WITTE WILL RESIGN RATHER v atyam USE COERCION bajt russian premier thinks that violent coercion alone will prevent revolution in sorely tried country london doc 12 tho correspondent of the daily mail al st petersburg in a dispatch dated december 10 by way of Eydt kuhnen sends an interview with count watte in anich the premier indicates that russia is coni con i fronted with the alternative of a lullia or violent coercion though the count has not abandoned hope ho Is not sanguine and it forcible repression shall become necessary ho will according to the correspondent resign his task to other hands questioned by the correspondent as to tha genesis of the movement premier attribute its rapid development to the grantins of autonomy to the universities and the high schools where the revolutionary forces hitherto doomed to secrecy found asylum and sanctuary and absolute freedom tor discussion when this freedom became license society still looked on with stolid indi terence continuing count witte said on my return T found the country in a difficult position from which there were only two issues alie problem wah thorny and fateful but after long and careful deliberation empero who needed no persuasion acted OT his oin initiative and never doubting that he cougil build upon tho moral courage and tho political good sense of tho majority of ins subjects took the course of issuing his manifesto of october 30 not only with alacrity but with pleasure clearly the vast changes which the manifesto heralded required time and patience to calv out but what happened was utterly unexpected sections of tha community nay whole clasps went to work systematically to annihilate their own means of livelihood and to ruin themselves and the whole nation instead of uniting to preserve order the people quarreled among themselves and attacked the government v the only people who acted in their own were the revolutionists they knew what they wanted they chose the most effective meana to attain it and they are capable of adopting these means eien at the price oft heavy sacrifices the evolutionists j hide all their quarrels and and act together for the end they have j in view which spells destruction outa of the resultant cha they promise a new world and an earthly paradise after admitting that the had indirectly intensified the revolutionary movement the premier said unfortunately the people at large take the view that it is the governments business to nealise realise constitution al and to fight evolution doubtless the government govern an employ force but force Is only an evidence of weakness unless it is leveled by the social conscience against the public enemy jt a community will nofa struggle against anarchy no government can successfully cope with it count aute contended that the same argument applied to strikes watfa regard to the jewish question tie said it was impossible at the present moment to proclaim equality of lecause such a measure would provoke appalling bloodshed in conclusion the premier said unless all elements of society aban don their own differences of opinion and join hands to the government in chocking anarchy and in carrying out the emperors manifesto the situation may be regarded as truy disquieting and serious with thea help of the community and with the efficacious measures of the government ern ment all may at be righted but without that help anarchy will continue until finally the nation may demand tho suppression of revolution by force and then it Is not impossibly that the principles embodied in the o may b repealed or suspended to the query aie you prepared for to coercion count witte replied it this alternative to it will te confided to somebody qualified to earn it I 1 am assuredly not eo qualified in this matter I 1 am de void of the requisite qualities and disposition 1 i