The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-09

the mobiles and landed proprietors, and
othcr responsible men, to speak their
MINDS plainly with regard to the Rus
sian peasant, but their conclusions
were distasteful to the car who was
supported in his opinion by Monsieur
de Plehwe.
De White having incurred royal dis
pleasure. Monster de Plehwe became
the most influential person in the Rus.
sian empire, and a celebrated Russian
who has recently written on the sub
lect' says that the history Of de
IlehWes success is the history Of
the massacre of Jews. the Punishment
or rims. the Spoliation of Armenians,
the persecution of Poles, the exile of
RUSSIAN mobiles, the foggin2 of peas.
ants, the imprisonment and Blu. hery
or Russian working men. the establish
inent of wide spread system CT es-
plonaee, and the abolition of law" all
measures which We're suggested to the
car by this autocrat. and all part of
the regime which he has inaugurated.
What wonder, therefore, that the as
sasslnation of Monsieur de Plehwe has
caused Joy to many foreign anarchists
ana nlhiistS who are now in London
In the East End where Polish and Rus
sian Jews consregate. they do not hest
tate TO show their relief, for the dead
minister's name was to them one of
eXacration.
Making of a Nihilist
y shabby man who arrived in Eng.
land not long ago entered into CONVEX
sation with a journalist. He was q
man with a history. The newsnane,.
man soon discovered that he was !,
nlhllist. and asked him what had led
h!rl to become Il revo!utionist
IN an instant the maa tore his coat
from his back, and pointing to the
latter ne said: That Monsieur" There
We're the scars Of the knout, plainly
written
He was a man who had lived the
earlier years of his life peacefully in
Warsaw, but the day came when he
met those who We're grooming under
The Russian oppression. He began to
think. and thinking led him to long
for freedom. He joined a secret soci-
inS place was railed. n policeman was
hurt. and ten days afterward forty
or inc men We're transported to ST.
Derih He was among the number.
and he remained there for twenty
years. On his release he went TO
SWltZer!anu and since then he has de-.
*otcd every hour of his life to Hihii-
ISM.
Women Are Active Workers.
Some of the most intrepid members
of our society,"" said the man ARE
women. The day must come when
Russia shall be Il free nation. The
peasants ore becoming educated, and
the hour is fast approaching when
they Will think and act, and then such
revolution will take place as the
world has not seen. 1t is a more hon
orable thing" added the man, ito be
killed for liberty, than to be slain by
the japanese, whom we regard as
brothers; but we are grateful to them,
for they paved the way to The great
national war in Russia"
But the man who inaugurated so
much of modern Russias misery lies
dead, and in his death doubtless thou
sands have read the commencement of
one OF the worlds blacklist tragedies.
But there Is another aspect to this
dark cloud which is even more threat
enins., A great famine is hanging over
the Russian nation. Agriculture ha.
been poorly developed, and technical
education has been almost wholly
wanting.
If once the village system is de-
stroyed in Russia. revolution is inevi-
table. The great safeguard of the
country now lies in the fact that the
villages are far too sparsely popula-
ted and that the whole population is
widely distributed, but once let that
population flock to the towns, and the
results will be as foretold
The suffering of the country is al
ready great in Novgorod. The peas
ants nave sold their COWS, and are be
ing forced to take to the road as beg
Sars. In the south the outlook Is
black. The crops are already doomed,
and the people are dependent on i'm
ported food. At kieff the authorities
have been instructed to prepare meas
ures for famine relief, and within a
few weeks the state will be face to face
with that great twin evil which goes
hand in hand with war.