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WASHINGTON, I). C.—With a
groat wave of indignation rising in all
sections of the United States in con
demnation of the recent senate fili
buster, by which a handful of “willful
men” defeated the president’s armed
ship bill, members of the senate are
pointing to the incident as affirmative
proof that the vast majority in con
gress and throughout the nation, have
sturdily refused to be swayed by the
secret activities of pro-Germanism in
the country’s midst.
It is established beyond controver
sy, in, the thought of some senators,
that the filibuster was unquestionably
a manifestation of the German influ
ence, working through unguarded
channels. For three months the
mails and wires to the capitol have
been congested with a flow of let
ters and telegrams which the wary
and alert immediately traced to the
propaganda.
This activity reached the office of
every senator and representative,
chiefly in the form of a peace plea,
clothed in the counterfeited garments
of “Americanism.” Most vigorous
pressure was brought to bear, this
bureau learns, upon members repre
senting states having large German
populations. Yet only4 a few yielded
to its influence, it is observed.
One senator tells this bureau that
during the final days of the recent
congress fully 1)8 per cent of the mail
received in his office was readily
traceable to the pro-German move
ment. This senator represents a
large German constituency, but he
said that upon reflection and analysis
he established, to his own conviction,
that it was not the will of the people
that was thus demanding his atten
tion. It was, he said, the propaganda.
“The trouble with the handful of
men upon whom the burden of de
feating the armed ship bill has been
placed,” said the senator, “is that
they did not thoroughly analyze the
situation, to learn what was behind
the flood of mail that poured into
their offices. They were moved by
the pacifist element in the nation.
But the pacifists who were most ac
tive against the armed neutrality
proposition were those who u'ere paci
fists because they were Germans, or
German sympathizers.”
There is to be found a deep con
sciousness at the capitol concerning
the subtle influence that today, more
than ever, is being brought to bear
upon weak spots in yie national
structure. Even though the senate is
the only branch of congress now sit
ting, the peace-at-any-price represen
tatives are still seen in the corridors
of the capitol, urging their claims on
those who will listen.
It is fully realized that the German
propaganda, with its plotting and
bursts of violence and destruction, is
hard at work, notwithstanding that
the official German representatives in
the United States have been sent back
to Europe by the diplomatic break
with the German imperial govern
ment.
The foundation, it is observed, has
been wdll laid, and it remains for the
country, government and people, to
thwart attempts to imperil the na
tional existence.
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RUSSIA AS
TOLD IN BRIEF
I
The history of Russia may be di
| vided into four periods: (1) The
! period of independent principalities,
I (2) the Mongol domination, (3) the
Tsnrdom of Muscovy and (4) the
i modern empire. Names of rulers and
j dates of notably events are appended:
863—Three brothers, princes of
Rus, called Rurik, Sineus and Trevour,
founded ^ dynasty, from which many
I of the Russian princes of the present
j day claim descent.
1054-1224—Sixty-four principali
; ties had a more or less ephemeral ex
! istence.
1238-1462—Mongol domination.
1380—Dimitri Dogskoi’s coalition
of Russian princes and freedom from
Tartar control.
1462-1584—Tsardom of Muscovy;
Ivan III, surnamed the Great; his
son Basil and his grandson, Ivan IV,
known as “Ivan the Terrible.”
1584-1598—Theodore I; beginnings
of serfdom and creation of the patri
archate. %
1598-1605—Boris Godunov.
1605- 1606—Di mitri.
1606- 1610—Basil Shulski.
1610—Pseudo-Demetrius II.
1613—Accession of House of Roma
nov.
1613-1645—Michael.
1645-1676—Alexius.
1667—Treaty of Andrussovo, by
which middle course of the Dnieper
became frontier between Russia and
Poland.
1676-1682—Theodore III.
1682-1689—Sophia Alexeyevna, Re
gent, Ivan V, and Peter as Tsar con
jointly.
1689-1725—Peter the Great, whose
two main objects were external secur
ity and internal progress; taxation
made universal; toleration extended
to all except the Jews; much done to
promote education, especially of a
practical sort; currency reformed;
ukase issued (1702) that all houses be
built of brick instead of wood; old ;
alphabet simplified; no improvement!
too small for attention of Tsar; new
law of succession introduced; parti
tioning of real estate abolished and
custom of primogeniture begun; all
officers of army and their children
after them declared to be noble and
entitled to patents of nobility; devel
opment of country’s latent resources;!
