Daily globe., 1879-04-21
Russia.
REVOLUTION SPREADING.

of police, which has for its chief an eminent
Eng!ishman. London journals which have
hitherto sympathized with Russia denounce
the ukase and regret that the czar did not
give his subjects some constitutional reform
before placing the lives of all the people, in
nocent and guilty alike, in the hands of ir-
responsible officials. Thousands of Russians
and Poles are sworn to
LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR LIBERTY.
The ukase will only make the sacrifice
greater, but will not advance the permanent
power of despotism. Advices from ST. Pc
tersburg and Moscow during the past twen-
ty-four hours have been of the most alarm
ing nature. The authorities of these cities
have imposed an additionally severe censor
ship upon the telegraph, but they have per-
mitted number of dispatches describing
the situation to pass and several others have
been received in cipher. It is not at all ex-
aggerating the situation to say that the re-
pressive measures proposed by the govern
ment in consequence of the attempt on the
life of the czar are being met in anticipa
ton by
MOST VIOLENT RESISTANCE
and elf-assertion on the part of the people,
and state of civil war may almost be said
to exist throughout the entire empire Tax
ing all the news together, there is reason to
fear Russia is on the brink of revolution.
GOVERNOR GENERALS APPOINTED.
Western Associated Press.
ST. PErERsBURa,Apri 2O.-AAn official de-
cree is published appointing Professionally
Gen. Gourke governor general of st. Pc
tersburg. General Todleben, governor gen.
eral of Odessa, and General Loris Melikoff,
governor general of Charkof. General To-
dleben and Melikof will command the troops
in their respective governorships. It is also
blioved General Melikof will also rnle the
adjoining governments of Pattarea, Tche-
ringzoff, Rurak and Orel.
LONDON PRESS CRITICISM.
LONDON, April 2O.-The Pail Hall Gazette
commenting upon the ukase of the czar
ordering the appointment of governor gen
erals for six districts of Russia says, that the
foes of authority are small but a determined
band of evil doers, as described in the nkase,
is incredible. The Russian government only
condemn their own sweepingly oppressive
measures by putting forward such pre-
tense. Were this true, the ordinary powers
of the state would have availed to root
out the evil, but it is far deeper and
more widespread than this account admits,
and it is because the police themselves form
one of the classes among which the revolu-
tionary propaganda has been at work, that
the czar' s advisers have felt the need of seek
ing new, more swift and more deadly in
strument for the work of repression. The
police having failed them, they are about to
resort to simple dragooning. Russia is viz
tually placed under martial law, and that law
is to be administered in the most thorough
and merciless fashion; in such fashion, in
deed, as must unless we are to suppose half
the population are conspirators, intlict the
most cruel injustice upon thousands of
innocent persons. Six military officials
are to have the right of i'm
prisoning for an indefinite time
all suspicious persons, of transporting
to Siberia without trial, as many as they
choose, and of executing in conformity W ith
sentence passed, those they may happen to
regard as especially guilty. Nor are these
persons confined to political criminals. Reg
ular criminal procedure appears to have been
altogether suspended. Ordinary offenders,
when suspected of plotting against the state
are to be made subject to martial law. More
over the ukase is retrospective. The gov
ernors general are empowered to try pris-
oners arrested before the issue Of the de-
cree, provision designed apparently to
authorize the holding of sort of bloody
assize upon prisoners variously estimated at
between 1000 and 10000, who
have been recently imprisoned
in mutinous districts. Unless the czar and
his ministers are guilty of the most sweep
ing and reckless cruelty, they cannot believe
themselves confronted with small but de-
termined baud of evil doers, nor even with
larger and determined band. IOf course
their account of the matter is not true
one. The measures they have resolved up
on make US aware of what in their view really
is the enemy they have to combat. They sub
ject great part of the country to dragonnade,
which at the same time threatens all the
rest, for they are convinced that revolution
ary dangers confront them over the whole
area of their intended operations. The tre-
mendous agencies of suppression already in
their hands have long since been known to
have failed.
If this ukase is carried out we shall see
political assassination on one side answered
by political assassination on the other, for
one such crime on one 81 !e hundred on
the other, and these last inflicted on men
auu HOmeu luuOCeE u al OueuSo Whatever.
1t is truly an awful of things, nor is it
possible to foresee how il may end.
The Daily NeWs, pro- Russian, says: We
cannot attempt to forecast the result of the
duel between nihilism and militarists, to
which this proclamation has to be a chal-
lenge. It is an attempt to meet disturbers
with something of their own weapons and
to put down lawlessness by the sus-
naDcinn 0f low Tho noara oor-
fess1on that such an attempt is
necessary must seem very serious step fol
! the government, which, for some years, has
aimed at being considered civilized govern
nent. For the time during which this ukase
lasts, and in the wide and important districts
to which it applies, Russia ceases to be wha
she has recently been, and relapses to con
dition of practical barbarism. At once ane
without even form of anything that can b.
called trial, any mans life or his fortun'
may be taken from him in thes
six great cities and the1
dependencies. All inconveniences of such
state of things must be borne by the million
in order that small but determined band o
evil doers may be suppressed. Perhaps thi
evil state of things would not be too much t
bear if it were likely to relieve the countr
of the malignant political disease from whicl
it appears to be suffering, but if such relic
was to result from such measures, it woul
be for tho first time in history. The mill