St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-12
RUSSIAN STUDENTS 1MPATIEN

Private Letters From Russia Tell
of Conspiracies Against the
Gar.
Private letters, says the New York
Graphic, have recently been received in
this city from Russia and Poland
through the cOntraband frontier POST,
which, it is claimed, the nihilists have
lately perfected. These cOmmunica-
lions give startling account of the
troubles which have just occurred in
the Russian universities, as well as out
side of them, chiefly in the cities of st.
Petersburg and Moscow. About 1900
students in all have been summarily ar
rested, large majority being at once
sent to Siberia or immured in the fort
resSes where political prisoners are con-
fined. 1t has been published that the
university troubles are not revolution
airy in character. This, the recently re-
ceived letters state, is an entire false
hood. There has been a very active but
quiet propaganda for the last two years
in student circles, and the present diff
cultieS arise chiefly from the impOSsi-
bllity of restraining the natural impa-
thence OF the young men who Join the
movement. But at the date of the let
ter there was very great activity eX-
hibited in other directions by the police.
A widespread plot against the govern
ment had been discovered in part, and
the result was arrests by thousands, eS-
pecially in St. Petersburg. Every effort
was made to prevent any specific news
say at least 1900 persons were under
arrest, but they also affirm that the
principals have not been discovered or
arrested. The movement thus thwarted
III part was aimed at the government
more than at the cZar's life.
1t is suggested that he has been re-
Gently condemned by the chief revolu-
tiOnary committee, result which has
been put off in order to give ample time
for him to inaugurate more humane
policy! The progress Of revolutionary
opinion is warmly asserted, and it is
claimed also that the revolutionary pro-
paganda makes general Roadway in the
army itself, especially among the Of
ficerS.
AS to war measures the writer's state
that delays will occur in conSe-
quence of the alarm the cars
ministers feel at the state of affairs dis
closed to them by the arrests. There is
considerable degree of dread felt at
the possibility of an open revolutionary
movement, or, rather, of series of
them. The interior workings of the
revolutionary movement are shown to
be very extensive, and the causes for dis
turbances are so numerous that no one
can predict exactly when or how the
conffagration may be set. 1t is as likely
to grow from students quarrel or a
peasants row over taxes as from any
other cause that could be named. There
is evidence in plenty to show that the
spirit and organization of resistance was
never as wide and deeply spread as at
the present time. There is one reason
why war is threatened, it is also rea-
son why men like NJ. de GierS desire to
prevent it. This much is certain; the
letters received here are source of
sorrow and reinsurance to the Russian
exiles to whom their contents are
known. The sorrow comes from the ar
rests and the reinsurance because of the
evidence conveyed to them of the ac-
tiyity of the opposition to the cars
government and system.