The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-17
THE RED SPECTRE.
Trouble and Socialists ASsailing the
Car.
Has Communism Gained a FootbfOid
Among the Russianse

tSt. Petersburg Cor. New York Herald.l
The inquietude occasioned at Berlin by
reason OF the recent attempts TO take the life
of the emperor of Germany has had its
counterpart here in st. Petersburg. But the
| conditions are different The leading social
lists of Germany may almost be said to carry
out their operations "a the full light of day,
for they elect deputies to parliament whose
claims aud speeches are made public. In
Russia il is not so The efforts of all of
those who are fighting against the present
governmental regime are all in secret reach
ing to the inner centers of common life. and
are consequently more effective in attaining
ends that will one day become terrible No
one denies that Russia Is the land OF police
par excellence. Every person who has trav.
eled through the country has heard of the
invincibe third section OF the chancellerie-
the section Of gendarmes-whose officers
! don the sky-blue uniform. 1t is there, high
up among official life at the chancellerie,
that the police system begins. Everybody,
indeed, knows where this police power rises,
! but that which puzzles most is the point
where it ends. To the casual observer il is
| lllimltable. Like the massive tenacles of
the octopus, it seems to encirce soci, ty,
which is powerless to withdraw from
its grasp. The police are everywhere
HOTEL SPIES AND DETECTIVE GUIDES
All the dvarniks-slmilar to those who in
France took the place OF the house porters
(conciergesS ARE police agents. either from
fear or interest. There is ut least one in
every establishment who can give informa-
ton concerning the going and coming of
each NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. who go out and those
who come in and the hour az which each re-
turns at night, for the dvarDik sleeps outside
like watch dog in his clothes, the chief of
the door, whom it is necessary to awaken
before you get in. House servants, guides,
cicerones, Interpreters who go about with
strangers, are all in the pay of the third sec
ton. Guides give information as to move
meDts of foreigners telegraphing their arri
val at the German frontier. perhaps "a hours
before they alight in st. Petersburg. The
visitor sees all his movements noted. This
is not all. The third section extends its
legion of voluntary agents even to the sacred
family circle. 1t may be temporary or per-
manent, according to necessity.
HOW INFORMATION is OBTAINED
Let me assume an instance. A young
man or IN old soldler-the margin is wide
is in an embarrassed condition. He knows
that the third section has its roubles there TO
be drawn out 1t is sufficient if he sends
anonymous information, with any mark
whatever as to the authorship, for Ice has
simply to repeat this mark of Identification
when making a subsequent request for re-
muneration-a request, by the way, that is
never left unattended 10 in cases that are
worthy. 1t does not cost the govern
ment much for the machines that
stamp the roubles seem to have an mex
haustible store TO draw upon. 1t is unneces-
sary to go deeper into detail 1t is sufficient
to establish the fact that the hand of the
police is everywhere, and that when this
hand fails to catch those who plot and WORK
in secret the association must, indeed, be
powerful and the organization complete.
The absolute secrecy in which all the affairs
of the socialist association remain enclosed
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existence If each day, each hour, 1t might
almost be said, it did not manifest itself by
some material facts.
SOCIALIST NEWSPAPER DEFIEs AUTHORITY
And what fact could be more palpable
than the daily publication of printed news
paper? Any one may write one, ten or a
hundred anonymous letters and avoid prose
cution for long time, if he has no accom-
plice to give him up. But printed journal
} requires workshop, composing room. ma
, terial, an engineer, or some such person.
The secret may rest between the propIietors,
the workmen, those who furnish paper or
Ink, the editors etc; still the secret is guard
ed. The third section ,irritated ends by prom
Using a reward of 5000 roubles $3.50 10
whoever will name the printer Every
= morning the first word of the emperor on
seeing General Meyensyoff, chief of the Third
section, is to inquire il the presses of this
J socialist printing office have been seized.
Nothing yet" always nothing" The SOW
ereign was promised that the guilty persons
should do homage to hun on the annual fete
day, the famous day when the first Romaneff
J should turn his sixtleth birthday. This
birthday being turned, the printer OF the
anonymous letters remained in the back
ground. where he continues to labor for his
cause Moreover, the disseminating es
adjustment replied valiantly 10 the prom
, Use of reward the next dsy by
50 circulars, addressed from the
saries of police, offering to increase the fig
ure. The same day the journal published
the text of the circular, copies of which were
addressed to the proper authority, who i'm
me1iately ordered the commissaries OF po-
lice to return the circulars to the central adj
ministration. But one important link was
missing-he who delivered them to the
Occult association. 1t will be said that this
association, which has its trusted agents even
in the police bureau, must be RICH No. In
order to bring out a new number OF the
journal it is sometimes requisite that the edi-
tors have recourse to the pawnbrokers, where
one of them orders an article of jewelry
! which is sometimes revered family souvenir
for an influential official friend.
: DUPLICATE NUMBERS PRINTED.
Besides, il they discover the printing
establishment tue journal does not cease to
appear. 1t is like the much quoted Phoenix
ever rising from IFS ashes. A duplicat- set
of forms i made, so that If one set falls into
the hands OF the authorities the other is i'm
mediately resorted TO for the papers, which
come out the same day or the day following.
1t might be supposed that this could not be
| done after the stupendOus though sterile
efforts of the police to place all the typo
graphers os st. Petersburg under surveil
lance. But to watch the typos" is an easy
matter here, especially the joCrneymen, be-
: I fhaca cd N oh fol a
| license and carry it about with them con
stantly, renewing it at fixed periods;
they are branded, in fact, like beasts
! or convicts. The recognized socialist
journal appears irregulsrly as to in
tervals, but nearly periodically, so to write,
as to numbers. The circulation varies be-
twean five hundred and one thousand copies
according to the greater or smaller signifi-
canoe which the propagandists attach to pub
lie events, among which events are classsd
the too numerous scandals of all kinds ere.
ated by the mobiles and arlstocracy. Very
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