Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1887, Page 15

W) DAY, DECEMBER 4. 1887~SIXTEEN PAGE THE DESPOTISM OF AN EMPIRE | £ors— tanguaga which *demoratizes [ affairs repression is fncapable of atiain [atmost unlimited provlice of polit al | mish any rale’ dofinitely fixthg Titerature and which often unnecessar- | ing even the immediate results which | crime, where .the featutes which dis- | beforehand the enses . in which ily exeites public opinion. If the newss | are ¢ sted from it, becanse it ¢annot | tinguish the permissible from the for- | and the extent to. whieh an offending | created new industeigs and desteoyed | intensities the existi resentment. papers disctiss . government measuves. | find objects upon which to exert itself. | hidden ave so chang ':!v\mlll %0 diffi- | publication shall be proscribed. of thix | old ones. and have put the fortunes of The Russians are as fit for free instie p How tho Liberty of tho Press fs | Within the narrow limits to'which they | There can be no war unless there is an | cult of definition an® twhere, conse- | defect the censors themselves complain, | whole provinces in tho haunds of the | tutions as the Bulgavians are, and they Restrictod in Russla. are confined, their readers s for | enemy in the fic In a situation like | quently, personal liberty should be sur- | since they sometimes receive at railvond authorit Banksand financial | feel duvY humiliation at being kept so . ; hidden meaning and unexpressed opin- | the present one, opposition to the gov- | rounded by the greatests possible safe- | same time one reprimand for all institutions of various kindshave sprung | long under guardianship, The' dos ion between the line If. on the other | ernment does not manifest itsell exelu- | gu r«lh_ there .-1\|~t< “l ml‘l (-‘u!“thingu the p;fl.!w:ui.»n of !nl('{n‘ and articles | up in great numbers and have bound | for such institutions, u\!h(\\u:ll forced 0 5 hand, a newspaper praises the govern- | sively through the actions of a few | which is in violation wll the Russian | manifestly innocent and another for not | widely separated regions together with | into concealment, and half stifled by re- THE LIBERALS' LAST APPEAL.| )i is not belioved, because \ho | known individuals: it hovers in tho air, | people’s ideas of judicighmrocedure, and | alllowing the publication of books and | meshes of - mutunl. Phiigacion and. ine | pressive . monaires, . finds oxprossion commendation is regarded as hypocriti- 1 lurks in the heartsof a multitude of | in flagrant violation ofisthe most ele- | articles which ave as manife stly mis- | debtedness, These changes, compli- | nevertheless, in the zemstvos, in tho 1. Perfect freedom of speech is the | people. Severe m ay orush a | mentary principles of gustice. A rob- [ chicvous, ety is ivritated by still | cated and supplemented by others like | assemblics of the nobles, and in the privilege of the reprosentatives of ex- Few of the government's prominent op= | ber ora murderer canmot be searched | another injustice. It often happens | them, have created everywhere a thou- | press, The granting of such institus trome opinions gnly, and we find it on | ponents, but 1n_their places discontent | nor arvested without a awarrant from an | that even the withdrawal of a question | sand questions and and necessitios which | tions, and the callina together of o rop- ights of Pere the one side, for'example, in the **Mos- | sets forth new champions. officiul who must answer for his acts | by censorial prohibition from the field | previously did not exist, and have so in- entative body to preside over them, spected. cow Gazette" and kindred organs, and Finally, repression, by keeping the | upon complaint of the: sufferer; but in | of lite discussion does not prevent | terwoven® the interests of separate lo- [ will give to the nation rencwed ters on one side [the government | salities that delay or error in the settle- | trength, and renewed faith in the gove pibi on the other, in the *‘underground” [ country in astate of constant alarm | cases involving politicatuerime an en- | the w. st Sune | PrEsS: with warnings of impending danger and | tively different ovder of things prevails. | side] from setting forth théir opinions [ ment of n question at one ruiu( has a | ernment and in its own future. When : The forcible repression of discontent | with extraordinary and ever-chunging | For the past ten years the police, upon | and sharply attacking theirndversarvies, | divcet influence upon the fortunes of | the people of Russia made - themselves is injurious in another way. The im- | methods of prevontion, diverts atten- [ trivial suspicion or upon a false | while the latter, silenced by the prohi- | other pl often very remote. Every | veady for the recent war, it was with ) ; possibility of speaking out Trankly com- [ tion from the real necessities of the | accusation, have been " allowed to [ bition, caunot reply even to the extent | local necessity or ealamity, whether it | an instinetive feeling that in the great conflict. which 100Kk | pels people to keep their ideas to ‘them- | time and baflles all attempts to antici= | break into houses, force their way into | of explaining more clearly their own [ be a drought, the grain beetle, the dis- | work of freeing kindred nations there srrorists”™ on one | selves, to chevish and nurse them in | pate the future. The country lives | the sphere of i wte life, read | position. An illustration “of this fur- [ organization of a railroad, an epidemic | wrs the promise of freedom for thems *t, and to regard complacently even | only from day to day, when it ought to | private letters, throw the accused into [ nished by the question of classical in- ! disease, pleuro-pneumoniaamong cattle, | selves. Arve such expectations, hopes, methods of putting them into | proceed at once and with vigor to its | prison. keep them there for months.and | struction in ou hools. Restriction