Postscript 



JUST at the closing of the printers' work on 

 this, book cablegrams from Petrograd came to us 

 day and night with the startling revelation of a 

 great revolution overtaking the Russian Govern- 

 ment under the inspiration of a people believing 

 that their day of redemption from a monarchial 

 government has come. Upheld as they were by 

 the Duma, Czar Nicholas peacefully surrendered 

 his crown and decamped. 



Never in the world's history has there been so 

 great a triumph of democracy over aristocracy, 

 of republicanism over a Kingdom with so little 

 sacrifice of human life. 



The Czar's quick, peaceful abdication of his 

 throne, his unavoidably by hereditament, is evi- 

 dence of a head and heart inherited from his 

 father, Alexander the Third. 



It is well known that the revolt was the resultant 

 of the conviction that the Czar had purposed a 



separate treaty of peace with Germany. 



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