The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-16

will offer a partial distribution of land
as q compromise.
The opponents of appropriation and
shelter behind the excuse that the
peasants attack the principles of pri-
Vate ownership. While it is true that
there are socialists i'm the douma who
prefer communal holdings to private
ownership, the object of the peasants is
not to dispossess small holders but sim
ply to give the peasants access to the
large estates. The situation resembles
IN some respects, the situation in Ire
land, except that in Russia the land is
TO be turned over to the communities
l made some inquiry regarding the
question of joint ownership and learned
from one of the best informed men in
Russia that there is a growing senti-
ment in favor of individual ownership.
ownership in common does not give TO
each individual that stimulus to i'm
prove his land, which is the imDOrtant
element in individual ownership.
In riding through a country one can
distinguish with considerable accuracy
between the farms cultivated by their
owners and those cultivated by tenants.
because the tenants, as a rule. are I'M
willing TO make permanent improve
ments. One Russian economist esti-
mates the income from the owned
lands Of Russia at 80 per cent above
the income of the same area of COM
munlat lands. He attributes it to the
ability OF the land owners to supplv
themselves with proper tools and to
furnish or borrow at low rates the
money needed for cultivation. hut II
is possible that this difference NAV he
III part due to the fact that ownership
makes the incentive TO labor greater
ana offers richer reward to superior
effort.
Hhere is an upper house, or council. Of
empire, as 1t is called, which shares
the legislative power with the dunoa
but it does not receive much attention
because it's composition is such that
IL cannot reflect public sentiment and
cannot oppose the viii of the people
except at the risk of it's existence
Half of the members Of this council
are appointed by the emperor and the
other half elected by different inter
ests. The nobility elect some. the uni
versities some and the zesmstvos
some.
The duma does not recognize the
council of the empire as a coordinate
branch of the government and will
not be slow TO express itself I'm favor
of radical change In the method of
selecting the members of this upper
house. or even It's abolition, ~ Il
stands In the way of measures which
have large majority in the duma.
&A
What will be the outcome I'm Rus
STA? Russian would hardly venture
a prediction, and for an outsider
prophecy is even more hazardous. The
situation could scarcely be more COM
plicated Generations of misrule have
brought an accumulation OF questions
all pressing for solution. The duna
wants a great many things done. and
wants them done at once, while the
government. If II remains under the in
fuences of a bureaucracy, will give as
little as possible. So far the govern
ment has been unfortunate IN that it
has delayed making concessions until
still greater concessions are demanded
The program of the present ministry
has been SO completely repudiated that
the emperor may find it easier TO ap-
point a new ministry than to humiliate
the present one by compelling Il to
propose what it has heretofore refused
If new ministry is formed and the
duma is consulted about it's person.
mel, Ivan Petrunkevich will probably
be the premier. He is a member OF the
duma and the head OF the parliament
airy Organization OF the Constitutional
Democrats. He has already proposed
z constitution TO Nicholas II If the