The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-03-04
CAR IS HIS own
MAN Of POWER
Distinguished Russian Says
Sergius and Won Plehve
Were His Puppets.

AONDON, March 1.-The mangled body
OF sersius is ia Its casket. The mutilated
SHOWS. How many more men of the Rus
sian officialdom must be sacrificed be-
fore the truth filters down through the
masses Of Russia that neither of these
ceded them ever was responsible for the
acts OF the Gear, but that he is his own
counsellor, and that on him rests. all the
responsibility for the wrongs of the ma
, This charge is made by distinguished
Russian In most remarkable anony-
nous article in the National Review, just
issued issued which paints the: portrait Of the
ever been painted before.
HIS chief point, indeed the sole point he
makes is that the car alone is RESPONSE
PIE for what Russia does, and will not
Al reports that he is ruled by this man
or that are false He is not only autocrat
out absolute autrocrat.
DutifuI Son and Model Husband.
In the beginning of the article the au-
thor draws a distinction between the car
as FAMILY man and the car as an auto
crat. In the former relation the car is
tender father. To be with his children,
and to brighten their lives. he will forego
the discharge of clerical duties of hing
ship. What, for instance could be more
touching Or sympathetic than the picture
which the court1ers draw for US of the
dread autocrat Of all Russia anxiously
experimenting the details of the bath
Ing Of his little son, the Grand Duke of
Alexis, at the height of the diplomatic
storm raised by the North Sea incident.
Thoughts on His Heir, Not His Fleet.
What. could be more idylic than the
pretty human weakness betokened by the
joyful exclamation with which the great
potentate suddenly interrupted Rojdest-
yensky, who was making a report on the
But are you aware that he weighs
who, your majesty?' asked the adj
miral his mind entangled in the ques-
lions of displacement, quick-flring guns.
and other kindred matters.
THE heir to the throne" answered the
happy father.
One of the most striking facts about
the car Is his isolation. which Is like
ex-Dalai Lama in his monastry, is thus:
There is not one minister now in the
emperor's chamber sufficiently magnetic
in manner or dazzling in mind to fasci-
imperial MASTER"
Such men az NM. Probiedonosteseff,
Witte. and Won Plehve had no real in
fuence, but there was an idea that they
were responsible for what was done in the
name Of the car.
Bomb Blew Down His Sanctuary.
The bomb which blew up Won Plehve
exploded that idea, and with 1t fell the
pillars Of the sanctuary in which at criti-
uge. And at present one can not con-
template without a tinge Of pain the
sight, Of the slender figure Of the self
complacent autocrat standing over
against the elemental force of seeth-
Ing mass Of men, of whom all seem dis
contented, and many ,are menancinB.
It affects one Ike the sight Of q stone
deaf man sauntering cheerfully along
nF pe nS WHINE n nd *
warn neither the pedestrian nor. the en-
CINE driver. Since Won Plehve's death
the word has gone forth that Nicholas
and the ministers are but the menials
of both.
Nicholas II Is His Own Master.
self answerable for his men and measures
such being his imperial will and pleas
ure.
If some of the men are unclean mons
tiers, grand ducal harpies' who rob
the people Of their substance, and ''break
the records''of vice and crime without
he who toierates or shields, and befriends
them shares the odium OF their misdeeds
and participates in their risks.
If the czar robs Finland Of her liberties
despoiles Armenian schools and churches,
suppresses the nationality Of the Poles.
and keeps the Russians more miserable
than any foreign element of our popu-
lation, we may discuss his motives, but
we can not question his responsibility.
But 1t is only Of late that 1t has become
known that the czar has long been his
own adviser and his own government.
He now stands forth "as the author Of
the present sanguinary war, the marplot
of the military staff, and the main OBJ
stacle to the peace to which he has 10
often done lin worship"