, 1881-10-29

sion of the land and the instruments of
labour. Having in view the realization
Of the form of life already known to the
people, the party held that there was no
necessity to propagate this idea, but that
it should direct all it's efforts to organize
a popular revolution and to remove the
obstacles which prevent the people from
realizing the conceptions OF life inherited
from their ancestors. Consequently there
must be a struggle carried on against the
State, which denies the traditions of pOpu.
lar life, and the privileged classes created
by the Government were to be abolished.
These were the principal aims of the party.
TIL means were to be the increase of the
spontaneous activity of the people; the
Indictment of little 6meutes i; the creation
of rural panicS; organizations for the
struggle among the masses which were to
take the initiative in the popular move
ment; tue formation of cddreS for a
revolutionary army to act at the moment
of popular rising !; alliance with he exist
ing organizations of opposition to the
Government, such as the dissenting sects
propaganda among the troops; the use of
influence i'll placing partisans of the party
III official positions the destruction of
obnoxious officials at a given moment
and finally, when all this should have
been accomplished, the establishment of a
federation of districts and independent
comlnuneS.
During the preliminary examination OfGhe
four prisoners, Mary KriioVa first declared
that she did not wish to answer the ques.
tiouS relating to her connexiOn with a
secret SubyerSive society, but stated that
in 1870 she came to st. Petersburg and
was asked by her Socialist friends TO edit
and publish the paper, the Black DicisiOn.
She denied, however, that the programme
OF the Nihilist party found in her lodgings
was in any way the instructions for the
edltor>hlp OF that paper, as it was unknown
to ANY OF them. The new paper which
She consented to edit was to countcract
the Influence of the other revO u~tionary
faction. Plankoff refused to answer any
questions. TeSlenkO PrikhOdko denied that
he belonged to a SuhverSive society. but
acknowledged himself to be a friend OF the
people DESTROYS Of improving their cOndl-
ton on the base of the programme in queS-
ton. He further stated that the lodging
for the p~rlntlnG-preSS was found by krI-
lOvO, and that the printing apparatus was
received by him at the Warsaw Railway
Station. Perepietchikoff. who was the
printer, stated, in effect, that the pr nting
machines were bought In ST. Petersburg
and, in order to evade suspicion, sent to
SmOlenSk, whence they were sent back to
the capital. An examination of the books
of the railway company proves this TO
have been the case. Fifteen pools of
type were purchased from we'll known
typc.founders here, but PerepletchikOff re-
fuses to name the person who provided the
money for purch aSing the material. 1t
also tranSpired in the course of the preli.
minary examination that II certain Alexan.
der JackOff was aSSassinated on The 9TH of
February last year for having, it was
suspected, disclosed the whereabouts of
the printing press to the police. A
number of experts and witnesses will be
called at the trial, which, it is expected,
will last several days.