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when YOUR people are diving of hunger. when

sends them out to beg or starve?" Then the
young men went out sore at heart, and pom
dered, and resolved to better the condition of
the people by lessening their burdens, and
increasing their privileges and taking from off
them the slavery of the privileged classes.
Hegoism in Russia, according to Stepniak,
means action and experience with those we
would defend. So these young men laid off
their silks and went to labor with the work
ing classes, and 60 live with the peasants, to
taste their anguish that they might know
how to relieve it. And go doing, they began
the gospel of socialism, and in preaching and
living it they feared not the knout, Siberia,
or death; they would meet death as martyrs |
and with enthusiasm. These were the revo.
lutiohsry socialists Of 1S72-74. The Crimean
war had demonstrated what our author de-
dominates the rottenness of the Russian
social edi6ce, but the autocratic Emperor re-
fused to see it. He proposed to preserve
everything, and above all his sacred
rights. At this time the echo of the Paris
Commune was heard in Russia, and the young
martyrs took it up and proclaimed it. As Q
partial antidote to the wretched state Of af-
fairs. Alexander had liberated the serfs, bat
Stepaisk declares their new condition was
mora deplorsble than their first. The
Gar refused then to do what he should
have done bestow on Russia con-
stitution, and liberty from his own bondage.
The insurrection in Poland was stifed with
ferocity and brutality that gave a new edge
to the revolutionary movement. Then care
the shot from the revolver of Karakosoff as
a warning to Alexander. In 1S71-72 the
great socialist societies were formed in Mos
cow, Kieff, Odessa, Orel and Tsganrog. Fol-
lowing these came thu InterndtionGle. The
young girls at Zurich dropped the study Of
medicine and attended the sittings of the In
ternationGle. The fame of the city as hot
bed of socialism spread over the world, and
finally the Gar did very foolish thing, and
by ukase ordered all Russians, under pain of
outlswry, to quit Zurich. The hundreds Of
Russians there at once came home and began
TO teach the doctrines of Socialism and to
carry on an ardent Internationalist campaign. !
Meanwhile, Prince Krapotkine taught like |
doctrines to the working people at st. Peters
burg. The rich Cossack, 0ouchoF, did the |
same on the banks of the Don. Sciscko be.
came hand weaver to carry the propaganda
into the manufactures, and Demetrius and
Rogacef became sawyers to get access to the
peasant class. So the two streams of teach.
ing, the Zurich and the home schools, met
finally at Moscow, and the cry went out,
Cup and be doing" By these means was
brought shout the revolutionary movement Of
1874. One Of its chief difficulties was the
danger of communication with the peasants.
who could not keep secret. When they
heard of Socialism, and found it good, they
could not see why they should not talk of it
openly to others, and go the Government
was kept advised, snd hundreds of
arrests vera made and multiplied into
Thousands, but wherever one fell, en-
other took bis or her place. One
trial of 1913 Socialists lasted four years, and
when the Senate by sort of pardon, acquit-
ted most CT them, the Emperor by decree set
aside the order. Thus the missionary system
was of necessity abandoned, and in its place
was set up that of " colonization :" that is,
the propagandists were grouped in given
provinces, instead of scattered in districts,
and caution was taken to admit only thosa to
the sittings who could be bound in secresy.
But Russia is immense, and this plan went
but slowly to work. The great trial Of "the
fifty was ordered TO be held in public,
with view Of overawing the people, but
they only looked upon the fifty" and cried
out, they are saints" In the following year
was begun the trial of the 1913 already re-
ferred TO. This brings US up to 1875, when
out of the loins Of the Socialist spraug the
Terrorist. Socialism was too ideal for him.
It would not withstand the conflict be saw
must come. So he rose, gloomy, breathing
hatred, defiance and death, and moved his
form upon the page of history. The Terror.
lists are those who, as Socialists, said, "We
did not succeed because we were only takers,
now let us act" So Terrorist societies were
formed, to prepare for an uprising against
Czsrism. Several demonstrations were made,
some amounted to battles, but most were
riots, and all failed but terror began to
reign, and 8 great object was accomplished,
for the Government was brought to acknowl-
edge fear. A great rising in Russia, he holds,
is impossible, because the towns of any i'm
portance are 60 few, and so far apart, the
Government can, as it hae, convert all of them
into military camps
The Terrorists coon became convinced that
their demonstrations were but sacrifices, and
. thus sitter 1873 they ceased, and the revolu-
tionary movement took on a Hew form. Our
author does not name it-he describes IL as
meditation OF tho power of bullets develop
ing into the bslief that they are better than
words. The logic of life taught the Terror.
ist to mount these steps "Wby kill spy
and let the gendarme live ? why the latter
and not the procurasor who orders the arrest?'
and so on. We name the new form for the
author assassination. In January, 1878,
Vera Zasulitch fred the shot st General
Trepoff, who had ordered o political prisoner
to be logged, and the jury acquitted her. She
was an angel of vengeance !" che threw
ucLSch ihtO INC uiuuetcfS Jaws ds SdCTsuces
This gave terrorism new impulse. The
Emperor openly sympathized with Trepof,
the press end people applsuded She jury. As
result, discomfort increased, and liberal
movement against Czarism began to take
form among the privileged casses, though
such sentiment had long existed among
them. Ia 1873 these Liberals made an
open advance for an alliance with the
revolutionists, as in them they saw the
only hope of reform accomplishment.
August, 1878. Terrorism slapped Im-
perislism in the face by killing the head
of the police, General Mesentzef, and from
that it advanced with giant strides. There
followed three conflicts and three defeats for
the revolutionists. but at last the Car fell.
With nation PROSTATE, the terrorist alone
held high his head. Lastly, the author
eulogizes him sc noble, a martyr, never fall
tering, hero, q wrestler all bone aud muscle,
mature man with the unreal dreams of
youth dissipated, Socialist fatally con-
WINGED. proud as Satan. rebellious yet mod
est, the defender Of outraged humanity, the
savior of his country if it is to be saved. So
he stands to-day, awaiting victory which he,