Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-27
Merely a Campaign Cry

They did not honestly believe in
either a general appropriation of land
or in complete amnesty. Their adj
vocacy of these features was merely
campaign cry. The premier stated
that the members of parliament
were not arrested for signing the VII
borg manifesto, because that would
merely have conferred a mild and
much desired martyrdom on them.
But they would be held responsible
| for the slightest attempt to preach to
their constituents on any of their doc
trines, such as refusal to pay taxes or
furnish recruits to the army.
There has been no coup d'etat and
nothing has been done which was not
in accordance with the prescribed con-
stitutional methods. The emperor was
empowered by the fundamental law to
dissolve the douma and there was no
other course open TO his majesty. The
douma, as whole, was dying body,
and the most merciful treatment was
its prompt dispatch, terminating it's
improbable existence"
Continuing, NJ. Stolypin said the en-
peror's recent words had shown that
parliament's agrarian manifesto was
the last straw which caused the cadets
| Constitutional Democrats) bubble to
burst, but the proceedings of parlia-
ment during the last few weeks had
| rendered its closing inevitable If the
emperors authority was still to be
recognized in Russia.
Draws Comparisons
In reply to a question as to the
roll of the cadets" M. Stolypin an
swered that the party included many
dilettant and doctrinaires without
policy or political substance He diff
| 14r4nfiHta0 "a csY
patriotic members of the party and
those whose sole aim was to GUST the
! government and the emperor. and
whose inherent weakness was so pat
ent even to themselves that they daily
made greater concessions to the reVo-
lutionists both inside and outside OF
parliament He considered that the
tendencies displayed by the cadets
l as body were highly dangerous, to use
no stronger word.
Asked to the extent the counterac-
tion was likely to go, M. Stolypin re-
piled:
At the present moment three policies
are open to the emperor and his ad-
yisors:
First, reaction; second, impassivity
| toward threatened revolution; third. a
policy of strong handed reform.
| 1t is the last sentiment upon which
|
which we have entered. A policy OF
reaction is the furtherest removed from
his majesty's wishes, but the reVolu.
tionists must be thwarted before there
can be any possibility Of deciding on a
defnitive basis for stable future.
Believes Nation Patriotic
/ II personally place implicit reliance
on the innate patriotism and civic sense
of the masses of the nation. | believe
that the emperor's appeal to them
backed up by CONSTANT evidences OF
good faith and honest endeavors on the
part Of his maJesty's representatives
VIII result in the extinction, or at least
in the effective repression of the am
archical forces"
AS to the suppression Of newspapers
and Wholesale arrests Mr.. Stolypin
said:
Arrests, expulsions and other meas
ures of administrative order are in,
dispensable, under the present circum-
stances. They doubtless will be manu-
featured into an outcry, but during
popular misrule of intimidation and
menace II would be impossible to CON-
pei witnesses TO appear before the reg
ular courts. The newspapers sup
pressed were purely and simply revolu-
} tionary organizations whose appear