The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-22
No Other Alternative.

simply lnflanlng the people TO anarchy.
Last night the police dispersed a nest
OF terrorists in which they found two
members of Parliament actually discuss
ing a list of persons condemned to be as
sasslnated. We believe the Russian people
are growing tired of anarchy and polt-
ical murder. The value of a policeman's
life has fallen at Warsaw to 30 kopecs
Q5 cents), and 1t is easy to hire an as
sassln for that sum. Russia is not like
foreign countries, America for instance,
where when one government falls another
is ready to take Its place. Here the
masses are practically uneducated The
government represents the thin veneer of
civilization which covers the country, and
II removed, there is nothing to replace II.
The government must hold on until a
stable regime is assured or anarchy will
supervene."
NJ Meyermoloff, former minister of ag-
riculture and leader of the conserva-
tive centrists in the lower house. who
several weeks ago vainly tried to form
coalition ministry. in conversation with
the correspondent of the Associated Press
tonight. declared that the situation was
extremely serious. He was without hope.
however. that conflict could be averted.
Fears No Revolutionary Cataclysm.
1.-THE situation is so complicated" he
said, that it is impossible for any one
TO predict the course of future events,
but | feel safe in predicting two things
first that Russia will come to consti-
tutional basis second, that there will be
no great revolutionary eataclysm in the
sense that foreigners anticipate. People
abroad speak of the coming revolution in
Russia while failing to understand that
passive revolution has been IN progress
for forty years. The active revolution be-
gan with the assembling of the first zen-
stvo congress a year ago.
1.-The present trend of affairs is only a
natural accompaniment of the birth of
the new order of things. The main OBJ
stacle to the work OF the peaceful re-
construction of the state is the implacable
attitude of the different elements which
are fighting the government. OF course
1t is useless TO expect anything from
the extreme revolutionists whose object
is not reckoned but the dissolution of
the whole fabric of the government The
more intelligent of the constitutional DEM
ocrats, however, from whom much has
been expected instead of accepting the
elementary principle of practical politics.
that progress is made by a compromise
committed the mistake of thinking that
they could ride on a revolutionary whirl-
wind into power. Two weeks ago they
could have had the ministry IL they had
been willing to discard what was i'm
practicable in their programme. Now that
the extreme left has definitely broken
with them. they begin to appreciate their
blunder, If their prestige is not destroy
ed by theirs tactics and they have at
last come to their senses, perhaps 1t
may not be too late to tide over the pres
ent situation with a mixed ministry rep
resenting the liberal and conservative fac
tons, and in which they could partici-
pate.
Driven to Dictatorship.
sOtherxx-isa thew re hound Ia Shara the
fate of their prototypes-the Girondist
doctrinairies of the French revolution,
and the government must be driven to a
dictatorship. There is much truth in the
contention Of the government that par
Lament no longer represents the real