Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-13
POLAND WARNED
To KEEP QUIET
EFFORT TO GAIN FREEDOM
WILL BE SUPPRESSED
Imperial Government Serves Notice
That Any Move to Restore Old
Kingdom Will Be Put
Down With Force

the autocracy. The result is that all
the reform elements are distrustful Of
the government and take pride in hold
ing aloof as IL everybody connected
with the government was containing
ted, and there is no solid conservative
element to act as a brake upon those
who shrink from no political expert
ments, no matter how reckless.
The various groups into which the
liberals are splitting, and even those
who advocate the very constitutional
ism into which Count Witte is seeking
to conduct the government seemingly
would rather let the country drift in
anarchy than lift a finger to aid him.
The leaders display anything but dis
interested patriotism, having political
ambitions and being convinced that
the present is only a stop-gap govern
ment until the douma meets. They
prefer not to ieopardize their own fu-
ture by taking office in a government
marked for sacrifice, yet they appre-
ciate, as does Count Witte that the
old faction which ruled so long at
court will like to renew the struggle
for reaction. unhorse the new premier
and jettison the whole reform pro-
gram. They admit that Count Witte
is the only man in the present stage
of transition capable of coping with
the court carmarillo; nevertheless they
refuse to assist him to get q firm seat
in the saddle.
Gar Cannot Recede
The danger of reaction is hardly
worth serious consideration, however.
Even the discomfted advocates of the
old regime realize that the emperors
step is irrevocable, that he could not
withdraw it if he would and that any
n Mt -iV 1TN1ty 10, III,
titude of a usurper of the peoples
liberties would precipitate an immediate
crash in which he would be sure to lose
the throne. Nevertheless the failure of
the reform elements to break with the
Social Democrats and cooperate with
Count Witte may prove disastrous and
encourage the extreme agitators which |
would be apt to provoke a continuance
of clashes and in the end force the gov
ernment to resort to extreme measures, |
which. being interpreted as a return to
the policy of repression, might precipi |
tate uprisings.
Fortunately something like a realiza- |
tion of these dangers is coming home
to a small but growing class of
Liberals For instance. Prince Eugene |
Troubetskey, who declined to accept |
the portfolio of minister of education
affiliated is committed to a constituent
assembly, in an open letter to the pub
lie advises the people to support the
new government in it's efforts to restore
tranquility and Dmitri Shipoff and NJ. |
Gutchkoff, who also declined portfolios, |
have returned to Moscow with the in
tention of organizing a distinct party Of
Moderates to aid Count Witte.
The influential Slovo has become the
organ of 1.-The party of the ORDER" and
even the Russ, while indorsing the
action OF the Zemstvoists in refusing
Offices, thinks that they could with pro-
prety select a committee to act in an
advisory capacity with the government. |
Asrarian Disorders Threaten
The spread of agrarian disorders in |
Saratoff is a new and threatening phase /
of the situation, emphasizing the neces-
sity of quieting the country. 1t is sig |
nificant in connection with the fear OF |
mutiny among the troops that the |
council for national defense has taken |
occasion to issue a public statement to
the effect that army reforms for the
betterment of the conditions of the |
men, including the improvement of food |
and clothing and an increase of pay, |
are under consideration.
The retirement of Count Lamsdorf !
minister of foreign affairs. when the
douma meets is certain, but he may
continue in office until then. He is |
fitted neither by temperament or train |
ing to hold office in a ministry respon- |
sible to a parliament of which he would !
have to reply to impellatons. NJ.
d'Iswolsky Russian minister at Copen-
hagen, enjoys great favor at court, and
doubtless would be the emperors per-
sonal choice as successor to Count
Lamsdorff, but the eXigencies of the
situation later might compel the selec- |
tion of another
The new policy of national education
which is one of the principal planks of
Count Whites platform, will be inaugu-
rated by the transfer to the ministry of
education of all the imperial educa-
tional institutions which now are most
ly under the protection of the dowager
empress. Their endowment of $44, 500
will thus be added to the national edu-
cational fund.
Father Gapon has taken advantage
of the amnesty and is now on his way
to st. Petersburg.
The corrupt condition of the naval