Muscovite capital, where many influ
ential personages were hostile to the
Tsar’s innovations, abandoned, and
the beginning at the mouth of the
Neva of a new capital which was to
serve as “a window through which
his people might 'ook !nto Europe;'
laying aside of :hc rational title of
Tsar and the pioc'.inning of himself
as emperor of ali Russia.
1725-1727—Catherine I.
1727-1730—Peter li.
1730-1740—Anne: a regime of me
thodical German despotism on lines
laid down by her ui.<■«', Peter th»>
Great.
17-41—Ivan IV.
1741-1761—Elizabeth; German ele
ment relegated to subordinate uos.
tion.
1762-1796—Catherine II; Russia
made rapid progress and came to be
known as one of the Great Powers;
Poland absorbed; Bosphorus and Dar
danelles opened to Russian merchant
vessels (1774).
1796-1801—Paul.
1801-1825—Alexander I; some of
more oppressive measures of previous
reign abolished; chief antagonist of
Napoleon (1812-1815). t
1825- 1855—Nicholas I; crushed Po
lish insurrection in 1831 with great
severity; created a very strict press
censorship and an expensive system
of passports; while he maintained au
tocratic methods, he promoted indus
tries and commerce.
1826— Convention of Akerman; au
tonomy of Moldavia, Wallachia and
Serbia confirmed; free passage of the
straits secured to Russia for merchant
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ships, and disputed territory on Asi
atic frontier annexed.
1827—Nicholas signed with Eng
land and France the Treaty of Lon
don for the solution of the Greek ques
tion by the mediation of the powers.
1829—Treaty signed by which the
Porte ceded to Russia the islands at
the mouth of the Danube, and grant
ed full liberty to Russian navigation
and commerce in the Black sea.
1855-18&1—Alexander II; “the ep
och of the great reforms”; emancipa
tion of serfs, thorough reorganization
of the judicial administration and
development of local self-government
—rise of nihilism.
1881-1894 — Alexander III; new
rules enacted by which Jewish sub -
jects were heavily handicapped in ed
ucation and professional advance
ment; complete Russification of all
non-Russian populations and institu
tions the chief aim of the government
in home affairs; tendency toward an
alliance with France to create a coun
terpoise against the Triple Alliance
of Germany, Austria and Italy.
1894—Nicholas II; cordial under
standing with France strengthened by
formal secret agreement; expansion
stimulated by construction of trans
Siberian railway; initiated peace con
ference at The Hague.
1904— War with Japan and defeat
of Russia.
1905— Treaty of Portsmouth.
1906— First Duma opened by His
Majesty in person.
1907— Electoral law modified by im
perial ukase.
1914—Outbreak of great European
war; Duma convened on July 26 and
pledged its full support for the de
fense of the fatherland.
War News
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and entertainments, also club rooms
and offices on the upper floor. Call on
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SPOTLESS PUCE
PORT SAID, Egypt, March 23.—
When the war broke out Port Said
held the reputation, as indeed it had
held from time immemorial, of being
the wickedest city of the globe. Into
this port the flotsam and jetsam of the
underworld drifted from all parts of
the universe. Here every type of vice
imaginable was represented. But to
day, after thirty months of military
rule, the “Sinkhole of the East” is
well nigh a model city, the iron hand
of the army having cleaned it up as no
other power could have done.
That street of international notori
ety, Rue Babel, so named because of
the many languages spoken by its in
habitants, has ceased to thrive as the
leader in the world’s iniquity.
Flogging is one of the most effective
punishments used to meet the situa
tion in Port Said, and it is no nursery
chastisement that is meted out by the
military authorities.
WEATHER OBSERVER
IS LOOKING AROUND
(Seward Gateway.)
M. B. Summers, head of the Alaska
department of the U. S. weather bu
reau with headquarters at Juneau, ar
rived on the Admiral Watson to look
over the equipment and manner of ex
amining the instruments for observa
tion and the correctness of the re
ports of observers at the stations lo
cated around Seward. Also stations
will be located at mile 52 and at
Roosevelt for the purpose of authori
tative records to be placed in all public
libraries and colleges in the states for
reference in regard to climatic condi
tions expected to be used by home
seekers. It will also aid in helping
people to see that Alaska is not a
snowbound country all the year round.
Mr. Summers will visit the Cook In
let country when through with his
work around Seward.
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