Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-07-17
THE EMPIRE OF SPIES.

Russia's Extraordinary Array of Score
societies-spies Watching Spies.
The Holy Synod of Rus STA has intro
duced into the Church ritual the follow
ing new ana extraordinary Invocation
''Let us pray to the Lord that He W.,
forgive us our sins and l;lwlessness ar,
save US from all furious conspiracies q
our foes" While one hundcri H.,
sand clergymen are d lily rcpea;ing th;
invocation in the f. Jrty tbnnSanj Hns
sian churches, the avn, n. in accord
ancc with the Ru ss.Sn s,v;nr. r.
in God, hut fail 40, TO mind 1o,r o",,
, BUSINESS, a. contr.ving various
means Oh p"r ging the country of con
epil",ois; Out conspirators are no
Jn'y n'iu 20 eNterminatc, but even tt
uiooo'ei' Ire, in the Cars countr,
l'lGie $ formidable secret political
po' ;e' large body of detectives, sew
e,ai reg ments of gcndarmes. and mum
peerless municipal policemen, vet all O.
Lhese legions have proved quite power
less to annihilate the, as it were, en-
eng nted handful of the Nihilists ),
A. length the Autocrat of all the Rus
sans from the top Of his throne has
called forth the house-owners. the
house--porters and other loyal subject,
to assist his Government in extermin.
atiEg the revoluionists. The Gar
propaoly was not aware that in so do
ing ne was rcsigniny hi' autocratic
preroSatiVes in favor of spies. Thus
the TZar empire has been suspended
ior the present, and the empire OF spies
mas been set in motion.
during her history. one thousand and
twenty odd years. Russia has never he
xore been in such a strange condition as
Today. She has known many a cruel
desPot, whether in the person of Tar
TAR hhan or Muscovite Car; she has
seen The horrors of civil war and of the
lnterregEum; she has suffered by the
armed INVASION of Tartars, Swedes.
HermanS, Poles, Frcnchmen and Turks.
but never before have her people been
lett at the mercy of venal spies. Such
oemoraiizatlon OF the people and disor-
SahHation or society as are now wit
messed here have preceded only the fall
of the Empire.
Inc gar :, Go, eminent now exists not
III reaii'y, out only in form, and Rus
Slams 90 not know who TO obey. or to
Whon. to look for guidance and protec-
ti".A. Tfere are here number 0f Sc
:ret organizations, each o. which
claims to be a law to itself and to the
rest of the country. Ali of them are
directed, at least apparently, to the I'M
dermining of the underground Govern
ment, the Executive Comm ttce. and to
the support of the ovcrground Govern
ment of the Gar.
The Sacred Militia is secret society
formed on the plan OF the Nihilist Ex-
ecutiye Committee. At its head stand
Grand Duke Vladimir and Procureur of
the Holy Synod Pobedonostzef Ithas
its bylaws, watchwords, secret signs,
ciphers, mysterious rites of initiation,
oaths, special funds, and numerous
agents. 1t holds secret court, and
sentences to death some of the most
prominent Nihilists, such rs Prince
krapotkin, Lavroff and Leo Hartman.
The power gained b. the secret
Sacred Militia has melted the othe.-
magnateS of the State to form another
secret society. SO we have the Volun-
tary Guards, headed by Minister of the
Imperial Household Count Noront off
DashkOff and General Shuvalotf. They
aim at guarding the Car, not only
against the revolutionsts, but also
against the influence OF any other per-
son or body. the Sacred Militia, the
State Police, and the Ministers included.
A large number of the Old Believers
have joined the Guards, and in reward
for their fidelity have been granted GER
tain religious liberties. The Guards
employ hosts of secret agents of their
own.
The Provincial mobiles. seeing that by
ofen means they could not gain con-
cessicns from the Government, lave |
also formed secret so iety, the Land |
Union. The Union has many agents in !
every province. and it has its own
journal, the Nolnoe Slovo Gree Word),
published abroad. The Union has. ill
deed, succeeded in inducing the Car |,
TO restore to the mobiles many privileges. |
So successful has it been. in fact, that !
the ''Nobleman's Era" of which Rus
sian newspapers talked so much last .
year, is now a thing established. I
The regular secret police being thus
by the secret agents of Sc
cret societies, have found it necessary
10 form their own secret society, which. |
while supporting the credit of the regu-
lar police. aims to undermine all the
other secret bodies, the Sacred Militia,
the Voluntary Guards. the Land Union
and the Terrorist party, too The most
secret Of all secret societies is known
under the name of 1.-The Society for the
Struggle Against the Terrorists.' This
society has started abroad its own or
gan. the Truth (Prarda), which sets
out to warn Russians that the Nihilists
tend not to Republic, but to asiicta
torship. which in the end will be worse
than the autocracy.
Meanwhile the conspirators par excel
lence. the Nihilists, are going on with
their underground work, recruiting
here and there new members and
agents.
The spirit of conspiracy has seized
upon the Russians. The reins of the
regular Government have been slack
ened to the last degree. The Cars
Ministers have joined different secret
societies, and conspire against each
other. Senators. Judges. heads of de-
psrtments. civil and military officers,
and Bishops. all conspire, and every
one is surrounded by hosts OF spies,
friendly and inimilal. 1t seem, as
though the subjects bound by their
oath of allegiance 10 the Gar had reen
superseded by spies hound to their pur-
pose by secret oathS. Even the Car il
not free !ruai ;he spirit a CONSPIRACY.
1t is said here tina he gave na hint Of