Dentists,
jjs%_ A writer in tho London Times
says that the Russian serfs are laps
ing into a condition of “idleness,
drunkenness and crime.” Mow there
are none to flog them “fully one
third have become paupers.” We
don’t know how true this is, and
rather question it, as we have no
corroborating authority for the state
ment. But the mistake iu Russia
was that emancipation was not fol
lowed by education. Tho spur of in
telligent necessity, and the ambition
and pride and self-respect which
come with knowledge, are the high
est incentives to labor. They give
it honor and dignity. In America
we gave the slave the spelling book
as soon as tho chains fell from him,
and wo have no trouble. Laoor has
only to think to grow. How can it
♦ hink if, in freeing it from the bonds
of authority, we continue to cloud it
with ignorance aud superstition?
We presume the contrary is the
trouble. Intelligent Russia would
make the Czar’s power an uncertain
tenure.
