The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-06-27
RUSSIA'SGREATPERiL
REVOLUTION THREATENED IN THE
LAND OF THE GEAR.
luminous Signs of Unrest May Presage
Movements IIsely to Menace the
Peace OF tho worId-Peasants Awak-
sning from Their Lethargy.

Signs and omens multiply in the
rand of the car. They increase, too,
not only in number, but also in vari-
ely and in significance. Outbreaks
against the established order are I'M
precedently frequent and are becom-
Ing more and more frequent. They
are also assuming new forms and in
| VoIving new factors and Offering new
menaces to the system" which since
the days of Peter has held the Mus
covite millions in a colder and harder
than iron grip. The students and 9TH
er educated folk are conspiring, as of
OLD. But so, too, are the industrial
myriads, fact which is ominous, see
ing now strenuous1y Russia is striv-
ing to develop industries on a great
scale The peasant, too-the dumb,
patient, docile, apathetic mouiik-is
rising in barbaric fury, reminding one
not a little of the Jacquerie of old
France. They say that $4,000 meas
ants in Poltava and Kharkoff have
grown weary of famine and fever and
nave sacked eighty estates Nor is
that all. The army, even the Cos
sacks, can no longer be fully depended |
upon. Some Of them not long ago re- |
FUSED to obey orders against a mob. |
and 1t is known that they had been at
the point of revolt against Mr.. Sipia.
sulne, the minister of the interior,
just before he was murdered, saws the
New York Tribune.
The whole empire in El1rone in
deed, seems to be in or rapidlv an
preaching state of fux. Conserya-
tive observers have likened if to the
condition of France before the great
revolution; nor is the comparison in
apt. The elements of DEGRADATION
ana d1scontent on the one hand and
of cruel Indifference and inability to
zeal with the problem on the other
Ire there to be perceived. There NAV
De Neckers and Mirabeaus in Russia :
o-day, and they are needed. Rut If
Toes not appear that all the Kill ,
iofs and De Whites in the service
Il car are doing much to correct '
he evil tyrannies of the .'svstem" o
r to keep down the rising tide of
opular passion. Instead the govern =
lent concerns itself with foreign n
populations, subsidized fleets. ex. -
ort bounties, tariff wars and q Il
easeless endeavor to gratifv IFS in -
at1able greed of land. These things II
re no remedy for such domestic ills =,
) those which afflict European Rms. O,
a. Ihey are no palliative Rather CT
e they an aggravation. PeoDJe are o,
'klng for bread and are getting .,
ones That is process which can h,
't go on forever. The sleeper will h:
lie day awake. Sooner or later the 81
ISIS Will come, must come, as it has
me IN more than one land. When
does, Central Asian aggressions
anchurian agreements, trans-Siberi.
railroads and all the rest will not kr
unit TOT so much as small dust in the Iot
lance ed
A Russian revolution after the err
amer OF that of France is some. pr
my "hlch we cannot, however. an me
lpate with equanimity. 1t would ct
stupendous in horrors as well as DO
extent. The mum pers who would hi1
involved in it, the area throughout ha
len 1t would prevail, and the for. jus
N relations which it would affect Co
uid make it all a matter of interna- hir
nal concern The temner.,,,,.4 of
traditions of the people indicate pac
v lndescr1bably terrible would ba bee
ways and means; a war waeed hip
the spirit of barbarism and with it
resources of civilization. From, phi
spectacle of such a catastronbo
world may well pray to be pre-