The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-13
THE DARK SIDE OF NIHILIsM.
Never Before Were the Russian Revolu-
tionists So Splendidiy Organized.
New York sun.


1t is very hard to get any information
whatever about the inside operations of
Russian nihilism from any of the coniect-
ural Russian Nihilists in this city 1t is
very likely that several of them could give
some news about the murder OF General
seiiyerskoff in Paris. and about the warn
ne which the car found on
table in his bedroom, and about
the various attempts to take his
life that have been made within a
short time, and about the arrest of sundry
men and women in high life, and about the
dread suspicion that fills all the palaces
inhabited by the car. IL is known that
there is constant communication between
the nihilists here and their brethren in
Paris, who, in their turn, through secret
agents, are kept informed of nihilist pro-
ceedings in ST. Petersburg and Moscow.
The nihilists in France, who are constantly
watched by emissaries of the Russian po-
ice, are SO stealthy in their movements,
o cunning in their ways, and so
aciturn in their speech, that it is almost
impossible, even for a Russian detective,
to get the slightest hint of any of their
operations in advance of its execution, or
any of their plans of procedure. More
over it has been ascertained that some of the
cars emissaries are nihilists in disguise,
working in the interest of the cause which
they are hired to destroy. The nihilists,
onthe other hand, are faithful To each other,
and cases of treachery among them are al
most unknown. Some of them, as recent
arrests have shown, belong to the nobility,
and enjoy the privilege of admission to
court circles.
The Terrorist party, otherwise known in
Russia as the party of Liberation, has been
looking for the removal" of the car and
the stroke of revolution during the present
year. They have leaders who are ready to
grasp the reins of power at any time; they
believe that they viii get support from
many men who are not identified with
their cause; they hold that their principles
have got into the army, so that IL will not
raise serious trouble; they feel assured of
support from the powerful Jewish clement,
and they say that the party of liberation
turbing the general peace of the country.
The terrorist executive committee, which,
until recent period had exclusive direo- ,
ton of the operations of nihilism, is now
aided by outside forces. These forces ara
organized into sections, which, according
to Prince Layroff, are twenty-five in num-
Der, and maintain their existence in many
cities in czardom. Each section is allowed
to choose its own method of operation and
10 do such work as lies within its power
One section labors to enlighten a few
monjiks; another sends warnings to OBJ
noxious functionaries; another secretly
circulates nihilist literature; another takes
means of reaching the troops in 9. garrison,
and others do other kinds of work.
If there is truth in the advices received
from foreign parts by Russian Nihilist
refugees in New York the extensive plan of
campaign that has been got up must bear a
formidable aspect to the car, who has re-
peatedly been made aware during the
present year that his life is constantly en-
dangered.