of | or industrial stagnation, exerts, without [ and promises never to be realized? altered the time-hovored routes and | with the question & apparent even td methods of trade and production, have | the simplest intelligence, and it only An American’s Observations in a Land Where Free Institutio Not Exist and th s Do | LErom the Century—Continued from day's Dee.] It is not necessary to pursue the his- tory of the fi place between the gide and the police and gendarmes on tHE other in the year 1879 and the first J e lik did Thus is created one of the | work. Whether, therefone, we r rd | finally subject then to an inquisitorial | the press and lim ions of free speech | losing its local significance, a wide- The above temperate, patriotic, and purt of the year 1850, The liberals did | 30005000 itant of the conditions upon | repression s a necessary and: normal | examination without even informing |in general might e some | spread influence upon the well-being of | courageous address was laid bofore 3he not participate in that conflict, and | which the spread of sedition depends, | feature of national life, or merely them definitely of the charges made | raison d'etre in a country where the | the empirve as a whole. Tsar, and he acted upon ity but, unfor only took the field again when, on Feb- | namely, the weakening of the loyalty | temporary expedient useful in - per against them, Many persons arvested | governing power felt itself to be weak In an ecconomic life thus compli- 1unnu-lly.hi action came too late. On \ ruary 25, 1880, the ezar, finding that re- | of those whounder other circums! 2 would regard sed Th nees, | of agitation, find that it is powerless | in this way by mistake, or under m in comparison with the people, but it is | cated, one central administration, | the 12th of March, 1881, he signed a ice. | to attain the results that are expected | apprehension, have lived through this | well known that in Russia the power of | even though it POssess super- lwm-lumminn announcing to 1he people self- | srom it. experience and have afterwards re- | the government is enormous. Limita- [ human wisdom and energy, cannot | his intention to summon a national as- 5 , free The most marked feature of the pres- | turned to their homes. In the eyes of | tions of the right of free speech merely | possibly deal with the innumerable | sembly and to grant a constitutional 's which were in operation, ap- | oypressson, and an aceumulated fund of | ent situation in Russia is extreme dis- [ cortain people and of the government | weaken that power. 1f the government | questions and problems which, in the | form of government. On the very next pointed a “supreme executive com- | encrgy which sceks a field for activity. | satisfaction in urgent need-of free ox- | these sulfcrers ave not men justified by | foars publicity then it must have some- | absenco of {m]nll:u' self-government, | day. hefore this proclamation had been mission” and put at the head of it Gen= | The more rigorously these impulses ave [ pression. Educated society asa whole, | the courts and re-established in their [ thing to conceal from the peoplo—such [ necessarily devolve upon it. © Wholé [ public, he was assassinated. eral Loris Melikoff, an army officer, but | repressed in their logal form, thesooner | irvespective of rank. position or opin- | rights in the face of the world; they are | is the inevitable conclusion to be drawn classes of wants and demands either re- aman who was believed to- be in sym- | they will take on a form which is not | fon. is intensely dissatisfied, and out of | dangerous members of society mirked | from the preseut condition of the press. | main_entively unsatistied, ave inade- fon with abhovr ressive measures alone were not nde- Tt Db i Ll pueh AR LR in organized societ ite to cope with the voleanic social He opTalons Whick, steives i puthy with the 1 biding branch of [ legals the move apparent will become | that dissatisfaction urises the existing | with the vand of disloyalty. In the | The need of free speech is never so | quately appeased by methods which v the protesting party. To Loris Melikoff | the of harmony between the st agitation. 3 eyes of other people they are innocent | deeply felt as in periods of disconten take no account of local interests, or lh,,l 1« determined to make alast [ ings of society and the working meth- The first and most important of so- | martyrs, or even heroes. It often hap- | and even apurt from discontent, the we met by a series of unsystematic and appeal, and in March, 1880, twendy-fi ods of the ruling powers and the more | ciety’s unsatistied demands is the ‘xlu- pens that the 1\\«.~:\j such persons ar need in l'{.\ls.q:m society is extreme mutually contradictory measures, Each of the leading citizens of Moscow, i gencral and emphatic,and consequently | mand for an opportunity to act. This [ wrecked forever, The dead secrecy urgent. The Russian people are pass- | of these ways of dealing with such cluding professors in the uni f the more infocthous, will become the | demand even a constantly growing bu- [ political trials in contrast with the ing through an important crisis in thewr | wants and deiands undermines respect - - Totmbors of the Moscow Bar nss illegal protest. When society 1o | reaueracy has been unable t0 silence. It | publicity of ordinary jurisprudence history—u erisis which is economic, so- | for authority and inspives nful dis- a number of weil known authors wenns of making known and discussing | has heen encouraged and stimulated by | unlimitéd exercise” of - power by cial dnd political. Nothing but the | trust. 