FREDOM AS AN EMPTY WORD.
Tin' Czar, so they say,, has just granted religious freedom to his people, hut it is just as wo]l not to rejoin- too niucli over this apparent hiessini;. Alter all what, tlocs the imperial ukase irrunt '■' The right in any Russian subject to renounce orthodoxy ami become a Catholic a Mahometan, or a Protestant without tlic risk oi heiim bun(lled oil to Siberia like an express I Jut the tpiest ion oi' th«' partition oi goods, particularly the inheritance I'roin an orthodox Itussiau to a follower oi' any other religion, remains unchanged. The so-called liherty oi the Kmperor of Kus.sia has not taken this subject into account. Therelore if I happen to he a Itussiau 1 could pra.\ to liuddha. or Confucius as much as I pleased so Ipng as I did not inherit an\ property from anyone. A lovely government that, and one which is so worthy of every mark of gratitude !
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2645, 11 September 1906, Page 7
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