HOLY RUSSIA’S HYPOCRACY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1235, 30 October 1885, Page 3

HOLY RUSSIA’S HYPOCRACY.

When the ‘ Pall Mall Gazette ’ revelations were published, even that intensely Russophile journal could hardly have anticipated one of the uses to which they would be put. They have furnished exhaustless material for the Russian newspapers, the editors of which are delighted to have so fruitful a theme whereon to work, and give vent to their antipathy for the English aristocracy. The ‘ Moscow Gazette ’ and other organs of the National party have used this text as a point of departure to 611 their columns with anathemas against the corruption of European civilisation, “ which traitors and egotists have endeavored to introduce into Holy Russia!” Then follow comparisons between European and the Russian culture, with a general apotheosis of the Moojik in his most primitive state (vermin and all), and denunciations against the folly of teaching the people to read, reading being the root of all evil, &c., &c. All the threats of Scripture against the sinful cities of old are applied to the modern Babylon, and giving full scope to the Biblical style and pompous jargon of the national triumvirate, their prophetic utterances against the prond, corrupt Queen of the Ocean, ring from the shores of the Baltic to those of tho Black Sea. The “Novosti” alone has ventured upon a timid remonstrance, suggesting that if any one were to bring such a spiiit of zeal to discovei evil in Faris or St. Petersburg, there is no doubt that the results would equal if not far transcend those reached by the “ Fall Mall Gazette.”