Daily Press

GETTING DOWN TO BED ROCK PRINCIPLES.

The address adopted by the All Russian Zemstvo, in session in Moscow, is one of the most significant indications of the changed conditions in the Czar's domain. It is more remarkable for what it does not contain than for the demands, couched in blunt language, which the emperor is urged to grant.

An Associated Press dispatch from St. Petersburg says that all complimentary references and titles are omitted from the address and that no personal pronoun is used. This can mean but one thing. The representatives of the Russian people have learned that the "Czar of all Russia" who has been known as the "Little Father," is of no more heroic mould than the average man; that his great power is a colossal myth, based upon the degraded ignorance of his subjects, and that only by their abject acquiescence in a continuation of unequal conditions can the governmental anarchism of the twentieth century exist.

It is a dangerous discovery—for the Czar. For the Russian people it is the dawn of that day in which will be established the theory that "all men are born free and equal." Rivers of blood may be spilled before that truth is universally recognized, but the blind Samson is seeing visions of freedom; his hands already are upon the pillars of the Russian aristocracy.