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Show Czar Has Already Made Up His Mind That Finland Shall Have No Voice. DANGER IS RECOGNIZED BY FEW LEADING SPIRITS Russia's Oppression of Kindred Nations Has Become Civilization's Civili-zation's Disgrace. Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN', Juno 4. Debates in the Finnish Fin-nish question beforo the iluma at St. Petersburg: are considered by many a mere mockery of constitutionalism, as the czar's government evidently has decided boforeliand that Finnish autonomy must cease. A small minority in government clrclos understands the danger of this policy or of persecuting: tho different nationalities, na-tionalities, and ovon some members of the Imperial family aro uneasy about It. The czar himself, howover. Is under the influence in-fluence of tho reactionary .clergy and tho secret police bureaucracy and docs not heed I ho objections that have been raised, while Premier Stolypln and his ministry aro simply tools In carrying out the old riehvo policy. Fow Real Russians. It should bo borne in mind that the real Russians number only 10,000,000 of a total of 140.000,000 in the empire. If, until now, nil tho nationalities except the Poles have been kept In chock it has been because under tho repressive reign of Nicholas I. they havo, been left moro or less free In the exercise of their rights, languages a.nd customs. Now, under a so-called constitutional government, their persecution Is general. Thousands of Poles, Armenians, Georgians, Geor-gians, Little Russians and people of other nationalities are suffering1 Imprisonment or deportation for their national cause. Tho prisoners of Warsaw, Kiev nnd TI-flls TI-flls nre full of persons arrested for upholding up-holding their own languages, customs and religious observances, what is especially vexatious to the nationalities Is that the czar's manifesto and tho recently published pub-lished fundamental laws of the empire solemnly declare for liberty of conscience and speech and equality of the nationalities. nationali-ties. The discontent Is deep-rooted and widespread and the demand for the acquisition ac-quisition of personal rights is growing in Intensity. Heretofore the nationalities have been disunited, but the fate of Finland Fin-land and tho brutal persecution of its regime has been to draw them together against the common enemy. It is not difficult to foresee trouble which ultimately ulti-mately may threaten tho existence of the empire. |