The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-12

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zemsky tabor On the contrary
believe il necessary"
In these words Emperor Nicholas,
whose mind is law, personally declared
himself i'm favor of a land congress
and expressed the conviction that the
time had come TO prepare to give the
people a voice in government.
The emperor's words were spoken i'm
the course Of conversation with
Count Leo Deonvitch TOlstoi, son of
the famous author, and fully confirm
the Associated Press interview with
Grand Duke Vladimir on Jan 81, in
which the grand duke expressly de-
Clared that his august nephew was in
favor Of a zemsky tabor. The semi
official denials subsequently sent out
are now disDroved by the sovereign's
statement to Count TOlstOi.
The Associated Press this evening
saw Count Tolstoi in a comfortable
house facing the TSauTis gardens. The
count is light of build and has dark
brown hair and beard. Speaking in
excellent English, Count Tolstoi said:
ToIstoi's Statement.
= suppose you have come to hear
about my audience at TsarskOe- Seio.
I cannot enter into details, because I
consider it unseemIy to do so, but I
am glad to state the broad lines of
conversation with my sovereign His
majesty summoned me after receiving
a memorial which I addressed to the
throne exposing the present situation
in the country and humbly expressing
the opinion that the interest of the
patton calls for the removal of the wall
raised up by the bureaucracy between
them, the urgent need of devising
means for enabling the sovereign to
hear the voice of the people and rec
ommending the conYOcation Of a zem-
sky tabor. His majesty assured me
that personally he was not opposed
to it's convocation. but, on the con-
trary, believed it necessary. The whole
question is now greatly simplified and
resolves itself to when is the most op-
perfume moment.
No Great Delay.
'I am not at liberty to relate the
emperor's views on the subject, but
you may announce to the American
people that the delay viii only be such
as is strictly necessary for the intro
duction of an innovation of such mag
nitude.
The great thing is that the empe-
ror is in favor of the zemsky tabor.
This dispeIs the legends obtaining cur
rency abroad or at home that the SOW
ereign miStrusts the people and Is abb
solutely opposed to the idea of a rep
resentative national assembly These
legends have caused immense harm
and have s0wn suspicion and diseon-
tent among the people, leading TO un-
rest and agitation and aSgravating Ia
Dor movements. whereas if the Rus
slams only understood the situation
they would refrain from rendering the
task of the refOrmer well nigh i'm
I possible
| ''NOnetheIess, / am optimistic and be-
| lieve we will succeed after all in bring
| ing the war TO a satisfactory conclusion.
| Then everything will assume its natural
course and reforms, including national
| representation, Will be introduced on a
Count Toistoi does not believe the pres
/ ent labor movement viii assume critical
| proportions. He thinks a solution or the
difficulty would be effected If masters
/ and men could see the emperor.
The emperOr'S words are likely TO dc
more good than any number of prOclama-
tons Count TOlstoi is trying to persuade
/ the manufacturers to be patient by means
OF articles IN which he points out the
poor results of sOcialistic propaganda
abroad and thinks it a pity that means
4 have not been devised for approaching
the WOrkmen ana discussing matters Oil
| rectly with them instead OF leaving tho
I field open to demagOgues- The count Is
/ conducting a phiianthrOphic enterprise in
/ the form of a cheap bookstore in which
/ he sells educational books and literature
/ TO ZemstvO schools and libraries.
A leading political worker. Alexander
/ Stoilpin. IN an interview with the AsSO-
( ciated Press. says:
! 4 feel certain that the zemsly tabor
! will soon be an accomplished fact. This
/ is certainly based on a universal desire
! of all classes in Russia for a resort tC
! suffrage by the people, and liberals and
t reactionaries are equally anxious for it
4 though for different reasons, the former
! because they are convinced and quite
( justly, that the people demand a zeInskS
| tabor and the latter, on the contrary, be
( cause they have come to believe what is
/ long proclaimed that the people do not
| want a zemsky tabor and that the best
! method of proving this claim is TO ap-
/ peal to the vote OF the nation
! Il believe the present strike viii moi
/ lead 10 a repetition of the blOOdshed 81
/ Jan -, because Governor General Ire
! pOff is too skilled in the art of policing Z
/ city to permit a crowd to get the upper
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