The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-02-01
CIVIL WAR IN WARSAW
Continued from First Page.

At st. Petersburg Grand Duke Vladi-
mir uncle OF Emperor Nicholas and
commander of the imperial guard,
granted mn interview this morning ut
the dukes palace in Quay de Ia Cour,
adjoining the Winter palace. A cor
respondent was received IN the grand
dukes private study into which he
was ushered by the grand dukes aiu
de-camp, Prince Belaselsky
you must remember" said tne
grand duke in French for, while he
knows English perfectly, he prefers the
Galllc tongue to any except his own,
you must remember | am grand
duke and a subject Of the emperor.
AS such am extremely loyal to him.
and ! am Russian from the crown Of
my head to the tip of my toes" accom-
panylng the words with sweeping
gesture. "What information can l
give your"
'''rhe newspapers abroad suggested
the correspondent, have made many
statements regarding the events OF
Jan %"
Il know. | have read accounts in
the foreign press. have stood aghast
at the frightfu stories of the butchery
of innocent people Which they have
printed | know they say well inten-
toned patriots with a priest at their
head coming peacefully TO place their
grievances before his majesty, were
ruthlessly shot down in the streets, but
we know that behind this peaceful pro-
cession was an anarchstic and Social
istic plot of which the overwhelming
majority Of the workmen were merely
innocent tools. We know from exami-
nation Of the dead and those arrested
that some alleged priests were actually
revolutionary agitators and students in
disguise. We had to save the city from
a mob Unfortunately. to do so inno-
cent and guilty suffered alike But
suppose 10000 men had reached the
gates of the Winter palace. They
would have sacked ii as the mob sack
ed Versailles From the palace they
would have gone elsewhere, and the
! whole city would have been delivered
over to anarchy, riot, bloodshed and
| flames. Our duty was the duty OF
every government
1.-The same situation has confronted
| cities In other countries. Why, because
this occurred In Russia, should the
whole world point the finger of scorn
at us? In the midst of our difficulties,
why should we be turned upon? Why
should America especially misinterpret
and think III of us? We have always
been friends-friends Of a century,
friends when America needed friends.
! | remember when America was our
great friend. Why has all this chang
ed? What has Russia done to deserve
It? What has Russia done to Ameri-
/ ca? Why should the foreign press,
! especially that of Great Britain, not
hesitate before any calumny? No in
/ vention seems too horrible for them 10
print. They do not explain that on
/ Saturday every dead wall in st. Pc
/ tersburg was paearded with warnings
/ to the people not TO assemble. No but
/ they tell that thousands Of innocent
/ people were killed and other thousands
wounded and paint the streets rs run
ming red with blood. They even say
/ the dead were pushed under the ice Of
! the Neva at night. 1t is infamous,
1 They say nothing of isolated officers
set upon by mobs in the streets and
hammered into insensibility or Of po-
| licemen killed or wounded. AS mat
ter of fact, complete returns show that
exactly 1876 are dead. Several hun
precise figure of the wounded, but you
shall have an opportunity to see the
full reports
'They say that Gorky will be hang
ed" suggested the correspondent.
NONSENSE replied the grand duke.
at is asserted that some of the troops
refused to obey commands" was the
next suggestion.
"There Ia no question of the loyalty
of the troops,' asserted the grand duke.
"They did their duty. They are ready,
as l am ready, to die in the streets for
the emperor
| people speak of a constitution" said
the grand duke "A constitution would
mean the end of Russia, as the state
would be gone, anarchy would super
yene, and when IL ended the empire
would be disintegrated. Finland, Po-
land and perhaps other frontier prov
inces would have broken away. Russia
is not ripe for constitution. Go out
among the peasants, who comprise the
vast bulk of the empires population,
and try to explain to them government
by suffrage. The peasant knows moth
ing of government. He does not even
know what the word means. He knows
his emperor-fo for him the emperor Is
everything. Give the peasant vote
and all would be anarchy. Still there is
necessity for reforms, and they will be
granted by the autocracy."
Maintaining the principles OF autoc-
racy, then, the people will have an OPP
portunity to be heard in the govern
meut? questioned the correspondent.
Yes was the reply, they can, and
/ am sure they will be given voice
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