In November of 1909 the Finnish Diet was dissolved by a ukase of the Czar. Since then the Russian Government has been passing decree after decree for

The attempt to curtail Finnish constitutional liberty has taken different forms. Early in 1908 the Russian Council of Ministers, over which M.

The arbitrary and corrupt Russian bureaucratic regime little by little forced its way into the country, while Finlanders watched with bitter

The desirable abolition of the customs cordon between the two countries is bound to give a powerful fillip to the growth of commerce, which is the

Down to the present moment separation has not been in her interests. She was never an independent State; her historical traditions do not move her to

. . .neither general insurrections against Russia's dominions, nor political plots, nor the tumults of an ignorant rabble - such as our cholera riots,

The attitude of the population of Finland toward Russia is not at all so inimical as would appear on reading the articles in the foreign press

The historian of the future will have to note its ethical importance in a far wider sphere as well: the greatest of social problems have found a