Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-08-16
IA KANSAN STUDIES BUREAUCRACY
!. IN THE BOMB-BLESSED CITY

olass, ,ybpi " Keep the autocracy SUI
IRENE andithe people down and ig-
.Ilorani. ThF Infusion of new blood.
has Strengthened autocracy and as.
the organization has become dishon-e
est raps syrrnpt@it has fastened il on
the country that much closer The
aut0cracy of Peter the Great, de-.
signed ,toSs patriotic purposes, has
become ahNautOcracy which looks.
onlytosits own gain, whose members
stand together ondhe common ground
of thleyeey, hnd which will force a
war with Japan. and send half
clad, ill-fed army Of brave men to-
death IN order TO provide some new
schemes for aggrandizement and TO
arouse patriotism TO make people
forget troubles at home
The bureaucracy has developed a
system Of spies and injustice which
has created state of terror among
any Russians who get an education
or have ideas. asked a man who
was in a room with no one but me,
what he thought of the duma. He
glanced around, went and shut the
door. Then he looked worried and
said he did not knLN what to think.
He was the kind Of man who in
America would have enthusiastically
expressed opinions and have talked
them on the street corners. Every
newspaper man in st. Petersburg
who amounts to anything has been
in Jail several times and if he has
really written something good on
politics can tell Of his experience in
Siberia.
have sketched briefly the organ
ization and power of the bureaucracy
which has the army, the money and
great army Of men bound firmly
together; on the other side the pro
fessors, the journalists, the labor
leaders, the agitators, the profession
al men, some business men, but moi
many, for it is ruiaous to business
to think of politics, and, ! am IN
formed many of the clergy. And be
tween these two forces are probably
three-f fourth of the people, unedu
Gated aud uncouth,, not knowing
whom to trust, more concerned abou
where to get meal than about rep
resentative government, accustomed
for generations to bow submissivelN
and be punished with the whip. Th'
Russians will fight if they are put a
it, just as they fought and died ii
the Crimea and at Mnkden, over
powered by superior numbers ant
wiser generals. But whom will the.
fight and when will they fight, is tn
question. Will they follow goo'
leaders and struggle for bette
government, or will they simply xii
and burn and destroyf The fea
that they will do the latter helps tn
bureaucracy with business men wh'
prefer despotism to anarchy.
am told that Gar Nicholas l
really.a good sort of man VIII
wants to do the best for Russia. Tn
men around him say if he does no
retain autocracy the country will b
turned over to savages. ! suppos
men who believe in representative
government have little chance to ge
to him-the autocracy easily pre-
vents that, and Nicholas natural.
takes the advice of those around hin
and whom he thinks are loyal-an'
probably they are. Perhaps by tn
time this letter reaches the news tn
Duma will be dissolved and criSl
preeipitated. There are 100000 sol
diers in and around st. Petersburg
aud so long as they are loyal no rev
olution is possible. But some o
these soldiers were in Manchuria
and some read the newspapers ant
read them to their comrades. As
Russian says; "Who can tell3"
Many of the mobiles by birth ar
against bureaucracy. You see. /
you are not in ii and know anythin'
you will be against il. The presiden
of the duma is a prince. | thin
the mobiles generally want repre-
sentative government like German
in which they would have voice a
well as the people, and they will b
found on that side. unless they ar
afraid of revolution. They want
peaceful change. but it doesn't loo
to me as if il would come that wa
unless the autocracy gives up at Tn
last moment--when the army zoe
to pieces aud they jump Tor lhel
lives.
am not mailing these letters trur
RUSSIA for reasons which appea
= very good When we entered Russi
: we had to have passport. The
st. pelerbur police took II. ker
it day. ana 1dded another certii
, cate to the tN"' we could no
stop in st. pc'a lrry Then | imm,
! diately sent 90 X 20 the police