The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-16
BUREAUCRACY AND ARlSTOcRACY
AROUSED IN RUSSIA TO
GRIM WAR.
Government Policies Of Greatest I'M
portance Hinge Upon Outcome of
Azef Revelations.

teal police. 1t is the outcome of the
Azef revelations and upon it's result
depends in great measure future gov
ernmental policies of the highest i'm
portance.
| Just now the factions are divided
and which stands the best chance to
Twin can only be guessed as yet In
fact, it will probably never be possible
| for outsiders to settle these questions
definitely except as they may form
their conclusions from subsequent po-
| lice methods and developments in the
careers of the men involved in the
struggle.
| In a general way the contest is be-
| tween those who want the old system
continued, those who want it modified
those who want it abolished and, again
between the various subfactions which
want it continued but are seeking, one
against the other, to obtain control of
the machine.
| No one paid any serious attention
ITO Premier Stolypin's reputation, in
| the duma, of terrorist acts by members
Of the political police department, ex-
cept indeed, to take it as an intimation
| that the government declined to con-
! fide in the national assembly but pro-
posed to settle in secret the issues
raised by the Azef revelations.
Bureaucracy VS.. Aristoeracy.
| Whether the premier himself has ever
profited by the work of the agents
provocateur'' is not very clear 1t is
| considered certain, however, that if he
does not know such work has been
done it is simply because he has de-
| liberately refused to see and hear
things that everyone else in Russia
has seen and heard.
| One Of his statements is generally
accepted as expressing what he really
thinks-his declaration that the present
! government cannot be maintained in
the face of the revolutionists without
complicated spy system
| He and his fellow bureaucrats are
! the department cannot be abolished,
but that acts of terrorism by its rep
! resentatives ought to be suppressed.
| The bureaucracy gains little in good
| opinion from this view, because it is
| surmised that it used the agents pro-
vocateur" itself until the aristocracy,
as distinguished from the bureaucracy,
| got the police under it's thumb and be-
| gan using them to run the govern
ment along lines that the bureaucrats
| do not always like.
s., The aristocrats are believed, for the
same reason, to want things to go on
| as at present There are endless jeal-
| ousies among the different court
| cliques, however, and each party is
| struggling to obtain the upper hand
| against all he others as we'll as against
the bureaucracy.
No Exposure, in Any Event.
A few extreme liberals in both the
aristccracy and the bureaucracy want
to dispense with the secret police al
| together. Their number-not, of course,
| including the rank and file of the lower
! orders-is small, however, and there is
| little likelihood that they will carry the
day.
| The smothering, or attempted smoth-
ering, of the Azef inquiry by Premier
! Stolypin in the duma is interpreted as
meaning there will be no public ex-
| posture Of those who have profted by
| the doings of agents provocateur." If
| the aristocrats win they are expected
| to exact vengeance upon the bureau
| crazy and among themselves by the
usual resort to assassination. If the
bureaucracy is victorious it is pre-
sumed it will be glad to avoid pro-
longing the warfare and that old scores
| will be discreetly forgotten.
Terrorists Not Cutters.
How the car stands no one quito
| knows. Most people think he would, if
| uninf1uenced by outside considerations
! support the old regime. The knowledge
| that he was himself, however, the OBJ
| ject of at least one of AZefs plots,
which would have cost him his life but
! for a mere accident on account OF
which Azef nor the police were entitled
! to credit, is suggested as a reflection
which may modify his judgment.
! The dissolution, as result of the
Azef scandal, of the central committee
Of the revolutionary socialist party, is
not to be taken as marking any failing
| off in the activity of the Russian ter
rorists Several almost equally formi-
dable Independent organizations are in
existence and several are already striv-
ing for the premiership which the new
defunct body enjoyed.