Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-05-23
UNREST IN THE
CZAR'S DOMAIN
RUSSIAN WORKING PEOPLE
DISSATISFIED
ARE MANY DISORDERS
Little Cause for Wonder at Re-
ported Unhappiness of Inn
perial Couple.

st. Petersburg, May l9-The Cars
8lth birthay was celebrate throughout
the empire yesteray. The Deums were
sung in all the churches, a brilliant
court reception was held ct the Ear
skoie- Saelo palace near st. Peters
burg, and every city, town aud hamlet
was sblaze with white, blue an red by
day and with Examinations by night.
Despite these outward manifesto
lions of loyalty, however there is no
Disgusting the state Of unrest among
the Cars subjects, and especially
among the working people of Central
Russia The alarming progress of
the revolutionary agitation forms the
main subject of conversation OF all
classes, especially manufacturers and
commercial men. Every day brings
fresh reports to the capital of strikes
and disorders. First it is an outbreak
of students at Kieff and the fresh dis
orders in the Poltava and Kharkoff
provinces. where according to official
reports, not less than 10000 peasants
are participating in ritos and in the
pillage aud destruction of estates
1t is we'll known that the Gar aban-
doned his customary Easter visit to
Moscow because of the popular unrest
in that city.
With such condition of affairs
there is little cause for wonder IN
the reported unhappiness of the i'm
portal couple. Naturally of Il morose
and melancholy disposition, Nicholas
II. has had little to Tighten the heavy
burden of his position since ascend
ing the throne. That he has meant
well cannot be denied On his 31st
birthday, three years ago, he gave
evidence of his liberalism by abolish
Jag the system of deportation OF con-
victs 20 Siberia. A year later he
took the initiative in tho movement
which led to the universal peace con-
ference at The Hague Those in
position to know inside fats assert
that Nicholas II. had eneavoied con-
stantly to bring about reforms that
would better the condition Of the
masses and remove the chief causes
for the popular unrest In this oirec-
tion he has ever had the moral support
and encouragement of the Czarina,
than whom no woman among ali tho
royalties of Europe is more esteemed
or believe.
But at every step he has had to en-
counter the fierce opposition and all
powerful influence Of the reactionary
element which has succeeded III put
ting insurmountable difficulties in the
path of every measure of reform.
This phase of the situation was silk
ingly illustrated, few weeks ago
by the resignation of General Van
novnsky, the Minister of Education,
who was appointed to that post after
the murder of NJ. Bogoliepoff. Dur
ing his term of Office Gen Vannovsky
consistently endeavored to redress the
legitimate academic grievances of the
students and to wean them from rev.
olutionary agitation. But the opposi-
tion OF the dominant element in gov
ernmental affairs thwarted all his re-
form plans and there was nothing
left for him to do but to resign his
post.
Meanwhile the condition of affairs
throughout Russia is going from bad
10 worse and there is no predicting
what the end will be- The attitude
OF the workmen toward their employ
ers is openly threatening, in striking
contrast to the subserviance of few
years age. A curious feature of the
agitation Is its anti-foreign charao-
ter, especially as the movem ent is
partly of foreign origin. The CHIEF
part in the arousing of the work
man to a sense OF their miserable
situation has been played by hun
dreds of well-educated men who have
given up careers in order to 1.-Two
among the people, to teach them to
read and write an to assimilate the
doctrines of revolutionary Socialism.
A more potent influence, however,
is the fact that most of the factory
hands come into contract with fore
ign workmcn and hear Of the rights
and liberties enjoyed by the workmen
ABROAD.