The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-04-11
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IS LAID tn
PRO.GERMAN TREASON At colIR1
pmng of New Russia Seen as the Result If shok,. o
Rule Of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Long stuuue tor re t' OF
Meets WIN Success-Haopatin, the Mad MonkD
Blamed for Fan Of the Gar.

me me nrst parliament was direct
outoolne OF the revolution Of 1ooz
m, Hicn Ioilowed the war with Jonap
ne car found himself confrontaa
IN an almost solid body of liberals
Inc uuIna of 1905, the most rod;o,,
VI all insisted upon the cars n,-;nr.
~ ~ the promises of his manifesto
el"ntlhg freedom to Russia. Bur tho
ear premier, Stolypin. would NOT
ooultenance any interference ON tho
p"i' Vi the duma in government af-
Inns led to the dissolution IF
the hrst Russian parliament
Inc second duma was convonaa
larry IN 1907. The government did
It's pest TO secure a large number of
reactlonaries in it. But the graot
lnaJorlty OF the new deputies were
sun TOO progressive for Stolvnin
clashes soon followed. The govern
iueilt arrested a number of deputies
ana exiled them to Siberia. The duma
was then dissolved.
The duma made an unsuccessfn, a.
tempt at revolution. More than q
hundred deputies left Petrograd for
FINLAND. Then an appeal was issued
10 the nation to stand up for the
uuna. The appeal, however, met with
little response. The people were en-
urely under the control of the military
and the government.
a new election law was then pro-
mulgated by Premier Stolypin. This
law barred most of the people from
participation in the elections.
War Makes Changes.
The third duma was then assembled
and the government found a majority
of conservatives in it, These CON
servatives We're satisfied to let things
alone. AT the expiration of its term
in 1912 a fourth duma, the present
body, was convened. Before the war
it was entirely controlled by the con-
servatives. The war, however, has
made these conservatives progressives.
The Taurida palace, the house
where the Russian duma meets, has
become the birthplace of the new pro-
visional government, and is one of the
most interesting structures in Rus
STA. On its site more than a century
and quarter ago stood the house of
Prince Potemkin, the favorite of Cath
crime the Great. The generous EN-
press showered presents upon Potem-
kin after his conquest of Crimea for
Russia. In 1888 she ordered a mag
nj
lite on the site of his house. This
was called Taurida, the Russian
equivalent of CriInea.
Later the empress bought the pal
ace from Potemkin for 100000 rubles.
But when the latter returned in 1871
as a victor from another campaign
he again received the palace for
present On the night of February
% Of that year ball was given there
in honor of Catherine II. which is re-
membered in Russian history as Il
UNIQUE event One hundred and forty
thousand lamps and 10000 candles
were used for lighting purposes that
night.
After the death of Potemkin the
Taurida palace was again acquired by
the car.
Rasputin's Influence.
To the influence of Gregory Raspu-
| tin Siberian monk and mystic. the
former car of Russia can attribute the
revolt which has brought into beng d
new Russia.
Gregory Rasputin-it is name that
Russian progressives hate with the Ut
most vieor. Rasputin is dead, a vic
rim Of assassination, but the whirlWlnd
Ina sawed did not die with him. Inc
,,.hir1yrind overturned a rock-riboed
dynasty that the efforts of thousands
/ If patriofs had been unable to snake III
/ the slightest. ~.
+ The rock foundation of the IONA
oocfs owes its disintegration to the
I teachings and rituals OF Rasputih
/ tba most powerful man in russia III
rncant Years. the power behind the
/ throne and the "conadahl ol ''''
M one knows Rasputin better man
Sins Nichaelow Trufanoff, who oul
eo,v wears ago as Iliodor, the Mao
Monk of Russia, was a factor hil"Seli
~ pnssian court affairs and who re-
n 90 wrote serial of his life for
,tn Ieyi-b newspaper Die Wahrheit'
Russia Before the "DeIu9e."
/ I'm mis- serial Iiodor has drawn d
..rfI.ino picture of the Russia before
,ha doIure." 1t is a picture that oe-
nicts the degeueracy of the russian l,l
raurt of the UNDECIDED voices OF Tue
neonIe asking for food and Justice o.
prsfr and license on every side, OF II, a
eSzar-weak-kneed, foolish pi ,. 't ne
t t@oi Of his sycophants, believer III
loo 'l..iooi.r,-and in the center Of this
WY dramatic stage Of centuries stood
I nosnnfin the untutored. unkempt' re
i I'~@, mystic from Siberia who oy
/ H7loV7 -. ,,o,yar over the ear and