Wichita eagle., 1890-01-19

TEE PRESENT czAR. THE MURDERED CAR
Knows not whom TO trust, and as he wears
Rdearms, including peculiarly sharp short
rword. he is liable to kill any one who makes a
motion he does not like. In fact, he did kill an
Innocent laborer not long ago. The man met
lin IN q secluded walk in the park, and, be-
ing confused, put his hand behind him, when
tne car thinking he was drawing weapon,
shot him dead.
Here is the daily life of this despotic ruler
OF 1000 900 people: First, he sleeps, or is
supposed to sleep, in one Of some thirty diff
fenent rooms of the Winter palace but no
one, save few very trusted ones, knows an
hour In advance which room it is While he
sleeps spies Of long approved fidelity search
every passage of the palace and experts test
the cellar walls, or engineers examine the
sdbterranean passages. His wife, his chill
dren, his body servants and all the near rela-
tves who are admitted to intimacy with
him i've in hourly peril of their lives; one
servant, who escaped to Germany, testifies
that tur four months not one person in the
palace felt safe for one hour. No wonder
Alexander III is supposed to be going in
sane, as the telegraph puts it. If he were
supposed to be in bis right mind after five
years OF such life, there would be modern
miracle to account for.
There has always been great deal of this
sort OF thing In Russia, and, contrary to the
rule IN all other countries, terrorism has in
creased rather than diminished with the adj
vance of knowledge and civilization. In
Russia alone, mans knowledge of destructive
agencies has increased faster than the liberal
fty OF government and the improvement of tho
moral nature of the people Science, there
fore, has only made life more miserable Pc
ter the Great, credited with being the found
er OF RnestaB great IS, came TO the throne
through series of plots and ruled as a bar
barian; and his daughter Elizabeth punished
her enemies with most frightful cruelties
Her nephew and successor was murdered by
court conspirators, at the head Of whom was
his own wife--the bloody, hcentious and in
famous Catherine IL Her son and successor,
Crazy Paul." was murdered in 1901 by .
bszraa OF nohles, and the marriages of his
three daughters introduced horrible blood
taints into three leading royal families of
Europe.
His son, Alexander I, the noted contempt
rary OF Napoleon Bonaparte, had average
sense and some liberality of sentiment, and
began that system of encroachment on Tur-
key which the cars have ever since main
bsfilpe1l- Lib otdtil, LII 1So-c, was lOLo"cO Wy
a great instruction, but lis brother and sue
cessor, Nicholas l, suppressed it with great
bloodshed- His reign was one of almost con-
tinuous war with Turkey and Persia, and
finally with England and France, the "Cri-
mean war" His son and successor, Alexan-
der II, assembled the throne March ., 1856,
and at once made peace. He at first attempt
ed to be liberal and completed the enancipa-
ton of the serfs; but an instruction in Po-
land was put down with horrible rigor, and
thereafter bis life was one constant struggle
to escape assassination
The struggle was long and cruel but Alex
ander was blown up at last. Each successive
plot was followed by increased tyranny, and
tyrsnny created more plots Everything the
imperial family ate or drank was carefully
inspected, every train they Travelled in trebly
guarded, and if they ventured abroad thou
sands of secret spies lined the streets. In
deed, ali society was infested by spies. II
half dozen students took private walk to-
gether, one of them was likely to be a spy.
In almost any evening party some of the
guests were spies. One or more compositors
In every printing Office, one or more clerks
in every large establishment, at least ono
man in each mine, or shop, or factory, and
even the drivers of public vehicles-all were
IN the secret pay of the government.