The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-28
CIVIL WAR MAY FOLLOW.
The Crisis Thought to Be Rapidly
Approaching in the Cars
Realm.
Men Who Would Figure Most
Conspicuously in the Case
of Trouble.
Russia's Present Social and Political Con-
INSTRUMENTATION. Unde r an Autocrat
-Mephistopheles of the Land.
Written for TIE HELENA INpEpENpENr.l

Written for The HELENA INDEPENDENTS
IN USSIA is APPROACHING WHAT
IN may prove the most momentous crisis
X5\ in her history, onothat will terminate
o Y the present ora and r~e-sstablish on 1
new basis the structure of a society honey.
combed by the intrigues of statesmen, tht
conspiracies of nihilists. the corruption Of
public officials and the psuporism of the
peasantry. Everything has for years beer
done in a slipshod manner The public do
partments are loosely administered. and
the same policy of Encouragement obtains
throughout every walk of life, whether of.
fetal or %.,rivate. Though the next few years
will witness a series of vast changes in Rus
sia, it is difficult to prophecy the exact form
they will assume, or whether they will
most affect the political constitution or the
moral and social elements.
Some people hold the opinion that the
terrible famine now scourging the land
will precipitate a civil war. They autioi-
pate q bloody interncoine conflict equnling
in its ~fcrocity n its onsequanc the
French ~upheaval of 1889. Others predict a
bloodlsss revolution that will be aimed, not
Mt the subversion of autooracy, but at the
reorganization of the thinking elements of
Russian life. A new code of ethics in in.
telleetual Thought, in social refinement and
general mannera 10 to be ~innugurated.
This, of course, will be accompanied by a
certain degree of change in the body poll
tic. and its relation to the state.
In Russia the educated Glasses ara divided
into two camps. One may be described as
the Philo-French or Gsllomaniaos, and the
other rs the Nationalist or Pan-Slavistic
A parallel may be drawn to some extent be-
tween cur own AnRlomaniscs and tho Gal
lomaniacs of Russia. Both are orazal
upon the subject Of initiating tho manners.
customs and habits Of thought of another
nation. Nothing can pleassa Gnllomuniao.
but what is Fronch or All imitation of whit
is French. This 10 carried SO far that even
children are reared in q better knowledge
of the Gallo tongue than their own. All
this has boon intensified by political DOM.
plicatiens. In the whlrligig Of politics, the
common interest of France and Russia
have induced them to make common
cause. Absurd Inconsistencies aro chnrao-
%teristio of Russian Gallomania and it's
followers. A notable example Of this il
found in the support given to the fantastic
performances Of Paul Deroulede. at the
fuaeral in Moscow two years ago, OF tho
journalist Kstkof. Ii ever there waa \ man
hostile to tho admiration of foreign ideas
hs opposed to Russian, it was katkof, who
was an nnoompromisinR advocate OF autoc-
taey and pnn-Slavism. He also firmly be-
lieved in the divine inheritance of mon
nrchH.
And yet Deroulade and hia associates did
not shrink from ~uttering extravaganza sulo-
eles over thiB mans grave, utterances which
might have had some semblance Of fitness
on the occasion of the o%bseqnies OF u radi-
cal member OF tho French chamber OF dspu-