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Show The Russian Autocrncy The Ignorance of the peasantry is due to (he lack of 1 ublle se hoola and llbiarleB Both schools and libraries are under the absolute control or the e.oserninent The dense Ifcnotanie of two generitlniis or freedmen therefore Justifies the Inferenie taking a char Itnhle view thu ihe Oovernmeiit is In capable of educating the people This the im, tmejnt nf enlightened pub lb( opinion in Ilmslii against autoc In ruth If one looks lelow the sur face of things Russlun autocracy Is a mere fiction There have been two rue autocrats only on the Russian heT . rhp"r' was the founder of the sv stem Peter the Oreal a man of genius a revolutionary dictator 11 usurper from the legitimist standpoint me other was Taul I whose acts weie ,,!"i,.',,?r"ee1 hv ,h".whlm. of an Insane J. P..'i c"r. hn is neither a genius like I eter-and such do not frequently alt anywhere ,n nn hereditary thtone nor a inidrmiY like Paul Is as much responsible lor his ukases as an vnier nM ""' ,or '" " f" "r-lor bear h.?.Hhl "'"""" Th " 'Ike the head of any other executive can act rtS .yrVSenn.'h,,l,lrnn,m"",,"lon,, f nil department 1 hlefa who in their mm hane iheir rarnmin-n alio 11. upon h? oPO,lef, ,hmlr hor.llna.e.,P0"l 2,. SA'h.t1"",!",!;'; 'r.r.T !,h', rr 'nfonntultm m nir rent ufta rs Is slftel through nn id niinlsl.ntlon sieve Ki,m nViger Ilia or knowledge of ,,,H ,' f) ?e Kat ,1,lsr,rnm ,""'"' S"'ind publl.Hiinni nnl Mexinlei II wuhii lettler of ler Ji-na Knloknl ( the e II ) Vhlc,, aa pilnietl Iandoti yet It a a, de1, r".,rdibu":rr'v,h vtm - strumentallty of th. . " reaucratlc machine vf1?' old , grent grandfather of t?'rh("M 1 nn honest de-pot and . pr'nt c, w 111, udmltted his I.eL? "o f out official corrup 3S0,:nc to , he warred all his 11?. ai"nt it autneraey so ailed ,.T" Ha, in Irresponsible hufee. ""tklns blnce the time of a?.." r pendent men of all SMtr Ir from the conservative "i? ot PI he extreme ladl nl. ha?."1 Imous In their d mandl'."" S movnl of this p rmion ,or He th. izur and th. eS "," C elaya or his lelgt, .'e 'nth. Ptoved a report or thi ?Ja,", 11 the ln.erlorP Count' Lor ',.. ommindlnr the call of i .""" r 1 1 onventlon -leaHl a i?",'"" forum tourwkh u |