The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-20

il be seen that national struggles make
Observation-Disclosures impossible. POlit-
zeal and social parties are possible IN
a parliament, not nationally. For a
struggle between Municipalities is in ev-
cry way different from a struggle be-
tween parties within a nation
Would Destroy Russia.
AS with Austro-Hungary on a COM
paratively small scale, so with Russia
on a colossal one, and the peril with
which parliamentarianism menaces
Russia is therefore infinitely greater
than that which the Hapsburgian state
faces. The Russian empire is vast, but
its vaStness is still of very recent ORR
gin It's western and eastern frontier
sessions-Finland, the Baltic prov
inces, Poland. the Caucasus and the
central Asian regiOnS--haVe not only
not yet assimiated themselves with
Russia proper, but they do not even
desire to do So: they entertain hopes
of an independent national and even
political existence In view of this
, their centrifugal force is much more
powerful and intense than that of the
smaller natiOnalities of Austria, Whlch
cannot even think of complete politlcal
independence outside of the HapsburS
sway. those fra gmentS of the Italian
and SerVian peoples who are endeaVor-
ing TO join themselves to the Italian
and Servian Kingdoms alone excepted
Let US now suppose that the autOc-
raCy. which has created and preserved
+ in it's entirety the great united RUSSIAN
empire. be swept away and in its
/ be substituted constitutional parha-
mentarianism. What takes place in
tthis parliament? A process of disin-
/ teSTation as in its Austrian prototype
/ the fra SmentS arraying themselves, not
! into political. but into national parties,
which enter into an implacable con-
nict among themselves. This conflict
will put a stop to the whole march Of
political life and will only end when all
! Russia has been reduced to shattered
! fragments, in other words, when Rus
/ STA has ceased to exist.
such a prospect is, of course, con-
! summation devOutly to be wished Tor
/ by all the enemies of Russia, but we
/ Russian conservatives look with hor-
4 ror upon the propsect of such fate and
are endeavoring with all our strength
to avert it. But the present enemies OF
! Russia in western Europe would do
| well to consider that they would also
| soon begin to feel the consequences
of the disappearance of great, power
full Russia, then no longer able TO re-
{ siSt the menacing yellow INVASION
/ which would sweep over its remnants
to fall upon Europe with all its de-
structiVe force.
| This in a few words is one Of the
| chief reasons why Russia needs autoc-
! racy. under which, as has been SHOWN
! by the history of ages, Russia has peer
able to fulfil with such success heI
great task ParliamentarianiSm, on
the other hand would destroy Russia
integrity, and with it Russia herself
| / repeat once more that L have here
touched upon but one of the prlncl-
pal reasons why autocracy ls neces-
Sar-v to Russia, that very external rea-
son which can be most easily under
stood by foreigners unacquainted with
Russia Other reasons. of a more do
nestle character, would demand, as
said above too detailed and compu-
Gated explanations