Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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d, as the pacificist has feared.The returning tide of democratic liberty will run swiftand deep, from this day on. The doom of the dynastieshas fallen. THE PASSING OF OLD RUSSIA THE long hoped for, often announced and ever de-ferred event has at last occurred. The Russian rev-olution has arrived. Everybody knew it must come sometime and some how. Even the Czars Black Hundredsmust have secretly felt what they would never openlyadmit, that the age of absolutism was over. But however long and however confidently we mayhave anticipated the event, it takes us all by surprize when at last it comes. It was disclosed to the world-withthe skill of a dramatist. The first news we got of therevolution was—silence. We had been told of food riotsin Petrograd, but that was an old story. The Czar pro-rogued the Duma for a month, but that he had donebefore. We heard that the Duma was reluctant to com-ply, yet previously their reluctance had been overcome,or, as in 1907, they had been sent to prison.
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THE INVENTOR OF THE TELEPHONE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL WAS PRESENTED LAST WEEK WITH THE CIVIC FORUMS MEDAL OF HONOR FORDISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE. THE FORMER RECIPIENTS OF THE HONORWERE COLONEL GOETHALS AND MR. EDISON March 26, 1917 THE INDEPENDENT 525 Then, for four days, nothing came from Russia. Ber-lin and London knew something of what was going onin Petrograd, but did not share the secret with America.We heard an echo before we heard the report. Chancel-lor von Bethmann-Hollweg appeared unexpectedly beforethe Prussian Diet and announced that the people nnjsthave a larger share in government and that after thewar he would undertake the reform of the franchise.Why the Prussian Government should so suddenly con-cede what it had hitherto so stubbornly refused was ap-parent when we learned what he knew then, that a revo-lution had broken out in Russia because of the refusalof the Russian Government to allow the people to par-ticipate in the management of public affairs. While the cable

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