3 A La Persephone French Hand-made Yopresentative men from the educ peaceably and publicly its wants and | the intelleetual movement which began | seerct prosecutor, in contrast free interchange of ideas can lessen the [ Tho only way to extricate the country classes generally, drew up, signed, | necessities, the more energetic mem- [ in the last century and which has con- | the vietly —enforced legality of | difficulties and embarrassments of this | from its present position i to summon 2 and forwarded 1o the new dictator of that society will throw them- | tinued in thisi and as early us the bhe- [ every step in ovdinavy judicial pro- | transition period. When in dealing | an independent parliniment [Sobranio] of Russ long and carefully prepaved | selves passionately into seeret aetivity, ing of the ot reign | cedure, ave undermining in society the | with sucn - difficulties and emba consisting of representatives of the i lotter. in which they set forth temper- [ and lose gradually the habit of trying | ther had 2 taken from [ sense of lawfulness, and adding fuel to | rassments the government adopts | 7 vost to give that parliament a 3 ately, but with great courageand frank- [ to obtain their ~ends by reasonable |in literature and an ddeal of | the five of exasperation which burnsin [ o ecourso which societ needs | shave in the control of the national life, ] 3 ness, their views with regard to thevenl | methods, The cha ties which at | national Tife which demanded realiza- | the hearts not only of the persons who | not approve, the press is the only me- | and to sccurely guarantee pevsonal 5 i nature of the evil from which the em- | fivst mark only the more hot-headed | tion. That ideal was founded upon the | have the misfortune to he prosecuted | dium' through which the conscquent | rights, freedom ufllhungh!.{\ml freedom Highest standard of Corset ever intro. N pire was suffering and the measures | members of society will at last hecome inviolability f“., Iu‘-x-wn.nl rights, freedom | for political uflvnw:*. h]m Iul. fn.m\u«'h' alarm and excitement \n be “f““l‘)k-lll- of speech. Such freedom will call into | gyced into this market. Th y impart that R Which, in their opinion, should be [ eommon to peoplé of a very different | of thought, frecdom of speech. and a | wider circle of people. In the absence [ ized. By refusing to listen to frankly fon tho hest enpnbilities of the peo- [ ottt o L e . an adopted 1o restore tranquillity to the | class, simply beeause the latter have | system of government by which these | of any legislation defining political expressed opinions, the government not | ple, will rouse the slumbering life of L.' s L- Al ) y country. I obtained from one of the | nofield in which to cultivate better | things should he guarantéod, The re- | erime and limiting the power of the in- | only gives another proof of its want of | the nation, and will develop the abund- | well dressed lady would be justly proud, signers a copy of that letter. In order | qualities. forms of the first half of the present | stitutions which deal with it, not a | confidence in its own power, but de- ant resources of the countr Liberty | especially when obtainable without injur« to full ate the weight and sig- At the present time, there is a prey reign gave completeness and perma- | gingle person belonging to the educated prives itself of an important means of will do more than the severest repr ious tight lacing, ete. Indorsed as the H nificance of documents the reader | lent opinion that the existing evils ¢ nence to this ideal and threw upon it | elass can regard himsell as safe from | knowing with whom it has to deal. | sive measures to crush anarchistic i must bear in mind that it is not edi- | he eradicated only by repressive meas- | the light of approval from above. At | political prosccution, und consequently | There may exist in the sociul organism | partics hostile to the stat I’ ' torial from o “nibilistic™” newspy it | ures. Many people believe that, befc the ~!n > {y:[\». lh;v-n) reforms vl'; i h’-d ||n: nllw x'illn eseape hl'um the ever-pres- ||\-vd|.~<vuml ‘T‘_u ] s of »\'Inn"l\ xhl.-l ‘,:u\' yn]- ‘-l\h,in)\ “I“I s]l\n\\' )thy error r.»f their i 4 yus proclamation in- | i o s the )f, attention | social conditions which were so entively | ent, humiliating and exaspe ing con- | ment is entively ignorant and by which | theories, and t ubstitution of vigor- 7 ; - 4 B It GnoouTams HEDOL: | M e e et ot miathods | new that the nocossity for now nation usness that he ds entively without | it is linble at any moment to be taken | ous healthtul activity for epidemic dis- ing dressmakers of Paris, London 'H lion; it is not a letter designed to affect | of pepression, and that, when such | institutions to corvespond with them be- | rights. _ unawar Of this the present state of | content in the life of the people will de- w York, and for sale in Omaha by i public opinion in any v t home or | methods shal have attained the results | came a necessity no longe v Still more out of harmony with the | things is a proof. The administration | prive themof the field in which they 1 Dot VIT 18 o cadin, tompeente state- | expeeted from. them, it will be tine | but practical. The old mechanism of [ views of the people is the system of ad- [ up to this very hour has not been ablo | darry on their propaganda. a conel' b ment of faets an conclusions, written ut [ enough to proceed with the forther de- | government pro ed to be incapable of | mini ve exile and banishment with- | to find out definitely who the Another veason for the developmen t . 