The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20
PROTECTING THE GEAR
The Dangers Threatening European MOI
srchs Not Easy for Americans to ReaIizo.

The Dangers Threatening European Nom
archs Not Easy for Americans to Realize.
The perils which continually threaten
the life of the Car 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, 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 conspired 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
protect the Gar while there were singu-
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. After the police had thus
examined each house from garnet to
cellar, companies of gendarmes came
and repeated the search The cellars
were carefully boarded up. Many fam
lilies left the city, rather than be sub
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 s
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
lit. The soldiers had orders to fire upon
- ha .'e
lime of route through the streets.
In spite of all these precautions,
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's attire
"A Polish nobleman was imprisoned be-
cause, on arriving in Warsaw, he did moi
have passport. These prisoners Were
all closely confined in the citadel until
the Gar took his departure.
1t is not easy for Americans to realize
the dangers which threaten European
,monarchs, in these times, on every hand
nor can any contrast be more suggest
i've than the ease and safety which oul
President goes from place to place with
out guard or escort, mingling with the
people as one of them, when compared
with the minute painstaking with which
the Russian and the German Emperors
ARE shielded from the attack of the as
,sassin.
One reason is, that in this country, NJ
one has any desperate grievance t(
iavenge. Every man is secured in hi
rights, and no tyranny is possible. Blu
wherever there is despotism, wherevel
the people are oppressed, the peril to thu
life of Kings will always exist; for thu
Kings are held responsible for the ty
rannical acts of their governments. =
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