The Cairo bulletin., 1905-11-02
HAND Or TYRANY
PALS|EO FOREVER
James CreeIman Tells Of Now
Dead Systems In Russia
POWER OF The CHURCH
BROKEN BY cZAR'S MANIFESTO
SECRET ARREST AND DE-
PORTATiON is NOW
IMPOSSIBLE.

ears surrender to his people it Is
necessary 10 know that even the new
Russian Prime Minister vine secured
the imperial signature 10 Russia's
magma charta" has been firm dc.
fende. of autocracy, and as recently
as his visit TO the United States de-
clarde his belief that greater and
more desirable reforms could be
brought about by an honest and in
telligent absolutism than through the
loose and premature experiments in
constitutional and Legislative govern
ment.
Wltte came to America this year
believing there was no middle class
IN his country and that without such
a bridge between the corrupt, AFRO
giant aristocracy and the ignorant,
scattered. and inert peasantry, consti-
tutional government would be a farce
He went back 10 find that organized
labor, working under the advice of ex-
peflenced labor leaders from other
Europeand countries. notably Ger
many. had taken the place of the old
conception of a middle class.
The most powerful despotism in the
world, with more than a million armed
men at it's command, has crnmbled
in the presence of a comparatively
peaceful strike OF factory and railroad
employees, led in many instances by
young students.
The Interchangeable guarantee of
freedom of conscience" read in the
light Of Whites written plea for
equality before the laws Of all Rus.
slams, without distinction of race or
religion Ia document which the czar
inscribed ito be taken for a guide
not only removes the cruel and unjust
disabilities of the 100000 RI sian
Jews, but paralyzes the political power
of the Holy Orthodox church, that ter
rible and relentless system which has
thus far prevented the education of
the Russian masses.
No one who has lived in Russia can
doubt that with the disappearance of
the exclusive medieval prerogatives of
the orthodox church. to proselytize or
to secede from which was a grave
crime, the mightiest bulwark of OPP
preston falls. This will clear the way
for a genuine free public school sys.
tenn and compulsory education.
The creation of a Russian parla-
ment with real legislative. rather than
advisory, powers-a body without
whose consent no law can be enforced
in the empire, gains its supreme value
in the fact that virtually universal sui.
frage has been granted.
To appreciate the difference be
tween this new scheme of representa-
tive government and the advisory
douma provided for in the imperial
manifesto of August, it is only neces-
sary TO recall the fact that under the
plan by which the douma was to be
elected St Petersburg, with 100000
would have only $500
voters, including 1877 Jews. and Mos
cow with more than 1,0O0.OJO inhabi.
ANTS, would have only 1000 voters.
II was intended that in rural com
the 90000,000 peasants
should have altogether 2,5O5 votes, as
against 1872 of the landed propr.etors
and 1854 of the municipal councils.
With the extension of the right TO
1ote to the masses of Russians. one
gets an idea of the proportions OF the
,zar's surrender. expressed in IAN un
rule that no law shall be
without the approval of
he state douma"
Up TO this time the sole legislative |
md executive power has been the |
PERSONAL will of the car. HencefOrth |
he cannot enforce a single decree with |
mt the consent of his people. The |
Guarantee of the right of habeas cor
,us and of ''inviolability of person"
weeps away at a single stroke the
Ireadful system of secret arrest.
ecret trial and secret deportation.
II robs the Minister of the Interior
nd his police of their terrors With
rec speech and the right of associa-
on and union political parties may
e formed and the future of Russia
rorked out in the open. Nothing is
aid about trial by jury. but the new
arliament will have power for that
Hitherto there has been no cabinet.
o ministerial responsibility. The abb
dilute car dealt with his min sters
eparately. The particular minister
Tho happened TO gain aseendancy
yer his soverign's mind became for
he time the real ruler.
He could interfere with or control
ny or all depart ments of the govern.
lent. Somtimes it was the minister
{ finance who zuled: sometimes the
linister of he nicr.or. and some
mes the minister OF war. The minis
ers plotted against each other They
aldom worked together.
The new cabinet must work in ac-
ord with the prime minister. Count
litte. and the people Of Russia.
trough their parliament. will prob-
bly, be able. as in Great Britain to
)mpel their sovereign 10 dismiss his
inisters by simply refusing their as
ms to revenue raising or equally i'm
1rtant laws.
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