Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-11-10
RUSSIA'S TROUBLES.
Even the Cars Concessions do
not Bring Peace. but Count Witte
is Holding a Strong Hand.

As fast as the Cars manifesto of
liberty spread throughout the vast
empire it aroused the people to high
pitch OF enthusiasm, but everywh, re
the populace wss divided Ito two
camps-those who accepted the boon
Of Freedom with intense Joy, and Il e
extreme radicals, Social Democrats
and revolutionary organic .tions, Who
used the opportunity to preach the
complete overthrow of the Govern
ment. Clashes aud sanguinary en-
counters occurred at many places.
Many were killed, mostly Jewish
peasants. la some towns the mobs
obtained control aud the authorities
were forced to obey their demands
for the release of the political pris-
oners
At Odessa, the massacre was ten
fold worse than the late Kishineff
horror. Five thousand were killed
and wounded in the carnival of riot
ing. murder and robbery thstis going
on in Black Sea City The Jewish
quarter is the scene of CHASTITY out
RACES. Women and children were
straDgled and hacked to death by
Russian mobs unleashed By the Czsr's
manifesto. The taste of liberty has
brought on a horrible lust for blood,
and bodies lie about the streets un-
cared for.
AT Kipff, Notwithstanding deluge
of rain, the looting was terrible.
The Jews fired from the balconies of
their houses on the troops ADD on the
professions Of loyalists, the soldiers
returning the fire. The residences
and offices Of many wealthy Jews
were wrecked. The Jews now threaten
to massacre the Christians. The
Jews are making q. stout resistance,
and their successful bravery entailed
lsmentable sacrifices. 1t is impossi
BILE to ascertain the casualties, but
rumor puts the number of the killed
and wounded as high as 1000, many
10y bombs, which the mobs used
Wholesale.
Refugees from Kishenef, Russia,
give terrible account of the anti
Jewish outrages which have heen
committed there. A large part of
the town was burned and several
streets were wholly destroyed. Shops
were pillaged and Jews were dragged
from their hiding places and thrown
into the flames of the burning build.
ings.
HOME RULE PoR FINLAND.
Finland has won her freedom. The
Gar has surrendered. A manifesto
embodying all the demands of the
Helsingfors popular delegates has
been submitted to the Gear for his
signature. The tone of the new
Finnish constitution is the RESPONSE
bility of the secretary of the state to
the Diet, and not, as hitherto, to the
Gar. The Russian warship which
was sent to Helsipgfors was intended
to signify that while the Gar has
consented to the constitutional free.
dom of Finland, he intends to pre-.
vent the severance of the tie between
Finland and Russia.
WHAT THE CARS CON EssIoNs MEAN
1t is only familiarity with the
desperate conditions that have pre-
vailed in Russia which prevents the
world from gssping with amazement
stwhat has happened. Indefinite as
that is, it clearly involves a promise
of civil government in some such
spirit as that which prevails in the
Constitutional countries of Western
Europe. The Cars declaration, first
and foremost, directs his Government
Ito extend to the population the i'm
mutable foundations of civic liberty,
based on the real inviolability of the
pers6 n, freedom of conscience, speech,
union and association" There is a
man behind the promise. 1t is not
the feeble Gar, with the grand ducal
cable over him, that is to be at the
head of affairs; it is Count White,
who not only is the strongest man in
Russia and one of the foremost states
men In the world, but who through
out these many years of darkness and
uncertainty has been the leading
champion of liberalism within the
governing circles of Russia. Above
all, note that among the bases of
civic liberty therein specified "the
real inviolsbiiity of the person" is
place at the head. What this means
to Russian only a Russian, and a
Russian Liberal, can know. Arbi
trary Imprisonment. or deportation
to Siberia, ty imperial decree has
been the very citadel of autocracy.
When the Gear utters the words
"real inviolabiIity of the person" he
proclsims to Russians their emanci-
patton from that which above ali else
has marked them of among the civil
ICED nations of the world=that which
above all else has made the heroes
and martyrs out of whose sufferings
the establishment of civil liberty in
kussis will have come. Only Turkey,
OF European nations can now claim
an Rha0tOfn 1nnnorah- 8.