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Show "''" EMPEROR IS LIBERAL. But Will Not Yield to Demands of the Zemstvo. Whllo Emperor Nlcholns' manifesto on Russian reforms, coupled with tho government note ot warning on tho same subject, leaves no doubt that It Is tho firm Intention of tho emperor to malntnln unimpaired tho autocratic prlnclplo which no observer hero ever Imagined ho would relinquish, and not yield to tho zemstvos' demand for 0 national legislature, tho programme of reforms outlined Is a broad one, nnd If It hnd not been preceded by tha agitation of tho lasv month, probably would havo been accepted with unlvcp sal acclaim In Russia as extremely liberal. Tho raising of tho peasants to an equality with other cltlezns of tho omplro is alono practically second only to tho emancipation of tho serfs, but hardly Ic3s Important aro tho guarantees which tho mnnlfesto directs di-rects to bo Incorporated In tho laws for tho protection of tho personal liberties lib-erties of tho people against tho abuses of administrative arbitrariness. The measures taken under tho state of slego aro no longer permissible, except ex-cept In enscs of crimes against the state. Tho Increase of tho Independence Independ-ence and Bcopc of the doumas and tha zomstvos, as well as tho creation ot smallor zomstvos units, tho definite protection of tho Jews, Armenians and other unorthodox sects, nnd tho revision re-vision of tho press laws, aro nil on tho lino of tho zemstvo demand. Tho extremists, ex-tremists, of course, nro not satisfied and mnny ot tho modorato liberals art disappointed. |