Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-23
A NOBLE NIHILIST.

Il Visit to The Russian Prince KrapOtLiqe
ire HIS Home at ThOROn, S,citgeridnh.
lGeneva Correspondence London News.
The prince met me at the station, and
we walked together to his lodgings at the
house of well to do peasant on breezy
height between the lake and the Alps. His
appearance and manners are much more
those Of a student than man of action,
and ts~ ofthe books in his scantiIy furnish
Ell r59-o 25 ny bearing on politics.
A:nrr 80 roticed copy of Matthew
Ans --s+rs on Criticism and MS
f4v3r p15-s are Buckle and Herbert
Spence, ..s. hls library consists cheieEy OF
works On .'o..4largy, mineraIogy. cheIais-
try, sal >tGgad subjects. He Is now
translaiiaG e work or chemistry into Rus
sian, writing paper for an English review,
and collecting materials for an article n q
forthcoming volume of the Encyclopaedia
Britannica These are his occupations;
they keep him fully employed, and since his
arrival at Thonon (whither ne went direct
from London IN October) he has not once
quilted the neighborhood. Heleft London
for the benefit of his health. He wanted
to breath. He has no connection whatever
with the recent manifestations at Mont
ceau les Mines, Lyons, and elsewhere: and
the stories told about the organization OF
certain French revolutionary societies,
and the part he plays in them, are pure in
ventions. His only knowledge of the Eng
fish Revolutionary society, o. which, togeth-
er with Rochefort and the late Louis Blanc,
he is said to have been elected an honorary
member, is derived from cutting from
one of your contemporaries, sent to him by
an English friend.
Krapotkine is al object OF assiduous at
tention on the part of the police. Reports
of his movements are sent regularly to
Paris, and detective accompanied him
all the way from Calais to Thonon. A
sbecial force-known, he says, as the Inter
national polics-has been organized in al
most every European country, England in
Guided, to watch foreign revolutionists. sus-
pected members of the International, and of
other secret political societies. The French
section OF tie force has its headquarters at
Paris. apt-a0uGh maintained by the gov
ernnel' % :ee republic, its chief is in close
| clI,:,e,, - - villa the government of Russia.
Wa: P>ica krapotkine went to Eng
lard a@' ear he was followed at Dover by
| two Is,l;e.. ,1c accompanied him to Lon
don. an w -. he is quite convinced were
in the service OF the International police.
They inquired if he were not Russian,
we're curious as to where he meant TO take
up his quarters, and asked as many ques-
tons as the traditional Yankee. II Lon
don they showed great anxiety about his
baggage; when no rather roughly shook
them OFF, they went to the entrance to the
station, and as Krapotkine's cabman shout
ed his address to an attendant policeman
one of the ladies took note of it. A few
days afterward the police report OF the
princes jouln9y appeared in the Iatr0n
Sigeont, to which paper it was commUnica-
ted by an agent of the force-a circum-
stance that suggests reflections not very
favorable to the efficiency of the Inter
national secret police if such body really
exists.
Prince Krapotkine attributes to its mach
nations most.of the exaggerated and false
reports about himself, and be is strongly
of the opinion that the Russian paper
Prorda (Truth), published at Geneva, and
distinguished above all others for the
atrocity of its sentiments, has been estab-
lished either by the Russian government or
the International police in order to dis
credit the social revolutionary movement.
The editor is quite unknown to the Russian
colony at Geneva, and at a meeting held a
fortnight ago resolution was unanimous
ly passed repudiating all responsibility FOR
his opinions.
Anarchy, according 70 Prince Krapot-
kline, is at present proceeding in England
by evolution, Trades unions, co-operab-
i've societies, ana other voluntary assOcia-
tions are anGrchic in the sense that they
have come into being, as it were, spon-
tansoGsiy, and without government inter
ference. But the time will come, he thinks,
when HE increment will have to be accel-
Grated By revolution, and he is of opinion
that. owing 70 the unequal diffusion OF
wealth-especially of landed property
there are more latent revolutionary ele-
ments in England than in any other Eu-
ropean country, Russia alone excepted.
The nihilist chief is at one with the En-
g,ish liberty and property defense league
IN denouncing legislative meddlesomeness;
but, more logical than it. he would stop
the meddlesomeness by abolishing govern.
ment. That DONE the land appropriated
by the tillers Of the soil, tools and ma
chinery by the workmen who manipulate
them, and everybody member of trades
union or cooperative association.
misery would cease, and all the world
would be happy. The only evil then left
to abolish would be death; and, as GeneYan
savant is of opinion that this is one of the
electrical possibilities of the future. the
universal prosperity phrophesied by Prince
Krapotline may be preceded or followed
by the removal Of natures ban on earthly
Immortality.
The Boss Wi,I Tmterri-,r tie. FeebJc-
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