The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1904-08-29
RUSSIA'S COMING REVOLT
II Can be Felt in the Air, and Will be
More Fearful than That
Of France

The Russians strike the stranger as a
chldlike people. but you are possessed
with Il haunting sense Of ugly traits
be- almost more just to call them-;l-
low themselves TO be- driven with the
animals. Yet every educated Russian
you talk to on the subject knows that
revolution is coming. But he talks to
you about it with the door shut. for M
man i'm Russia can be sure that his
own servants are not police spies. l
was discussing the question with a
Russian official one evening in his
study when his old hOusekeeper enter
I'd the rOom-a sOft-eyed. gray-haired
old woman who had been in his service
over eight years and whose position in
the household was almost that Of ii
friend He stopred abruptly and chang
IL thu. conversation. So soon rs the
.ioor WAS closed behind her again he
explained himself. 1T is better to chat
upon such matters when one is quite
alone" he LAUGHED. But surely you
can trust her" i said. 1t is safer to
trust no one" he answered. And then
he continued from the point where he
had been interrupted. 1t is gather
| ing" he said. There are times when
I almost smell blood in the air. l am
an old man and may escape it. but my
children will have to suffer-Suffer as
children must do for the sins Of their
fathers. We have made brute beasts
of the people. and as brute beasts they
vii come upon us, cruel and undiscrim-
mating. right and wrong inIifferentiy
going down before them. But it has
To br 1t is needed.
The future history of Russia will be
The. history of the French revolution
over again. but with this difference:
That the educated classes. the think
crS. who are pushing forward the
dumb MASSES are doing SD with their
eyes open. There will be no Mirabeau.
no Danton to be appalled, ut the peO-
PIES ingratitude. The men who today
number among their ranks statesmen
soldiers. delicately nurtured women
men. students familiar with the lessons
of history. They have no mscOncep-
tions concerning the blind Franken-
stein into which they are breathing
life. He will crush them. they know
it. but with them he will crush the in
Justice and stupidity they have grown
To hate better than they love them
selves.
The Russian peasant. when he rises
vii prove more terrible. more pitilcs:
than were the men of 1890. He is les.
intelligent. more brutal. They sing !;
wild. sad song. these Russian cattle
the while they work. They sing it in
chorus on the quays while hauling thu
cargo. they sing it in the factory. the,
chant it on the weary, endless steppes
reaping the corn they may not eat. L
) is about the good time their master.
are having. Of the feasting and TIT
merrymaking. But the last line of ev
cry verse is the same. When you aSl
Russian to translate it for you h
shrugs his shoulders. oh il means
he says that their time will come
some day" 1t is Il sad. pathetic. haunt
f ing refrain. They sing il in the draw
ing rooms of Moscow and St. Peters
burg. and somehow the light talk an
laughter die away and Il hush like
chill breath enters by the closed do"
ana passes through. 1t is a curiou
song. like the wailing of a tired win,
and one day it will sweep over the Ian
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