Up to the present Russia has been for the United States a closed book in many respects and American capital has felt shy to trust itself to people governed by a system where the will of a few was considered superior to the ruling of the law
Today things are changed .Russian has entered upon a new lease of life; she is beginning to exist as an independent nation desirous of following in the ways of democracy her American suster, whom she had always admired from after but whom she had hardly dared to hope she would ever be able to imitate .
What she asks now is that this sister should trust her and try to know her better than she has done and to judge her according to her true merits and qualities and not by the fantastic tales and stories that have been related about her.
The progresses made by Russia in the matter of the development of her political activity and of her military resources since the revolution have surpassed by far the most sanguine expectations of even her warmest admirers ,as the recent offensive led by General Brusiloff has triumphantly proved.
She may therefore be permitted to hope that her friends will show some patience in dealing with her in the future and not feel discouraged if those progresses sometimes experience a check or prove slower than one would wish them to be.
Russia will yet surprise her friends and her Allies by the promptitude with which she will adapt herself to her new conditions of existence and push her way along to those at whose side she is fighting now, for the triumph of the democracy.