Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-17
RUSSIA'S TROUBLES
ASSASSINATION AND REVOLT.
TIoNARY SENTIMENT GROWING.
THE PoPuLAcE REBELS
Results, However, Are Only to
Make Bad Worse, Since Men
of Even Fiercer Cast Are
Placed in Posts of Murdered
Officials.

Russia continues to be the land Of
assassination. Within three months
there have been seven attempts
against the lives of high officials ana
of these two were successful. A
study of Russian history indicates
that assassination is growing more
frequent and that revolutionary SEN. :
ment is increasing
With rare exceptions Russian as
sassinations are revolutionary in their
motive. In other civilized countries
the assassin is insane, the victim of
social delusion or an agent of a per
sonal grievance. Not so in Russia.
The men who slew Mckinley and Hum.
bert were ignorant, impulsive and
without clear motive. The assassin Il
Russia is usually a man of in
telligence, a member of the middle.
sometimes of the upper class. He
knows what he wishes to accomplish
He goes at his work calmly, with fun
realization of the consequences. He
knows that he will suffer death or Ions
imprisonment, and his deed is per-
formed with spirit of leroism. Thu.
Anarchist Murderer of western Europe
is chosen by lot from small band of
conspirators, whose only aim is The
destruction of law and authority. The
assas in of Russia chooses himself,
from a sense of duty-however mis-
guild q he may be-and his aim is the
liberation of his people from ne
tyrannical rule of autocracy and bu-
reaucracy. No one knows his plans
save the members of his own family
or little circle of intimate friends.
The RevoIutionist's Policy.
The policy of the Russian revolu-
tionists is to, remove officials who are
responsible for acts of the most re-
p1essive nature or guilty of excessive
cruelty as warnings to their SUI
cessors. The ultimate aim is to
secure representative government ana
q constitution. The minister who be-
comes noted as an opponent of re-
form is slain, in the hope that the
man who takes his place may be more
liberal, either by nature or policy,
seeking to avoid a similar fate AS
sassination is therefore policy of
terrorism. Within the last 10 years
there have been half dozen attempts
at the life of Pobiedonostzeff, the
procurator of the holy synod. He is
esteemed the sternest and most power
full enemy of all liberal ideas, gut
very attempt against him has been a
complete failure. His spies are everv-
where and all plots have been frustrat-
ed before they reached the crisis
In March two assaults were made
on General Trepoff, chief of police of
Moscow. He has been especially
severe in the suppression of meetings,
literature and popular demonstrations.
The attacks were made in the streecs,
but on each occasion he escaped with
out injury A third effort was made
in the first week in April While the
general was riding in a carriage .,
student of the Moscow university
sprang upon the carriage step and at
tempted to stab the chief A police
man riding with Trepoff interviewed
and was slightly wounded. The as,
sailant was secured, but his fate has
not been revealed.
The most sensational assassination
of this spring was that of Sipiaguir
the minister of the interior, accom-
plished by a student on April Is, at
the ministerial palace in st. Peters
burg. The details of this affair
illustrate the deliberation with which
the Russian revolutionist operates.
Next to Pobiedonostzeff, Sipiaguin was
the most unpopular official of the in.
perial government. He was of high
family, only 40 years old. well edu-
Gated, uncompromisingly conservative.
During public life of Is years he
had been assistant governor of
Kharkoff, governor of Moscow and
minister of the interior two years. In
the last Office he was the most power
full executive officer OF the empire.
The minister of the interior is charged
with the general maintenance of law
and order. He controls the press
censorship, the public and secret