Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23
ORDER AND REFORM In RUSSIA.

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ants with JOY The disorders in the country
have already diminished. which proves that
the people have confidence in the emperor
benevolence."
In The Star of July 20, discussing the dis
solution of the duma, the writer said: "All
things being equal. 1t is fair to conclude
that the duma which succeeds on the 7th OF
March, 1907, will have a very different
complexion from the one that Is now dis
solved"
For fact 1t is now officially stated that
none Of the signers Of the appeal at viborg
will be permitted to offer
The Next themselves for reelection, not
Duma. only because they will be pros
ecuted at that moment, but
many OF them having quilted Russia will
not be allowed to return. the participation
Of all such in the revolutionary conspiracy
having been divulged. Such Is the case
of M. Aladine, whose letters. addressed to
the garrisons at Sveaborg and Cronstadt.
also to the soldiers Of the Preobrojensky
regiment. signed by him as deputy, have
been given to the government. and hence
M. Aiadine and many others will find 1t
convenient to remain abroad. The signs are
that M. Stolypin will see that the next
duma will not be composed of such trou-
blous elements as the former.
The government according to the Agence
Hava, at st. Petersburg. declares that 1t Is
not at all alarmed at the recrudescence OF
terrorist crimes, and on the other hand 1t
would be a grave error to suppose that rev.
dictionary terrorism could or would create
a governmental terrorism And this declara-
ton is made because OF the statement that
the assassination Of Gen. Vanlarsky would
be the object of reprisal and that among
the persons selected for vengeance by the
41.,ff etc N.
kavitch, Kodicheff. Melonkon. Vinaver.
Hessen and all the revolutionary chiefs.
lie Petit Journal of the 1th instant. writ
ing Of the program of the cabinet Stoiypin,
says: 1.-The Stolypin cabinet does not seek
in its program to conceal the gravity OF the
situation. But in proclaiming the necessity
of checking the revolutionary current 1t
believes it possible to adopt at the saihe
time a liberal policy.
"At the moment when 1t was to be feared
that the policy of the Russian government
would inevitably tend toward reacton. sucn
attitude is an act of wisdom, almost an ACT
of courage. 1t remains to be seen whether
NJ Stolypin will be heard and understood.
Concerning the military and naval revolts
the correspondent of Les Debats from St
Petersburg furnishes the fol-
Military owing explanation with much
RavoIts detail. which~nust be reduced
The military revolts are wholly with
out political significance. 1t is charged
that they are the result of a social
list conspiracy, and again. that they are
separatist. due to the dissatisfaction IN
the Baltic provinces and the intrigues OF
the Firms, behind whom are the Swedes,
hereditary enemies of the Slav. who have
never renowned the hope of reconquering
Finland. And further, that behind the
Swedes are the Germanic and Anglo-Saxon
peoples, bitter enemies Of the orthodox
church and the Muscovite, and who, it is
no secret, encourage and furnish arms to
the Firms.
Another hypothesis is entertained, namely,
that the Russian military revolts SIM
liar to those of the Pretorians at Rome:
the Janissaries at STEAMBOAT; the Name
lukes in Egypt; the StrelitZ at Moscow. But
the comparison cannot be maintained, for
in the cases cited there were always chiefs
who led, and who had some avowed object
in view. In the Russian revolts there were
no leaders, not single superior officer. at
the head Of these so-called Instructions.
The radical and anarchist press in the oc-
cident affect to see In these military revolts
manifestation for liberty. The idea Is
comical and denotes complete ignorance of
the feelings and aspirations Of the Russian
soldier. The bloody revolt of the sailors of
the Prince Potemkine was simply an affair
Of bad cooking. The soup was bad, and the
beef detestable during two or three days.
The captain was Informed by the Neuten-
ant, but no attention being paid thereto.
staff were massacred.
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The causes of insurrection at Liebau and
Poltava were the standardization to the
wants of the soldier
Causes OF and bad food. There
Instruction. chief at the
head. and there was
no politics, only bad soup and bad beef.
The Preobrajensky regiment formed in
1886 was at Krasnoe-Selo when there was
mutiny in the LIST Battalion. A secretary
and two non-commissioned officers submit
ted the complaints. The so-called revolt
was promptly nipped in the bud. the leaders
imprisoned and the battalion disgraced and
exiled to the village of Medvied.
The list of grefs submitted is a curious
indication of the Russian soul. There are
nineteen paragraphs and among these two
or three only which touch upon politics.
Article seventeen declared adhesion to me
resolution of the duma, which demanded
increase Of cultivable lands to be conceded
to the peasant.
l. Article nineteen said: "Our device Is all
for one; one for all meiooramatic
phrase without much sense interpreted by
the socialist conspirator as license to loot.
but which meant to the brave but simple
soldier union and solidarity for his reg1-
ment Article may be set down per
haps as subversive of military discipline:
There shall be a library furnished the
regiment in which liberal reviews hereto
fore prohibited will be admitted.
Article / is cited because 1t constitutes
the clou-the point Of the revolt: Every Of
ficer shall be held to treat his subordinates
with humanity!
The rest of the reclamations were chiefly
devoted to questions of alimentation, uni.
form, discipline and the material wants Of
the soldier all of which emphasized the in
efficiency and culpability of the officer.
Americans may consider themselves for
tunate that they have no troublesome So
cialists yet to sap the morale Of their SOL
diery and create discomfort and mutiny
under pretext of politics.
The Russian soldier is like the Russian
peasant, of whom, In fact, he is a part.
He ask. for land because he would square
off his own when liberated he returns to
his village M. Stolypin, it is said, under
stands this aspiration, and thus we may
expect sa1,s to behold Russia once more at peace
LIE Temps of Paris on the 10Th instant
published an interview with Count Tolstoi.
who said that the real cause of trouble in
Russia was the absence Of authority. He
scoffed at the attempts of the revolution
ists
let us have no foreign constitutions"
he said. What suits England, where only
10 per cent of the population are peasants,
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