The times., 1898-10-09
RUssIA's CzAR.
A Glowing Tribute to His PERSONAL
fty From an Englishman.
(From the London Telegraph.)

A Glowing Tribute to His PERSONAL
ity From an Englishman.
(From the London Telagraph.)
What makes the new initiative at st.
Petersburg so serious, so commanding, so
different from all previous vain and tran
STORY attempts 10 reconcile Christian
principles with Christendom, is the per-
son who utters 1t. Some people have fool
ishly called the Cars manifesto Cob
denite." Golden, at the height of his in
fiuence. multiplied a thousandfold, could
never have awakened a thousandth part
of the echo which rolls back on our ears
from all corners of the civilized world
from the simple words of a young man,
proclaiming what everybody already
knew about the wastefulness and danger
of the armed peace. This is because no
man, old or young, in all the earth holds
anything like the position of Nicholas the
Car.
In a certain sense Russia is not gov
erned by the emperor for the time being,
who is her nominal ruler. She is gov
erned first of all by tradition finding its
most concrete expression in the will of
Peter the Great, which. If vague and
elastic, like our own constitution. is even
more powerful TO constrain and enjoin.
Next she is governed by the or
thodox church and the army, both
in their spheres despotic, and ca
pable of secretly debating to the
boldest ministers and the most indie
pendent soyereigns. Lastly. though with
out direct representation. the merchants.
the aristocracy and the inarticulate. but
omnipotent masses of cattle-like peas
antry help 10 govern Russia-military pol
icy being largely in the hands of the
colonels on the frontier. who are in turn
played with by palace adventures. But
IN and oil nf thac ha ba
central figure, the focus of this barbaric
Slay system. is Indispensable: and. IN
spite of all the checks provided by those
national lines of steel upon which the
Little Father" must move and live. the
personal power and authority of the rul-
ing Car imply the most real solid and
stupendous individual prerogatiyes ever
exercised by a potentate-
When some one asked the first Nicholas
who was truly the greatest person, next
TO himself in all Russia, 1t was merely
candid and faithful reply which that Car
gave in saying: He Is the most consid-
cradle person in all Russia 10 whom l
happen at the time to be speaking"
Wealthier than any brother or sister SOW
ereign in the world; absolute master Of
legions which on a peace footing num-
Der over a million; lord OF more than one
sixth of the territorial surface of the
colors amounting to over 120. coo. 900 souls,
of whom S9000,Oe0 are, for purposes of
management, as homogeneous as rice
grains. the embodied center of that stu
pendous imperial sphere is immeasurably
above ordinary human standards and
wie.ds an Incredibly vast influence. What
is il TO such a voice whether its accents
please Berlin, or suit Paris, or soothe
Vienna, or crafty Rome, or terrify Pc
kin and Constantinople? It can, at one
breath. lift, as it has just lifted, a ques-
tion of history out OF the region of theory
into one of hard fact and practice-and
the chief point, therefore, about this new
and sudden manifesto in favor of peace
and disarmament consists in the GER
taInty that it is the Cars own utterance:
not that of a statesman, or a philan-
thropic society, or of church, or of a
mob.
/ have seen this young autocrat many
times, and i'm close proximity. Never was
power so stupendous embodied in form so
simple, gentle and prepossessing. Every
body is familiar, by pictures ar least, with
the appearance of Nicholas II. who in
herits, by his mother. Dagmar of DEN
mark. the type of princely grace and
'bOnhomie." 10 which English people
| have grown accustomed by the comely
Z OllSpIlll5 VI Tire iiiuSAIND1S SiStCfs Alex
! andra. 1t is a face which, whether you
/ admire it or not, you must love. you must
/ trust, you must ever pity. so clear and
! plain 1t grows on you while you gaze that
! the mind behind ii and the heart beating
| in that exalted breast feel the response
/ bilities of that tremendous power a hun
dred times more than its pleasures or
gIories.
l saw the young Car crowned in the
ancient chapel of the Kremlin. I was
almost within reach of MIN at that su-
/ preme moment when, after the holy
amounting, and the solemn ceremonies of
I the confessions of faith, and the procia-
nation of his titles, the youthful auto
! crat-he is but thirty years old today
placed on the brow of his beautiful, sad
/ consort the diamond crown just le-
! moved from his own, while she, on her
/ Knees, buried her sobbing face in her
mighty lords mantle. and rose, lovely in
! her imperial trouble. the greatest lady of
two continents. 1 knew then that from
/ natures so obviously noble noble deeds
4 and thought would spring-if the awful
/ world of splendor and necessity in which
| the pair must live did not hinder. l am
/ not in the least surprised at the high
| courage and superb independence of this
! young mans act, which comes near being
| the best and braveSt thing done this CEN
| tury. Still less need we be astonished ii
! aware how British in love of peace and
| progress the highest are in the Russian
court, how habitually the daughter OF
! the Princess Alice and the grandson OF
| King Christian of Denmark talk English
to each other and how dear to both is
the character and are the counsels of OuI
own beloved Queen. II is an old joke al
| st. Petersburg and Moscow that, more
| that once in the sitting of state minis
ters. when something unwelcome at Os-
| borne or Windsor was quietly murmured
NE derangez pas grand maman."
There is every reason, therefore, why
this sublime experiment of ciyiliza ton
! whether practical or not, should be cor
! daily welcomed and earnestly furthered
in England and by all Englishmen. Oh
all living personages the young Gar was
| by his power, place and authority the
very man to venture the attempt in the
personal sincerity of which no sarcasmS
and no cynicisms ought to make clear.
| headed people disbelieve.
THE NEW TREATMENT"