| Show HUSSIAN DESPOTISM alio czar know and caree to know of but one method for the obliteration of disorder in hi empire and that i the assertion of the absolute power which lie government hold whenever tho masses become tur bulent or unruly ho beete up ii or threatened uprisings with increased apparently ob livious to alie fact clial it is lie iron rulo of hi that lias given rio all along to alio very agitations which he seek to quell in other lie eshaya the task of quenching fire with oil ho incite movement mv ement directed against despotism by increased tie po tieni inid entirely overlook the historical fact that a people goaded to cannot bo subdued by any ileane than alie alleviation of their condition tho aire government I hi a dangerous dan gerou condition and am ampre lic naiona aro ground cJ but lux precaution are than ucla numbers might and no government can live without the consent of A majority of ahe governed tho majority are opposed to existing method will overthrow them and substitute Bo more in with their end it t thi very volcano upon the brink of which the aland today to day A people have become more enlightened they have bacomo more 11 end more will the absolute rule of abo emperor the cair it o du rational cat ional explained for nril liona of people among whom ignorance ie the rule we easily governed by a despot f but as they advance in learning they air variably decline in loyalty and it would be the part of a wise man to meet kneir advanced capacity by more enlightened and more modern systems of government instead of alii the oar ignore the requirements for a state of allans in consonance with the progress of alie ago and turn backward somersault into ahe costoma of hinn Tvede of yeara no alie ruler of Kissia ie alarmed because of alio recent attempt upon ins life aad tuo nihilist which have taken place in various parts of alie country hence his stringent but other nations have biad similar experiences addid not deem it necessary to adopt a police to combat them germany to bo sure which nearest to russia of all the great powers of europe in the matter of absolute despotism haa resorted to lie somewhat extraordinary pro acceding of endeavoring to suppress sup presa a political party by law but this measure was to bo attained through alie legislative power of the nation not through the naked dictum of the sovereign nor was it proposed by the german government to at or suspend private and privileges through tho agency of a lot of underlings to whom absolute power in their respective districts was dele that while thero is but little doubt that bismarck is as great a despot in feeling and principle as is alexander lie is much more discreet and statesmanlike for he does not increase the intensity of lie disease in order eliat a cure may bo thereby ene eted under ng order of things in russia men can be arrested without charge and condemned without hearing the most populous and important cities and their surroundings arc converted into military districts and cad presided over by a governor general appointed by alio czar these satraps have power they can confiscate property destroy newspapers abolish educational institutions stop railway trains consign citizens to prison ind perhaps if alicy deem it necessary even cause lifo to bo taken resistance Is not this n glowing picture la it not a brilliant detato of to bo inaugurated by a man alio overflowed christian sympathy for the victims of turkish misrule in bulgaria and sent his armies across alie frontier in the interest of the sufferers this action of the czar lias had but the of forfeiting all tho sympathy which the better classes of peo plo throughout the would entertained for him on account of the attempted assassination reasoning men can now that alie discontent so widely prevalent in russia which led to the attempt upon the despots life is not without a good foundation wilho uitto oil of the failure of the assassins plans A man choso whoso only conception of government is tyranny and ruthless violence is not fit to bo numbered among the rulers of the nineteenth century and weald do the world a by retiring to his grave as quickly as possible |
