The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-24

part of the narrative short, they showed
to the Emperor the rottenness of nearly
all holding official positions under the
Government, including the Emperor's
own brother, to whom was traced a theft
of 100000 rubles of Government
funds"
"How did the expedition terminate ?"
"After the parties had returned to the
place of meeting the Emperor asked,
'What is the remedy for all this?' "A
share of the government by the people,
was the answer. What is wanted from
me9' continued the E. 'ror. The
answer was simply, Give tv the Poles
whatyou promised and your father and
uncle before you-a constitution-and
not only to the Poles, but to the whole
nation. An article that is good for
expectation ought to be doubly good for
home consumption. 1t was good for
Russia iii your eyes to spend millions of
money and to sacrifice tens of thousands
of lives in order to obtain constitution
for Bulgaria, and independence to Rou-
mania, and it ought to be good for Rus
sia. 1t is in your power to become
really the father of the people, as you are
styled. Grant constitution and you
will establish frmer the Romanoff
dynasty and be loved by the whole of
your people, like the Austrian Emperor
In the characteristic manner of his
family he answered, Not during my
lifetime, or after ME, if can help it,
Upon this they left him, and you see the
result"
"Do you trace the Cars assassination
to his refusal to comply with the demand
thus made upon him ?"
''Yes, most decidedly"
"How are the people of Russia to be
benefited by the Cars assassination"
"They will wait to see if Alexander
III will fulfil the pledge which he gave
to the old Russ party Of the reforms that
he would inaugurate upon his accession
to the throne. Should he fail to fulfil
this pledge they will not wait another
twenty-six years. The late Emperor
received due warning and did not heed
it. The present Emperor has his warn
ing already, and his future destiny lies in
his own hands"
"What do the Nihilists ask ?"
"Simply when man is seen to be
drowning to be permitted to hold out to
him stick and pull him ashore, without
being compelled to go perhaps a dozen
miles to ask his permission to save ones
own father. They ask that deportation
to Siberia and incarceration in dungeons
be stopped; that those who are in one
or the other shall be set free. And, in q
kindly word of advice to the Russian
Government, through the Embassy at
Washington, suggest that moderation
be used, and that wisdom shall take the
place Of folly. Humanity can stand
only so much misery, and when too much
is put on, why, then those who have
sown must reap. There is yet time to
save the Government from general up
heaval by granting what Turkey gave to
her people just before the war-a Consti
tuition. If it does not come within q
short period, the bastiles of Russia will
be opened by force, and a sound repub-
lie will rise in place of a rotten, despotic
dynasty"
"Do they propose to do away with the
Empire ?"
"No. We fully recognize that the
people in Russia to-day are not fit for a
Republican form of government, and
will not be for the next half century
but they must have representative form
of government-a Constitution, and the
abolition of Siberia as place of impris-
onment for political prisoners"