The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-20
PROTECTING THE GAR.

The Dangers Threatening European Mon
archs Not Easy for Americans to Realize.
The perils which continually threaten
the life of the Gar of all the Russias
were strongly illustrated during his re-
cent visit to Warsaw. Warsaw is the
ancient capital of Poland; and Poland
is that unhappy land which, a little
more than a century ago, was divided
up between the empires of Russia and
Austria, and the kingdom of Prussia
Ever since the partition" Russian
Poland has been ruled by the czars with
great and despOtic rigor. Yet, when
the present Emperor month ago went
to Warsaw, it was not from the OPP
pressed and down-trodden Poles that he
sought to protect himself. The Poles
have sometimes conspred and revolted;
but they have never been prone to as
sassination.
/ He feared, most of all, secret attacks
from his own Russian subjects; from the
same Nihilists who have more than once
sought his life, as they sought and took
his fathers life before him.
The precautions taken at Warsaw to
lar, and were very annoying and OPP
pressive to the citizens. They were more
strict even than those taken when Alex
ander III. was crowned at Moscow.
On the two days preceding his ar
rival at the Polish capital, the police
entered and infinitely searched every
house in every street through which he
was to pass. AIool i. police had thus
examined each house from garnet to
cellar, companies of gendarmes came
and repeated the search. The cellars
were care: lily boarded up, Many fam
lies left the city, rather than be SUBJ
jected to these annOyances.
At the same time the Catholic cathe
dral, standing close to the palace he
was to occupy, was suddenly sur
rounded by soldiers. and was
searched in every nook and corner.
This was done so as to discover any
conspirators who might be in hiding
there.
Orders were given that, on the Gar 8
! arrival, every store and shop on his
route from the station to the palace
should be closed half hour before the
imperial procession set out. Shopkeep-
ers were warned not to allow any
= stranger to enter their premises while
: the Emperor remained in Warsaw.
1t was also ordered, that when the
= imperial carriage passed along the
streets, no person should be allowed to
approach within three hundred PAGES of
it. The soldiers had orders TO fire upon
:. any one who should cross the Gar 5
), line of route through the streets.
l., ,,N;f Of oil
" numerous arrests of suspected Nihilists
= were made during the visit. Thirty
. Russians were taken in one company
+, and thrown into prison. Two were ar
- rested in the railway station, one Of
" them being disguised in woman attire
A Polish noblcman was imprisoned be-
;, cause, on arriving in Warsaw, he did moi
= have passport. These prisoners were
y all closely confined in the citadel unit
= the Gar took his departure.
. 1t is not easy for Americans to realize
!, the dangers which threaten European
lt monarchs, in these times, on every hand
. nor can any contrast be more suggest
VI i've than the ease and safety which on
ID President goes from place to place. with
out guard or escort, mingling with tn
! people as one of them, when compare,
!, with the minute painstaking with whicl
IN the Russian and the German Emperor
are shielded from the attack of the as
- sassin.
u, u, One reason is, that in this country, nj
- one has any desperate grievance t.
= avenge. Every man is secured in hi
. rights, and no tyranny is possible. Blu
i, wherever there is despotiSm, whereve
u the people are oppressed, the peril to thu
y life of Kings will always exist; for tn,
q Kings are held responsible for the ty
a rannical acts of their governments. -
- YOUTHS Companion.