The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-06
THE CzAR,s PERSONALITY.
Great Power Exercised by the Author
of the Peace Manifesto.
London Telegraph.

London Telegraph.
What makes the new initiative at ST. Pc
! tersburg so serious, so commanding, so diff
lerent from all previous vain and tranSitory
attempts to reconcile Christian principles
with chrlStendom is the person who uttefs
1t. Some people have foolishly called the
! Cars manifesto ''C,ohdenife - Cohden at
the height of his influence multiplied thou
SAND 1old, could never have awakened Z
back on our ears from Eli corners of the
| civilized world from the simple words of
young man proclaiming what everybody al
READY knew about the wastefulness and
danger of the armed peace. This is because
no man. old or young, in all the earth, holds
Gar.
In a certain real sense Russia is not gov
erned by the Emperor for the time being.
who Is her nominal ruler. She is governed
first of all by tradition, finding It's most
concrete expression in the will OF Peter the
own Constitution, is even more powerful to
constrain and enjoin. Next, she is governed
by the orthodox church and the army, both
IN their spheres despotic, and capable of Sc
cretly debating to the boldest ministers and
the most Independent sovereigns Lastly,
| though without direct representation the
merchants the aristocracy and the inartic-
ulate but omnipotent masses of cattle-like
peasantry help to govern Russia-miitary
colonies on the frontier. who are, in turn,
played with by palace adventurers. But to
hgure, the focus of this barbaric Slav sys-
tenn, is indispensable; and. in spite of all the
checks provided by those national lines of
steel upon which 1.-The Little Father must
move and live, the personal power and a1I-
thor1ty of the ruling Car imply the most
real, solid and stupendous individual pre-
negatives 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 can
| did and faithful reply which that Car gave
in saying; He is the most considerable
| person in all Russia to whom / happen at
| the time to be speaking" Weather than
! any DrOtner or sister sovereign in the
| world; absolute master of legionS which
! on peace footing number over a million;
| lord of more than One-SiXth of the terri
| torial surface of the globe, with subjects
OF many races and colors amounting to
! over l2O,OOOO00 souls, of whom SO.0O0O0O are,
| FOR purposes of management, as homogene-
| GUS as rice grains. the embodied center of
| that stupendous imperial sphere is immea-
| Surably above ordinary human standard and
Yields an incredibly vast influence. What is
| it TO such a voice whether it's accents
| please Berlin, or suit Paris, or soothe VII
| enna or crafty Rome, or terrify Picking and
! Constantinope? 1t can, at one breath. lift
| as 1t has just lifted a question of history
| hard fact and practice-and the chief point
| therefore, about this new and sudden man.
| ifesto in favor of peace and disarmament
consists in the certainty that it is the Car
own utterance; not that of a statesman, or
a. philanthropic society, or of church or
of mob.
| 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 inherits
| by his mother, Dagmar of Denmark
| the type of princely grace and ''bonhomie''
to which English people have grown ac-
| customed by the comedy offspring of the
| illustrious sister, Alexandria 1t is face
| which, whether you admire it or not you
must love, you must trust, you must even
| pity, so clear and plain it grows On you
| while you gaze that the mind behind it and
| the heart beating in that exalted breast
| feel the responsibilities of that tremendous
| power hundred times more than its pleas
| ureS or glOries.
| L saw the young Gar crowned in the an
Gent chapel of the Kremlin. l was almost
within reach of him at that supreme mo-
ment, when, after the holy amounting and
the solemn ceremonies of the confessions
of faith and the proclamation of his titles,
the youthful autocrat--he is but thirty years
old to-day-placed on the brow of his beau
tiful, sad consort the diamond crown lust
removed 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
l anew then that from the natures so OBJ
viously noble, noble deeds and thoughts
would spring-if the awful world of splen-
dor and necessity in which the pair must
live did not hinder. 1 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 century, Still less
need we be astonished if aware how British
in love OF peace and progress the highest
are IN the RUSSIAN court, now nabitually
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 coun-
sells of our own beloved Queen 1t is an
old joke at st. Petersburg and Moscow that
more than once in the sitting of state min
listers, when something unwelcome at Os-
borne or Windsor was being mooted the
emperor of all the Russias has quietly muir
INJURED, me derangez pas grandmaman"
There is every reason, therefore, why this
sublime experiment of civilization. whether
practical or not, should be cordially well
coined and earnestly furthered in England
and by all Englishmen. OF all living per-
sonages the young Car was, by his power
place and authority, the very man to ven
ture the attempt, in the personal sincerity
of which no sarcasms and no cynicisms
ought to make the clear-headed people dis
believe.