The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-26
RUSS REFORMaIN DANGER
It May Be Crushed by Reactionary
. Il Com.

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Coup. I
st. Petersburg, March ga high
parsonage, whose competency to speak
upon the situation Sin Russia can be
vouched for. says, the government is
convinced that an armed revolution or
general uprising which will menace it's
life is no longer possible, but that there
is danger now that the government
will be driven to abandon its path of
reform.
"The guerrilla warfare which the re-
volutlonists at present are conducting,'
said the parsonage referred to, .''can-
| not succeed. Acts of terrorism doubt
less will continue-vengeance may be
| wreaked upon governors general and
police masters; Count Witte, the pre-
mier, and Minister of the Interior Dur
novo may be assassinated, banks and
buildings may be blown up, and there
may even be riots here and there, but
attempts to produce widespread risings
in the cities, or repetition Of the rail
road strike are doomed to failure. The
government has a firm grip and every
measure to prevent excuses will be
taken. ~.
49, Reform VS.. Reaction.
=" It is not now question of the fall
Of the government, but of whether re-
| form or reaction will prevail-whether
| the present struggle to supplant the
| old regime and secure larger liberties
for the people will enter the parlia-
ment phase or a counter revolution will
sweep away the entire program on
which the government has entered. The
/ emperor is sincerely and honestly de-
sirous Of meeting the wishes of his
| hoe -
this effect. But a reactionary party
exists. It lacks the public follow
ing without which it dare not move.
But should the parliament attempt
to take the bull by the horns for the
| deposition of the emperor and the de.
struction of the whole fabric of gov
eminent, the new regime might be
overwhelmed with disaster. A large
element of the population, especially
revolution and who. reverence the EN-.
peror as, d Godsgiven ritter, nught he
arousedsto action by che reactionaries,
and the emperor, seeing the revolution.
aries on one side attempting to 90 too
Tar, and in the face of what might
seem to- be popular demand for The
restoration of the old regime, might
1 will not say he would-yield to what
be, considered the wish of>his subjects
l Ihe charges that the government is
interfering with the elections are .un
-. .,.., Jews Hurt Their Cause.
Recent developments have undoubt
edly preeiudiced the position of the
Jews, The emperor wanted to see Jus
t1ee done and the public sympathized
with their demand for equality before
TIE NV but, unhappily, the attitude
| Of bo -, -
festo has alienated much Of the sym
they have been guilty of excessef
everywhere, that they were on the
firing line in the revolution and INC
longer contented themselves by asking
for equality with the Russians, but in
sisted on the complete downfall of thu
hostile sentiment among the Russian
people:
r ever, and the one on which the futur
of the country and Its prosperity de
J ponds, is the adoption Of some metho,
for satisfying the land hunger Of tn
peasants who comprise 80 per cent O.
Russia s immense population.
"Count Witte is almost on the verg
Of a breakdown 49,.
3 Gapon Defends His Character.
: Father Gapon in frank open lette
< today, replies to the attacks on his pub
S lie and private life, announces that h
= has instructed his lawyer, M. Margolir
t to bring an action for defamation O
character against his detractors, and de
i MES the charge of betraying and aban
: doning a girl while he was a prise,
chaplain. Gapon explains that, refus
: ing to follow the rule Of the orthodo
church, prohibiting the remarriage O
priests, which he declares drives tn
clergy to secret immortality, he took. t
his bosom as his wife a girl whom h
loved, and that she is still living wit
him. "
T Continuing, Gapon declares, that, O
the $4,000 which Premier Witte CAV
thru former Commerce Minister Timir
azef for the restoration of the Gapo
labor organization, he only receive
$4,000, all Of which was used to help tn
workmen. The remainder was stole
b by 9Mathushensky, the press agent an
real director Of the Gapon movement
who was arrested at Saratoff an
e brought to St. Petersburg for trial.
S Regarding the charges Of gambling 6
0 Monte Carlo with "mysterious money
$ Gapon says:
q "During the bloody uprising at Mo
n cow, received money for literar
L work, and while abroad out of simp
curiosity I played for small stakes. /
L review OF my connection with the worl
men s movement will prove that I new,
was an agent of the government, ar
: that labored solely in the interests
L the workmen.'
- When he returned to St. Petersbur
y Gapon admits, he communicated vii
- Count Witte, who gave him PERM
- sion to live here, believing that h
= work was constructive, and not d
II structive.'
lg Gear Takes Firmer Tone.
e. Emperor Nicholas, in receiving
- deputation of peasants from Kaz;
= province today, employed q new al
stronger tone. He said nothing abo
Us satisfying their land hunger, and spol
nt only of the inviolability Of propert
e informing the peasants that a rect
T. renee of agrarian disorders and the q
IT struction of property would not on
IN be punished in the most severe fas
vs. ion, but the communities participate
ut in the disorders would be deprived
be the assistance Of the peasant banks.
st The papers continue to print rume
,e, Of Whites resignation, which, they Sc
er has been offered to the emperor but \