Show Czar Nicholas Is la enid to be so Ills dis over oer tho the affairs of ot Ills his vast ast empire that he h In hi contemplating th the adoption of a n national constitution one ot of whose font tire would be a n pro provision vision for Cor n a proper as us assembly II embly In II the tho hope that this thin strengthen his bin hands handu and sucks maki It possible ble to effect the tho I reforms need needed needed ed edTh Tb Th Czar might profit by tho history y of Japan In this thle mutter matter Tho emper emperor r or of ot the tho country convinced of oC the desirability of ot representative gov ROV government If It progress Is le to be b achieved voluntarily ILO hit hll country a It constitution tullon suited to Its peculiar IO conditions L d It Is unlike western con ti ow owe their adoption to 10 th till the agitations of tho the It Jt t defines dearly the pm pt of the rulers cool the Hie rights rigl and lid duties of the It Ita its UH IH ID la c evident ld by L the Iho ph advancement IllI of oC Japan to th the front ranks of nations nation UH IN ba he r ren een en Hi ill th their lr exhibitions at tha tho t Worlds World Fair nu less leas than In their con COli conduct co duct duC of the tha war wal warThe The Tho Czar follow folio IV that Indica Indication tion 1111 Ho lie might aught end cud the tho war var lit on the tho host tic terns terms obtainable Then he ho might ao wIlt l t rail and give Ie his country a n constitution suitable to lu tho the and a o TI Th effect would b be almost TI people ate to him They aro 1110 n naturally Intelligent honest anti and bray brave They would rapidly advance and amt nut make holy n a world In fact tat ns its well us Os in lit name Undoubtedly he would woul 1 run the tho ilsk riak of being assassinated b by the powers b be bo behind hind the the tiro throne but It I Is i probable to that till he would be eater cater If IC entrenched he him hill golf Felt In ill the hearts of oC the people than ho he hoIs heIs i ile Is le today toda In la the tho midst nf oC courtiers and m 1 secret police pollee It Is pretty prett clear that tho ti revolutionists revolutionist are aro active and nn unless Is done to prevent It the their path Will be he marked by hy lire anti and blood naturally suggests lter Itself to them then deprived as ns they are ure of ot all 1111 n human rights as their only recourse recours Safe Bate and sane reforms are ore tutu the only cs es capo cape from Crom the tho conditions that make mail loyal citizens desperate murderers U is not riot yet ct capable ot of receiving liberty in ht the tha fullest measure Hut a n beginning can bo be Jo made mado safely BaCe y taus liberty should be proclaimed lint first of ot nil ail Under religious liberty tho the na nation tion would be trained for political sell self government That In Is the natural order ordem Under religious liberty men are ore taught laugh g to think t tin for tor themselves and amid to decide d cl e eIn In matters of eternal Importance Peo Pea People pie Ille so trained will u it to t dispose of ot temporal and political nf ot fairs to tho 1110 best advantage of the th state slate Without real religious liberty lIbert there cnn can bo be no genuine political lib liberty liberty erty Curtail the former fonner and amI the tho lat lot latter latler lotto ter to will soon goon fall to work When th the tire the ot of a 1 wheel wh U is broken tho the tellies will wll not stay stoy together very long OF Ol TOLSTOY PHILOSOPHY What Tolstoy thinks of ot war In gen general oral eral and tho the present conflict particularly that philosopher sets Seta forth In a II along m long article In tho the London Times This 1 fe the tho way ho puts Juts It and tho the wonder Is that tha t ho he h lit not accorded a n 1 crown of oC o martyrdom for his hla utterances In order not to let le tho the Japanese Into matt Monch Manchuria and to expel eXile I them from fron Korea not hut but fifty and more moon thousands according to all probability probability ability bo be necessary I do not know whether Nicholas Nichola II H and ray Fay like Di In so 80 many words that not lIot more than lives lUes will bo be necessary nary sary for tills this on time the Russian side alone only and only that but bu they think It they can calt not but Jut think It because the tho work they are aro doing speaks for Itself that ceaseless stream of unfortunate deluded d Russian Hussan peasants now being transported by thousands to tho the Fat Far 1 these me are those same not more Ulan than l live Ilvo Russian men whom whoa Nicholas and amid Alexis Kur uro have havo decided they IMY may get killed and who lo will be killed In support of ot robberies and every evely kind of ot abomination which were ac aI accomplished In China Chita and Korea Jore by Im ambitious men men nten now sitting silting gracefully In lit their palaces and expect expecting ing ng new lIew glory glary and now noti advantage and an from front the slaughter ot of these theRe 50 60 lOO 00 unfortunate defrauded I workingmen guilty of oC nothing and ami Raining mining nothing by their sufferings and lentil death For other peoples land IlInd to which the he HU have no right which has been hlen Icon criminally solved seized 01 from Its legitimate nato mate owners tad and which in III reality la lanot lawt not wt oven IVen necessary to and md also for certain dark lArk dealings by Who In Korea Joron wished to torain rain gain money out ot of other othor peoples for forests ests many millions lions of oC money Y ItO are spent I l e c a It great part ot of the labor of or the tha thes whole s h ale of oC the this HUlls Inn people tho the future generations of oC this people are wand bound by debts Its beet beat workmen are withdrawn front labor and scores of ot thousand of tIC Its sons seta ons urn mercilessly loomed doomed to death And the tho destruction of at if these unfortunate mon men h Is already begun beRun Ho Ito visa also asks thin tills pertinent p question It tt Is comprehensible that a n heathen a Greek a 1 Homan Itoman even a 1 medieval Kristian Ignorant of oC tho the gospel and blindly believing all nil tho prescriptions of at t t the he church nils might ht tight 11 g gig ht and tight light it InK w ig pride himself on hU ills military Achievements but how haw can cnn a n believing Christian or even n a skeptic Involuntary involuntarily ily y permeated by the Christian Ideals of at brotherhood and love which have aye Inspired the works of the philosophers hers moralists and artists of ot our time me how haw ho can con such take tako a stand standby standy by y a n cannon and anti aim n at It n a crowd of ot othis ofis his is fellow men desiring to kill as all many of ot f them as ns possible There Thero Is only ono answer po to tode de question and that If Is this that those 1050 who engage In n war for selfish purposes sue not truo true True Christianity wound would make the tha nations nation love ve one Olle another It would make them hem promote the Interests of oC one ono another To o the tho extent that rivalry hatred self salt that extent paganism and nd barbarism rule Profession of ot dying Ing and an the thunders ot of cannon Is II Christianity Y amidst thO Cho groans of the rank r ink h that may deceive decele mail but It never God Clod |