Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — Russia’s Power. [ARTICLE]

Russia’s Power.

In spite of all that has been said of the intellectual as well as physiftil degeneracy of Czar Nicholas, who has been described repeatedly as a weakling, half crazed with nervousness and epilepsy, Russia during the three years that have elapsed since his accession to the throne has attained a power and a pre-eminence unparalleled in Europe; as well as in Asia, which is unprecedented in history. The center of political gravity in the old world is no longer at Vienna, at Paris, nor yet at Berlin, where it remained for nearly a quarter of a century, while Bismarck was in power, but at St. Petersburg, to which all the governments in Europe are obliged to refer before embarking upon any scheme of an international character.