0 ] a most critieal moment in the history of | velopment of Russian soeial life. But | directing the new and complex forces | out umination or trial, which has | enemies of social order are, and it | of “‘underground activity may be Russin, signed by most of the ablest and | the evils cannot be remedied by repres- | Which “were inoperation. — Only | been practiced upon a move extensive | is doubtful whether it even knows their | found in the enforeed silence of publie Thompson Belden & 00 i patriotic citizents of the empirve, and | give measures: and that is not all—re- | by the free wnd independ- | seale within the past five years than [ working methods, becatise by with- | ssemblies, The cases of the provincial ] . carricd personally by one of them to | pressive mensures not only do | entefforts of society itself could they | ever before. — While the spivit | deawing the light of publicity it has | assemblics of Pu Chernigof, and Andoths Chant Toris Melikoff, with o' request that it be | not oure the evils which ex- ulated and controlled. The [of ~ the law and the first [ cnshrouded such methods in an atmos- | other provinees in 1879 show that the nd other merchants, i inid before the Tsar. The vestof this | ist, but they create new evils, of the people foran opportunity | principles of justice forhid — the | phere of secrcey and obseurity. In the | voices of the represeutatives of the — - article (except the fin: raph) is a | hecause thy inevitably accompan- 0 take part in the control of the | infliction of punishment without pre- fabsence of free speech the enemies of | people ave stifled even when they ave transiation of the letter jed by administrative license.* It [ pationallife—has herctofore become a | vious trial, hundreds and o ips thou- | the government must vemain unknown | responding in accordance with their - From the liberals of Moscow to Gen- | might he possible, under given condi- | phenomenon w h the ruling power | sands of persons ave anhpally subjected feven to society itself. The unsatisfied | hest judgment to the eall of the govern- i eral Loris Melikoft, of the su- [ tions, for people to reconcile themsel must take intonccount. Unfortunately, | to the severest punishnient that 1 be | d nd of the people for freedom of [ ment.* The latter withholds its confi- preme executive comm The un- | to the uncontrolled oxet of power by | however, it is a phenomen which the [ inflicted upon an educated man: namely. coch s one of the ¢ sourcesof the | denee more and more from the provin- i ARt ntak conditiontof RussInAY tHo | lias hiplestauthoni but' Ticense | administration regards with hostility. | hanishment from home'and fricnds, and isting discontent. ery educated [ cinl assemblios, and bestows it move i yresent time is due tothe fact that theve | uhove creates license below. Eve At the very moment when society is | that by a mere :\\lm|;n,~! ive order an. by virtue of a law of his intel- | and more upon more burcaucratic in- Able. SORIAIEIOL AN Y. FOAF TSR il s arisen in Russion society n party | official—ispravnik, stunavoi, urindnik | roused hoth by the nature of itsown | hased upon nothing. Persons exiled in | loctual being. seels to exchange ideas | stitutions—submitting, for example, to [ “ends sy i i "hededs, W NG, Y which ucts with great irrationality, mifd | or gendarmet—has his own idea of sav- | reflections and’by the circumstances of | this way have no means of knowing | with others—to convince or be con- | the provincial coun for peasant af- nas e CANCER, T1LYS, ¥ g h is can on o Gontost with the' gov- | ing the country, and upon the strength | the time and seeks to te in the | how long their punishment will con- | vinced. - Conflict is the natural state of | fairs [ body of chinovnikst appointed | RUPTURE ernment in 4 manner withwhich right- | of it he sets himself above all laws and | life of the state, the administration [ tinue. They ave deprived of even the fan idea, and it cannot be suppressed | by the erown] eases and questions which | 50 0 S enilata Bain th Ftud ] thinking people, no matter what their | institutions. The govérnment thus | throws obstacles in its w If the rul- | consolation which every common evim- | without a suppression of thought itself. | i formerly veferred o the zemstyos | Siin ey e St ot aab i d ot i tion srree of education, eannot | tears down with one hand what it builds | 1ng mechanism in its present form e inal has in knowing “defimtely ~the | Limiting the freedom of discussion docs | [representative bodies elected by the | BRSAE0 Shibe, gired for one-thind the cost at our 8 sympathiz This contest, which is se- [ up with the other 1 finally under- | ¢ludes from divect participation in the | length of time he has to suffc Mo not weaken the encrgy of thought: it | people The government creates LAUIE ¢ e, Tovoly Com 1 ditlous in i . manifests itself | mines all vespect for authority, by government o majority of those who v, the friends of o political e intensifies and concentrates it and if | tonal and provineial delegates, and ] LA DR G i in a scries of acts of violence divected | gablishing the conviction in the minds | have the first vight and the strongest ve no means of knowing the there is no opportunity for an intel- f the same time has so little confidence oy snlth G b 4 aguinst the ruling authorvitics. The | of the people that nuthority does not | desire to take part in it, then that | the offense with which’ e is charge leetial conflict, there drvises aconflict [ in these representatives of the people i ot r ) q;uvfliuu is, How can the evil be reme- | propose to be bound by any fixed and mechanism stands in need of reform- | often he himself does nét know: but tl v is social and political. that it puts them under the supervision s jii¢ died? definite rules of procedu License, | ation. Instead, however, of reforming [ both have a right to suppose that the discontent which pervades Rus- | and control of a presiding officer not by i nd Displac K i In order to answer this question it is | fupthermore. threatens an oxtraordins | its the government is striving to erush | aceusation cannot be' proved, — since 0 and which is the result of | themsclves chosen; und h g impo epas, Kidnoy o ts anil Chinnge of L I neceseury first to wicover the real | aey - widening of the civele of | and strangle the very institutions in- | if it could be the _aceused would | the mistaken policy of the government | upon them such o presiding oficer EYE AND EA cases of the evil. The object of the | porsons to be proceeded against. It | tended o bring about such rveform- | he duly, indicted and teied by a | in dealing with inicrnal