The dram-shop keeper wants the law enforced against the man who robs his cash-drawer, but thinks he has a right to break the law requiring his saloon to close on Sunday.
The burglar detests the law-breaking of the trust, but considers the statute against housebreaking as an interference with his personal liberty.
Governor Folk thinks that King Graft has just about come to the end of his reign:
Wealth is not worshiped with the same devotion it used to be. A new standard has been established; new, yet old—just honesty; that is all. The remedy for corruption has been found in the hearts of the American people.
RUSSIA WILL ADVANCE, SAYS LEWIS NIXON.
With the Birth of Democracy and Industrialism,
a New Day Will Dawn
For the Great Slavonic People.
Lewis Nixon, who has been suggesting plans for the reconstruction of the Russian navy, believes that democracy is the proper medicine for the Czar's distracted country. The people have been dwarfed by despotism, he says, but they are now making wonderful progress in manufacturing and opening up their enormous country. In a recent interview, Mr. Nixon says:
Russia needs two things to enable her to feed the rest of Europe—cheap money and cheap transportation.
With railroad enterprise, such as that of J.J. Hill, lower Russia and southwestern Siberia could raise wheat for the world. But I believe that with the adoption of the new idea of participation of the people in the government so sincerely determined upon by the emperor, Russia will settle down to tranquilly building up the empire and developing the arts of peace instead of the arts of war.
The great difficulty in the Russian form of government is to find great men equal to the task of carrying it on. Public life, as we know it, has not existed there.