The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-01
RUSS JACk|ES BALk
+. SAILORS ON STRIKE
Take Out Ships Under Cover
~. g, Of Guns Situation
.s~ Improves.

= Odessa, Russia, June SO.-Sailors
from the warshlps in the harbor were
ordered by the government today; to
take out three freight vessels which
nave. been tied up in port as the result
OF the seamen s strike and unable to
depart. The strikers threatened to as
sault the sailors in case they tried to
man the steamers, but the latter took
the vessels out under cover of the guns
or the warships. The strikers are in
savage mood and they declare thew
Will secure revenge. A battalion Of
Cossacks is now On guard.
General Status Improves.
The general situation in Russia has
undergone a marked change for the
better within the last few days. The
tendency of the military, as shown by
the action OF crack reg ment of the
Imperial Guards, to substitute political
demands for the longstanding griev-
anaes as to service, has modified the
program of the camarilla as to cabinet
responsibility and the irreducible mini
mum of agrarianism.
1T appears that one of the recent in
eidents which has impressed Nichols
profoundly was the formal denunciation
OF Irepotf by name in the terrible ar
raignment of the "forces behind the
hrone,' by Prince Urusoff. Trepoff
unpopular with the troops and with
II classes. He is bigot, uneducated,
ne slave Of military system, and with
ut respect for the western doctrine
hat the civilian power must be supreme
in progressive states. He administers
his vast authority like police captain
whose agents provoke the crimes they
seek the glory of REFRESHING.
To Nicholas the Urusoff attack upon
the man he has in mind to appoint as
dictator was gravely unsettling, accord
ing to dispatch to the Fremdenblatt;
but when the telegram from Witte de-
elared that the authors Of the Bialystok
massacre whom the orators of the
douma say are Trepoff and his minions
had alienated foreign opinion to q
degree unprecedented in Russian his
tory, the capricious, tho well-meaning
monarch took into serious consideration
for the first time the expediency OF
yielding to the cardinal demand of the
majority of the lower house-the de-
mand for responsible ministry. =.
The Probable Compromise.
Indications multiply that the upshot
will be an attempt by the court party
to induce the leaders Of the douma tt
consent to the propagation Of parlia
1ient in return for the retirement of the
StOTelUS XIII lulu1StIy dHu JIG dppO1ut
i..ent of new cabinet directly respon
Sjble to the douma The idea would bt
10 have the new ministry go to thu
country, after the fashion in western
i,arliamentary states, in the hope tina
the next douma would be more amenabl
10 conservative advice than the pres
emit. On the assumption of such com
promise the parliament now existen
would be given pledges that Their
should be no reversion to bureaucratic
administration.
M. Yermloff, one of the principal con
servatives in the council and the mos
active promoter of the compromise, ha
sdopted the idea of fusion between tn
( friends Of the principle that the peas
ants should own such lands as they ma.
be able to-, subject to reservations o
lands belonging to members Of the i'm
perial family and to limitations upo1
the holdings Of Jews. '''~.
OF the shrewdness of the douma lead
ers In giving up the fruitless effort t
frame laws and in concentrating atten
ton upon weakest spots in tn
armor Of the bureaucrats there can b
no doubt. Instead Of leaving the Rus
sian people informed as to only fe,
matters, the douma Is taking them int
its confidence as to many The can
I'll spaign of education is being waged fo
v liberty and progress as it is waged nc
II where else in the world. ~ F.