affaivs, can be [ the person of a marshal of the nobility, i pr t letter is to show— opens the way for a general appli- [ ation.f @ A courts, © At the time when the law removed only by moasures in which so- | the “government sirives to turn the | mersto 1. That the principal reason for the | eation of the rule that “*he who is not The Russian people ave becoming | lating to administrative exile was pro- f cicty shall take part. The government | latter into a me hinovnik, Many of | fnfiammat il morbid form which the contest with the | for us is against u: rule which, | more and more impressed with the con- | mulgated, it was explained as an unu- | cannot omplish the desived vesult f these marshals serue only in order to L Infitmmation of the Kar, Ulcaration or Catarrity i Zovernment has taken is the absence in | when applicd by the government, is | Vivtion that an empire so extensive und | sual measure of clemency, intended to [ alor mere cursory gl at the | obtain eank or for the sake of an admin- | btgrs o Extera) B AT Russia of any opportunity for the free | purticularly dangerous, beeause it de- [ @ social life s0 complicated as ours can- | enlighten the punizhment of young and | state of the country is enough to con- | istrative caveer. g NEHVUUS osa of development of public opinion and the | ¢l persons to be enemies of the [ 1ot be ged exclusively by chinov- | misguided offendoers by substituting vinee one that it is time to 1 into The government often treats with A ) OOn freo exercise of public activit country who ave in veality peaceable [ 1iks. 4 arcedu- | ishment to distant provinces for the | action all Rus healthy powe The | contemptuous neglect statements and before tho Ky le, Janguor, Glaoiiiness, il 2. The ot be eradicated | and useful citizens, but who simply do | cating yeavafter yeara largerand lavger | much severer penalties which would be f demands of the empive ave constantly | petitions from sources fully competent | efihis BRI Dt it UniE i by any sort of vep Ve measures. not agree in all respects with the ad- number of men who are capable of tak- | inflicted by the courts 1f the accused | inereasing. The imperial budget has tent to make them, and listens unwill- nds e ' burd 1 2. That the present condition of the | ministration ing part in political life, and yet these | should be brought to formal trial. | more than doubled in the last twenty | ingly to the representatives even of N l people, many of whose most urgent Everybody is wellaware of the shadow | #ssembl ure constantly and system- | When, however, the Moscow assembly | years, and would have been still llarger nost legetimate interests. There Erysipelin Fovorse i needs are wholly unsatisfied, constitutes | whieh has recently been cast, without | atically repressed. Their legislation is | of nobles asked that every person sen- | than it isif the satisfuction of impor- may be found in the reports of any pro- | eers, Pamsin the Tead ana_ Bones, Syphilfic S0 ample cause for dissatisfaction, and that | any serious reason, upon some of the subjected to the censorship of the pro- | tenced to exile should be tant imperial needs had not heen post- | vincial administration ords of in- | Thront Mouth und Tongue, Glundulsr Eninrgenont Jif this dissatisfaction having no means | host elements of our society. A crusade | Vineial governors; their right to im- | vight to demand a judicialiny poned. The last war necessitated an | numerable petitions sent by the assem- red Wlien Others 11 o, i of i pression, ned wily manifests | has boen declavod ngainst” the educated | Pose’ taxes for their own needs is re- | of his case, no attention whatever was | extraordinary expenditure, a large part | bly to the government, which not only “(l‘lh".t::(l'“”]”" free B o itsell in morbid forms. class, and i this movement the stricted; they assemble under presiding | paid to its petition. of which has not even —yot been permi- | ive never been granted, but have not | ) A% fontd YALOD 10 Al naxa 1. That the causes which underlie | ment itself is not altogether oflicers whose disciplinarvy power is ju- 3. There is in the present condition | nently covered. It is absolutely | even been answered. The voice of the | prompt L S od unless this wide-spread discontent cannot be | Tt seems to bo forgotten that the edu- | creased: their right to manage their | of'the courts and of ST govern- | impossible for the country, under | pross is treatod with equal if not greate [....“ puniod by four conts wstamps Seud ton :z removed by governmental action alone, [ cated classupon which a brand is thus | 0wn sehools is denied: their recommen- | ent another cause of irritation, arising | the prescut revenue system, o sustain | contempt. The newspapers and maga- us upon prn-uu-.x.lml Gl and nervous dise but require the friendly co-operation of [ set is a produet of Russian historys that | dations and petitions ave wholly un- | gut of the greviously illogical and in- | even e a few years the enormous | zines have had oceasion of late to dis- e o 2 i § all the vital forces of socioty. the government itseif. since the fime of | Reeded: jurisdiction over all important | consistent policy of “the government it- [ and constantly inereasing burden of | cuss almost every question which re- ‘erms strictly cash. Call on or address, | The unnatural form which the contest | Poter the t, hus been ereating this | questions s taken away from them | golf. In the eavly part of the present | imperial taxation. Although new is- | Jates to the administeation of the inter- DR. POWELL REEVES i with the government has taken is due | unfortunate elass, and that now. whate | and given to administrative bureaus, | poign the political ideal of tho [ sues of paper money and the tempovary | nal affairs of the empire, ane with re No: 898 Cor 160 & Tivtiay BEe Oniaha N’m i to the absence of all means for the free | ever may be its chavacter, it embodies l{‘ld l]h«- : provineial g yorriors are | Russian people was approved not ;;nnulullvn of hn”u'l«”\\hnl' follo li gard 1‘“ rm-lx questions have ex- 2 2 /A 2ok I and orderly expression of public dis- | all the sclf-conscious intellectual facul- | dllowed to - pass judgment upon | gnly by the highest authorities ef [ the war have enabled the governmen sssed deflniteopizions based upon i i i i :-:.