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minister, not one of any kind whatever. For there is no
prime minister in the Russian ministry. The unlimited
power of the Tsar does not tolerate this at all. When
Gortchakof was chancellor it was only a title. Under the
present management, Russia, the great exponent of the
Slavs, has succeeded in making itself detested to the
uttermost by all the Slavic nations. This government has
carried it to so great an extent that Russia is now hated
by Bulgaria and Servia (nay, by the common people of
Roumania) as it is hated by the Poles, — and that means
much. Russia liberated Bulgaria from the Turkish reign
of terror, and has now successfully, after the lapse of
not ten years, by falsehood, violence, hypocrisy, by
infamous acts for whose authority the Bulgarians looked
to the higher circles of the Russian government, brought
matters to the pass that the liberators of that day
are more hated than the oppressors were ten years
ago.
But the internal policy is still more pitiable. It is
certainly not a parliament which is most greatly needed.
Only the naive youth in Russia can think that. A
parliament could easily be imagined so chosen that it would
be more conservative than the government itself. It
would, in all probability, if established now, be such a
body as the Duma (city council) in Moscow is. That
is elected. Yes; Moscow has what Paris has so long
fought for in vain, — its own elected mayor. The Duma
is not on that account the less conservative, and it would
not present a different appearance if it had been the
government and not the citizens in Moscow who had elected
its members. No, it is not a popular assembly that it
concerns Russia to get first. Russia needs a bonâ fide
administration. Yet it is understood everywhere there
are no institutions, no provincial home rule, no
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