"Democratism in Russia
The earnestness with which the monetary government of Russia is preparing to democratize that country is evidenced by the formal order of the Minister of War to the troops, specifying that henceforth soldiers shall address their superiors as "mister" instead of "excellency," and that the ban on soldiers smoking in the streets, entering public places and streetcars and participating in political organizations shall be abolished.
From this and other reforms instituted, it would appear that the spirit which inspired the signets of the American Revolution to declare "that all men are treated as equal has at last found acceptance by the ruling authorities of a country where servility has been forced upon the people so long that it has become their habitual attitude.
Four directors have resigned from the board of the Milwaukee Free Press because of the pro-Germanism of that newspaper. They would not support the charge that undiluted Americanism is dead in the Middle West. 