Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-04-25
DEspoTIc FUNcTIoNARIEs.

aTf the policy of Nicholas /. i
dictated to you II Is because it favors
the autOcracy OF your ministers and
functi0naTies, because they desire
to have under them n people with
out rights and without the power Of
speech. Power intoXicates men,
and IL fer persons such rs the late
Count TOlstOi power was an instru-
ment TO break and mutilate Russia,
and mold her according to their
false and antedated theories, this
same power WIS for the crowd OF
mediocre functionaries p means Of
securing vile and low pleasures.
These pleasures consist OF placing
Themselves over and above the
country and its laws, OF governing
according 10 their own viii and
CAPRICE. Power In the hands Of
these wretehes becomes \ means Of
advancing their own dubious ailairs
and interests. Authority, which,
like fire, may be subdivided into
fiames, becoming smaller and small
or as We 20 down the scale Of func-
tionaries, descending from the car
to the people, simply confers srbi-
trary rights exercised with I'M
punity.
scThere are no longer any punish
ments for spoiistion and excuses
committed by people in power.
Each governor is an autOcrat in
his province; each ispravnik is an
autocrat in his district; each stan
oval is an autocrat in his canton,
and each ouriadnic is an autOcrat
in his village"
After showing that all guarantee
against the arbitrary conduct Of
the functionaries had been abOl-
ished, Mime. Tshebrikova ex-
claimed:
"What / say to you is no fable, rs
your lacguais and ministers would
have YOU believe; it is the truth.
TolstOi himself did not wish 10 sup
press the village justices OF the
peace, and to your own initiative is
attributed the abolition OF this last
remaining guarantee the peasants
.oxs.-~-~.,d, NNhat u-a-s --s,-. 1T
science with such a measure
vou who knew not what lie
the people LED? Do yOa imag-
inc that because you are an aneint-
Ell sovereign you are DIVINITY
possessing knowledge OF all things!
IfIvou could, size, lite the sovereign
in The fable. pass invisibly, over the
towns and villages, so as TO know
What life the Russian people live,
YOU would see it misery, you would
see how the governors bring up your
soldiers TO shoot down the peasants
and the woTkmen. You would see
that order maintained by thousands
az soldiers, by legions Of function
sries. by an army Of spies, that or
der in the name Of which every
word Of protestation is suppressed
that this order T. not order at all
but a state Of administrative anar
chy. ii,
ity, together With the ether Glasses
| Of Russian society, are irriiated
against the most recent measure
ADDICTED by the minister Of puollc IN
struction, by which the doors oil Tn
high schools and universities an
closed against yourg men who hav'
no FORTUNES. An the measure
taken toy this minister tend TO sniio
cate education in Russis. In
students are obliged 10 remain u
their own districts and have not tn
right Of choosing the universities
where the best professors may Il
found. The 5partans used TO lu
out the eyes Of their slaves !
nrevent them from amusing then
selves when they turned round tn
grinding mills. But In the nine
teenth century aud Just on the ev
~ the twentieth century such mea'
ures will not help 10 consolidai
order. The circular OF the nlinisls
M puhlic instruction. which cios.
the doors Of the universities
students who are poor, only places
new arm, in the hands OF the tefrc
ists What IL the use Of the lessoI
given TO a child in n schooH -
vii see at the very first step u
contradiction that exists betNes
the acts OF the government and u
doctrines taught in the Seriplur
AT school he Is taught 70 oetra.