Show THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN C. I New York Tribune The wholesale abstention of oC the Ru Russian lap people from froni registration for the coming coming- duma duina uma V j elections Is confirmatory of or what has hitherto been i suspected d. d that the they have largely lost faith In the tho whole S. S parliamentary business and nd do not consider it worth while tc to toP P put t an any more trust in ht the tIre promises of or a government hl Ji plas pla's plays fast tast and aud loose or to take part in the rhe const constitution tu- tu tion Upu of Or a bod body the composition of or which Is predetermined and anti p prearranged It If t they argue no duma is to be permitted per per- l lUc to exist which is not nut subservient su cl to tho the autocracy the then their 1 let the autocracy select such a duma durna as pleases It II ItI I without but bothering the people to vote That la is a counsel of or r despair but wo we cannot much blame them for tor it There r ele i la little encouragement for fol men to vote ote for representatives cs when It is foreordained alne that they are not to bo be permitted to have representatives cs Nevertheless servile and packed as as' as this Ibis third duma uma will be and unrepresentative o of or th theS the S na nation lon w we must hope that It will aC achieve e sore some good There will surely be In it at least one free voice which I will be be heard a as none non can now be heard hear in lii all that land laud landof of ot silence Hence Meanwhile lerin In an effort to counteract the bad Impression Im Ira- p. p t t. t S 1 1 produced by tho the recent coup the tho government govern govern- 4 mont ment is endeavoring with feverish Ce haste hasto to distribute to landless pel peasants tho the available area of ot the state land re rere reserve re- re serve r e before the tho elections occur Tills is on en tho the old principle of giving gl the mob et ct But it lh IH exceedingly doub doubtful ulIC If it Il it can bo be carried out in time It ItIs' ItIs Itis is Is' Is certain that tire the object of it will bo bu pretty clearl clearly under under- tood stood by the people and it will be bo r regarded as little more fI I U than an a gigantic bribe Di Distribution of ot land to the thc landless laudle I Is desirable It Is one of or the tho chief necessities of oC tho the Russian Rus Rus- sian problem But Dut It will scarcely be a accepted as anS an I adel adequate ate atonement a for broken faith and repudiated con con- S S. S 0 4 Nor indeed would this distribution of or land Jand even en If IC 4 effected In tho the b best t possible manner be anything like k t adequate to the tire needs of the tho people or likely to haveS have ha S k- k much other effect than tho tire rousing of ot Jealousies and theS the Intensification of or the demand eman for Cor a full run settlement of or the S agrarian problem The Tho state reserve available for tor distribution dis dis- dis ti j- j comprises only twenty five million acres That Thatis S 41 is scarcely sixth one-sixth aa as much as Is needed to provide the tho joi 4 l landless n with land enough to live lI on To supply the needs of one in lii six and leave th the other five hc unsatisfied will vill t scarcely induce a 11 reign of ot universal al contentment Moreover More More- 4 V S I S j over if It six Ix times lilies s this amount could coul be e today apportioned k among th the I IH people there would remain n n need ed cd hereafter of oC b between twe n nine and ten ton million acres more mol each uch y yar ar to r provide the normal increase of ot population with land S. 11 These iese figures sU suggest the tire difficulties of oC the situation It The Thc satisfactory solution apparently is to be foun found only in a breaking up the vast estates held b by private families an and a distribution of oC the lan land among tho tire peasants But Dut the late Jato duma was dismissed largely because it II insisted upon favorably considering to that end and It Is arranged in advance anco that the lie new duma dunia shall be controlled controlled controlled con con- trolled by those who arc irreversibly opposed to 10 an any such uch thing L |