New-York tribune., 1884-12-21

geias hand.ahaad with the hteilaea meis: .s
Eipee the aeepsslnn W the tnsnht hWpeanW IVY
heea pstts I esn q.,sss aud Sgs ~ shSt M
yeaetjnn 10 CN,Nplap aud tie tilhMuhtht hetft
srsaes ery. evt that lhe tleeials ahH 'he N'hhs's
aie one aud the saine thlhHl
Nothing ceg hemele fatal than shls 70 q 'he hfsi epS
aud most iuielgent portion pi the nhllnil, thah !hs
81 GSassns S ass L n esns ss TaS Sn,s
ignorant il is easy to SGT them against pnp'f 49, ~
tellgont nlan Just as they arc set upon 'ho 'ITNo
when il pleases aetators To oXoiio 'huni. NV
danger of revolution IN this country does not come
from the Nihliss, but rather from the lneIoeis VI
the National party wno under m prS,gin preai,ty combat
every element of future progress Whatever may
have been the idea of the Nihlsts ~ is cear .i'a'
they have sustained complete defeat ahu nave use
lcssly committed "a series of crimes. Instead Oh
rea.hinr their purpose, which was forcibly TO
change the form of government, they nave causcu
the present Car to cling more ichaciousy .i .n,Ii
ever to the past and to in the barbarons deain
of his father the results OF the too great liberty o
had given. However mistaken these IDEAS may oc,
it must be acknowledged that Alexanuer IL mas
shown great dignity and iirmness OF character III
not giving in inch to the nurerers ot MS iathcr,
nor allowing himself to be persuaded in.9 inahns any
single concession TO these agtatOrs. But IN SO uoihe
he Furnishes the Just and the unjust, ana, he Dei,S
encouraged in these tendencies by the present ar
powerful Cabinet of men filled with the niost MS
taken conceptions of national grandeur, the nation
is dragged fatally backward. Thinking 10 nurry
on progress the Nihilsts blind to all the great re-
to Asia. - :. o ,
Just to consider the Russian Nihlllsts rs co,lo ,
CRIMINALS They were many OF them men oi tacnt
and intellectual value and all oi them s,ncei.H
persuaded OF the justice of their cause. ana hetcu
no to red;hot enthusiasm by With vib whes their
yonng and partially developed minds were nnllt.
Nor are they deficient in moral aud Thysical coti,
age The Nihilist Is no craven. lie races thr
dreadful dungeons of the fortress, the ley deserts 9i
Siberia even death. with serene conntcnahce lie
believes himself to be n martyr ana cont,hua.A az
makes proof OF remarkable strength o NINA. !. IN -
impossible not to at the state OF Things
which has been able 10 pervert noble youths ana 10
cause them to make such hldeous protest ~ VIC H
series Of crimes which has plunged their country IN
such dcplorablc situation Most likely thcy tnenc
selves bitterly repent having caused tne nea'" % ~
the best and noblest Emperor Russia ever nao' lb
does not SEEM at least that they nave thc inteh'%o %
to menace the life of the present Emperor. Dis
there is doubt that the movement MI Tl ,"n eGnu,iuo
as long as the present Cabinet exists Inc adoption
of NJ katkOii's project with regard I'D tlc ahu,I.S
of the autonomy of the Russian universities gIan'cu
by the late Emperor in 1863 is most injudclouS
sfep and nav lead 10 violence against the per-
sons whose shortsightedness aud inprudencc are ~
marvellous. ,;o.;o,
and means of getting money when necessary LOT inc
execution of their projects; but however sliolg un,'
party may be- 1t has but smai, chance Oh snoouso
all the more if considers the retrograhc move
mcnt given to the country and the national cntuSi-
asm that prevails almost universally. MI
As 10 the Liberal party, It is fain to be silent Inc
Liberal press is so ground down by thc censor; Inc
best and oldest organ of this party, political ana
literary periodical that has been the prlue vi III
teectnnf Russia for upward of forty years, has
suddenlv been crushed ont of existence on account
of one of the editors being accused OF connlVaMce
win the aundervrouud press In the pnblic
libraries hundreds OF books have been forbiddcn'
among others all works treating on socialism,
Uolitical economy and even natural sciences. -ior
instance lTuxleys and Darwins works have neGn
eliminated as "cOntrary to religion. lntelHgent
neonle have nothing to read, and the retrograde
press headed by Katkotf and Axakoii ha e got an
N,ltn IA
against them ....,
Whether the Russian Nihists mean TO associate
with the German Anarchists or to continue acting
in,lpnendentlv is not ascertaincd. lt IA certain
that many of them assemble In Geneva and Berne
and il il not impossible that hnlng themselves 700
weak to act alone they may join some other malcon
tents for whom they would prove preci1us reh-
forcrment There is. or AZ least there has hithoito
been a vtie ,lilrrcnc, between the Herman anu
Austrian Anarchists such as Stellmacher and Ram
mptrf and the hussian Nihllsis The former
sought anarchyl the latter wanted Consttnlmhi
a rirc ntc.e, better publ education, end dt1am'u
the dtrama uf untipc aud NnUthlul mihdE, and moet
nI them Wptr aAainnt olrnt hnd csttrme mcAhA