Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-20
ARIsTOCRACY DOOMED.

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 ARIsTOCRACY DOOMED.
 Andrew D. Whites Verdict on tn | Outlook in Russia. With prospects for liberty in Rus ria there must come a long an,
 stormy period which would obey wha
 an American philosopher once spok
 of as the 'oscillatory law of humal
 progress."
 This statement was recently made b.
 the former ambassador to Russia, Dr Andrew D. White, the nrst presiden
 of Cornell university. while speaking
 before a large assemblage of studenti
 celebrating founders day at Cornel
 university. says special dispatch from
 Ithaca. N. l., to the New York Herald
 There are two great difficulties in thu
 way of anything like constitutions
 freedom in Russia at presant, MT
 White said. the first being due to |
 complete change of view regarding
 Russia and her needs from 1925 te
 1855. resulting in lack of education
 which has brought about ignorance
 among the masses of all that is desira.
 ble for men who take part in self gov
 ernment.
 The second great hindrance of prog
 ress toward freedom, he said, was the
 repression of all discussion of political
 and social questions, either in the press or in public bodies.
 Before there is freedom" continued Dr. White, there will be action and re- action, Autocracy may from time to time be restored by soldiery disgust ed by demagogues, as was the case with the Bourbons after the French revolution, or it may be restored by universal suffrage, as in the case of Napoleon III. after the French revolu- ton of 164S, but such restorations of absolute despotism will be temporary.
 "The old autocracy can never return as a permanency, and 1t is not too much to hope that progress toward liberty will De made in Russia some what like that in France, which after . century or more of sterile revolu- tions seems to have emerged into . peaceful and respected republic. A permanent republic in Russia can hard ly come for centuries. The Idea of c strong personal, centralized govern ment is rooted In the ordinary ideaa just as the idea of republican and de centralized government is rooted in the ideas of every man. woman and child Tn the United States.
 Count Witte, in my opinion. is the only man who could stand any chance of carrying through a reasonable plan for new order of things In Russia, of staying off bankruptcy and of checking civil war. On him rests the main, in- ieed the only. chance for rational liber- ty. He win undoubtedly at times have to do some severe things to repress not the aspirations for freedom, with which he is evidently in sympathy, but the mixture of wild fanaticism and of which has caused the of the Hebrews at Odessa md elsewhere, the destruction of great factories at Moscow and In other parts ,f the great empire and the wholesale burning and robbery of the landed ,roprietors in the Baltic provinces.
 Count witte,s opponents are many. )n one side is the court and on the ,ther the fanatics of every sort, but it . to be hoped that the terrible dangers # the country may unite men of all ,arties in giving him support. The dea of the nihillsts is to make the ountry q mass of ruins on which they hall stand supreme. The folly of all his Is proved by history.
 At the end of every such movement omes in the man on horseback Caesar, or General Monk. or ,spoleon. or Napoleon III. or William :, or Bismarck and Moltke. or Cavour. Is between life and liberty men will i've life, as . rule. the place assigned in the Declaration of Independence. Fhere 1t speaks of the three inalienable Ights as life. liberty and the pursuit f happiness.' A nation must live. and : long as life lasts there is always ope that liberty may yet be schieved--
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