Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-19
MOTHER AND WIFE;
CONTROL OF CAR.
Important Question in His Do
main is, Whose Direction
Shall He Follow
A GREAT CONTEST IS WAGING.
Under Mothers Influence He is Reac.
tiOnary; Under Wiie's lie is
Very Liberal.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
ST. Petersburg, Sept. S,-.One Of the
permanent puzzles Of the present cars
reign has been the remarkable mcon-
slstency with which Nicholas II has
conducted the government of his en-
pire, When he assembled the throne he
had the reputation Of being a keen re-
former, yet he retained the most re-
dictionary of his fathers ministers In
Office. Since then he has alternated
between progressive and rctrogresslye
tendencies.
Sometimes he has committed acts
which seem 70 stamp him as a modern,
liberal-minded thinker Of rare cour-
age, only TO follow them up with en-
actments and DEGREES worthy Of a re-
dictionary administrator Of the blacklist
dye, on one day he signs a ukase re-
calling all students banlshed to 81
IBERIA for political ofenses, on the NOR
row he permits Cossacks to be en-
ployed In massacreing workmen engas-
ed In a dispute with their masters. He
summoned the peace conference at The
Hague, but he has continued TO pursue
an aggressive military policy in an
parts of the world where Russia has
expansive intentions. One day he per-
mltted the holy synod Of the Greek
Orthodox church to eXcummunicats
TOlstoi, and thus TO rob the great wIitec
Of the right Of Christian burial through
out Russia but when the same adj
Nisers came day or two later ami pro-
posed as logical sequel that Tolstoi
should be expelled from Russia he de-
clared with emphasis th3t he would
never consent TO such a measure.
This spring the car issued mani
foslo fun of noble sentiments promis-
ing religious liberty to all his sub
| jects and before the summer had be.
| gun the world was startled by news OF
! the terrible persecution OF the Jews
which took place under Official sui anc
at kishneff. When the details OF
Kishnen first became known the car
refused to intervene, remarking that
the Jews were themselves RESPONSIBLE
| for the hatred felt against them, but
within a few days he had dismissed the
governor-general Of the province OF
Bessarabia and had sent an emissary
| TO Kishineff TO see that order was res
, tored there. Dozens Of similar cases
could be cited In which the car has
pursued 2ig-2ag course in his policy
| from day TO day
The truth is that the Car Nicholas
| III IL physically weak, with shattered
/ nerves and without much viii of his
| own. He Is an amiable young man ana
| well-meaning enough. but he is abso-
| lutely untitled TO be the autocratic rul.
| err Of country like Russia, where Al
! iron-handed administrator IS essential.
| Tho car IS a dependent nature, always
' leaning on some one stronger than him
| self II now and then he grows bold
enough to come to decision Of his own
| ana to act on II he quickly falls back
| into his normal condition of mental ana
| moral subiugation. 1t Is due to the al
most cffemlnate softness Of Nicholas
! IFS character that he has been prin-
! cipally Influenced by women, and not
| by one fascinating member of the
| sex as stronger men than he have been.
| but by several women Of the most d.
vergent tastes and qualities.
A STRANGE CONTEST.
Since the day he assembled the throns
| there has been continuous contest be.
| TWEEN his Wife and his mother for SUI
| premacy over the ear His mother. the
| dowagor empress, though brought up at
| the most democratic court In Europe
| that of Denmark-became after he-
| marriage to Alexander III as Muscoyite
| In thought and opinion as the most OK
| treme Russian conservatives A Pro
| testant by birth and education she be-
| came devout adherent of the Ortho-
dox Greek faith.
When her son, Nicholas III, then a
| young man of 20, became emperor his
mother formed a resolve that she would
! guide him In the footsteps of his faith