New-York tribune., 1908-01-15

the Douns's legislation Upon this attempt 70 ad, d
the address was never puhshed Ihs ,nisssto rssnhs
proclans epea e ppncpe ips Of pasve Tesstance
The fears of the government ran high at the the
one dreaded military ontbTeaks and REVOLUTIONARY
dctators at Tsarskoe seio One spoke even eve Nsya eI
circular letter of the Premier anucpatea serious lou,
showed that the government itself greatly exag-
gerated the forces of the organized revoiutonarg
| the dissolution were easily stifed. The govern
ment then gradually turned to another extreme, or or
underrate the amount of political disa1eetlon whch
reactionary forces lifted up their heads and the
counter revolutionary phase set in The feeling 1
these conditions and this existing misrule became
teTr fro Me R@sa or ia ow suffers l
To quote some striking instsnces In the last ast
death sentences pronounced in Russia-on the
ooWe ntS the sn the number e Of
sentenced to death almost without exception for
Eli Of Whom $50 S were executed The Whole
91mber g1T6 Of fer % ,oPS
1t had not exceeded one thoussnd year; ar and the
Out of the 1928 condemned lila criminals be-
inal; they were directors of newspapers and peri
the press pqoeaime.i bv the manifesto Nine hun
dred and thirty eight newspapers and periodicals
Public meetings-another liberty granted by tie
manifeSto-are practically permitted by the police
| only during the electoral campaign and almost
nion d IN sTge cities is r h 81 fb,r9 9nhg %
erty of the manifesto. can be of service only for
as fnjoy the ea OF the ne
organizations which are suspected of opposition on
cution of such associations. the government re
Gently began systematic prosecution of the duly
In short any one Who would tell you that Russia
festo would advance lie. The truth is that only
those liberties were and are permitted which the
straint While a regular and Iaw.abding pTactice
of civil liberties is nearly always refused legal
permission. Thus, under the new regime of ma.
TO remain what it had always been before and it
never thought OF changing its former methods of
rule lasts It is almost impossible to the legisla
The first Douna was forced to spend much of its
ony legal wby ra kop on sh the E subject m @ of
al the numberless mischiefs done by the Home
tions were presented by the members during the
hundred DAYS Of the existence of the first Douma.
everything is being done according to the existing
ministers were made really responsible to the ma
tional representative assembly. and unless the sys
abolished: no redress of adminstratiye abuses was
poua made e reTp noderaee Use Of its right Of
Interpolation. not because it turned deaf 70
the inefficency its defence The government pro-
claimed g.; Itself above all parties thus trying to set
tics essential to parliamentary rule. But under the
tried TO organize it's own political psrty-that of
| sutecracy For this purpose the government in
vited all elements 10 unite which were likely to
defend the 'old, holy Russia" Orthodox and auto
A more fatal blow the very idea of that "old.
holy Russia could hardly have been struck than
years ago. were not the high ideals of Little
bigoted ignorant Russian peasant, supporting the
edice of the mnpotent bureaucracy--was not all
readers as the actual truth about Russia?
The illusion of an omnipotent bureaucracy dwin-
dies al to
tape" by its very essence can rarely come TO real
# NOT creased @ and directed from outside the ma
ohTey remains In g e4an
standard of intelligence and. in spite of all its
When bureaucracy is left to Itself in the periods
of stagnaton 1t uses its intelligence for sell
REGULAR features under the official surface of the
Russian civil service Russian bureaucracy-at
in its ghsT t5 and SvSus 10 Seaoh n hat n
body knew better than it DID all the ed E
9b bese 4eprps for defence of as
system Of government BureaucEIacy I IS but nan an
the the spirit must bs brought ign, otln to This
force is from the court and the nobility
Professor Milyoukov then told Of the organization
which took the name Of the ''Russian People" II
grew over head of the ministry. 1t organized
fighting rings" and reproached the German En-
peror for being friendly with Witte. which the
Fn,peror felt called upon deny The elections
that followed discredited the organization Out Of
five thousand electors only seventy-two belonged
10 the Russian People whose members were the
a.oc-.ts of the narties Professor Milyoukov con-
tinued:
In a country where astonishingiy few were 70
be won for autocratic restoration, what are Ihe
elements which stand for political redcuonE Inc
middle classes being largely liberal the capitalists
NOT averse to constitution the bureaucracy rather
;ndjfferent but closely watching the game ana
ready 10 the winner. who then are decidedly
on fhe side of government: 1t is the nobility
and gentry. This class would lose very much from
the impending social reform. much as the au-
focracv would lose from political reform in their
grave peril both decaying orders become natural
allies ,.,..
The parts played by autocracy and nobility in
their alliance unlike, and ii the nobility
that got the better il. While the exertions of
the aItocracy proved fruitess the nobility, with
much less of ostentation achieved far more posi-
tive results. They likewise started a private
aniza ton. under the of the Council of the
United Nobility But the political activity of
this Council did awaken much attention at
the beginning and was even purposely kept half
secret The council did not care for any open