Russia’s Internal Troubles

Southland Times, Issue 19774, 26 March 1906, Page 2

Russia’s Internal Troubles

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AXTI-J EW PAMPHLET. Per United Press Associ-avi m. ily F.lectric Telegraph. Copyright ST. PETERSBURP, March 2 1. Received 21th. 1.4 5 p.m. Alexis Sovrin, etlilor of the Ituss. has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment in the lortress lor a press offence. The Russian ollicinl responsible for the pamphlet cabled on the 13lb Ortoiier lias been <ls sinf s.-vd, ami ihe censor reprimanded.

(The message referred to slated: There is a great. outcry at the publication of a pamphlet inciting the people to murder dews, which is endorsed by (he censor, and published by tin' Novoe- Vrcmya. ft accuses Count de Witte of being concerned tin a .Jewish conspiracy. The Union 01 the Russian people, which claims authorship, is enrolling patriots and dist ri bn ting revolvers.” ) Cossacks arriving at Sasovo by the Aloseow-Kayan railway, wanlonU quarrelled .with the peasants, many of whom were injured, and are in hospital. They whipped an assistant si at iop.master to death. A Id MA HE PRIESTS. The dnwii of I luo.-.in 11 IT.vUoin is yol a fai* „ff. It was the much-heralded Duma that would show the way towards ii.ilisatioa and a cm.leat-d Empire ; and from the cable news on Tuesday there is every probabiMty ihat this hra\e ( ° ! coption Ol an nsvi.tMy that would omlVr ti])On lhe Russian ilenn>euiiey its Cbarla will Him oai but a bitter mockery. H seomrd a linn act of statesmanship of the C/ac to summon the lir.-t. pailiament of tne buss an people; but it" people refuse to come. Tim hypothesis lias IVcn put forward that the mass 01 Hie pimple air bin balf-cit ilised, 100 ignorant and suei-rsi it ions to be eut misted with, or rightly G> use. the machinery 01 modern' civilisat ion. Hnl t.he uxpbiind ion of tho Strange shyers- of the Russians at the acceptance of ibid gift from the autocrat may .more easily l.e found in fbe right fid distrust of nn out raged demorraev of 11m iiiienlions of their rulers. Too often has the substance been promised, ami the pom - shadow grant'd. So those •' passim resisters of Russia are making the only protest (heir condition of serfdom a!lews tin in ; everywhere they are refusing to eleci. delegates to ‘the primary ehvtoi'ai collrgcs whose function is in turn to elect the actual members of the Russian conference. Enormous n'e

studious on l!.e ; ail of the minor landowners and the "hole;.ale r lusal of mil! hansls in vole through li'ar eharart-'l'lsi' these mockeries of eh cl ions. r l In- result will lie a Pinna of "molmalo react ioraries " and els-i'gv. Ills' intrusion of this hitler class info a conference which should) not have eoneoivietl. nor nes'dsd. them, was indeed only lo he expected. '1 he colleges, we are informs si. are compiel'ly swamped by the clergy. who want extraordinary privUi'gis. Always in history a State clergy has been on the side of its liat rims, always against, the rights of the

pcoplo ; ami nnuo a-:ain tho nmtiaru of a Statu ivliyinn is n militant. The laws that a Duma of Russian pass will da ID tic lo allt-vialo the wo.s ..f Iha ( unhappy Kmpiro.