Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-03-26
HIGH OFFICIAL SAYS REFORM
SCHEME MAY BE ABANDONED
IT Parliament Attempts to Dethrone
Gar and Wipe Out the Old
Regime National Dis
aster MayFoIIow,

st. Petersburg, Mar. 25.-The Asso
~ciated Press is able to give the re.
suits of an important conversation
with a high parsonage regarding tho
situation in Russia. Neither the nainC
nor position of this parsonage can bC
indicated, but his competency to speak
upon the situation can be vouched for
The conversation which covered a
wide range left the distinct impies.
sion that the assembling of the ma
tional parliament would bring a crisis
but not the one anticipated abroad
The government evidently is absolute
ly convinced that an armed revolution
or general uprising which would me-
mace its life is no longer possible ana
that the danger is not that the gov
ernment will be overthrown. but that
it will be driven to abandon its path
of reform.
The guerrilla warfare which rcvu-
lutionists are at present conducting, "
said the parsonage referr ed to, can
not succeed Acts Of terrorism doubt.
less will continue-vengeance may he
police masters; Count Witte premier
and minister of the interior Durnova
may be assassinated; banks and
buildings may be blown up ana there
may even be riots here and there
but attempts to produce widespread
rlsings In cities or a repetition Of
railroad strikes are doomed to failure.
The government has a firm grip ald
every measure to prevent eXcesses will
be taken. The weight of the troops
alone renders a revolution impOssi-
Bile.
SHOULD there be Agrarian disorders
in the summer they will not be revo-
lutionary in character for tae peas
ants of Russia are true to the emper-
or. The danger lies in another lirec-
tion.
1T Is not a question of the fault Of
the government but of whether re-
form or reaction will prevail-wheth-
er the present struggle to supplant the
old regime and secure larger liberties
for the people will enter the paria'
mentary phase, or a counter revo-
luton will sweep away the entire pro-
gram on which the government has
entered The emperor is sincerely
and honestly desirous of meeting the
wishes of his people and has given
them his word to this effect But II
reactionary party exists. 1t is COM
posed of the aristocracy with powerful
backing In high places and above all
1t enjoys the support of the military
faction which in a country ike Rus
sia Is an immense factor. The mill
tary is naturally reactionary. An Of
ficer prefers to serve a Napoleon rath-
er than a parliament. After thirtN-
years as a republic strong royaiigt
faction still exists in the French
army.
Nevertheless at the present mo-
ment the reactionary party is weak
and powerless. IT lacks public con-
fidence. II is easily conceivable, how
ever, that the situation might sudden
ly change should an opportunity to
strike come. Should parliament at
tempt to take the bull by the horns
for the deposition of the emperor and
the destruction Of the whole fabric
of government, the new regime might
be overwhelmed with disaster. a
large element of the population espec-
tally the masses who had no share in
the revolution and who reverence tae
emperor as a God-given ruler, might
be aroused TO action by the reaction
aries, and the emperor seeing the rev.
olutionarles on one side attempting
to go too far and In the face Of what
seemed to be popular demand for
the restoration of the old regime.
might will not not say ne would
yield to what he considered the wish
of his subjects"