The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-26
PEASANTS ARE
TRUE TO CAR
CONDITIONS in RUSSIA ..@
HAVE CHANGED GREATLY
Interview With Prominent Russian
n Diplomat Army Is Strong and IS
Faithful to the Ruler No Fear Of q
Serious Revelation.


St. Petersburg, March a6 The As,
soeiated Press Is able to give the re-
I suits of an important conversation with
high parsonage regarding the situa-5
fion III Russia. Neither the name nor
the position of this parsonage can be.
indicated, but his competency to speak
upon the situation can be youcned for
The conversation, which covered a
wide range, left the distinct Impression
that the assembling Of the national
parliament will bring a crisis, but not
! the one anticipated abroad, The gov.
eriiment, evidently, is absolutely con-
vinced that an armed revolution or a!
general uprising which would menace
its life, is no longer possible, and that
the dangerlnoW is not that the govern
ment will be oVerthroWn, but that II
will be driven to abandon its path OF
REFORM 5s; 3fBFs hay 3S
The guerilla warfare which the rev
olutionists at present are conducting,
said the parsonage referred to, can
not succeed. Acts of terrorism doubt-
less will continue vengeance may be
sWreaked upon governors general and
police masters; Count Witte, the pre-
n1ier, and Minister Of the Interior DUR
novo may be assassinated /; banks and
may even be riots here and tllere--bdrs
attempts to produce widespread risings
in the cities or repetition OF the Fails
road strike are doomed to failure.
The government has firm grip and:
every measure TO prevent eScessses will
Y be taken. ssS8
Besides, the situation has been COM
5pletely altered since last fall, when
practically the whole sof the urban pop
ulatior joined The protest which led
the emperor to grant the manifesto Of
Get. so. The government then was unz
able to cope with the extreme revolu%a
tionaries. The army in European Rus
sia was at a low strength and filed
with reservists who were bordering on
nutiny owing to their anxiety to re-:
turn to their homes and new recruits
were prevented from joining the coli
ors. Since then an IS changed The
sreservists have been discharged and the.
recruits have been drilled and have.
joined the ranks. Regiments which
then consisted OF 400 men now hayc.
1000 men Two army corps have re-
turned from Manchuria and more regu7
lars are arriving daily.
No matter what is said to the con-
trary, it is certain that the army Isl
faithful to the emperor. There may
be individual cases of disloyalty. but
the reliability of The army as a whole Isl
unquestionable. The weight of troops
alone renders a revolution impossible
Should there be agrarian disorders
iii the summer they will not be revolu-
ticnary in character, for the peasants
of Russia are true to the emperor. The
danger lies in another direction.
1T is not now a question of the fall
of the government, but of whether re-
form or reaction will prevail whether
the present struggle to- sitpplarlt the
for the people will enter the parliament
phase or a counter revolution will
sweep away the entire programme on
which the government has entered
I The emperor is sincerely and honestly;
desiroils Of meeting the wishes Of his.
people and has given them his word to-
this effect But TeactiOnary party
exists It is composed of the aristo-4
cracy with Il powerful backing iii high
places and, above all, 1t enjoys the SUPP
port Of the military faction, which ifa
country like Russia is an immense
factor The militarySis naturally re-;
dictionary. An officer prefers to serve
a Napoleon rather than a parliament.
After thirty years as a republic al
strong royalist faction still exists III the
French army.
Nevertheless, at the present illoSs
Snient the reactionary party Isl weak and
apowerless. lit lacks the public follow
ing, without which IL dare not move
It is easily conceivable, however, that
the situation might suddenly change:
should an opportunity to strike come.
Should the parliament attempt to-
take the bull BY the horns BY the de-
position OF the emperor and the dett
striiction Of the whole fabric of gov
ernnlellt, the new regime might be oyr53
erWhelmcd with disaster. A large ele-
dfietit of the populations especially the
masses who had no share in the revo-a
luton and who reverence the emperor
as d God given ruler might be aroused
tb action BY tIles ipnaries, and the
emperor, seeing ~ al reVol itionaries on
one side sattenipN NJ i1S I0S go too far and
iii face oE what S$k Gfled fo be Doptis
lar demand for the Restoration of the
old egime, 1 will not saw he
wish of his sub
hat would be deemed an ae # ON
the part of the parliament threatening
such a eata stropiie demand Tor the
epflvocation of 4 cons titsieilt assetIib-