The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

Z the latter having it read to them as often
as possible in order to commit the facts
TO their sluggish memory. This is partic-
ularly true when the pamphlet or paper
contains anything against the state
church, objects of hatred and fear to three
quarters of the Russian people This was
the kind OF literature distributed by the
million in Ssaroff to facilitate its circulation
all over Russia. As stated, the trick worked
To perfection, and in such manner that
neither the Black Cabinet. which opens and
investigates private mail matter. nor the
all-powerful police and secret service forces
can do anything to defeat its ends.
The lines, interlarded between praise of
st. Serafim, remind the Russian people that
ten millions of workmen and hundred
millions of peasants are starving by inches
to allow a hundred thousand aristocrats
and officials to squander the riches and
natural resources Of the country in riotous
living. We are bound TO have justice and
liberty, bread. cleanliness, decent treat
ment and free government for the over
whelming majority-as to the fate of our
present oppressors, it largely depends upon
their behavior in the riots soon TO begin"
ing hand in hand with the executioners of
the people, the patriot society that has
undertaken to demonstrate to the govern
ment that the language of the knout and
rifle is unfit for intercourse with the awak-
ening proletariat. st. Petersburg shall and
must be persuaded that she has to hold
speech with us in civilized manner-not by
tearing our flesh with the knout and giving
our woman and girls to the Cossacks.
ITO that end the Executioners will remove
any official who orders persons logged
three governors have already been killed
for that crime and more are to follow-what
is wanted now is the cooperation of the
great masses of our countrymen, the peas
ants and workmen's unions. We ask them
TO resist any attempt to reduce wages or
interfere with concerted action on the part
of the laboring classes
Prompt action: How promptly the call
for uprisings was acted upon you have
doubtless learned in the United States cable,
even though less than twenty-five per cent.
of actual happenings are permitted to be re-
ported. AS a matter of fact, you probably
know more about the uprisings in Odessa,
Kieff Moscow, Tifis and dozen other large
cities, not to mention smaller towns. than
the people of ST. Petersburg relying on the
local papers. These latter burst not print
line on the subject of workmen's disturb
ances, but private and business letters from
riotous cities tell of factories and palaces
burned and sacked, of big strikes in var
ious branches of industry, of murder and
assassination, street fights and barricades,
Of wholesale arrests and knoutings. Then
there are terrible stories of the use of arms
by large bodies of troops, hundreds of men,
women and children ruthlessly cut down by
galloping troopers or by the quick fire of in
fantry-and all on account of Saint Serahm.
But for his canonization, the police would
have prevented the tremendous assemblage
of people at Ssaroff and the consequent
wholesale distribution of incendary litera-
ture. to which the riots are directly due.
THE GEAR ALARMED.
The Gear is said to be in panic. being
convinced that his empire is on the eve
of dissolution. To think that he went to
Ssaroff in person with the Czarina, the
Empress-D owager, the Crown Prince and
half dozen grand dukes and large num-
Der of ministers of state and mobiles, and
his subjects assembled there rose against
their god-given authority the moment they
turned their backs on him. eff it had not
been for the military, suppose they would
have massacred us on the spot" cried
Nicholas after reading the cipher dispatches
from Odessa and Kieff.
In this the Car is probably mistaken;
the great masses of people assembled at
Ssaroff (among whom this correspondent
lived for seven days. seemed to have no
special grudge against his person. 1 heard
no violent talk against the Emperor and
his family, but all Were convinced that the
era of foudalism and the reign of the aris-
tocracy must cease-to make way for a sort
of limited democracy, giving the people
chance TO make decent living and such
privileges as every sef-respecting man is
entitled to.
Instead of promising better thing the gov
eminent tried to impress the people with
impossible stories of Saint Serafims mir
acle-working powers and his influence with
God Almighty. pray to him and your
pots will be overlooking; Trust him and
report to the authorities all who advocate
labor unions and the like If you are
i'll Saint Serafim will do you more good than
all the doctors in the world" etc. etc. In
this wise the holy synod replied to the cry
for reform. Is it to be wondered at that
the people preferred to believe I'm the words
of hope and encouragement from men of
their own class, put between the lines of
religious tracts?
Though New York woman Mrs. Savage,
INT VaChT