The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-08
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 When Nicholas II succeeded his ponderous sire, it became apparent at once that a new order of things was at hand. The young ruler, upon whom the bureaucracy had attempted to cast the doubt of insanity, and whose physical dissolution they predicted with the utmost assurance as an event of the immediate future, announced with the calmness of a master that he intended to govern the empire directly as far as might be. Then a series of rigid inquiries into the workings of administrative departments and govern- ment enterprises. The czar found out that Pobiedonostseff, the ober-procura- tor of the holy synod, had established a system of religious terrorism for state ends. A curb was placed upon the ac- tiyities of the Russia Torquemada. Then the czar found out that the politi-, cal convict system was disgrace to Russia; and the discovery was followed by radical administrative reforms, cul- minating in the complete abolishment of that system of political exile that had appalled, the civilized world, ..
 Then last year began the systematic riots of the students, which grew in pro- portion until they involved the bulk of the population in half the districts in the empire. The minister of war and of the gendarmerie put down the disturb ances with heavy hand. When a semblance of peace had been restored, the czar inquired into the causes of the disturbances. It appeared to Nicholas II that the minister of education and of public worship had been carrying things with too high a hand, and that he had treated intellectual indepen- dence and cooperation among the stu dents as prime facie evidence of rebel lious intentions. The ministr was de- posed by personal order of the czar, and a man of broader and more generous type put in his place.
 Then the czar decided to go further He argued that the violent demonstra- tions that had agitated the empire were outward manifestations of an inward disease in the body polite. Nicholas II, who was student of men before he be- came czar, made up his mind that he would diagnose the ills of the empire by personal observation of the conditions that underlie the symptoms. When the bureaucracy became aware of his in tentions, 1t held up its hands in horror. It could not be possible that the czar could think of coming into actual phys ical contact with his subjects. Such a proceeding would deal a death-blow to the doctrine that God is high in heay- en and the czar is far away upon which they had based their system of administration hitherto. Besides, if the czar inquired of his subjects as to their grievances, the action would establish precedent of complaint that would be the first step in the direction of popular government.
 The counselors of the frail emperor begged. threatend and stormed by turns. The din failed to confuse the czar, who had mapped out a clear course of conduct for himself. He was czar in name; he would be czar in fact.
 So the great project, which undoubt- edly is designed to serve as the begin ming of radical internal reform In Rus sia, was put under way. At the per- sonal invitation of the official who had been an object of veneratlon bordering upon religious worship to millions of Russians, but who as man has been almost a myth, Russians of various classes will appear in the imperial study to utter their complaints in the imperial ear. Not only the bureaucracy of Russia, but the enlightened portion of the entire world, will await with ea- gerness the dictum that is being formu- lated in that study by a man who takes the business of being emperor within tense seriousness.
 That dictum may mark the opening of a new political era for the Russian en- pire-an era that is foreshadowed dimly by the universal spirit of restless spec ulation and demand for better things that animates the growing mass of edu- cated and patriotic Russians.-S. l. Toujoroff in the Christian Register.