The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-02-07

6c4QQanaVlau6 appearing
rible ;" at the hour of his abdication, when at
the monastery doorway, even at the verge OF
the tomb, meets those Boyards whom he has
prosecuted and decimated, kneeling at his feet
demanding his reinstatement on the throne. al
ready mound OF petrthed bones. Immediately
he regains hrs strength, fastens on his armor.
PUSHES forth like hungry wolf, calls together
h bis and eOmes pBsdes of Ss Victims
The news of a defeat maddens him to fury. Su-
that scc1Td linz to the e7
he on that day takes his life. DO we not
see here all the misery of despotism
novel. Peace and War;" we have the aristoc-
racy Of the last century. The class was based on
the German style by Catharine IL, VINO aisa,
French. Here, too, are the intriguers, courte-
Fans from the saloons; generals useless In battle;
diplomatists of elegant manners but feeble in
tellect; offices of Surprising vigor, but with
doubtful character and irregular life. Noble
divert themselves by tying bailiff TO a bear and
throwing both into a deep river. Indifferent
aSe ta GARDENS We see the
dreadful battles and the numerous armies OF the
years II. 'I3 and IA; Count Rostoptschin de-
against Napoleon, and announces TO the inhab-
ftants how the invading troops progress,
his own eyesight. As a most faithful image OF
fatallsm we have General KoutoaZOf, vino slept
was lost, and crossed his arms at the retreat OF
Beresina because everything was gained.
Regarding the various types of Russian society
and enfeebiea by excess. ii1e most Of the aristo
cracies of Europe, but at the base people
totally unlike any OF the neighboring nations.
CoMMUNIsTIC PROPAGANDA IN RUSSIA.
Thus you will not consider strange the pro-
gress which socialism daily makes in the old
Russian society. Those schools that wish by a
formula, more or less broad. to solve social
problems lose all credit in the West, gain In the
East, and are a dangerous influence in Russia.
knew Hertzen little before his death. He was
very decided in persisting In his communistic
propaganda, and very proud of belonging to a
race like the Slav, which, according TO him,
laws of the individual and the laws of the
state. In one OF the last co ngresses OF the de-
nose 10 us-as the IDEAL OF all politics, as the
remedy for our evils, as the port of refuge, as
the heaven OF hope-the patriarchal Slav mu-
nincipal institutions, with their radical negation
of all property. But never thought that these
dreams, which vanished before reason and
so profoundly the heart OF Russian society. Va
rious thinkers, from their patmOs of exile, for
phlets propagate them. Societies, which take
their names as the apostles of truth and that Of
spiritual proletaries, organize them; This force
baififfs, stronger than all armies, breaking the
narrow network OF the custom house. They
The women, tender as an idyl. effusive as love,
| in love with their own emancipation, believe in
them; Young men. intoxicated by the Joy o.
them, If it is necessary, in one hundred mbats,
and to realize them, even at the cost of the
INST crown prosecutor, zycharef, and you viii
be frightened at the meaSureleSs strength and
measnreless extent of socialism in Russia
clandestine printing office has
been found devoted to revolutionary writings
aud sections extend in alldirections in a most
| powerful organization, similar to that estab-
| iude of their country. A prince, an old public
funetionaTy, pr ssides over the club of st. Peters
burg territorial proprietor OF the first order Is
| judge of erudition and Integrity has expended
nearly $4,000 from his own purse in this propa.
ganda- The province OF Pouza has a principal
justice of the peace in the socialist legion, and in
the province of Viatka a deputation of mobiles
passed through for the first time to collect funds
The governor general, on his part, submitted 10
a council OF students, who, IN their turn, were
under the central commission, resident in Swift
zerland. The fair sex show
AN INNovATING FANATIcIsM
similar to trat which took possession of the
Roman young women in the first ages Of
/ Christianity and the maidens of France in the
first days of the revolution. The daughter OF Q
general supports socialist schools. The wife Of
| a colonel of gendarmerie initiates her own sons
Several ladies belonging to the families of pri-
yate councillors of the emperor indoctrinate
their innumerable serfs. The impulse of all
i JneSe uni ed forces Is so great. lmpetuOQS. sc
irresistible, that the imperial agent is in despair
and declares solemnly the impossibility of ar
resting or suppressing great politico-religious
/ fanat1ciSm which prevails all over the empire
The high classes in Russia feel something Of the
same revolutionary impulse that was
toward the end Of the last III cen ntur,
| and which led them to fight in America and tc
lay down their own privileges on the night of the
4th Of August at the foot of the tribune. A nd
| the high classes are confounded with the ortho-
dox; with the purely Russian party; with thai
religion and the Imperialism anterior to the
time OF Peter the Great; with the implaca
bic enemy which comoats the reigning family
accusing 1t OF having destroyed Muscovitt
originality, with having raised up sersilt
bureaucracies and subjected the interests OF
Russians TO those OF proud and cong curing Ger
many. This interior situati is complicated
with the exterior situation, which, according tC
the general feeling, has within its womb two
the other emating from ambitions in Europe
| slowly the Muscovite empire has branchec
| power, alarmed at Russian conquests. has FIRE
quently approached a dispute. IL is very true
that the Russians hasten to calm suspicious anC
/ phlegmatic England, and to say, with geograph
1cal memorials and military maps in hand, how
a complete Ignorance Of Central Asia explains
/ SO many vain and upfounded apprehensions
The military lines which garrison the frontiers
Of Siberia, forced by continuous wars and by pc
litical wounds that have broken out unexpec-
tedly here and there. have moved and stretched
| In directions BY march that was said TO bi
| Indispensable 10 their security. These reasons
for natural defense, imposed by nature upon al
| beings by rudtmentary instinct of self preser
walton, have stretched the dimensions of Russis
as far as Turkestan. During l23 years she sub
mitted to all sorts of outrages. of defiences, OF
assaults, until her representatives .es ID
! THRoTTLED BY BARBARIANs,
her hosts decimated, she decided on an expedi
ton in 1910 through boundless wastes Of sanC
and deserts of ice. In this way an army was lost
devoured by the Unsuitable voracity OF the sage
clad steppes. The peace asked for by The khar
and signed in 1912 was no more than breathing
spell for the barbarous warrior aud snar,
spread for Russia. Thus the new shifting OF tn,
lines OF that military frontier was not enough
The exploration OF Lake Aral and the fotillai
launched upon It's waters were not enough. II
the khan OF Khiva did not move otherwise, he
nevertheless launched against the Muscovitl
| camp the ferocious Kirgheez of the desert, wht
| locked together, then disbanded themselve
again, like tempest clouds, stunning every Sc
rious attack. every plan OF scientific, tactica
warfare. Thus Ii became necessary for tn,
Russians to embody the treacherous steppei
lrrffh IA. H.