengers leaving- Kumara 'after the arrival of an early .Greymouth train would he landed at Springfield in ample time to catch the afternoon train to Christchurch the same day. People who know the West Coast road are curious to see the motorcars which can negotiate, as the coach does, the Waimakariri in flood.

The Government railway servants in the Wellington district are still very sore over tho issue of the regulations prescribing that in future those men belonging to the second division (drivers, firemen, platelayers, etc.) shall only receive second-class passes over the Government lines, steerage tickets when travelling by steamer, and half' pay only after tho end of the first week when they are laid up through accidents. Action is being taken by the Executive of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, with a view of having the objectionable regulation abolished, or considerably modified. Tho Chamber of the House of Representatives nowadays represents a bull fight. The last encounter was between Toreadors Hogg and Rutherford and the Premier (the Premier is always the bull). The Government had been advertising in Great Britain some two millions of acres of first-class land in this colony, as a happy homo for British emigrants. The Toreadors wanted to know where

this first-class land was, and all the Premier could do was to “ charge ” them boldly. “ Let the world know,” ho cried, “ the glorious opportunities there were in

this colony.” We fancy that these glorious opportunities in New Zealand are specially reserved tor politicians; and that the emigrant who embraced them by taking up a hundred acres or so of inaccessible

fourth-class land might be disappointed.— Wairarapa Daily Times. The wretched manner in which a family lived on the gumfields, at Takapuna, almost with sight of Auckland, was described in the Police Court, when Mr Brabant, S.M., was asked to order the three illegitimate children of a woman named Swanbeck, aged eight years, five years, and 18 months respectively, to bo sent to an industrial school. On the testimony of a Takapuna storekeeper they lived with their mother aDd a gumdigger in a sack whare, measuring about 6 by 8 feet, and not fit to keep out the rain and wind. The storekeeper frequently h ad to pass tho whare and had never seen tho children properly clothed or clean. The man earned 12s to 16s per week, which was not sufficient to keep the children and. the woman. Miss Porter, who had inquired into the case on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, said tho mother frequently went almost mad with temper, and the children’s screams, the neighbors said, could be heard for miles. Tho height of the whare was the height of an ordinary sack. Constable Millar, Devonport, said the occupants were wet through when he visited tho whore, and they had no change of clothing. A few branches of ti-tree served as a bed, and that morning when he again visited them, he found the children lying in a pool of water with a blanket underneath them. The mother had a bad reputation, and wa3 believed to have occasional fits of insanity. “ Only telling lies about me,” was the mother’s comment. ,l Who can take care of the children better than their mother?” she asked. His Worship supplied the answer by ordering them to be sent to the industrial school.