PREFACE. IX 



Russia has within its vast area resources that should 

 make its future as promising as the future of the 

 United States. The development of the country 

 from this time forward offers a field of profound 

 speculation for prophetic statesmen and political seers. 

 That a nation of 120,000,000 people, chiefly Caucasians, 

 are to be kept in bondage forever is out of the question. 

 Hopeless as the outlook seems at present for the 

 masses of the Russian people, all history teaches that 

 the day of their emancipation will, sooner or later, 

 come. The best solution of the situation that could 

 be hoped for, would, perhaps, be a progressive and 

 liberal Czar, who would have sufficient courage and 

 energy to give the country a constitutional govern- 

 ment, a free press, and religious liberty. If this be too 

 long delayed, and the autocracy should survive the 

 fall of European militarism, which is inevitable, civili- 

 zation will develop an " age of humanitarianism " 

 when the American, the Englishman, the Frenchman, 

 and the Teuton, will recognize the Russian as a 

 brother, and see to it that he is relieved of his shackles. 



The Author. 



