The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-01
SIDELqHTS ON THE Kqs s.. IL l. H0n AND Low PLACES

things from the car Each one is in !
dependent and responsible to the en- |
perOr only 1t would take giant in (
teIIectually and physically TO rule Rus
STA in way that would commend it /
self to the civilized world. The ear !
would have to be a first-class admiral |
an able general. a great lawyer. an |
astute economist and postmaster in |
diplomacy The car is a small man
physically-measurin only about five
feet, six inches ana a half. He pos
ssSseS no intellectual ability, and. al
though a weli-meaning man, with a
good heart and clean morals, he can be
truthfully regarded I'm no other light
than that of a weak character. All
power in Russia circles about the min
lister of the interior. but the body OF
grand dukes practically constitute the
head of the government They form
masterful nucleus; to oppose them
means annihilation-not only for the
people, but the emperor. 1t can never
be forgotten that Alexander the Sec
ond's method OF freeing the serfs and
instituting other reforms was bitterly
opposed by the grand dukes, and that
they were the instigators of his as
sassination. and not the nihilists.
j Alexander the Third had a policy which
vas quite tiorlary-the opposite OF
bis fathers. 1t was the swinging of
| the pendulum. The grand dukes can't
be tried; they are part of the system
| OF government. Their logic is that If
| they should be attacked. the founda-
| lions of the em9eror'S throne would
| suffer violence. If the car should APP
| zeal to the people, he would be de-
stroyed. The only hope is that the
army viii refuse to go with the present
system and side with the people. Then
| would come a collapse of the whole
| governmental structire. The policy OF
the revolutionIsts during the last few
years is to leave the emperor alone and
| strike at the ministers. Each man
| who has the place of minister OF the
| interior holds il at the risk of his life
| hut ali the ministers have been threat
| ened- 1t gives one an Uncanny Sensa-
ton as he goes about St Petersburg to
| hear persons say continually: That
church rests on TIE spot where Alex
ahder the Second was assaSSinated.
That lamppost marks the place where
the minister was lately murdered.
That hotel is where the young student
was killed by the dynamite which he
vas preparing TO throw at the min
lister when the car and his officials
| should be passing by to review the
troops. That is the point in the yard
81 the Winter Palace where the three
| Casks of dynamite were found which
bad been secretly slipped in to kill the
emperor" The car is the loneliest man
III the world TO-DAY and the one most
TO be pitiedI He is closed about by a
/
can ne trust? Peterhof Is the seat OF
the emperor's summer residence 1t Is
out by train a short distance from St
. ! Petersburg From the station there is
, q beautiful drive through woods until
the little village is reached. In q
handsome park, upon its outskirts, are
the buildings where the car and his
/ entire suite live for a certain length OF
ltInle each year On ali sides are Of
! flcers and guards. At the point where
, the little chapel stands in which the
, { rown prince was lately baptized. {
r winding road Neads through "A forest Il
> q ledge of land washed by the Gulf O.
: Finland. There is the cars palace
z SURROUNDED by wall. and there, il
) solitude, he lives with his family. Al
+ ! that is seen of the house is "A tower a:
: one stands on the ssawaTd porch of tn
home of Peter the Great and look!
I | down tn eStretch of water. Stationed
: al the entrance to the road, whose ter
g lt1lnus is the cars palace. a guard Il
: seen day and night. standing with {
I drawn sword in his hand and witt
o / Sleathed swords and other weapon
= strapped about him. The car is, in re
I 9lity. a prisoner The peasant woman
y / IN the field and the laborer upon TIL
;. cocks know more ofsfreedom. He couh
\ abdicate and thus be rid of the haunt
= / ing terror OF ASSASSINATION. VIII.
e | doesn't he? Well, power is substanc
: | precious 10 the human heart; besides
n The crown has come TO him through
= ! centuries as a heritage OF blood-and
n from his standpoint. conscience has
: Fart to play in holding to it,
< BELLE KEARNEY.