‘n. '.n. Dis 1‘i~.t'llu|| r:nl\nui be « s of the Russian people. Those who | the ch of ofticials duly elected | ho'state, but by the supreme ruler of | duving the past two yo to strike a | precise s e data, but v Omaha Medical and Surglual Institute. 1 sed through the press, since the 1k to erush these intellectual facultios | PY popular voto. As sequence of | the empire. At the very fivst step, | de that favorabl it cannot be | igtle respeet has heen to their z wess is closely restricted in | p its comments upon governmental | forg action, and such restriction upon the support of excited passion. all this, theve is great da FhoRtHRS Ko e ta 1 the realizition of that [ counted upon in future, nor even in the | conclusions. scent illustrdtion: of tting that passion isadouble-edged | Provineinl assembiies, which should be [ jqeal, the administration manifested a [ curvent fiseal year. 1t is plain to every | this fact is furnished by the railvond s cn- | blade, which, when it has been raised | the independent organs of local self- | jaek of confidence in the forees of soci- [ one, and was long ago admitted by the | tax. When, in the lattery ion of | not a refo W impulse providing for the organi aami vt of 1878, i i forced by warnings, suspensions, and | aud turned in one direction, cannot be | government. will be transformed into f . Immediately after the promulga- | government, that Russia’s internal vev- | it was first proposed, the orcans of the 4 ¥ penaltios, in the shape of the in- | yestrained if, under the impulse of an | mere Hinate burenus of the local | ion of such laws. for exampie, as the | enue system stands in need of reform— | press, almost without exception. pointed bl it tales amother. | administration. This system of forcible | confined to the working | out and pertinaciously insisted upon its i‘ tordiotion of sbroot sales and the do- | unfores vation of the vight to print adver- | Iducation—the scli-conscious think- | vepression cannot crush the desive of itonal and provincial assemblics | 0ver o certain old taxes and the inven- | inad and its burdensome charac i amat which fall upon the peviodi- | ing power—on the other hand, people for independent political ac- mskoe Polozhenin) and the act tion of new ones, but a syst ic and x was nevertheless imposed, i cnl press with crushing foree. Ques- |is the best possible sup- but 15 quite enongh to produce | forming the ecourts (Sudebni Ustavi), | Tundamental veform of our whole sys- o justify the predictions which | & } i tions of first el importance * ave | port of order. It must” be remembered, mic dissatisfuction and to put the | there began a s of withdrawals | tem, with capital changes in the distri- | had been'madé with regard to it. The | ¥ i STORES i b Wholly removed by censorial prohibi- LR by encouraging pas- | ddministration in the attitudo of serv- | and vestrictions, Al the limitations of | bution of the burdens of taxation wmong | povernment in gencral pays oo little | SYRERE il ) i t tion from the field of newspaper discus- | sion. instead of inteiligent veflection.ad- | ing the intevesis of a bhureaucr the powers of the provineial assemblics | the several clusses of the people en | attention to the investigation of sub- > gt 3 H ! gion, and that atthe very time when | ministrative license strikes down the | rather than the intevests of the peop which have before been enumerated; | this is not enough. No possible reform | jodts which require exact seientitie re- | they most occupy public attenti senso of lawfulness whieh in - Russin is | 2 Another domand of society whioh | 4o peen method of dealing with | in the revenue system will be of any reh. This is particularly the case i Within the pust year the p\l'uhi ) perfeeily doveloped at best. License ;l"l“::«‘”!" ;T‘"i'l'\;:::' ,‘;.fn ".1 SRR A politi 1I41W«|\1~ ;hu v r;n of admin- ;-]\-ml uuleAnn-:u {:hun"nlu'l' ) Im \\i|lh regard l|u\qnu-|iu|l.- of ;-«-.,I....mu- TR j‘ has been extended” to even edueational | also brings the organs of authority into f oL oD il acuvity s | steative exile; the denial in certain | the people’s wea ang roduc- | and financial legislation, which ar subjects, such as the classical system of | collision with one onother, and such col- | the demand for personal seeurity. The sof the right of trial by jury, and | ing power. | All “persons who have | least of all susceptible to burcaucratic | . W. Corner of 13th and Dodge Streets, | { jnstruction and the laws ulating | lisions ave exteemely injurious to the | indispensable conditionsupon wi the relegation of political “offenses to | hud un opportunity 1o observe closely | methods of treatment. DISKARES RN A GRS, A e AT | | et las: Jrocesses of healthy national life. Nothe | Yery existenco of modern society de- | gpeeially - organized courts—t . | the domestie life of our provinees agree |~ The result of the state of things above | ani i Sis st i yputatis i ron e e ut na niversity R s arve free courts, freedom from ar- | Wore in the nature of withd in declaring that the people are con- [ set forth is the creation of an impression | e e Mottt o ston toatn o o5 | 1 veform are considered secretly and kept | lato and discipline.and bring intoag t and search without proper precau- | yostrictions of rights and privileges | stantly growing poorer instead of | {hat the government does ot wish to r eA 3 1 oM | \ cancenled from the n\\l Then there [ ment with one another the organs of ad- | tions andsafeguards, responsibility of | gnce granted. These decisions began | vicher. At this very moment s third | the voice of the people; that it