The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-02-03

snva@l BE- .slaiea we,t. we're pa-.s,
ia aNth~rttNis \ Ntctoiy ga ~talsvpatktt
mlsnt iAt,v tifAea the see tnt th'
telegraph 0hfeniQled uns getvfsez and e.
treats
tae nnn-l- - .ie smpsssi, reasstnes
many0 reeotl which Vas construed as nj
l"dtctn1r0t or Gle UoNeFanaenf Al hoine
Mntm"is srew loud against tina centiaua-
ton OF hoStiiltles consumes We're ndrAcd
Nsalnst tAe Bureaucracy for drifting Nte
Al needless war demands wrse Formulated
for the conclusion OF peace
p-nalN, Prince S~Nhatopoik- MtrSkt wRs
appointed minister of Interior \ man a.
1harmsne frankuess, 1aseipa4lnS manuer
enishtcntd views, he disasnred with
PIehwe's opinions. disapproNel ms meth
DDS. AK Ieplored the results.
Few Crumbs of Liberty.
the new minister employed soothing
language and followed II up With judietous
HSt. but he changed none OF the princi-
49, OF government announced by his
.lreueces5oi. lite began by assuring the
russian people o: hts confidence. and thr..
! We're "',itn.'.a ;hcreai. He also released
'n"Hj or the most hconred and honorable
% the cars subjects from prison who
ought never to have ben incarcerated.
Others he recalled from cNiie. He con
niNed. zoo. al trivial press peccadllos, and
refr;iined from sending men TO jail who
Tad uttered Views which differed from
those OF The bureaucracy.
Then the Zemstvo CONGRESS-.
Prince Sv~i2topoik's appointment as min
ls'er OF the interior made the zoInstvo
ongress possible. 1t assembled al ST..
Petersburg Oh November ~. 1894, the first
great body of men representing the Rus
sian people that ever gathered to voice the
nations demands fox u more popular form
of government.
The Heinstvos' congress was a private,
almost a secret, meeting, bat part of its
siiiniticance lies In the circumstance that
it could have been Murdered and was not.
The Zemstvos are elected provincial bod
les invested with certain limited powers.
4heN are charged with repairing the roads,
providing medical help for the rural pou-
HIittion, organizing schools. collecting
STATISTICS. and keeping the thousands who
leaNe their villages every year In search
OF work from falling victims 10 hunger
and disease.
For twenty years the zemstvos have
been organizing and spreading education,
at flrst rapidly and then. owing TO the OBJ
position OF the bureaucracy. slowly. The
ministry hindered their work in every con-
eeifabie way. sun, in Ike lace OF this
MADE Roadway.
Appeal to Car in Vain.
The r~eaetionary party did its best to
prevent the zenstvo congress from assem-
oAhs' bureaucratic dignitAries and other
laftlsans OF the autocracy, pure and sim
pie, hearing what Was planned, grew
alarmed. The assembly must be counter
handed, come might. Prevention is
Sc much easier than cure. They made
earnest representations to the ear. one of |
the most influential among them going
so far as TO say that il the zemstvo prest-
came together with the permission
the government. their assembly would
be the beginning of the end"
Ihereupon the emperor summoned his
ard learned that the 18th of No
Nemoer was the date fixed, but that it
might be postponed till January. He re-
fused, however, 10 authorize It at all.
5,But the authorization has been already
promised urged Prince Svyatopolk-
Mirski.
We'll, later on. we may see more clear
Iy.' replied the car.
This conversation was reported bv the
minister the same evening to NJ. Shipo!Y. |
he president of the assembly. whereupon
he zeinstvo presidents resolved to meet
privately and without official autbor.za-
don. The advantage OF this procedure
rom the government point of view lay in
the circumstance that the resolutions
which the council might pass would be
those Of a hundred unofficial individuals.
upon no oae. From the peoples
ooint of view the authorization was a
meaningless Formally. For ali Russia,
men said. is united. all Russia calls for a
'oice In governing itself. and once the
mass is set rolling it Will grow into an
and sweep away all obstacles
o its progress.
Historic Day for Russia.
Tn l9th of November is henceforth a
historic date in Russian a~nnals-analo-
one might say, to the 4th of May in
'rerevoIutionary France, when the states
met. on that fateful Saturday
ninety-eight out OF the 40 in
'ited zemstvo leaders gathered together in
house on the River F~ontanka and
u .llara.GlA-a.-