The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-01
Both Government and Parliament
Recognize the Seriousness of
the Situation, Which Is Like
Unto the Dawn of the
French Revolution.
THE PRESS
The Social Democrats and the So
cial Revolutionists Delighted At
the Turn Of Events, Relieving
They Furnish the stimulus
Needed For a Popular
Rising.

st. Petersburg.-With almost breath
less anxiety society awaits the govern
ment's response to the bold action OF
the lower house Of parliament, Satur-
day, which in censuring the ministry
and demanding it's retirement was like
a deliberate slap in the face and a di-
rect challenge which the government,
though inclined to prefer its usual poll
cy Of temporization and compromise.
can hardly avoid meeting. Parliament
has burned the bridge and virtually has
taken the step which the French states
general did when it transformed itself
into a national convention.
A Revolutionary Body.
By Haunting the fundamental laws
and practically declaring that it pro-
poses to exercise full parliamentary
rights with a responsible ministry II
has become, in the eyes Of the law, a
revolutionary body, and from that po-
sition there seems no retreat. The
news of the action of the house came
like an electric shock, the people gen.
orally being as greatly surprised as the
bureaucracy at the ~promptness with
which the whole Of the governments
policy was absolutely scorned. Both
sides recognize the actueness and seri'
BUSINESS of the moment, but the panic
is in the government and not in the
popular camp.
Would Mean Bloody Revolution.
1.-THE government, If it's dares to
fight" said M. Kokoshkine, one of the
constitutional democratic members Of
the house, "can dispense the parliament,
but the victory of the bureaucracy
would only be temporary. 1t would in
evitably be followed, shortly, by q
bloody revolution which would not
leave a stick Of the present government
standing. The emperor must choose
between a real constitutional govern
ment and loss of not only his crown,
but probably Of his head"
Socialist Element Delighted.
The social democrats and social revo-
lutionists are delighted at the turn OF
events, believing they furnish just the
stimulus needed for the rising they are
planning. The territorists were quick
to seize the opportunity for a series of
blows in widely separated parts of the
country, the new Of which forms a
prominent feature in the newspapers
instead of the expected decree of am
nesty.
The Press II Pessimistic.
The press. almost without exception,
Is pessimistic, recognizing the extreme
| gravity Of the situation and the temp
est which the denial Of the right of
forced appropriation of land will pro.
woke among the peasantry. The Rech,
declares that the governments reason.
ing in this respect is false and falla-
cious, the appropriation Of land standing
practically on the same basis now as in
1861.
Like French Revolutionary Dawn.
Prof. Kareieff, in a special article,
says a parallel Of the early stage of the
French revolution is now complete.
He invites the ministry to substitute
for the 1906 events those Of 1889 and
then to consider whether they wish to
continue their present course.
The Slovo, the O~ctoberist organ, falls
behind none of the others in sharpness
Of criticism, declaring that the govern
ment has proclaimed war on parlia-
ment.
Orders for the guard corps to go into
summer camp at Krasnye Selo have
been countermanded.