Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07

The crisis in Russia is grave. Singular
to relate. it is NJ. Stolypin. Russia's dis
tinguished premier. who is at fault. NJ.
Stolypin has shown himself a great pilot
in the many storms which have beaten
upon the Russian ship OF state There
was the terrific storm of revolution of
the anarchist, and then the Finland
storm. Now II is storm over the
Zemstvos law which NJ. Stolypin would
apply to the southwestern provinces
which is Poland. Will NJ. Stolypin's sin
gular ability as a pilot enable him TO
bring his ship safely to port this time
and without the loss of either rudder or
sails. which means the constitutional
equipment Of the ship
NJ. Stolypin's project pa ssed the duma
by a small majority in May. 1910. In
the council of the empire
Passed by recently it was defeated
~, w. by combination Of
IAo Ou1iio' members personally hos
tile to the premier NJ. Sto'ypin. feeling
himself attacked by the vote OF the coun-
Gil, submitted his RESIGNATION to the en-
peror. The emperor, however. refused to
accept the resignation, and as Il sort of
sedative to his premiers feelings the
emperor caused his two principal oppo-
nents. NJ. Dournovo and the Count de
White. TO be subjected to disfavor. which.
according to the protocol OF the court
consists in being dropped from the rolls
for a prescribed number OF months.
Maintained in office by request OF the
; NJ in. rlor 10, t1.c
Zemstvos project had recourse recently
to sort of parliamentary coup d'etat
He suspended parliament for three days.
and during that interval he imposed his
law by virtue of a decree.
That dfctatorial and anti-paria entary
measure provoked Violent feeling in the
duma. and this feeling is still maintained.
with the possibility that the minister in
order to continue to govern, may 20
obliged to dissolve the duma In such
case 1t goes without saying that consti-
tutional government in Russia may re-
cevc. if it has not already received. its
death wound.
NJ. Charmes. in the Revue des DeuX
Mordes. writes: The Russian crisis is
grave. and perhaps ii is only beginning.
The writer cannot account for NJ. Stoly-
pins motives in his proceedings. bIlt he
does not forget that the premier was al
ways in favor OF the maintenance of the
duma. and if 1t has been maintained until
true that NJ. Stolypin has not hesitatei
to dissolve two assemblies, one after an
other. until he found one with which he
could act. and probably he Will not hest
tate to commence anew. And the writer
hopes that things would not prove SO
serious as that. for It might cause many
questions to be brought up which had
been apparently solved.
An anonymous writer in lie Core
spondant under the title OF "A False
I YNx,,x -r,f - -s<r,,. % l.,
Russian premier: What may be the
consequences OF that day of dupery on
which was seen the king. but not Richie
lieu? In the interior reinforcement Of a
! narrow nationalist policy. restriction of
all classes of people. and especially OF
Poles. guilty Of being the orange peel on
which the premier slipped in a most I'M
expected manner
F, The writer further foresees pressure
more and more placed on the two cham
bers already driven to evaporation
Finally the application of all such means
| in order to prepare the way for the cleo
ton Of future duma. He predicts tina
| in that future dunla there will be no cen
ter only right, which may speak. per
| hapS OF reforms. but will never know tn.
| limits of their concessions TO the reac
tionsts. and a left which may talk ais,
! of legality and order. but will never know
any limit to their concessions to the revo
| luton. And perhaps there will be no cleo
| tlOfS at ali, because th6re VIII be nc
dunla and no elected members of the
council OF the empire. All that is a pos
! sibility. if not a probability. That which
! is certain is that the most just judgmen,
rendered upon the five years Of the Stoly-
| pin ministry was the opinion of a Berlin
journalist. who wrote: During the first
period OF NJ Stolypin's administration he
did everything to repress the first revOlI-
ton; during the second period he pre-.
pared and justified the revolution that
followed
We may break this chain Of political
events to refer to a political incident
March ) the fiftieth ami
Abolition of versary OF the abolition OF
Co., serfage by the Car Alex
SA"6e' ander II was celebrated
in ST. Petersburg. There were religious
ceremonies in the churches, conferences,
visits and military reviews. The car and
the cZarina were acclaimed by the popu-
lace as they went to the Cathedral of
Kazar. At the Winter Palace reception
fifty peasant members OF the duma in
formed the car that they had erected a
tablet in the duma on which was in
scribed: '''To the Gar Liberator the
gratitude of the peasant members OF the
duma, 61-1?11."
A word to the premier Of Russia to
show that he is no ordinary man will not
be an,iSs at this moment. when he Is
attracting the special attention not only
Of his own country. but of all Europe.
Pierre Arkadevitch Stolypin is the
son of a Russian general born in 1865.
He studied al the University OF Peters
burg and in 1854 entered as an employ :.
the ministry of the interior. which he
quilted in 1883 TO return to his estates in
the government of Kovno. There he was
made marshal of the nobility Of that re
son. and subsequently. in 1a02. governor
of GrodnO and later of Saratof
He was still governor of Saratof when
NJ. Goremkine offered him the portfolio
Of minister of the interior, in MAY, 1905
Since several months the parliamentary
situation Of NJ. Stolypin has been SELL
sibiy diminished. and be
Liberal Laws cause of the conviction
that he was directing his
-" As"0oA"' policy toward the right
It was recalled nevertheless that the
liberal laws enacted were largely due to
his initiative-for example, the asrarian
law. Yet he was reproached with the law
concerning Finland and now the zemst-
vos. In regard to this latter some &C
cused him of being too democratic, others
too nationalist. Nationalism was for NJ
Stolypin for fact an expedient destined
to secure for him the cola boration OF the
rio u-h{oh otharuica he xpo,ll1 have