THE TSAR'S TOURS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 574, 31 July 1909, Page 5

THE TSAR'S TOURS.

TO INCLUDE TURKEY AND ITALY.' . (By, Telegraph.—Preßs. Association.—OopyrlKbt l " ' ' St. Petersburg, July 29 ..The l Tsar- will .visit the' King of -Italy in .-. ' . September. He ..will visit Constantinople on ;;;;'':' ' y;i ' THE CASE AGAINST THE TSAR. : ,Soi'far aSfhas been .■; :i < erary does nbt.,include ;Austrm-Hungqryi"lt was ' f . -. '-'aMrmised .■that l -one of . tiie KaisGr's objects fin ■■•>'.£/iPinnisl}'!,Raters,wis.. %rtcconciliation ..botweeii' . Kussia 'and Aiiotria-Hungnry, nho were os- \ tranged6ver thoßosnia ; Herz(i!!ovina incident- It! Tsif'tofresulfc"*'!s '<V{;;■;.'-.'l : : -'''?AV'^^vTo^itiid^talid , 'the'biKe*~dp'i?ifeit!6ii t 'lli istime. f ■: quarters, to tliefTsar's visit to'England;'it is' ■ Avotthi-..while>recilllin> 1 the' -"case 'against -the Tsar, ■as pie»ented some time ago un tlie {'Quarterly, Eeviow." It is pointed out that ■i. ; . not .only; has • his.- reijn ;bcen ..marked by . the :• ;.most ;pf : ltvissia t ; : a, war. ( that could ; have been easily avoided had: the Tsar given no heed lo the impecunious and plundering sjndicate of Grand Dukes in"the niiitter of tie Concession,'' "did lie-' *■'; f^'ftepcd^ihsteM;to"'thfe;:earnest counsal'offsuch ,'i.men. as.General Kuropatkini M.- do Witte, and .Count LamsdoriT, all of' whom wero 'bitterly : f; • opposed to a;policy likely: to lead to embroil- .... inent wnh.. ; Japanj but it has-al&o been, a reign i .v:,/j;,oi;:ierronßm, bloodsliedi alid revolution ion an ■ massacres in'i 'b^urg\\ I y i into .history, while wholesale assiussinatidn, :pil- : lage, 'and imprisonment havo continued v.'itlii;OUt sintemisSl6h::V:;■ "i: '-'rr '-f V ■ The'indictment of Tsar Nicholas II in the ■ 'Quarterly Review" was of sucli a . searching ; . ; ima.meroiles3character'.that, the:"Spectator", . and' other, influential: Conservative journals chbse;;to;fSgard;it'6s;a very.:,"serious'iheideht." ;The reputatioa of the "Qtiartorly'' for authdni',./v.'*.;; tiolty,and l intrinsic, truth\stands;high;-'and the jarticle'in .question .Was "from the pan lof a ■^-.\V'A'E^ialt'-dfficial:''6r:.hi^K''rft^."; : : i'T'lii.''f6H6win'g' . , reiparkahlo passage' occurs , "Iftn still vividly to 1 mind r the Em- . "/ peror's flrst' meetmg .Withono: of : therhistoric '; .'institutions of. the.i Empire.if was- a raw • : Novembsri day; iu. ISOi. •; ■ The. members off the r,State Council,: nlahy. ■of ■ them' veteran-'officials,: who -had. served, tho Tsar's great-grandfather,' ' ;.w&i'B ■ convened \to do vhomage to thef new nionf/j arch,-, and long: before tlie - time 1 ■ fixed; were, gathered'-together' at tho appointed place/: their ... bodies covered'.' with'-f gorgeous costumes,:-and ;: ;V-vf;their,faces; hidden eipres- ; -.^Biyeijof.; awe < and. he came and hent like a whift of wind in a sandy ; ' ■;::.wastp,'Jea l vihg;them. , hibbing'.their eyes.: They , . had expected imperial majesty, but were confronted ■;with,'childish r restraiht;>a-;shambling gait, a. furtive . glance, ;' nnd . spasmodic move- ■ :-. - monts.;.' An^iindersized." l pithless : M- sidled into the apartment, in which these hoary dignitaries .. .jrere r6spectfiilly awaiting him. With down•k...crtst,:eyes,;'and ma-shrill] falsetto voice, he' liai- ■ '-■it y: ;sp°lce;■ a singfe.seiitence::: 'Gentlemen, .in' the name 'of.'.myf late' father/ Ifthnnk .you .foryour. scrvifcos,' hesitated for ;.a-moment, aud. f ,then,..tnrning on-his heels,' ho. was gone. . They v , Rooked .at each ; other, £orne. ~iu: ; ,amazemeiit 1 . W- pain, many uttering a ■ mental .prayer fV : v toivthe. Weal of;,the nation:;'.and; after an aW i:; f;^piiusa: they. disriei'eedtb tlieii- hoinefi.":■ . , • ■■ ouch was t'he'personality, that, it is affirnied, '' ; : H >?: ; *?'v e ssy, ; victim to the hypnotism of the late ..; '' sinister .Mi Pohedonosteffi lay • bishop of nutocracy and Procurator of the Holy Synod, a , cold-blooded fanatio,' the ehtotpioin. of Oriental .... despotism in its final stage, ;) who lias been com- .• pared to the '.unspeakable M... de • Plelive as' an I• . ■:. . iciple to. a sunbeam," and who intellectually equipped .the Tsar; ; for, tho; office /of autocrat.' 1 ? bellev i?e in his divine right and y., inmllibility as a Slav Messiah sent for tho sal- ; vation. not of hig'own people only, but of all the world.., As 1 the "Quarterly ;Iteview" furtlier says:';';' v/: ; f : : f'-iff ; - "Taking 'seriously .his , imaginary mission, . • he has meddled continuously, and in . :every . affair .of State/ ..domestic .-and ■: foreira, thwarting..the courso .of/justice," undermining - legality, impoverishing .his-,subjects,--. boasting 1 '■ •', ,OT( ;' ® f - and.,yet "plunging his tax-burdened people into the horrors of- a , - - needles'War.'^'' • .., A ».". an in ! 1 t l an /-o of' tho Tsdfs tact, the incident is. of the warship Manchu, which the Chinese had summoned.'to quit the neutral .harbour • at- the repeated, and'nr- " . gent request : of ; the Japanese. Consul thero A ■ ;; report of .tho .was laid before the Tsar by Count I.amsdorfi, and, upon tho mar- .; gin ot; that report was penned,the memorable words, The. Japaneso Consul.is a 6coundrel"