Daily globe., 1879-04-22
THE NIHILIST PLATFORM.

Cole Younger said 1t was relief to be I'M
prisoned. "For ten years. he explained,
GIVE never tet up day or night watching
myself, in fear of ambush and reprisal. In
all that time never stood off my guard in
open door or window, or anywhere that
capture and shooting were very easy" Ex-
tremes meet The Emperor Alexander of
Russia knows how it is himself, and his po-
sition is not quite SO pleasant in this his
season of watchfulness as was the bold
Missouri outlaws. For he had a wide range
of States, territories and cities to secrete
himself and elude the vigilance Of detection.
But the doomed czar is bright and shin
ing mark in an inevitable court ceremonial,
which hedges him in to his death perhaps.
No prisoner with his sentence star
ing him in the face and
ringing in his ears is more uneasy
than his imperial majesty of all the Russias.
Unlike many of his predecessors sent untime
ly to his reckoning, Alexander has nothing
to fear from the disaffection of mobiles or the
usurpation of his prerogative. His danger
is from the people, who ara organized
against him and the formulas he personi-
fes in the most tremendous, pervasive and
powerful revolutionary combination the
world has yet known. The Nihilist con-
spiracy is not the theory of a few fanatics,
but consummate scheme which possesses
the masses, the students, and even the we'll
born to formidable extent. The belief is
CIV r4h
of tho murdered Students, the revolving
butchery of prisoners at Kieff, together with
the endless and cumulative barbarities in
Siberia have all given an ominous precipita-
ton to the mighty Russian cabal.
No God, no Gear, no nobility, no priests and
| While the system which it is battling is full
of wrong, oppression and cruelty, the natural
outgrowth of autocrasy, still with many
justifeble provocations to revolt, it is plain
to see that were the Nihilists in power tc
carry out their scheme, the French revolu-
ton of 1889 would be mild affair in COM
parison. The Gallo excesses of that me-
morable time were conducted with show Of
law, quite democratic at that, which the con-
spirators deferred to. When they wished to
be rid of Louis Capet the job was neatly
done-even to an attending abbs-and with
out the least personal risk to any of his essas
sins. But these mad Muscovites have, as yet
developed no practical method in their revolu
tionary madness.
The Nihilist virus is corroding the Rus
sian social structure. Its publication
are conducted with extraordinar,
regularity, and circulated everywhere in tn
empire, Notwithstanding the surueillan &C o
the government, and yet the only outcom
of the machination is cowardly murder. I
is an inauspicious beginning for such prom
ising new dispensation as its votaries vainl
believe it to be, and the leaders must lool
we'll to it that their approved remedy be no
given to themselves, as it was to the Frenc
managers of the carnage which swept ava
7 king, queen and royal family, and thinne'
' out somewhat rank nobility. The Nihi
: lists are bound to kill-if their own utte1
f ances are to be taken-'We must kill th
. police, the priests, the robber-nobles, AM
4 the Czar-then we will kill God" Mar
: slaughter at least ls their platform. Th
I rest is rhodomontade-as it is with MOI
8 modern reyolutionists.