The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-27
GREAT POWER OF THE CZAR.
Absolute Master of LesiOns Number
ing "A Million on a Peace Footing.
From the London Telegranh

Absolute Master of LegiOns Number
ing "A Million ON Peace Footing.
From the London Telegraph.
What makes the new initiative at ST.
Petersburg so serious, so commanding, so
different from all previous vain and tram
STORY attempts to reconconcile Christian
principles with Christiandom, is the per-
son who utters it. Some people have fool
ishly called the Cars manifesto Cob
denite." Cobden at the hight of his in
fuence, 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 young man,
proclaiming that 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 any
thing like the position of Nicholas, the
Gar.
In a certain real sense Russia is not
governed by the Emperor for the time
being, who is her nominal ruler She
is governed first of all by tradition, find
ing its most concrete expression in the
viii of Peter the Great, which, if vague
and elastic, like our own constitution is
even more powerful 10 constrain and en-
JOAils 4NCAt Sic Is governed DIV the Or
thodox church and the army, both in their
spheres despotic and capa BILE of secretly
debating to the boldest ministers and the
most independent sovereigns. lastly.
though without direct representation. the
merchants, the aristocracy and the mar
uculate but omnipotent masses of cattle
like peasantry help to govern Russia-niI-
itary policy being largely in the hands
OF the colonies on the frontier, who are
in turn played with by palace adventur-
ers But to each and all OF these the
Gar, the central figure, the focus of this
barbaric Slav system, is indispensa BILE; ana
in spite of all the checks provided nv
those national lines of steel upon which
the Little Father" must move and live
the personal power and authority of the
fullng Car imply the most real solid and
stupendous Individual prerogatives ever
exercised by a potentate.
When some one asked the first Nicholas
who was truly the greatest person next
to himself, in all Russia, it was merely a
candid and faithful reply which that Car
gave In saying: ''He is the most consid-
cradle person in all Russia to whom 7
happen at the time to be speaking
Weather than any brother or sister SOW
ereign in the world; absolute master of
legions which on a peace footing number
over Million lord of more than one-sixth
of the territorial surface of the globe.
with subjects OF many races and colors
amounting to over 120,000000 souls, of
whom 80,000,0O0 are, for purposes of man
agement as homogeneous as rice grains.
the embodied center of that stupendous
imperial sphere is immeasurably above or
binary human standards, and wields an
incredibly vast influence. What IS ii to
such a voice whether its accents please
Berlin, or suit Paris, or soothe Vienna, or
crafty Rome, or terrify Pekin and Con
stantinople? 1t can, at one breath. lift.
as 1t has Just lifted, question of his
tory out of the region of theory into one Of
hard fact and practice-and the chief
point, therefore, about this new and sud-
den manifesto in favor of peace and dis
it is the Cars own utterance not that of
a statesman, or a philanthropic society.
or of a church, or of o mob.
l have seen this young autocrat many
times, and in close proximity Never was
power so stupendous embodied in form so
simple, gentle and prepossessing. Every
body Is familiar, by pictures, at least
with the appearance OF Nicholas ii, who
inherts by his mother Dagmar Of Den
mark, the type Of princey grace and
"bonhomie" to which English people have
grown accustomed by the comely offspring
Of the illustrious sister, Alexandra. Ii IS
q face which, whether you admire il or
not, you must love. you must trust you
must ever pity, so clear and plain Il grows
on you while you gaze that the mind be-
hind it and the heart beating in that ex-
allied breast feel the responsibilities of
that tremendous power a hundred times
more than its pleasures or glories
l saw the young Gar crowned in the
ancient chapel of the Kremlln. l was