The New York herald., 1879-12-18
SUSPENSION OF THE "GOLos."

The following summary Of the article for which
the Goos has been suspended for fve months is sup
piled by the st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Times. who says there Is some hope that the time
Of suspension will be shortened If the Golos promises
to behave better in the future:-
The diarist devotes his first entry Sunday last
to outburst of complaint regarding the enormous
rise In the prices Of all the necessaries of lfe Life
has become dearer, and still people do not value
their lives any Nothing but suicides by drown
side. Even the talow candle has become dearer
Everything develops and grows, why should not
prices grow? Mondays entry constitutes o sarcas-
tic protest against the threatened abolition OF the
system Of election Of university professors and the
government. On Tuesday agriculture is the
butt Of the diarist's weil-aimed sarcasm. More
than year ago new statutes were established
for the lower agricultural schools, but, usual
they never emerged from the region of project and
theory. Materials enough were amassed by the com
mission to convince blind man of the necessity Of
educating the agricultural classes of Russia But
this necessity was no novel idea. The commission
also believes that is possible teach agriculture
in our national schools, but the teacher of st.
Petersburg school who once took 1t into his head to
instruct his scholars in natural history brought
down upon his head the wrath Of the press and the
Territorial Assembly. 1t IL also proposed to teach
trades in national schools The GoLos next refers to
of the commune authorities. The press almost en-
trely ignores the malpractices and embezzlenents
which are SO common in the rural commune. II all
the deficits disclosed by the occasional revision OF
communal funds were reckoned up they would
amount to millions. Threats Of torture have been
used In certain districts arguments for the
conversion OF Stundists to orthodoxy. Re
fractory members were hogged. One woman,
named Pruskowia Shimenko. was fogged to within
short chance of her life. as testified by medi-
cal evidence. No feeling was stirred In the
breast of any Of the thousand witnesses of this
barbarous scene. not even when the poor woman
cried out In pain. "Lord, forgive them for they
know not what they do" This castigation was evi-
IDENTIFY premeditated. for many Of the spectators
were persons who had purposely come from long
distances. Nineteen years Will soon have passed
since the emancipation of the serfs and during all
this time the whip and stick have not disappeared
from the selfadministration OF the peasant. Such
barbarian does not harmonize with the respect due
to the individual man. What do see? The hage-
lation of Stundsts the burning of witches. the muir
der of dumb man suspected Of spreading rinder-
pest, the drowning of u drunkard who in his cups
threatened to burn down a villaRe-this Is the way
in which the Commune exercises it's authority
the individual. An elder directed the auto i'd fl Of
the witch. and elder ordered the cruel treatment
OF the Stundsts. Who hold the whip more tena-
ciousy In their hands than the elders Of the village
communes? The first step in peasant reform is to
destroy this arbitrary power over individuals. Sat-
urday's entry is narrative respecting the sus-
pension of Jewish newspaper called Hameatz,
which, however. Is hardly to the point and Of little
iuferoat. n