[19] Such declarations on the part of Russian authorities, who are noted for their oppression of foreign nationalities,—the Poles, the Germans of the Baltic provinces, and the Jews,—strike one as both amusing and artless. The Russian government, which has oppressed its own subjects for centuries, and which has never protected the Malo-Russians in Poland, the Latishi in the Baltic provinces, nor the Russian peasants, of whom all sorts of people have taken advantage for hundreds of years, suddenly becomes a champion of the oppressed, of the very same people whom it still continues to oppress.
[20] Matt. xxiv. 3-28.
[21] Matt. xxiv. 36.
[22] Matt. xxiv. 43; xxv. 1—13, 14-30.
[23] 1892.—Tr.
[24] 1893.
[25] Attorney-General.
[26] House of the rural communal government.
[27] Elders.
[28] In Moscow.