The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-05

sessSsNA Vss9b1isAHcaes iof year. IL Is
feared. however. that years idleness viii
foster the growth OF the dissatisfaction.
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A wOMANs WARNING.
The Letteu to the Cxar From Mime.
Tshebriksva.
ST. PETERSBURG, April THE following
are parts OF the letters from Nine. Tshe-
brikova TO the czar. about which there has
been some correspondence with Mr.. Ken
nan.
After . few lines Of general introduction.
she says:
The Russian emperors are obliged TO
see and TO hear only what their function
aries. the Tchinovniki. allow them to
see. The latter form thick wall between
the car and Che Russian Zemstro-that is.
the millions OF inhabitants who are not in
the employ OF the government. The terri
bic death OF Alexander III. has thrown a
lngubrious shadow on your accession To
the throne. You were told that this death
Was the result of the ideas in favor OF free
dom which had teen developed in conse-
quence of the reforms introduced during
the previous reign. and you we're inspired
to take measures by which il was desired
to make Russia so hack to the sombre
epoch Of Nicholas |. They frighten you BY
agitating the spectre of revolution; OF q
revolution which would suppress mon
archy; yet this 1T the present time, and in
such country as yours, is pure Illusion
After the catastrophe OF the lst OF March,
the regicides themselves did not hope to
see the convocation of constituent ASSEM-
bly,. The enemies Of the czar have been
L. Sr1a nl ind h.
Of the monarch. Then. by what fatal mis-
understanding does the government sup
press all traces Of those reforms projected
during the best years Of Alexander Ill. =
reignf Is was not the reforms enacted
during the previous reign that brought our
terrorists into existence; no, il was the
lack Of such reforms--it was their insuf-
ficiency."
After showing that ali guarantees against
the arbitrary conduct Of the functionArics
has been abolished. Madame Tshebrikova
exclaims:
What say to you Is no fable, as your
laeqxais and ministers would have you be-
liese; it is the truth. Tolstoi himself did
not wish to suppress the village Justices of
the peace; and 10 your own initiative is at
tributed the abolition OF this last remaining
u.
were you able, sire. 10 burden your own
conscience with such measure-you who
knew not what life the people led DO
you imagine that because you are an
anointed sovereign you are divinity pos
sessing knowledge Of all things? If you
could. sire, like the sovereign in the fable,
pass invisibly over the towns and villages,
so as to know what life the Russian people
live. you would see its misery, you would
see how the governors bring mp your
soldiers 10 shoot down the peasants and
the workmen. You would see that order,
maintained by thousands of soldiers, by
iegions OF functionaries. by an army Of
spies. that order in the name OF which
every word OF proteststion is suppressed,
that this order is not order at all. but
state Of administrative anarchy.
The poorer sections OF the nobility, To-
eether with the other classes Of Russian
society. are irritated against the most re-
cent measures adopted by the minister OF
public instruction. by which the doors OF
the high schools and universities are closed
against young men who have no fortunes.
All the measures taken by this minister
tend to suliocate education in Russia The
students are obliged to remain In their
own districts, and have not the right OF
choosing the universities where the best
professors may be found. The spartans
used TO pull out the eyes of their slaves to
prevent them from amusing themselves
when they turned round the grinding mills.
But In the nineteenth century. and just on
the eve OF the twentieth century, such
measures viii not help to consolidate order.
The circular OF the minister Of public IN
struetion, which closes the doors OF the
universities 10 students who are poor. only
places . new arm in the hands OF the ter
rcrists. What Is the use OF the lessons
given to child In school? He will see
al the very FIRST step the contradiction that
exists between the acts OF the government
and the doctrines taught in Scripture At
school he is taught TO befray. There are
spies in the gymnasiums. such eorrup-
ton of school customs did not exist even
in the reign OF Nicholas
The experience of the past reign and
your own experience must have demon
ssrafed 10 your majesty that the policy Of
persecution does not attain its object The
day viii come when the persecution OF the
right of thought will seem as the memory
OF . bad dream; hat fear that the advent
of such day viii he accompanied With
flames and foods Of blood. The whole OF
your system pushes those who are dissst-
isfed into the camp of tbs rsvolutsonists.
even those who feel . strong ard natural
repnIsson for aEl ideas OF blood and
violence. For one inpsadeni word, for .
revolutionary print often taken cut Of
mere curiosity. young man. = mere
child, In declared 10 be political criminal
We have political criminals who are only
fourteen y~srs cid Who are conssgne. 10
cellular confinement The government
that rules ino. 500 60 people trembles before
eAisdren. In our country peopis are sent
for tvesve wears 30 eastern Siberia for
oyenses which ia Austria would be pun
fshed By Two weeks simple imprison nsea1
The yoath Of the eoansry Thus frampled
upon become red revolusioaists
The political prisoners are the victims
Of arbitrary conduct which af fsEnes as
sumss an absolutely savage character The
Minister Tosstoa Was himself alarmed n
the extent Of the sssosi2ssons ard Bassa~
cres. Every prison lasisr. every ssape Off.
Ger may without anger 70 himself rob