orks and knives, tinkling of glasses, and
whispered conversation. "Our" American was sitting at the side of his
odd Dulcinea, and he again looked like a self-satisfied cox-comb. But,
it seemed to me that into the everyday mood of the vessel's
table-d'hote, there entered something elusive and significant, which
could change the appearance of this motley crowd just as our
American's face had changed at the end of our conversation.

And, in fact, a few weeks later, I happened to be present at one of
those tempestuous manifestations of public opinion which at times
break out like storms on the surface of the ocean. There is much that
is ridiculous in the every-day tone of American newspapers, in their
thirst for sensations and _reclame_, in their petty interviews. But
here everything was suddenly swept aside, and the dominant tone of the
American press became deep and significant. Now and then the voices of
past generations,--the men who had been the builders of freedom and
law in their country, the voices of Lincolns, Harrisons, and Davises
pierced the bustle of every-day life and were heard in editorials,
articles, in the speeches delivered at meetings.

The occasion for all this was again the Jewish question, and the
ignorance of axioms shown by a nation of the old continent. And it
occurred to me that probably somewhere in Chicago, Mr. Jackson, "who
dislikes green peas," was delivering, or at least listening to, a
speech about the axioms of human law, and was voting in favor of a
corresponding resolution.

For he firmly believes that love is capricious. Like mercy, it
bloweth, whither it listeth.... But justice, justice is
obligatory....

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THE JEWISH QUESTION IN RUSSIA

_Professor Paul Nikolayevich Milyukov, the central figure in the
present Russian revolution, was born in 1859. Before the upheaval
in 1905 he was known as a distinguished historian. In 1903 and
1904 he lectured on Russia at Harvard and at the University of
Chicago, and in 1908 he spoke on the situation in Russia before
the Civic Forum in Carnegie Hall. Ever since the revolutionary
days of 1905-6, Professor Milyukov has been playing a most
conspicuous part in the Russian emancipatory movement, as the
leader of the Constitutional party, as a Duma deputy and the
editor of the influential radical newspaper Ryech._

THE JEWISH QUESTION IN RUSSIA

BY P. MILYUKOV