The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 10, 1917, Page 8

- sees, mo her domineering Chargeter. The photograph shows the stars and stripes floating in the euaow of gL, liament, over Westminister Bridge across the Thames. “Big Ben,” as thé Sammies march past the Houses of Par- PASPUTIN SCANDAL AND GZARINA'S GERMAN LEAKINGS BROUGHT ON THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, SAYS CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL Every Royal Family in Europe Is Filled Wi Filled With German Blood, and 4 German Is Always a German Generally Speaking, Writer Delcares This is another of the series of ,articles by Charles Edward Rus- “sell, staff writer of Phe Tribune, who has -just returned from Rus- sia, where he spent three months as a member of the.ofniciai United States commission to the new Russian government. By CHARLES EOWARO RUSSELL. (Copyright, 1917, by the Newspaper Enterprt Ansociation.) “What I shonld like to see,” said a sturdy American one day at.'dinnoi in the Winter Palace, ‘is aa interna- tional law absolutely forbidding any German prince or princess to marry anybody outside of Germany, heace- forth and forever.” He plumped this out in the midst of a pause in the conversation so that everybody got the full wallop" of it. Our English guests naturally looked unhappy and made no com ment. hut the rest of the taole ap- plauded. We had heen talking about the fvn Genius of Russia, which was the pre- sent Mrs. N. Romanoff, late czarina and Head Trouble Maker. She had helped a lot to put the Ro- manoff family out of business, A!so to ena>lo about 20 ropresentatives of democracies then assembled to sit avi ease about her late table. What was about a million times more important, she had had a hand, without knowing it or meaning it, in| bringing on the Russian revolution, the best thing that has happened! since the Fall of the Dastile. The reason our English friends looked sad at the mentidn of the sub-|* ject is because the royal family of England is about all German and many of its marriages in the last 60 years have been with German princes or princesses. The curse of monarchy is real, per- sistent and terrible. Monarchy is an utterly lunatic and poisonous tion that should have been abolished from the face of the earth 149 years ago. The price that Europe has since paid for clinging to the worn out old bunk is appalling. Witness this war. Also, the fact that the war was not ended months ago; also a long array of details that have made a horrible conflict all the worse. One of the countless bad things about fooling with ro; offspring of royalty with the offspring of other roy Germany had always an a ing overcrop of princelets and princess: lets. Elsewhere in the world there Were not enough to go around. Conse- quently every royal family in Europe became German and ts German to- day. Generally speaking, a German is al- ways a German. No matter where he or she may go, the ties of Germany continue to bind, the thoughts and ambitions continue to he German. All\the trouble in Greece, for in- stance, was made by a German prin- es8'married to the king that the Greek people, for some reason or oth- er, still allowed to mess and = m:s- handle their affairs. If.Greece had been a repudlic she would have kept her agreement, land- ed troops at the Dardanelles, taken Constantinople, put Turkey out and enabled the war to end in the autumn of 1915. But about this ezarina of Russia, she was a German princess, and al- though the country upon whose throne she sat was at war with Ger- many she betrayed the country she helped to misrule for the sake of the country of her birth. She was proud, arrogant, overdear- ing. neurotic, unpopular. She had her. way absolutely with her husband, who was cowed by her furious self- will and was a weak man anyway— except wher it-came to sending revo- lationists to the gallows or Siberia. czatina likewise had weak She was in deadly fear of assassina- tion and she was almost insanely su- perstitious. There is abundant evidence that from the beginning of the war she had the purpose to bring about a separ- ate peace between Germany and Kus- sia. She seems to have been held back by one fear and that was what Kus- sian people might do to her if they found, out her treachery. According to the story current, in Russia among the best informed per- sons it was the ¢ezarina that elevated Stuermer, the German, to the piace of foreign minister, and it was sne arranged Russia's surrender just be- fore the revolution broke. But for the revolution the thing would have gone through and the 150 German and Austrian divisions now on the Russian front would have been r¢ leased to be hurled against France Before this the czarina had come wholly under the power of that as- tounding abnormality and_ villainous fake monk, Rasputin. He never was a monk, as a matter of fact, but early in his vicious career he discovered that a pretense of piety was an easy way to win the confi- dence of the women he preyed upon. For this purpose he proclaimed him- self the apostle of a new kind of holi- ness and put on vestments to which he had no right. Wearing that garb he led a life of shocking immorality. The czar and czarina had one son and several daughters. For the sake of the succession the czar and his wife were always greatly worried that urged on the ministers that had | about the health of their son. Ras- Wowowoocoerwwereweoreec eco ecco ewww ece cece oecccccoed putin. used this fecling ezarina in his power. to get ‘the real directing power of Russia, She did what- ever he told her todo, and he was and had long been in the pay of Ger- through the czarina. ae He led the czarina along the way she was perfectly, willing to go to a sep- ee peate wih Germany. between and -agen' ey is tuppenea it in the ne- eolintee, were to sell themselves, Meantime a scandal had-arisen and , Swept over alk Russia concerning the the relations hetweenRasputin and the ,czarina. There may fave been no It 8 supposed that among the other! basis for any such reports; but it can- women he had hypnotized was some- one that attended upon the prince, j ‘and that she was induced to dope the food of her charge. Anyway, Ras- putin announced that his constant presence and care were necessary to keep the princé well and when the} czarina scoffed at the suggestion he foretold the prince’s_;ickness and went away. ~ The prince immediately fell i and | continued to be.ill in spite of the best} efforts of the court physicians. The czarina then fell a-shaking with superstition and gave orders to have the holy man brought back Whereupon’ the prince got. well. ‘oon after that. Rasputin became not be denied that the czarina helped ; them along by behaving without_re- ‘straint or, discretion, and-ns for Ras- putin he openly boasted when. drunk that he had made a conquest of the czarina. Lefore long 95 per centiot the Rus- ‘sian people knew the story ‘and. be- lieved it. 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It’ finds that while prices | for dairy products are ranging higher | than ever before at this time of the} year, barren pastures, especially in cut down production to a.point where farmers’ profits . are. little greater than in other years. Two creameries in the western and northwetern part of the state have been compelled to | suspend operations for lack .ofcream. | Commissioner. Osterhaus announces that the next state judging contest for buttemnakers will be ‘held in connec- tion with the Missouri Slope fair, Sep- tember 18 to 20 neinsive. Rasputin was a beast and ‘a; IN STATE HISTORY the western part of the state, have! Of customs, at Portland, Ore. Tudge Thomas C. Burke, Collector the Malone row,” by taking, the scalp BROTHER 10 JOnN BURKE LOSES fs ‘SCALP-TO WILSON of Customs at Portland, De- capitated A ‘wire from Washington late Satur- day evening advised that President Wilson had stirred up a hornets nest| among Oregon democrats “worse than| of a brother of United States Treasur-} er John Burke. Local democrats have had no advice: from Washington on the matter. The | only brother of John Burke who is in, +a position to lose his scalp in Oregon is Judge Thomas C. Burke, collector Judge Burke was, appointed to this position, at the beginning of Wilsons first term. The job then paid $4,500 a year, but has since.been increased, it is under- stood, to $6,000. Judge Burke was a judge in Iowa hefore he went west. ‘oth he and Mrs. Burke are weil where they frequently visited during John Burke's administrations. Mrs, | Burke is a musician of unusual ac-. 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