The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-26
LEGAL EXECUTION
AWAITS The CAR
RUSSIAN PEOPLE WILL NO LONG
Err TOLERATE OPPRESSION.
Bomb Of Reds In Opinion Of Ivan
Panin, Is Not So Certain for Nicho-
las as His Sentence and Death as
Public Enemy Russian Republic to
Be Created.

Legal execution will be the fate Of
Nicholas, czar of Russia. if he escapes
the bombs Of the nihilists, who are
seeking his life and does not bow to the
will of his people. This is the opinion
of Ivan Panin, formerly a nihilist and
now one Of the speakers at the north
western Bible, conference.
"Today Nicholas Romanoff is in
more danger Of legal execution by the
order of the people whom he has be-
trayed than he is Of assassination by
the bombs Of 'the reds,' - said Mr..
Panin. g His fate will not be that
Of Cesar, but of Charles and Louis
XVI. unless he turns from his present
course and gives to Russia the reforms
public body has declared him public
enemy, but the time when he will be
condemned as a criminal and sentenced
to death as a traitor is not far distant.
It is possible that the terrorists, who
yesterday announced that they sought
his life, will get him before the people
as 6@ it ang nq he ses aeaG h
block than he is Of the bomb OF the
bullet.
People Have the Right.
"Constitutionally. the Russian people
have right to depose, try and execute
; a car. In 1913 a douma, representing
all the people, placed the first Roman
off on the throne This was Michael,
the grandfather Of Peter the Great.
What the people of Russia have given,
that they have right to resume. They
will resume it unless Nicholas deals
fairly with them.
"Thru his weakness and cowardice
Nicholas has stripped himself Of all
hold on his people. An autocrat should
command respect. Nicholas was nick
named Mickey runs because Of his
| cowardly flight from an assassin in
Japan. His conduct, rendered all the
more contemplate by comparison with
that Of George Of Greece, who stood his
ground and attacked his assailants,
earned him the contempt Of his people.
His heartless massacre of the trusting
people who sought their, little Faith
err on Red Sunday cut him off from
their love.
'Shaken from it's last vestiges of
loyalty by the dissolution of the dou-
ma and the withdrawal Of all civil lib.
critics granted to them, the Russian peo-
pie will not tolerate Nicholas and the
tystem he stands for much longer. The
bureaucrats may incite massacres of
the Jews, may make arrests and send
men into exile, but the end is not far
off: The army, except the Cossacks,
|
army remained loyal the Russian PEG,
pie, once thoroly aroused, would sweep
over it like fire thru your stubble fields
in autumn. -.,-. ~ 90
"a general strike, rather than war
is the most effective weapon in the
hands Of the people, and they will use
it soon. With such strike on, the
government must yield. It will be help
less. The 'reds' will continue to as
sassinate, but their work done, the
Russian people are aroused. ...rss:~
4 Republic Is Coming.
HOut Of all this chaos Russian re
public will be born. It probably vii
be federated state, like the United
States, as Russia is too big and made VI
of too many peoples for complete uni
ty. Those who fear the excuses Of an
archy, after the revolution do not know
Russia. For 600 years the Russian pee
pie have exercised complete local self
government. With this experience j
should not be hard for them to add
, strong central government to the goo
local organizations already y in exist
, ence.'' ~. =.
= Mr. Panin left Russia when a boy o
3 16. looming west to avoid being sen
east,' to, use his own words,-he wa
i thoroly imbued with the principles q
z nihiism when he left his country
! Since then he has abandoned nihilisn
Q but has always kept in close touch wit
] the revolutionary movement in Russis
'82. At present he is on the lectur
!. speakers at the Northwestern Bib
i oon foroooo Of tho stofo fo;r r,ronnde