The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-28
PROJECTING THE CAR.



The DaneerssThreaten rng Baropean Non.
archs Not Easy for Americsns to Realize
The perils which costinually 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, q little
more than 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 a 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 Car while there were singll-
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
cellar, companies of gendarmes came
and repeated the search. The cellars
were ca.esuily boarded up. Many fam
lilies lesa be city, rather than be sub
jected 20 these annoyances.
At the same time the Catholic cathe-
dral, standing close to the palace he
was to occupy, was suddenly sur
pDunded 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 Cars
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 Cars
line 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 not
have a 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 our
President goes from place to place with
out guard or escort, ningling 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. no
one has any desperate grievance to
avenge. Every man is secured in his
rights, and no tyranny is possible. But
wherever there is despotism, wherever
the people are oppressed, the peril to the
life of Kings will always exist; for the
Kings are held responsible for the ty-
rannical acts of their governments. =
Youth's Companion.