will not | i ¥ X o, Carvatirg of th aro other subjects which the periodical authority. officiuls for illegal detention and impriss | ulmost as soon us the new laws | of the empire is suffering from insuftl- | tolerate eriticism, however usty of 1ts | it Mo Haralysin itliopr " Kianay pross arve diveeted to discuss “with om all this, repressi onment, and the due observance of all | weut into ~ operation, and they | cient food. und in some 5 th mistakes and failures; that it despises | Biadden K T pocial caution und eircumspection”—a n thought. Conv the legal formalities of pubiic and con- | were made = in & delicately | actual famine. In southern Russia the | the opinions of competent advisors: and | Jaraio N8, ARCIALTE i phease which, in the language of the of of thisfuct is furnished by the last | U il trialin casesinvolving the in- | pyuded series, which can bavdly 1 ctle threatens venewed desolas | that it has in view pee objects not | medioa y VAT f cansors, has almost the force of a com- [ reign (1825 to 1855) as well us by w ion of punishment. — In administra- | jo pegurded as secidental. Take, for | tion,” and in a whole series of provinees | velated in any way o the. necessities of | d plete prohibition. Newspapers are not | vecent yeurs, - The idea of popular 1 the series of steps by which 3 d other epidemic d the people. There is undoubtedly at even allowed to publish fucts, | resentation, for example, hus nature.society raging unchecked. LR the present time a wide-sprend belief in if such facts compromise or re- | tuken enormous strides forward and has | dequiesce. Administrative interfer- | pgtaplished by the newcourt laws,to the | Our manufacturing industries in the | the existonce of an antagonism between i flect in ny s upun",:u\t'rnnl\'nl:ll made its way even into the wilderness "'\'"'t‘|”|'i‘ '.‘"I 9¢ te } 'l,»‘('“““ “: 1| present mettiod of .v.m.}l icting political [ opinion (;f w_lm]wh'x;!‘de; wre begin- | the people and the organs of govern- PuE uhon | oveuns. All remember the recent case | of the provinces, notwithstanding the | the wling power s mot willing In the beginfing the courts | ning to decline, and there ant, Upon this point eultivited so- edic 'Snrgical In 9 of the newspapers “Golos,” which was | fact that public diseussion or considort. | 1 submit’ to the laws which it | neted independently and hud exelusive | in the near future of anotl et A with the | Omaba Medical and leal Institute, or i soverely punished for mevely publish- | tion of that idea has been absolutely for- | hus itsclf.ordained, and that it seeks an | jyyisdiction: then the, officers of the | foreign trada- the competition of the | common people. The vt reveros | O MoMenany, Cor, 191h and Uodge Sts., Omaha, Neb I ing the facts with regard to the illegal | bidden. In the absence of ‘oross | Sppartuntty to ttack both the freedom | hipd section were appainted assistants | United States closes to us every the Csur as he revere , but he has I imprisonment of certain dissenting pre- § there arises another medium of - | of the courts and the rights of the per- 1 or"the courts; then the alanes of power | move and more of our mi no confidence in the chinovniks, who, 1 lates.t The press must, therefore, | communication in the shape of the oral | Sons with whom it is dealing. Sucliad- | wuq transferred from the courts to the | where in all dep: ns he naively w8508 it, *rets around | eitherbe silent or hypocritical, or must | transmission of ideas from mouth te | Ministrative interference, whatever [ ¢hiyd section; and finaly, all authority [ nomic life the morbid | the Cear,” In like manner the educated i { express itsell in the” language of alle- | mouth, Examples of the wide exten- | My be its motives, eanzot justify itself | ;15 responsibility were concentrated in | feeling of shaken confidence which saps | classes of society. while they proserve 1 § ) - I sion in this way of religious hevesiesare | in the eyes of the people, and only [ $he hands of the gendavmes. T the productive power of the coun- | their deep smeration the i CIt may m-vlu‘qunm"'n..nu‘.;\nu‘ru-ul\ too well known to need reference ves to weakon the authority of the | giher similar facts show what attitude | try. This feeling is not a mere transi- | monareh, discern, in a weratic i B e nanstima 10 | tnd precisely the same thing takes "",5,‘]'"7'?’“ &G, the government took toward tory impression: it is a_well founded | mechanism, isolated from people, e ] Fbucntfon s st 3¢ | place in the sphere of polities.” When | . The Am]un‘ll\nuouf_ the fivst stage of | fopm, They compplled society | consciousness of the fact that our ruling | the voot of the existing ev There is | st ho remembered that scientific training, | the human mind s subjected to op- | Ju4icial procedure in Russia is de- | 1o siand forth in defense of the institi- [ mechanism does not answer to the mu= | in this respect a complete lack of faith ; 5 to use the languig * Russian censors, [ pression it becomes peculiarly acute and 1 stroved by the lack of independent ex- | tions which it held deaygand thus in the | tability and the inereasing complexity | in the government, and faith can neyer | * Proprietor Omaha Business College, ‘ [ Sexcites the mind, is, leads the stu' | receptive, catéhing quickly t the | amining magistrates. The law prov v beginning created an abnormal tempire’s demands, Now,asin | he pestored while the administration IN WHICH 18 TAUGHT i # dont 1w think, question and experiment— [ slightest hintandattoching Sifinificance | ing that judges shall not be remoy situation, The goverpment and the | “the good old times,” the ernment lously exelud ntral gov- | manifests neither adequate knowledge 41h~ lm‘llifll:: nor moral force nor conformity to any BOOk-Keepmg, POHm&DSth, E ! 