The Jennings daily record., 1902-07-12
RUESSIA'S GREATPERIL 6 ]
REVOLUTION THREATENED IN TIVE
LAND OF THE CZAR.
Sn'no"s Signs Of Unrest NAV Pr..,-.
Aovsmens Aikely to Menace the
fssce Of the worid-Pesssn.s Awa..
ssins from Their I.ethsrey.

signs and omens multiply in the
fand OF the car. They increase. too
not only in number. but also in vari.
Guy ana In Significance Outbreaks
ssainst the esta bfisiied order are un.
Rrecedently frequent And are becom.
1ns more and more frequent. They
rt-Are, also assuming new forms and IN.
'soiVlng. new factors and offering new
menaces to the System" which since
the days of Peter has held the Mus.
cov1te millions in a colder and harder
tnan iron grip. The students and 9th.
or educated folk are conspiring. as of
| ola. But SO, too, are the Industrial
S'iaus' 1act which is ominous, see
ing how stren'ious1y Russia is striv,
ing to develop industries on a great
scaie. The peasant, too-the dumb.
patlent, docile, apathetic moujik-is
rising IN barbaric fury, reminding one
not a little OF the Jacquerie Of old
france. Ihey say that $4,000 peas
ANS IN Poitava and Kharkoff have
grown weary of famine and fever and
nave sacked eighty estates. Nor il |
'i'at all. The army, even the Cos.
SACKS, can no longer be fully depended
upon. Some of them not long ago re.
ieseo 10 obey orders against a moh
anu IL is known that they had been at
'he polht OF revolt against Mr.. Sipia.
sulne' the minister of the interior
just before he was murdered. saws tho
New York Tribune.
The whole empire in Eurone in
deed, seems to be in or r.n;d,,,
proachlng a state of flux. Conserve.
i've observers have likened it to the
i'ioh Oh france before the great ,
revolution; nor is the comparison in !
ap. Inc elements of degradation =
anu olscontent on the one hand and +,
u cruei indifference and inability tn -
ieai with the problem on the other -
ire there to be perceived. There NAV r
'e Neckers and Mirabeaus in Russia =
quay and they are needed But il -
oes not appear that all the Xiii y,
OILS and De Whites in the service -,
CID! are doing much to correct -,
Ae eNh tSrannles Of the system" o,
~ Keep down the rising tide of q,
opular passion Instead the govern. ~
'eht concens itself with foreign ~
'ec"iatlons. subsidized fleets. ex. ~
ort bounties, tariff wars and ~,
easeless endeavor to eratifv its IN ~
.t'aole greed OF land. These things lo,
e no remedy for such domestic ins ~;
those which atfiict European Rms. o,r
d. Ihey are no palliative. Rather ,+,
e 'hey an aggravation. People are .d
KING Tor bread and are pettino 49,
'"es' lhat is process which can h,-
u 90 on forever. The sleeper will w,
e day awake. Sooner or later tho a,;,
ISIS VIII come, must come. AS if b,s
me In more than one land Wber
docs. Central Asian aegressions
thchurian agreements. trans-Sibe~i, T
railroads and all the rest win Va, knl
INT lor SO much as small dust in tho loo
ance. ' 'NS ~,
\ RUSSIAN revolution after the er.
hner OF that Of France is some pro
hs winch we cannot. however an me,
pate with equanimity. II wou,d "Th
a'upeiloous In horrors as well as bott
~ me numbers who would hip
in'oi'ed IN 1t. the area throughout han
ch IL would prevail. and the for- inst
i reia'lons which it would affect Con
lld make it all a matter of interp,- hins
al concern. The 1e,,on. IF ;,
traditions of the people indicate pads
lhdescrlbably terrible woul1 he been
ways and means: war waeed hin?
the spirit of barbarism and with it a
resources of civilization. From, phia
spectacle of such a catastro,ba
world may well pray to he nra