Every time that the Russian people of our day have attempted to revindicate their rights, the reactionaries have used the Kaiser as a threat, proclaiming that he would come to their aid.

One-half of the Russian aristocracy is German; the functionaries who advise and support despotism are Germans; German, too, are the generals who have distinguished themselves by massacring the people; German are the officials who undertake to punish the laborers' strikes and the rebellion of their allies.

The reactionary Slav is brutal, but he has the fine sensibility of a race in which many princes have become Nihilists.

He raises the lash with facility, but then he repents and oftentimes weeps.

I have seen Russian officials kill themselves rather than march against the people, or through remorse for slaughter committed.