The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-10
RUSSIA EST DELENDA."

Motto of Both the Government and
 the Extremists in the Empire.
 The triumph of the Government is the triumph of reaction" Such is the general opinion in Russia, as if the two principles. Government" and reaction" were identical. The Gov ernment, indeed, are exulting, and everybody knows in Russia that the exultation of the Government means means wholesale arrests, confiscations, imprisonments, sometimes even prear- ranged massacres. The revolt at Mos- COW has been suppressed, and the Gov ernment have decided to forget every- thing else. Nothing is known about the situation in the Caucasus. The agitation among the peasantry is growing throughout the whole empire, the Baltic provinces are blaze, Siberia belongs to the revolutionsis, the cen tral Asia and the Urals demand au- | tonomy etc. The Government prefer to ignoe the general situation so long as all is quiet in the capitals And besides this, Admiral Dubassoff himself has openly confessed in his official communique, which, by the bye, has been transmitted abroad too briefly and in very inadequate way, that the leaders of the revolutionists have suc- ceeded in withdrawing beyond the li- mits of the human power" 1. 6, in sim ply escaping from Moscow. If would appear that Moscow is surrounded by foreign States over which the Thu man power of the victorious Admiral does not extend. But, apart from the comical side of the official com munique, it is quite clear that, while the armed revolt at Moscow has failed | it has not been In the least definitely crushed The authorists have been destroying huge buildings because of the single shot from window; every body has been searched in tho streets because of the few revolvers which i the revolutionists possessed. Evidently the Moscow authorities have been sus- pecting the whole population; but in this case it is rather difficult to dis eern who are the enemies of the order 1 and who defend it. If everybody is against the Government, it means that the Government are against every body. If soldiers are to be placed at every corner and guns directed against every house then soldiers and guns are used for wrong purposes. No | Government in the world can rely on bayonets and bullets exclusively. and ! this is why the present Russian Gov ernment are using their utmost power | to produce the smallest action imagin- able. This is why the troops at Mos- COW have been mobarding empty squares and streets, and were unable to capture two or three revolutionists without destroying huge houses from which the enemy" were firing Admir- al Dubassoff has proved the truth of the. famous aphorism of Montesquieu "Autocracy must cut the tree down tr order to obtain the apple. The Gov erment may have beaten the revolu' tionists, but they have been unable tc crush the revolution. There will b. thousands of victims in the immediate future, but even at this abominably dear price it will be impossible to re- store order.
 The writer is far from approving thu
 policy of the revolutionary parties. HI
 opinion Is that the Government anC
 the extremists have adopted, both 0
 them, the terrible motto, Russia es
 delenda. The moderate elements ar
 doing nothing, as usual. and the na
 tural result is chaos, from which no
 thing can emerge but general destruc ton and ruin. Count Witte is yer
 able man, but he does not possess an
 creative faculties. A financial magi
 clan, perhaps good diplomattst, i not always a statesman in the tru
 sense of the word. Count Witte ha