| Show i AT FOD lao rijk ichii FRENCH HISTORIAN OUTLINES SITUATION IN RUSSIA THE THRONE MAY BE SAVED M believes it depends upon government action toward parliament revolution Is under way parla july lo 10 anatole leroy beau lieu director of the institute of france whose history of russia is recognized as being one of the most accurate presentations of the affairs of that empire received the correspondent of the associated press this morning at his country seat near versailles where he devoted an hour to discussing the gravity of dussias Rus sias pres ent condition and the outlook for the future M leroy beaulieu makes frequent visits to russia the last only few weeks ago for the purpose of personally observing the results of the first russian election when asked to sum up his recent observations M le rpy said revolution under way alt should be understood that the russian situation is one of actual revolution it Is no crisis which can be measured by days weeks or months but is a vast and complete transition resembling that of the french revolution when I 1 say revolution I 1 do not ean that the monarchy is certain to tio overthrown although it is possible that this may follow the greater part of the leaders of the constitutional democracy desire to save the throne from wreck put they recognize that they are not masters of the future if the government does not satisfy tho demands of the gravest nature are ahead for russia personally I 1 think that the over ahr ow of the throne would be a great alb aster fsr that would mean anarchy and probably aply civil war M was asked it the preservation of the throne meant a continuation of the autocracy arbitrary autocracy doomed by no means he replied on the contrary arbitrary autocracy Is doomed all that the present monarchy can save at the best Is power within constitutional or well defined limits the empei or has good intentions but he knows very little of his own country outside of the limits of the palaces he Is always hesitating is himself terrified by the example of the ffrench revolution and does not wish to have the same end as louis XIV although he forgets that charles I 1 of england arrived at a similar end by another route perhaps it is already too late to save the dynasty from going down with the autocracy but the emperor might stay the storm by permitting the formation of a ministry representing parliament which represents the people he has already lost much time and the feeling of discontent is continually increasing M leroy beauilieu then discussed the agrarian and other leading questions the land he said was the most difficult question the government recoils before the cost of partial or total expropriation of the ancient estates yet unless the emperor satisfies tho expectations of the peasants he will transform them into an opposition element and perhaps into revolutionists jews demand rights when questioned concerning the jewish question leroy beaulieu spoke of his observations during his recent travels in russia where he was struck with the tenacity with which the jews demanded the same civil and political rights as christians there are five million jews in russia said he and if ao many of them are found among the revolution th reason is to be found in the exceptional laws to which they are compelled to submit the jew thus become irreconcilable adversaries of the government which obstinately refuses them the rights accorded to other people in the country thus the re actionists count on the jews and this Is why the police incite brutalities against the jews like those at even the ministers agrenot directly responsible the local police organize these butcheries but cheries which proceed under the benov elent silence of the administration when I 1 visited russia plans for uprisings against the jews were everywhere announced and the subsequent action merely realized what I 1 fully anticipated the sole means to end the uprising and bring the withdrawal of the jewish masses from the revolutionary propaganda is to accord them equality before the law the russian parliament demands this but the government hesitates persisting in considering the jews to bo the principal organizers 0 the revolution describes recent elections continuing M leroy beaulieu described the scenes he witnessed during the elections in russia when he visited throes typical interior cities glodz warsaw and glodz i he compared with chicago owing to the rapid rate of its growth and the energy of the people he said the elections proceeded in a state of siege all the election bureaus in poland were guarded by troops and often cossacks were stationed at the doors I 1 have even heard the cossacks whip fal lingon the backs of electors at glodz but that did not prevent the people from returning opposition members to parliament it Is noticeable that there are twelve jewish members in the lower house including those of moscow the pittsburg of russia one of the jewish leaders of moscow has eloquently defended the project tor a division of the lands among the peasants showing that there are no grounds to expect that the jews will prove a disturbing element among the constitutional democracy result depends upon czar M leroy beaulieu outlined the urgent need of reform in the bureaucracy which he says Is beyond expression an arbitrary power and also the suppression of arbitrary arrests and tee complete transformation of the personnel of the functionaries function aries who were blindly committed to the old regime abuses in conclusion M leroy beaulieu said it is difficult to foresee the final results of such a vast up heavel but I 1 expect results to come about through slow processes the results of your american revolution were realized quickly because your people asre prepared but the people of russia aro far deficient I 1 am inclined to believe that this revolution will continue in various stages of intensity for ten and perhaps twenty years owing to magnitude of the questions involved and the dangers along the way for the present the emperors choice of a liberal ministry appears to be the best means of averting a revolution with the possible consequences of the overthrow of the dynasty |
