AUTOCRACY IN RUSSIA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 97, 26 April 1895, Page 3

AUTOCRACY IN RUSSIA.

A manifesto is being circulated in Russia embodying the protest of the Party of the People's Uights against the speech wherein recently the Cznr angriiy reasserted the autociatic principle. The following extracts are taken form the manifesto : — " AN OPEN LETTER TO NICHOLAS 11. " You have said what you had to say, and this speech will now spread throughout Russia, nay, throughout the whole civilized world. Uutil now you were unknown to anyone j^since yesterday you are a known quantity about which there cm no longer.be 1 any "foolish fancies.' Believe us that such a speech could produce only a depressing (vnd repelling effect upon even the timidest. January 29 had dispelled that halo with which many Kussians have surrounded your young and indistinct figure. It was your sell that killed your own popularity. You have challenged the representatives of the Zemstvos, and with them' the whole of Russian society, and now there is nothing left to them but to make a deliberate choice between progress or loyalty to Autocracy By yonr epeech you have increased the increased the inquisitorial zeal of those who understand service under an Autocratic Czar as a suppression of social activity, freedom of epeech, and the independence of the law. You have called forth the jubilations of those who are prepared to saive any power without the least regard for the general welfare, and who find in coercion the best conditions for the triumph of per Bonal class interests. But all that part of society which is peacefully struggling forward you have alienated. "And now what about these active forces' which are unable to satisfy themselves with, the slow and trying struggle im tlie ground of the existing state of affairs, a struggle which implies compromise and concession? Where will they go '! After your sharp reply to the most modest and lawful wishes of Kussian Society, hojy, by what arguments, can it keep them on the side of law, and save ruin the most receptive and talented of their children, who are full of eagerness and impetuosity? What, then, will be the effect upon Kussian Society of your first address to its representatives? Some individuals were jubilant over your speech, but you will very soon discover their impotence, so let us set them aside. Your speech called forth, besides, in one section of Society, a feeling of injury and depression, which, however, the best social forces Will soon overcome, and will then proceed to a peaceful but ousinate and (Illiterate struggle for necessity liGerty. in yet another section it will stimulate their readiness to struggle against the hateful statS of things by any means. " You were the first to begin the struggle and ere long it will proceed. •'St, Petersburg, January 31, 1893."

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