'm,took an atti- | from participation in the national ideal: The weaknessof the government h other. For | and takes \||lm|\ itself the difficult task of [ is appurent to socicty, and u‘,,. anadded Commercial Law, Shorthand, Telegraphing the people are oftgn blamed, and to | thinking and acting for them. This [ cause of irvitation. because there is _ and Typewriting. i a certain extentthey are perhaps blame- | task was hard enough even when the | nothing which provokes and humilintes | Send for Suliege Journals | worthy: but thote “who condemn the | life of the E"'“N" went on in the long | people more thun to feel that they a S. . Cor. 16th and Capital Ave. | peopl patriavchal way to which | iy subjection to persons who can inspive | Mention the Omahaie i 4 while the study of the dead languages does | to things which under ciner circum- ; not have that pernicious tendency to so great | oy » \ HIASE, DITQUR an extent The classical system of instruc- 3 1 1 tion is therefore fuvored by the government, | 1t 18 this which ives so. much wi and the advocacy of any other system is for- | 10 the utter bidden, Honry Spencer's *Edug " press. - gverybody knows how quickly “The Calture Demanded by Mode newspaper, Kolokol and other simi- by the late E. L. Youmans, have been with il AR SRR Ty drawn from all the Russian publie il :“l“ publications _lost, their influence from office is deprived of all its virtue by the practice of transferring them to distant posts or promoting them with- ) ostility : oub eiuon, Fow 11kile lalsh there Tadn!| fudsof bastlity towas the existing method of seleeting judge and how ¢ by appointm people, instead of co-gperating frate nally in the work of roly f stances it would pass without attention. ight ces os the “underground” lessly vacancies are filled nt, s shown by the fact forge! i O . wpe | established that not long agoin Moscoy CpRsuinal in & saiikey whers people went i g vere give ) rove! it i —power! v o both society aud the government werc \ither sob . t. It make vl ed on the index oxm 1 Russian periodicals were given BT AORR B0 i opie Wenl | the government is all-powerful the gov- g el neither respect nor trust. It makes no L b rgwtorius. | comparative freedom of speech.t Woouit ‘“'-} “.“"“'It-"‘ the theatre. | eynment should show most seli-posses- | accustomed, but that order of thingshas | diffevence, under such ciscumstances, +A correspondent of ine “Golos" suz. | In the present unfortunate state of | 0 be amusec the ignorance and | gion, undergone in recent years more vital | what means official power may take to i at Suz [T clownishness of an a i 23l, in th ociate judge, who provinty of Viadimir, disc vered rister of 4, That which happened to represen- changes than perhaps ever came to a | establish its authority; its efforts will S CTRRS S e (03 1AM iAcoTONRd The Russian word proizvol, which T have [ had been uppointed by the minist 4 That wi similar system in_any country in the | pes exusperition. It does not f tory =4 ehat place there weve confined two ve transiated “license,” has no precise | justice instend of unother candidate | tative institutions and to the courts [ (o0 6f n single gencration, The | | aleian)y :“ “lu-llnY lfln-l nlvl‘- xl|:<1|)-’ :‘h wishiops and an archbishop of the dissenting | @aRivalent in English. It means action upon | recommended by the court itself, Peo- | happened also to the press, and perhaps | oo pation of the serfs has completely v, 0 4l > inclined t I Soct Known a8’ the “Starovetsi,” or old bo impulse —action which is not cou- | ple who take u superficial view of lifo | €Ve1 it & worse form. The law of 1563 1 radically transformed the whol i T lLievers. One-of the bishops had been in sol piled by law, nor by any scandard 'duty oF | are amused by such things; the more | £4Ye to our pr sertain rights by abol. | B¢ FACICHEL prmed the whole | say, that an attack upon them is | obligution external 1o the actor. ' o i economice life of the agrie vy conflnement in this monasterial pris al peas- | ¢ serious members of socic d cases prelimin k upon the imperial power re deeply | 1shing in s “license! is int nded to have t ‘ fiic tive limitations of judicial precedure, | gxamy scently wha be their nature.society eannot | we have eome, from the ovder of things 1 venteen years, the other twenty-two years s significa- | 104 B e A eRY | ensorinl sunervi ivine Y | ants wnd the lunded proprietors us well | gophistry of such & method of dealing Lo archbiahon WOty S(X Soars, e | UoW Wherevor it occurs in the prosent. paper. {',\‘:"‘:‘: I:‘“‘l,',"..',‘l‘.‘,,,,l\‘:'tl . u‘(mxl'\‘-‘ pj.mxwf.:.; the o0urts url I“;‘:x:”.l:ll ‘\'-".‘h:“\efl.-.l' By S shmis "“‘“Z"'" e T DACLUCS il in commenting 0 upou its | =G y 8 @ cons loss spec 200 urlsdictic o * | Artificinl methods of swift intercom: 'ho reference is to the attempt of the | corespondent’s lotter, suggested that theso | - #These words cannot be translated into | the government. Great. numbers of | the freedom of the press was abused; | ittt THG0 transportation have | provineial assemblios to obtain B prelatos had probably been put in prison far | English, An ispravnik is 8. sort of local ONioN. ARG il moyed entirely {rom | }'“” ) S ¥ Laaod made a dead letter means of petitions to the crown \ *oute sectarinn obstinacy and had then been | €overnment; stanavois and uriadniks are [ the jurisdiction even of such jm- | bY 8 whole series of restrictive meas- | "7 qumage cansed by the grain bectle R e, 8 er and pmenting upon it, the <Golos™ ue “Kolokol,” or “Bell,” wasa radical supervision which vests upon adminis- P g - i O LE BY 8 e 5 ) M g » M \ g Forty thousand persons had died of diph- $The permanent exeeutive bureau which FOR 8A! Was (e o vight to' | o Jublis 4 3 ) d H 3 was derived for i ‘outh of the, vt Lo | jourmal published forwighly in” Londow by | *¥#Tue semstyos, or provisional wid Suntonat fon- b eue capital defeet, | theria in thetwo proviuces of Kharkoff and | attends to the ofticial business of a provincial FALCONER AND FISHER BRO \ priut udvortisements. pracn— G K. assemblies—G, K. is its . failure - 107 furs | Pultava.—~G. K. asseiably ant s, G, K |