The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23
SAINT BROUGHT I'LL LUCK
BIG CROWD OF RUSSIANS BROUGHT
TOGETHER AT CANONIZATION.
Agitators Took Advantage of Occa-
sion To Scatter Incendiary Lifera-
ture-Mrs. SavaSe's Letters.

Correspondence OF the Indianapolis Journal.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 10.-The work
men of all the Russas are in revolt and
the brand new Saint Serafim. who was to
prevent this by leading back the people TO
the fear of God and the Car, is held re-
sponsible-officially held responsible, for
since their majesties' return from Ssaro1f,
simultaneous with the outbreak in Odessa.
Tifiis and kieff. the Court Circular has re-
fused TO mention his name. As the re-
Gently canoniZed Muscovite monk is dead
these sixty or more years-he ceased stand
ing on one leg and on a pillar towards the
middle of the last century-this snub con-
veyed by the official gazette would be UNI
important but for its tendency to widen
the breach between the government and
the masses. AS matter of fact, the mass
OF the Russian people. long enslaved by the
Greek church and absolutism, is breaking
loose from the shackels of superstition and
State as we'll and revolution is rife in all
parts of the country, in the industrial dis
tricts no less than those devoted to agri-
culture. But what has Saint Serafim to
do with it?
The canonization ceremonies. lasting more
than two weeks, drew immense crowds of
devout Greek Christians, curiosity seekers
and mischief makers to Ssaroff. who built
a regular tent city around the ancient clois-
ter. These pilgrims came from every por
ton of Russia, from the Baltic provinces
and Asia Minor, from Poland, the Caucasus
and the Crimea, from Finland and Siberia,
even. Ordinarily Russians are not allowed
to assemble in meeting but at Ssaroff,
z;.xf,t
the part of the authorities, 100000 men and
women gathered to talk and exchange
views. The Holy Synod was delighted at
the supposed revival of religious interest
and was for once completely outgeneraled,
its purpose to fasten and regain its hold on
the masses being turned into the opposite.
AGITATORS AMONG THEM.
For among the 100000 pilgrims were at
least 10000 agtators of the revolutionary
cause, the party formed to procure consti-
tutional government, living wages and de-
cent treatment for the workmen. The ag-
itators were educated men, possessing
thorough knowledge of the Russian char
acter, of Russia's political shortcomings
and her needs. These men mixed with the
assemblage, consisting for the most part
of laboring men, peasants, small store keep
ers, artisans and petty officials, all of whom
are frightfully underpaid and in constant
want.
And while the Holy Synod fondly hoped
that the cause of religion was propagated,
these asitators instead spread the gospel
of revolution. BY word of mouth and in
leaflets plentifnlly distributed they told their
brethren of the revolutionary partys ends
nd NH hod nod in
certain parts. of the country and what it
meant to do TO make Russia free, Kidding
her of absolutism and a thieving, oppres-
sive aristocracy. Two kinds of pamphlets
and fly-leaves were distributed I'm immense
numbers. The one praised Saint Serafim on
account of his virtuous and pious life, APP
plauding the authorities that placed him in
the calendar; the other said the very oppo-
site, but in language moderate enough TO
avoid giving offense 10 the police and priest
hood. The prints were in large type, double
loaded and the revolutionary matter was
printed between the lines in sympathetic
ink. One has to hold the paper against
the light TO read the forbidden sentences.
The trick was executed with all technical
perfection and was not discovered until a
week after the pilgrims had departed from
Ssaroff, carrying away in their knapsacks
and boots lots of forbidden literature, which
in Russia, like in no other country the
world over, is appreciated and acted upon
by the masses. The average Russian, you
must know, esteems printed matter highly,
whether he read not, for books are
so scarce and newspapers SO rare that the
masses hold the products of type and press
sacred. placing implicit reliance in their
contents.
PAMPHLETS SURE TO BE READ.
4 government statistician who can be
relied upon not TO overstate the case figured
out recently that every scrap of printed
matter that penetrates to the masses is
read and re-read at least three hundred
times-oftener if paper and ink hold out
1t goes from hand TO hand. those able to
read deciphering i: for the majority and