Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-04-17
NICHOLAS IS
UNHAPPY MAN
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81. petersburg, March 22.-No mat
ter what the RESULTS of the troubles in
Russia-no matter whether the first
experiment into the realms Of q par.
liamentary government is or is not a
success, the czAr himself is ageing rap
idly. Ever since RED Sunday" the
cars existence has been one unend-
ing series of a4xieties which have told
very heavily UPON him. Only among
his family doef he apparently forget
the menace of the revolution, threaten
ing news of which reaches him with
the merciless regularity Of the tick
ing of the clock These are indeed his
only moments Iof happiness and re-
taxation from the worries and cares
CT state, with perhaps a rare excep-
ton OF a walk or ride in the park,
which, however has become a very
rare occurrence of late.
His majesty invariably spends al
most the entire day and night in his
private cabinet, either in consultation
with his councillors, whom he often
summons to his presence at any hour
of the night, in order to ask their ad.
vice or to work upon projected re-
forms. He writes often for hours at
a stretch.
At other times the sentries placed
at the head of hia door hear him pac-
/ ing restlessly I'D land down the room
until the early hours of the morning,
waiting anxiously for the reports from
his representatives in the provinces.
At intervals he will dispatch mes
sage and then, suddenly throwing open
the windows, gael out into the quiet
ness of the night Through which the
millions of his subjects slumber while
their unfortunate ri Ter is still at work
His majesty was never a lover Of
social functions, but now he appears
to abhor society nd pre- than ever be-
fore
The car himself 4eems to be the on
ly person at the cburt who actually
realizes the dangersIof the present sit
uation and it is to This fact that the
misunderstanding b tween mis- males
ty and the grand hukes owe thei1
cause. The czar alole recognizes that
change is going Onf "a change which
not even the wisest mind in the worlG
can even venture a uguess as to the
outcome.
In Unhappy Poland.
Poland has suffered more than any
other part Of Russia Il ON the disasters
of the past few years. About five years
ago the time Of ruin 81 in with a com
mercial depression, VI, euely attributed
tn overprUiuction Hardly was trade
recovering when the outbreak of the
japanese war two years ago checked
every hope. Siberia, d hd the far cas-
We're fast becoming thQ great market:
, for industrial centers, such as War
saw and LODI. Suddenly all order:
ceased, the goods already dispatched
could neither be recovered nor pait
for, and the means of communication
We're taken up by the aIbny. Ordinar.
trade was dropped and only thos'
firms could look for any profit VINO re
ceived government ord rs for barb
ed wire entanglements, empty shrap
mel cases and metals for Railways. GU
of 81 iron works, 10 shut up altogeth
er. and the rest blew out half of thei
furnaces. It is true the ron industr
is rather an artificial thiI| B, which ev
en- in peaceful times livA chiefly o.
government patronage. pr 1t has t
import it's coke from Sivesia and 1t
ore from Kriver Rog, in s1uth Russia
But the losses in the iron trade wer
at least equaled by disasters in othe
Industries.
The war also ruined all lcredit, an
i, Polish trade, to large extent, live
, upon credit. Warsaw deepen entire
ly upon Berlin for money, md Berli
refused to lend. Then ame tn
, strikes, political strikes, economi
6 strikes. general strikes, pos ri strike.
For many months they havI been g
> inc on, and it is no wondei that Pr
d land suffered, for there is hardly
r firm that did not lose from third
s one-half of it's work.
l. The severity with which II strike
were put down only increase the r.
J. sentiment of the working cla% es, an
6 the people have evidently teferre
ruin to a continuance of form If eXis
n ing conditions. So Poland stal IDS nov
and it appears almost absurd spea
T of her commerce at all. II e onl
II chance is that if the douma id of an
# avail and wide concessions ar gran
@ ed without further reaction. al perio
J. of very rapid development may set i
If owing to an extraordinary den Rnd
u fill I'D the deficit of the last few year
II Independently of the revolu omar
g and agrarian movements viii al
O desoating the present econom co
dition of nearly all rural Russ tt
o. Hedorod insufficient harvesD, ca
h edin bureaucratic terminology wa
officially stated last autumn to- ext
S. in only eight provinces, while as
10 matter of fact at least 20 more pre-
I though unofficially-in a state OF fa1
st inc. The government, the who
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