The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-09
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pfosrn, rutnfs that " Notti disgust ~
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representative a1vefhawH' The ffisnla
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cant ~ tady ofssnisfttrh would land 10
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d"adious and that they would have to
1ref Tor q whils iongpf No nj" ~ tho
CsHf's ufnclals locar- they themselves had
hpt The tulHtcal capacaty tof ainkins minuf
differences and con#enl falihH on the fnstn
ias,te Tho fnma which yesterday ctlled
Tor ths dismia-Hl ~ tho mifeaucfst ministry
shich II fot f~eapnnsible ~ " has shafDcd
~ critics.
The mon who have aouttfed suoh authority
over their tollea gies that N" Duna has
thtrighuu, drngi hensd NJ positloe by IT,
Wholo hearted unity wcra well In eVitIencs
yesterday when they ta-ad the QUESTION
whether The chr waa to rule Tho Ountry
through Oot ,mykinor whether 0orcmykin's
plac' Waa to H. taken by o mar who stood
for their dpsirr
Only two sraakera In the hing debate
seemed unhappy with themselves and their
s~urruundinga The short, stout and very
ordinary hooking gentleman who mounted
the tribune when the president announced
that the Prime Minister was "a give the Gov
erhment's reply 90 the Dumas AddreAs
adopted precisely the 81 a utiRant
who has to read In court an anidavit which
dooms his W case. He got his pinoe neg
sufficiently far down iiis nose to produces In
his voice a capital imitation Of a man talking
with a thick cold in his head. II he did not
want 10 he heard he succeeded Members
from the back benches stepped quietly
down the gangways and listened lntently
with hand over ear, but they were not re-
warded.
The patience and the good manner Of
the Russian when others are speaking for
babe them to ask him TO speak clearer, and
they behaved with the silent deoorum Of q
well bred church congregation when he
descended from the pulpit. Certainly there
was no murderous design on him, for nobody
in Russia knows better than the radical
politician who typifes the Duma that the
vast oppressive machinery which grinds
over Russia is a thing that Goremykin did
not make and could not break. But as his
signature stands for its acts for the time
being they proceeded with one voice to tell
him and his Ministry that they misrepre-
sented absolutely the Duma which they
had called into existence, And then there
appeared In the tribune the new men. Ma
bokof, the Petersburg representative OF
the Constitutional Democratic party, who
had drafted the Dumas address, might
pass readily for a cool headed Wall Street
broker. He is under forty, with short
cropped hair n mustache, good features
and il much better tailored than most
Russians. He speaks in a clear, agreeable
voice and without ~oratorical gestures. He
told the Ministers that when the Witte
Cabinet departed the Duma expected a
break from the old order of things. In
stead they found only the watchwords Of
the old bureaucracy. 1t was an absurdity
to summon them to productive work and
at the same time to tell them that every
question at the root OF the Russian crisis
was outside their competence. When the
Duma pressed urgently for amnesty it was
that the Car might have the common
prudence to grant it; and not that his
Ministers should discuss lawlessness of
which they were themselves the most fla
grant perpetrators. The only way out was
that the absolutism Of administrative
DEGREES must give way to publicly APP
proved legislation.
The Duma gave rounds Of hearty hand
~clapping as its self-possessed spokesman
descended from the tribune. He was fol-
owed by Roditchef, the orator par excel
lence of the party. He s master Of all the
Evolutionary arts of the platform. This
time it wa the denunciatory on which he
most relied. With his tall, spare form,
keen features and ~prematurely gray head,
he turned to the Ministers seats, his arm
outstretched, and told them that Cavour
on his deathbed had warned his King:
Don't try to rule your people by martial
law; that is a policy for FOOLS 1t was
precisely martial law that was the origin Of
the Revolution. One OF YOU" he cried,
"onoe told me. years ago, that the RESPONSE
bility Of Ministers before the law wac worse
than fantastic, that it was foolery. To-day
your Minister has repeated this foolery.
Your own conscience should tell you there
is one thing to do-to go and make way for
others" The unhappy Goremykin and
his friends did not go. They sat glumly
discontinued, crumpling the writing paper
and spelling the quill pens with which the
Duma has furnished their desks. Anykin,
ledItT Oh the ItdSdhS iiiCiilDSlS u NSiilio
Russia, black haired, pale and intensely
earnest, then took up in scorn the Govern
ment's promise Of protection to peasants
private property. He had in his pocket an
order OF the Governor OF his province to
burr the surrounding villages where a
landowners estate was wrecked. Lid
nitsky, the spokesman OF the Poles, who is
perhaps the most forcible and effective
orator in the Duma, drew an eloquent CON-
parison between the expectations Of the re-
formers and the actions of the Ministry.
But he knew that the people of Russia of
whatever nationality had finally deter
mined to stand by their representative.
The Government must take final warning
before the elemental outbreak that would
follow unless they turned to the new way.
The speaker who is the most peculiar
enigma in the Duma is unquestionably
Aladyin, who is described as a peasant, but
who is a student expelled from his university
for political agitation and a returned exile.
He spent eight years in England, where
he not only learned the language perfectly,
but the most modern methods Of extreme
labor politics. He has the strong built
f-,,oo onJ hard faat,ras ~ tho moat for