Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-26

Russian revolution could
A Peculiar have been terminated long
Peonla ago. but they take small
note. II at all. Of the condi-
lions which are peculiar. First. there Is
the Russian mind: second. the existence
on the one hand In government Of a pow
erful and perverted class, the bureaucracy:
on tho other. the revolutionist and an
archist. The revolution in Russia for fact.
until now. has been mainly confined to
struggles for supremacy between these two
unsympathetic elements.
The spectacle Of the dissolved duma, COM
posed In great part of revolutionary parties,
chief among them the social democrats and
the Jews, uniting in an appeal for "a de-
down the imperial government and the au-
thorfties depending thereon. for such Is the
language. would be considered az rank
treason In any country besides Russia.
The emperor has been criticised severely
even by those who are not Russophobes,
for having dissolved the duma. but frank
ly, government appeared to have exhausted
all efforts to establish q modus vivendi with
its implacable members. NJ, Stolypn was
perhaps just in saying: 'The duma, as a
whole, was q dying body. and the most
merciful treatment was prompt dispatch
putting q term to its Improbable ex-
istence" In all justice the dumas revolu-
tionary methods would scarcely have been
tolerated in any country.
The Outlook (Lond0n) OF the lltn instant
says apropos to the foregoing:
IF the Russian government has displayed
marked inability to govern, the same should
be said OF the revolutionaries. Both at st.
Petersburg and Moscow the general strike
ordered in resounding manifestos has been
an abject failure, and the fiasco has shown
once more that the opinions of the st. Pet
ersburg correspondents are almost worth
less, when Russians themselves confess that
they are helpless not only to penetrate
the future. but to predict what day may
bring forth; still worse Is the position Of
the foreign journalists. With but two or
three exceptions they are like the man
standing upon three-legged stool to
study the moon.
1.-The last traces OF the recent mutinies
have been extinguished and 1t Is clear that,
although some regiments have been In
dubitably infected by the revolutionary
programmes we have been piled for months
with secondhand exaggerations as to the
state Of the Russian army Whenever one
battalion has mutinied, no method or de-
termination has been shown, and ten bat
talions have been found to crush the dis
affected. The hope of great military In
surrection in the near future has been
abandoned by those who counted upon It,
The government is far better prepared to
deal with organized outbreaks Of every kind
than during last December or October. The
revolutionary socialists, the social demo-
Gratis, parties which may be distinguished
as the bright reds and the dark reds,
ure of the strikes
What sympathy the foreign correspondents
in Russia may hope to awaken in Europe
or America in favor Of one or the other
of these reds it is difficult to imagine. We
may not approve of the government of the
car, but certainly the government of the
reds does not offer an alluring prospect.
Prof Schiemann has been much quoted
by reason of his articles on Russian af-
fairs. The Outlook refers to
A German him in its issue Of the 18th
Opinion. instant as follows:
PROF. Schiemann, after his
Norwegian tour with the kaiser, has re-
turned to Berlin and resumes his articles in
the Kreuz-Zeitung. He quotes with ap-
prevail the opinions Of another Baltic Ger
man:
The revolution win not triumph. There
may be some blood-letting, but even then
the revolution will not win. Russia will
rise again as a great power in all her for
mer strength, but in a somewhat altered
and freer form. The constitution will not
be taken from the people, but order will be
maintained with an iron hand Opinions
like these to which the Wilhelmstrasse is
attaching due weight are a useful correct
I've Of the assumptions prevailing in this
country. Germany Is equally ready, as we
are warned by the Times correspondent
from Berlin. to finance the cars treasury
In case of extreme need, France must con-
form to this policy in the long run. and If
the prime minister's blind sentimentalisms
prevail the whole fabric of our recent sue
cess In foreign affairs. despite Sir Edward
Grey's efforts. will be brought to the
ground.
Apropos to the reference to Sir Edward
Grey. the writer finds it instructive to refer
to Sir Edwards speech In the house Of
commons, and reproduced in Les Questions
DiplOmatiques of July 10:
1.-THE less one comments on the affairs
of Russia the better. There are without
doubt great troubles in Russia, but there
are now three authorities which take
car. the ministry and parliament. Neither
of these three authorities is responsible for
the massacres. and there Is not one which
does not reprove them. An honorable MEM
Der has said Of the Russian government
that he had the proof that the government
was implicated In the massacres of Bielo-
stok. But the duma itself made an Inquiry,
and I am not aware that any accusation
Of that nature has been reported by the
duma against the central government On
the contrary, every speech pronounced IN
the duma is opposed absolutely to that
conclusion. I hold besides from source
worthy of confidence that the central gov
eminent of Russia has never contributed
to these incidents, and. more was not con-
scious of them. am certain, added Sir
Edward, that any Interference whatever In
reform party but one or the other Of the
parties, reactionary or revolutionary"
We have said that the Russian mind Is
impenetrable. In any other country what
would have been the effect Of the Odyssey
of the combat in the harbor of Chemulpo;
that of the helpless feet Of Rojestvensky In
the straits of Japan in the hopeless. futile
effort to reach Vladfvostok; that of the in
credible mutiny of the Potemkine; that Of
the bombardment of the ports of Sebasto-
pol, Cronstadt. Sveborg; that of the revolt
of the Regiment Preobre1ensky; that of the
garrisons from the Caucasus to Finland,
from the Ural to Poland with the massacre
of its officers? And yet Russia has not only
withstood such shocks as these. but has
forgiven If it has not forgotten them.
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M. Stolypin has been reported almost
daily as having resigned the task of con-
shutting q collective minis
Premier try. Having failed to induce
Stolvnin. the Octoberists to enter the
proposed combination he has
sought and found support with the new
party which calls ITSELF the pacific reno
walton party" This party, 1t Is said, has
adopted. as it's name indicates. policy OF
pacific renovation which is thus briefly In