New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-26

leaped to his feet and shouted, Long
live the Constitutionists."
He has been in the revolutionary
movement since the beginning, and was
the first Communications Minister; ne
was prominent member of the Third
and Fourth Dumas.
Leaders Feared Nekrassof
Nekrassof was a Cadet, or Consti-
tutional Democrat (the two words for
which Cadet is slang, but was not per-
fectly subservient to party discipline.
His party. therefore, was inclined TO
represent him as a wild Cadet" or
demagogue. Partly through jealousy
and partly through conviction, they
feared him.
With such active, vehement men IN
public life. there are diametrical opin-
ions about them. SO it is with Nekras-
soft. While some persons call HIM
demagogue, others describe him as "a
very sincere, noble man." Miliukof,s
newspaper organ, the "Retch" said:
"Kerensky embodies the lofty poetry
of the revolution, Nekrassoif its sordld
prose"
Some persons now consider Nekras-
soft the uniting link between the So
cialsts and capitalists. Others declare
Nekrassoff's principal capital is Keren-
sky's confidence. and that If Kerensky
withdrew his hand Nekrassof would
disappear. Indeed, the vehemence with
which Russians discuss him leads me
to believe he is an important, man.
When Miliukoff was Foreign Minister
in the first coalition Cabinet Nekrassor
threatened to leave the Cadet party II
the Cadets refused to support the revo-
lutionary government. He did not leave,
and later became Railway Minister IN
the second revolutionary Cabinet.
During the disorganiZing processes,
in which he played his first important
political role in the third Cabinet, he
wavered on the Ukrainian independence
question-the question which helped
bring that Cabinets dissolution. He
first resigned along with the other
Cadets in the Cabinet, then withdrew
his resignation, saying if the Cadets
refused to support the revolutionary
government he would leave the party.
As they did refuse, he left, and be-
came leader of the Radical Democrats,
ultimately becoming Finance Minister
in the present, or fourth, coalition
Cabinet.
Nekrassofr's conspicuous qualification
for the difficult post of Russian Finance
Minister is based on the fact that for
nine years he has shared in the budget
commissions work.
Real Leader OF Finance
Professor Bernatsky, Finance Minis
ter, however, will be the real authority
in technical finance matters. Formerly
he belonged to the most radical Cadets,
but now has Joined the Radical Demo-
Gratis. He is a specialist in taxation.
The most famous Russian economists
are Professor Migulin Tugan-Baranov-
sky and Professor Ozeroff. Next TO
them comes Bernatsky as serious fac
tor in Russian economic science.
Ayksentieff, picked by Kerensky as
his Minister OF the Interior. IL a
Socialist Revolutionist and relatively
new man on the Russian horizon. lie
is an intimate friend Of SavInkof and
is president of the executive com
mittee of the Peasants Council, party
parallel to the Workmen-Soldiers' Coun-
ell. His being in the ministry testfies
TO the importance of the role peasants
councils now play.
TchernOf's Radical Policy
Tchernoff, next tc Kerensky, is the
most important man in the public eve
because his reintroduction into Cab
met circles was fraught with the
threat of disturbance and disruption,
owing to his sweeping land programme.
The Cadets consider him more danger
Gus than the Lenine type Of sgitator'
because they insist that his programme
of land distribution would create an
archy in every single village in Rus
STA. By his programme he would for
bid buying and selling of land
Whether he will insist on his pro
gramme in its entirety remains to be
seen. but as leader of the Socialist
revoiutionists, who to-day make up the
most powerful party in the govern
ment, he is factor to reckon with
whatever may happen.
II is improbable, however, that Ne.
rensky will allow any disruption, OF
Russia in the villages any more than
he has allowed il to continue at the
front or in Petrograd. The peasants
now seem wonderfully composed, but
they want the land.