Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31
FUTURE CT RUSSIA.
An Apologist for It Says 1t Has the
Only Stable Government
ON THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE
The Administrative Process Has Its Dupli-
cate in Our Own Country.
WHY THE HEBREWS ARE PROSECUTED
rcoRREspoNpEycE OF rur n,sp.+cy

| liberalized Russia" said Colonel Charles A.
de Armand, Russian of great intelligence
and wide information, sis the destiny of the
Eastern Continent, just as the future of the
United States is the future of the Western
Continent. Russia will dominate the Old
World; the United States will dominate the
Americas"
This well-kuown Russian-American; gal
liant soldier and author, was found at his de-
lightful summer residence at Carlton Hill,
N. j. He has recently put forth work
which is attracting considerable attention,
as being sweeping and ingenious reply to
| the numerous attacks upon the Russian
| Government.
'sI mean by this statement, he continued,
'that although the governmental forms of
the two countries are widely different, they
are best calculated, respectively, to most
| highly develop the commercial and political
strength and general prosperity of the peo-
| pie. Nations reach the same ends through
| different means. The prosperity and power
of any nation rests upon the approval of its
governmental system by the masses of its
| people.
| spI One Point of Similarity.
'Russia and the United States enjoy that
confidence to degree unknown to other
| leading powers They are not in any
case rivals; they are natural allies. This
| problem of government which engrosses the
| attention of modern Europe to-day has been
my study for years. If you will closely ex-
anime the subject it will be apparent that
the two nations have been and are still ad-
vancing on parallel lines. They have long
touched elbows in the extension of human
freedom and in striving for the greatest
good to the greatest number. I care not
what sensational magazine and newspaper
writers say of Russia, except so far as they
mislead by intoxicating erroneous ideas.
They write for supposed market demand.
"The present unsettled state of political
affairs in Europe is caused mainly by the
desire of selfish statesmen for personal
power. The constitutional form of govern
ment-that is, parliamentary government
affords them greater scope, while dividing
the country up into numerous parties and
factions
The Cases of Italy and Germany.
'eTake Italy, for example. United Italy
of to-day constitutes more >nationalities and,
languages than its King understands They
have adopted the English system of minis
terial responsibility and have therefore
many warning factions, each striving to out
do the others in order to gain power through
its individual representatives. Now, how
long can this last before crisis or re-
bellion which will be fatal to the Union?
'Then take Germany. Its young Emperor
started in to rule semi-Cesar, or semi
Napoleon. Finding an obstacle in the
aristocracy he turned to the masses. He be-
ieved that Socialism was German strength
and he lost the support of the conservative
aristocracy. He is now assaulted in Ger
many by both parties. Seeing this he
throws his strength with the army and tries
to play the Caesar. How long such chaotic
political state can exist remains to be seen.
A crisis is looked for there also which will
be fatal to German unity Now let us look
toward France. France also borrows her
Parliamentary system from the English. I
refer especially to that feature of the
system urged Chiefly by outsiders) for
Russian ministerial responsibility.
Our System Applied to France.
'fWhat do you think of the French Par
Lament? Party after party follows rapidly
on each others heels, not having the wei
fare of France at heart, but simply individ-
udl gam. tut hcpuDllC VI TdICe
under the present Ministerial Government
cannot long exist unless reform is adopted
and our own system here in thu United
States substituted. This system of ours, of
a Congress elected by the people, responsi-
BILE simply to the people and not to the
Chief Executive, adapted to the national
wants and temperament, guided by writ
ten Constitution. is working smoothly,
while other nations are in continual tur-
moil.
SIT is not a system and Constitution
presented suddenly to great nation habit
uated to another and radically different
form of government 1t is growth. 1t
sprouted over hundred years ago and has
grown with the people and the people have
grown with it until it and they are insepa-
rable. 1t would take another century to up
root this growth; if, indeed, it could be torn
up at all. This is progress.
The Parliament of Russia.
? "Russia is progressing in the similar way
and after the same safe and steady fashion.
Its national institutions are adapted to the
wants of its people-a people almost twice
as numerous as the people of the United
States, and distributed over an area consid- |
erably larger than this territory = and |
founded upon both national and radical |
system. 1t, too, has Parliament. That |
Parliament differs from our Congress and |
from the legislative bodies mentioned to |
sharpen this comparison. The Russian Par |
lament fits into the national system, and is |
as much part and parcel of the Russian peo- |
pie as is the Congress of the United States |
with our political strength and hap |
piness. 1t is council appointed by the !!
with the Senate, for life,. and as |
soon as its members have taken the oath of |
Office they are wholly independent of the |
Executive. They legislate for Russia the !
Russia know we'll their strength and re-
sources Theyare protected by the strong |
arm of the law from the vicious elements. |
They enjoy as much freedom as is vouch- |
safed to our people here under the Constitu-
tional Government Of the United States.
The Russian System of Punishment.
elm the punishment of criminals Russia |
Is more humane than even we are. She |
simply substitutes Punishment for the peni-
tentiary and the scafold. To say that her
system does not meet the approval of her
people is to presume that liz, ,000, 900 of peo-
pie of the most warlike nation on the face
1f the earth can be kept in subjection by
forces taken from themselves. 1t is ridicu-
ous.
''The administrative process?' That has
been considerably harped upon by Amer
AN writers recently in connection with the
stories from Siberia. We
lave abundant illustrations right here at
home of the administrative process The
,ther day woman was brutally murdered
n cheap lodging house in New York.
The police authorities began arresting peo-
,le right and left, until some so persons
we're thrown into prison 'on suspicion of
having committed the crime. This system
obtains in almost every city of the Union.
IN election days hundreds of innocent peo-