The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-25

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lahurs. The DuinH ~ not the rcleN ~
Russia In the -cn~' which the British AMI
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In the Russian Chamber there il almost
u complete absence nf local notahles, and
generally uf prr~pus who IN 10Y u reputa-
ton In the country II iH not RuSsln that
the Dima represent =. hut the poll lcal
LAYER az the population which for the past
WI wears has been carving on the revoli-
tiunary propaganda In the land. and II II
the alliance of these political intelleCtuals'
with men of the evolutionary terror which
has slamped upon the physiognomy of
the Duma iis manifest, impress"
Settinp aside the Poles and a handful
Of Progressive Conservatives the writer
divides the Dnma, despite all groups and
factions into two main camps, the Cadets +,
or Constitutional Democrats. and Labor
isis. The former are irving TO transform
the Dnina into a national convention on the
model OF that of the French revolutionists.
He adds:
For the gentlemen who compose the
Labor party the Duma il nothing more
thar a convenient centre. where conspiracies
can he Matched with impunity and the
working masses revolutionized. Their
ultimate aim il a struggle for the purpose
of subye rsion. to be followed by the erection
of a proIetarian republic on the ruins of
the middle class edifce. This wild beast
wa plotted by the cadets to the voting
booths and led into the Duma chained and
muzzled as they fancied.
Their intention was to get it to terrlfy
the Government with the roaring of the
beast, while the cadets would carry out
their design, but the beast is now throwing
of it's muzzle, and tomorrow or the day
after the Russian conventionnels may feel
the fists of the Labor party on their heads.
Summing up these and other CRITICISMS,
the ANONYMOUS Minister ~foretells the dis
solution Of the new Parliament, which, as
the world believes, Is no" ohly Pos'poneu
until the occasion is apparently safer. ne
says.
The first Russian Duma Is an aoorllon'
This fact is becoming more ana more oo'i-
GUS even to the cadets. 1t Is incapapIe Oh
working, incapable OF llV.hg' hehce 'he
dissolution of the Duna Ia merely d queS-
ton OF time, ana prooaoiy no Pfo'iao'''
time. Dissolution is Indispensable not so
much because the provocative debates
OF the Duma are revolutionizing the coun-
try more and more az because the present
composition of the Chamber is discreditlng
the principle of national representation.
Nevertheless the writer sees that autoo-
racy is dead, and says:
TO return to bureaucratic aDSoiutlsm
is impossible. The tremendous diflcultles
of the present moment consist on the one
hand in the full recognition that it is abso-
lntely necessary TO renew the WORKOUT
framework of the Government and to renew
il by national representation, whereas, on
the other hand, the first attempt has proved
n failure and calls for corrective changes.
but il il more difficult to remedy the evil
than il would have been to hinder it, for
nov the nAion is a feyerish patient and il
nervous.
4Tbs .ies OF the Russian revolu-
.,an have aIao IN be taken into account.
=, il os wida,v scattered as it is unable to
a.,o,a tor it.a,f a conscious organ. The
na,taa l., ooyered with ~noIiticaI erzema