New-York tribune., 1901-06-21
READY TO RECEIVE CARROLL
RUSSIA FROM THE INSIDE.
THE CZAR AND HIS MINISTER'S AT
Tackled AND DEFENDED.

I-ANhTp A->I| pI>I l--N'l-is
The current issue of The Independent con-
tains article entitled The Russian Situation
from the Inside written by J. w. Benstock'
who is described as a member of the St Peters
burg bar legal adviser to the Russian Embassy
at Paris. and the Paris correspondent of Rus
sian newspapers. Mr.. Bienstock severely critI-
cises the Car and his ministers. holding them
responsible. in particular for the recent student
disturbances in Russia. This article was sub
mitted last evening 10 Count Cassini, the Rus
sian Ambassador in Washington, who said he
had never before heard OF the writer, and de-
clared that his statements were gross misrepre
sentations Extracts from Mr. Benstocks arti-
Gle and Ambassador Cassini's statement are ap-
pended:
THE ATTACK.
Mr. Bienstock begins by referring to the trouble
which occurred in ST Petersburg March / when
the soldiers and Cossacks attacked crowd In
front OF the Cathedral NJ Kazan. and ~ similar
that took place about the same time IN the
other principal cities Of Russia. By way of trao-
ing the origin Of troubles. the writer back
February. lSfA. when the students of the Uni
versity Of st Petersburg made vigorous protest
against the action the president OF the ,institu
tiou in posting a notice threatening the students
with punishment II they held a reunion as
ranged for To show their feeling in this affair
the students made a demonstration against the
president when he took his chair February
on leaving the university that day they found the
place surrounded by police and troops who charged
tho students This incident followed by out
breaks in other universities and schools. BY the
Cars decree A special commission appointed
to examine into the Of tho university
hIes and suFFes; remedies. General Varmovsky.
the Minister Of Public Instruction. headed this
commission and he invested With fun power.
His report indicated that the riots were caused
by the lack Of tact the part ~ the president 81
the university and the brutality Of the police.
The reply 10 this report was PRONUNCIATION of
the famous 'prOvisory reCula ton concerning the
pera incorporation Of the students into the army.
This regulation had been piEeonhoed for a long
time, hut It was suddenly resurrected and put
into The first article OF this regulation pro-
vides for the drafting into the army Of students
for any kind of disorder, regardless Of exemptions
of law and the second article institutes every
school district a council composed of the curator
of the school district. the president. members Of
the university council representatives Of the Min
listers Of War, of the Interior and Of Justice
Early this year there were demonstrations by the
students in the University OF Kiev- The upshot
was that four students were condemned 10 i'm
prisonment nd the others to lesser penalties The
students held meeting and requested the pres
ence of the president in order to ask for the
admission OF comrades expelled for refusing TO
20 to prison. ard also demand the abolition OF
the prison penalty. The president refused to
tend the meeting. and the students declined
separate until satisfactory answers had been
ceived Suddenly the hall doors were thrown open
and the meeting room hlled with policemen
and Cossacks. An the students present were ar
rested They tried and nearly four hundred
were ordered into the army for various terms.
but modified subsequently by the Minister
of Public Instruction. and only lS7 We're drafted.
This according 10 Mr. Benstock was the cause
OF the roting in ST. Petersburg March 4 and in
the other cities a few days later. Il is said
the Minister Of Finance. NJ Witte. reported
the Emperor that this measure cruel and
just but Mr. Bienstock says. reaction in the
person of NJ Pobiedonostsen triumphcd."
Mr.. Bienstoclt continues:
The provisional regulation then. and its appica-
tion the immediate causes Of the university
troubles. The oppression of the students by this
wicked measure shocks the calmest and most CON
servative minds. The universities occupy
ceptional position in Russia In Europe and in
otbe" countries they are simply places for stuty-
nothing more II the young men are not entirely entirely
world thcy go little beyond the expression more
or less forcbe of their sympathy for this or that
versities and higher schools centres of the
most intense p1tica e o,9tn m%re ardent than any any
proved that the great majority of those who are
TO the University youth or to those who have
scarcely begun their sGademiG studies m This Is
American. but unon examination Of con-
Identical examples in other couhtries where dcs-
potism abuses its power for youth which may lack
self-denial
men make common cause with the students. where
as they used TO help the police against them. The
Russian workingmen. he says. have few rights-not
even that of striking, although they do strike now.
But they have succeeded in abolishing nightwork
and in reducing the hours Of work to ten and
half a day The government has shown in
credible Difference to this power.
Educated TO revolutionary ideas" Mr.. Benstock
saws In speaking of the workingmen. which the
Russian Nihilists have brought them during the
last twenty years going among the people. as
they say in Russia. Disgusting themselves in order
TO enter the shops wOrkmen, this discontented
mass are nearly ready TO come out in the street
and ally themselves any revolutionary move
rnent That is precisely what took place in Febru-
ary and March OF this year. For the first time
intellect and labor. oppressed by the same yoke.
found themselves side by side, united for one OBJ
5ect."
He continues:
One fact more which has given these disturb
spres a peculiar character and special bitterness
is the Accommodation of Count Leo Tolstoi
Which Increased the general Indignation. II the
popularity of Leo Tolstoi is great everywhere II
may be called unlimited IN his native country. NO