Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-06-30
"The Russian Revolt"

which drive the whole machine, and,
thanks to their untiring energy, it is
possible for the men of our time to
trace tendency now active back to
its origin and ascertain exactly when,
where and how it started. The influ-
ehces Of climate, topography and race
have, according to the new plan of
studying humanity, all received due
attention, and many proclivity
which, viewed aside from such con-
siderations as these, appears altogeth-
er inexplicable, at once becomes clear
as day.
These methods of study have been
already applied to almost every nation
on the globe, but, in some cases, the
knowledge of the past history, origin,
habits and habitat of a people is so
small that no correct conclusion can
be arrived at, because of the insult
ficient data on which theories might
be founded. Such is the case of the
Russia of to-day. This mighty empire
has been puzzle alike to statesmen
and students, who knew it only by
what it chose to reveal of itself, and
as the revelations it was pleased to
make have been provokingly small,
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unsatisfactory and inaccurate. The
result has been the formation of opin-
ions by the hundred, each more ut
fault than it's predecessor, concerning
the Russians, the Nihilists, the politics
that instigated the assassinations of
rulers, and the causes that contributed
to bring about these politics.
The work of Mr.. Noble, extensively
noticed elsewhere in the columns of to-
days paper, is an attempt to solve the
problem of Russia and the Russians,
and to show that the revolt now going
on in Russia against the despotism
which has ground whole nation into
the dust is but an outgrowth of opera
ting forces which are no more the re.
suit of accident than the product of a
single age, but which have their springs
back in the times when ''the Scourge
of God" and his Huns swept over
Europe like a destroying fire. How
far the knowledge of the author is
exact on the subject of which he treats
is difficult to determine, but, SO far as
it goes, it is in accord with other auth
Orlties, and, in the main, the cOnclu-
sions drawn seem to be justified by the
facts cited. Like all first efforts, the
book is merely an experiment in the
direction of reasonable explanation
of the present state of things in Russia,
and, viewed as an experiment. is emil
nently satisfactory.
Properly understood, the Nihilistic
agitation is the Russian mode of pro-
testing against the intolerablo tyranny
which the nation has for ages been
compelled to endure. The author
shows that the Russian people have
long been a race of slaves; that slavery
has debased the men and brutalized
the women, and that the curse has
rested upon the country for so long a
time that slavish traits have become
hereditary among the people, crush
ing out the manlier instincts and re-
ducing the body of the nation to a con-
dition in which q freeman's view of
life and it's possibilities is an impossi-
bility. Naturally, then. as the Rus
slams were enslaved by force and kept
in their degradation with an iron
hand, the best way that they can see
out of their dreadful condition is too
meet force with force, and as the
strength of the agitator is but trifle
when compared with the power of the
bOVeTHmcnt, inc inoSJ Icauy IeSoII IL
to midnight terrorism and secret muir
der. So, in darkness and mystery,
the Russia of to-day is working out
its own problem, and the probability
is that the legitimate result, the down
fall of the present Government, while
it can not, so far as human foresight
COOS, be delayed many years, may be
hastened by accidents liable to occur
at any time. A chance war, the death
of the Gar or of the heir to the