Arizona republican., 1906-07-22

like foreign countries-Amerfca for in- stance, where one government falls. another is ready to take Its place. Here the masses are politically uneducated. The government represents the thin veneer of civilization. which covers the country and. if removed. there is noth- ing to replace it. The government must hold on until a stable regime Is assured or anarchy will be supreme"
 NJ Yermoleff, former minister of az riculture and leader of the conserva- tive centrists in the lower house, who several weeks ago vainly tried to form a coalition ministry in conversation with the correspondent of the Associ- ated Press. tonight. declared that the situation was extremely critical but he refused to believe that the emperor had taken an irrevocable decision to dissolve parliament. though he consid cred that such a step might become necessary. He was without hope how ever that a conflict could be avoided.
 "The situation is so complicated" he said "that it is impossible for any man to predict the course of future events, but I feel safe in predicting two things first, that Russia will come to a con- stftutiOnal basis; second that there will be no great revolutionary cata- clysm in the sense the foreigners an ticipate. People abroad talk of the coming revolution in Russia while fail ing to understand that a passive revO- lution has been in progress for forty years.
 "The active revolution began with the assembling of the first zemstvo congress a year and a half ago. The present travail is only natural ac- compartment of the birth of the new order of things. The main obstacle to the work of the peaceful recOnstruc- ton of the state is the implacable atti- tude of the different elements which arc fighting the government Of course. it is useless to expect anything from the extreme revOlutinists. whose object is not reconstruction. but the destruction of the whole fabric of the government.
 ''The more intelligent of the consti- tutional democrats however, from whom much might be expected, instead of accepting the elementary principle of practical politics, that progress is made by compromise. committed the mistake of thinking that they could ride on a revolutionary whirlwind into power. Two weeks ago they could have had the ministry if they had been willing to discard what was imprac- tiCal in their program. Now that the extreme left has definitely broken with them. they begin to appreciate their bIunder. If their prestige is not de- stroyed by their tactics and they have at last come to their senses. perhaps il
 may not be too late to tide over the present situation with a mixed minis i trv. representing the liberal and con-
 aervative factions and in which they l could participate.
 l "Otherwise they are bound to share ! the fate of their prototypes. the Giron. 1 dist doctrinaires of the French revolu | tion. and the government might D, | driven to a dictatorship There i, much truth in the contention of tn, ! government that parliament no lOnge | represents the real sentiment of tn, l country. The masses are not so revo l lutionary as reported. The peasants ! it is true. are 1and-mad.' and the so. i cialists are filled with dreams of ar | unattainable land-utOpia. The occa
 sion imperatively calls for practica
 men and practical measures.
 ''The people must not go on harbor i ing false hopes. If the agrarian pro
 gram of the extremists was adopted there would not be enough land iI Russia to satisfy the peasants. and tht i projected socialistic labor laws would
 ruin the country industria1ly. Person 1 ally. I can see little hope of a recon ciliation Or reconstructive work eithe
 with the present parliament or tn 1 GOremykin ministry. With the nev cabinet and a new parliament a settle
 ment is possible. The future is fraugh
 with sad and deplorable possibilities Riots and other disorders in the cite ! and agrarian eXcesses in the countr, | will continue to characterize the pOlit 1 ical readjustment. but the country i too big for a general simultaneous up rising"