To the Editor of the "Nowri-Cuiwa Dany News."
Sm—That there are White Russians in Shanghai who yearn for the resuscitation of monarchy. in their country is quite evident from the letters published in your today's issue,—"Nichevo" and. Capt. A. E. N, Howard are hope-Teasly in the minority when they imagine that they can secure the sympathy of the world for the! late Tearistic regime. The wheel of civilization should not be turned. backward especially when that ferud and barbaric regime of Russian tyranny had ended. Your two correspondents try to, pal fine picture of the late regime, Capt. Howard id Into Tsar and condenins the idealists" who were the only endowed with a Cision to their country. I hope no one would be deluded by such sophism and clever propagandist like Mr. Howard, The students of history need not be told that monarchistic Russia had ruled her people not only with 2 rod of iron, that he Into Tsar was a Pharaoh, that the bureaucracy were the mob and that those we have been the Tenders of the mob were in hisch knout, not by law.
No' one resueded monarchist Russia as a civilized Power. She} was positively behind the civilized That which was tolerated and considered 1 [in the Middle Ages represented the standard of civilization in Russia, as) far as the leaders and the bulk of the people were concerned. Since 1882, the progressive spirit in that} jecuntry ceased. With the assassima. ion of Alexander Il, there came to the throne, a brute la human form, Alexander Ill, a reactionary of the worst type. The oppressive, tyran nical, and villainous laws of 1804 Jwere' renewed and new laws, those Jof May 2, 1SR2, put into operat These laws cannot be carpossed Jeruelty, and for Jwere brought. into operation by the fancy of the king and his agent, [ignatict®. But worse was yet to come when Ignatieff died and Pobiedonoszelf was appointed the head of the Holy Syndod; for while Ignatio® was a tyrant, Pobie-Jdnosseff added to tyranny the role grand inquisitor.
Consideration for your space pre-[vonts me from writing farther, but 'T hope to win your scaders to the ing to them to turn deaf cars to such adept propagandists like Nichevo" and Capt. Howard who try to make them belive that the late Tsar was a paragon of virtue, The best salvation of Russia is for anew Tolstoy to appear on the scone, "Mentor" was right when he said in your issue of July 21 last:—Such a dictator.will regenerate his country and bring order out of chaos. The new Tolstoy will be the symbol of New Russia who would lead back the people on the path lof virtue, rectitude and henevolen Tam, ete, Gana.
Shangh
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