The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-23

only a fey score of individuals who
have approached him accidentally, or
through various intrigues, and who
carefully screen from him all those who
might replace them. So that the Car
chooses not from those thousands of ac-
tive, energetic, eruly enlightened and
honest men who are anxious for social
work, but only from those concerning
whom Beaumarchals used to say:
Mediocre ct rampant; ct on parvient a
tout" And if many Russian people
might be ready to obey the Car, they
cannot, without feeling insulted, obey
those of their own circle whom they de-
spise, and who so often rule the nation
in the name of the Car.
In regard to the devotion of the peo-
pie to autocracy and its representative
the Czar-yOu are probably misled by
the circumstance that when meeting
you in Moscow and in other towns
crowds Of people shout "Hurrah," and
run after you. Do not believe that this
is an expression of devotion to you
these are only crowds of the curious,
who in the same way would run after
any unusual spectacle! Moreover, these
people, whom you take to be the de-
monstrators of popular devotion to you,
are often nothing more than a crowd
collected and instructed by the police
for the purpose of representing people
devoted to you-as, for example, was
tht case with your grandfather at
Kharkov, when the cathedral was full
of the people" only they all consisted
of disguised constables.
So. during the passage of the imper.
ial train. if you could but walk about
among the line of peasants stationed
behind the troops along the whole OF
the railway and hear what is said by
these reconsideration village elders
driven there from the neighborhood to
remain in the cold and dirt, without re-
enumeration, eating their own bread,
awaiting during several days the pass
ing of the train-you would hear from
the most genuine representatives of the
people. simle peasants, all along the
line, words quite incompatible with de-
votion to autocracy and its representa-
tive. If some fifty years ago, during
the reign of Nicholas T., the prestige of
the Cars power was still high, during
the last thirty years it has been inces-
sanity falling, and has latterly fallen SO
low that among all classes no one nov
restraints himself from condemning not
only the measures of the government,
but also the Car himself, abusing and
laughing at him.
( Autocracy is an outgrown form of
government which may answer to the
demands of people somewhere in CEN
trail Africa, apart from the whole world,
but not the demands of the Russian
people, which is growing ever more en-
lightened by the enlightenment common
to the whole world, and therefore it is
possible to maintain this form of gov.
eminent and the orthodoxy connected
with it-as, indeed, is now being done
only by every kind of violence, special
control, arbitrary exilements. execu-
tons, religious persecution, prohibi-
tons Of books and papers, distortion Of
education, and, in general, every kind
of bad and cruel deeds
Such have hitherto been the actions
Of your reign, beginning with the an
swer to the Tyer deputatien, which
called forth the general indignation of
all the Russian public, when you called
the most legitimate desires Of the peo-
pie ''senseless dreamings, : and continu-
ing in all your measures concerning
, Finland, Chinese appropriations. your
project Of the Hague conference accom-,
panied by the increase of the army,
your weakening of self government and
strengthening of administrative despo-
tism, your supporter persecution for
faith, your consent to the institution of
the spirit monopoly. e., governmental
trading in that poison which is running
the people-and, lastly, your insistence
in maintaining corporal punishment
Notwithstanding all the petitions which
are being addressed to you for the abo-
lition of this senseless and utterly use
less measure which disgraces the Rus
sian people. All these are deeds which
you could not have committed had you
not, according to the advice of your
light-minded helpers. put before your.
self the impossible ain not only of ar
resting the life of the people, but of re-
verting it to itssformer and outlived
condition.
BY measures of coercion one can OPP,
press a people, but not rule them. The
only means in our time to rule the peo-
pie indeed is placing ones self at the
head Of the movement of the people
from evil to good, from darkness to
light, to lead them t the attainment Of
the objects nearest to this end. In or
der to be able to do this it is first of all
necessary to give the people thespossi-
bility of expressing their desires and
wants, then lending ear to these desires
and wants, to fulfil those Of them which
will answer the demands not of one
class of category, but of the majority,
the mass of the working people.
The desires which the Russian people
would present express. We're 1t possible
for them to do SO, would, in my pinion,
be the following,
First of all, the working people would
say that they wish to be delivered from
those special laws which place them in
the position of a pariah, deprived of the
right Of all other citizens; then they
! would say that they desire dreedom of
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