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at once, otherwise the new Republic is likely to have 

 its baptism of blood Anabaptist fashion by immer- 

 sion, rather than by sprinkling. It is a thing almost 

 inconceivable that in the immutable East a dynasty 

 two hundred and fifty years old should vanish like the 

 legendary spectre at cock-crow. The revolutionary 

 delegates at Nanking, without waiting for the national 

 conference which was to decide the question of the 

 future Constitution, have taken the law into their 

 own hands, and have elected Sun Yat Sen first Presi- 

 dent of the Chinese Republic. It is to be hoped that 

 this will not be a case of more haste less speed. 



No one has ever accused me of 



The Jew anti-Semitism. I owe too much 



as 

 the Enemy to the authors of the Old and New 



°^ Testaments to be other than eter- 



nally grateful to the Jews. I am 

 therefore all the more bound to warn my Jewish 

 friends that they may give a dangerous impetus to 

 the anti-Semitic movement if they persist in sub- 

 ordinating the interests of the general peace to the 

 pursuit of their vendetta with Russia, It is of course 

 easy to understand, and even to a large extent to 

 sympathise with the savage and relentless deter- 

 mination of the Jew to get even with the Russian, 

 no matter how, by embroiling other nations, no 

 matter which, hi disputes with Russia. But it is a 

 dangerous game. For it suggests that the Jew, even 

 when he is treated with perfect equality and admitted 

 to all the privileges of citizenship, is still a Jew, 

 first, last, and all the limp, and one who, whenever the 

 occasion arises, can be relied upon to sacrifice the 

 interests of his adopted country to the avenging of 

 the wrongs of Israel. The peace of Asia depends 

 upon good relations being maintained between Russia 

 and the two great English-speaking States. But both 

 in England and in America we find the Jewish 

 element active in promoting discord. In England 

 the prete,\t is Persia, but in America the cause of the 

 Jew is put forward without disguise. In both 

 countries the Jew is the most zealous, the most 

 dangerous ally of all who seek to embroil the English- 

 speaking world in war with Russia. They have fish 

 of their own to fry, no doubt. But they must not 

 expect us to like their attempt to burn down our 

 house in order to fry their fish. 



Cf all nations in the world the 



Americans United States and the Russians 



and have been the most friendly. The 



the Russians. . i i .■ <■ .1 



proposed celebration of the peace 



of 181 5 is in itself a reminder of Aiiglo-.American con- 

 flict within the last hundred years. 15ut Riissians and 



.Vmericans have never fought. Russia sold Alaska 

 to the United States for a song, and when PIngland 

 and France were threatening to recognise the Con- 

 federacy a Russian fleet appeared at New York as the 

 outward and visible sign of the sympathy of the Tsar 

 with the cause of the Union, Now, however, it 

 would seem the Jews have changed all that. In place 

 of peace and amity and friendly relations, America is 

 to be launched upon a commercial war with the 

 Russian Government. Both Houses of Congress have 

 approved of the abrogation of the Treaty of Commerce 

 between America and Russia which has governed the 

 commercial relations of the two countries since 1832. 

 The Russians forbid the free entry into the Russian 

 Empire of the Jews, just as the Americans forbid the 

 free entry of the Chinese into America, Many Jews 

 are American citizens, and many Chinese are subjects 

 of Russia, But whereas Russia acquiesces in the exclu- 

 sion of her Chinese subjects from America, Americans 

 object to the exclusion of American Jews from Russia. 

 As Russia refuses to open her doors to those^vhom 

 she regards as undesirable immigrants, the Americans 

 have denounced their Treaty of Commerce with 

 Russia, and the Duma, taking up the challenge, 

 have responded by resolutions menacing a tariff war 

 with a preliminary duty on American imports of 

 100 per cent. 



The hopes that were expressed in 

 Retrogression yonie quarters that the administra- 

 Russia. tion of M. KokofftsefT would be 



more liberal than that of M, 

 Stolypin have been rudely disappointed. What may 

 be described as the Unionist policy in Finland, as 

 opposed to the Home Rule policy under which 

 Finland prospered so much before the coming of , 

 Bobrikoff, is being carried out as relentlessly by 

 .M, Kokofftseff as In- his predecessor. This is unfor- 

 tunate for Finland, but doubly unfortunate for Russia, 

 which has enough troubles on hand without wantonly 

 arousing the fears of the Finns, who are only too 

 ready to suspect their powerful neighbour of still 

 more heinous design.s upon th.iir independence. 

 There is not, I am assured, any truth in the monstrous 

 story that Russia meditates forcing the manufacture 

 and sale of vodka upon the temperate Finns. That 

 would be an outrage ( omparable only to the war by 

 which Britain thrust opium upon the Chinese. The 

 reduction of the Education vote, in order to provide 

 the funds for the contribution to the military expendi- 

 ture of the Russian Empire, is a melancholy but 

 striking illustration of the sacrifice of culture to 

 militarism. It cannot be to Russia's interest to 



