New-York tribune., 1905-11-08
STEAD TELLS OF RIOTS.
Praises the Car, and Says Liberals
Should Support Him.


Russia, by way of Finland and Copenhagen,
was in Berlin to-day on his way to Paris. For
an hour and a half he told his vivid Impressions
of hell pretty we'll let loose" he called it, OF
| the things that he had seen and heard and OF
the "ghastly welter into which Russian society
has drifted" Mr.. Stead said:
Strange things are happening. Think OF the
incidents at Reval. Sone determined persons
marched down the street to the Town Hail. 1oi-
lowed by a crowd. There the Mayor and Coun-
cilmen were sitting. celebrating on the situa-
ton. In our determined friends.
1--WE demand they said. I'VE demand liberty.
universal suffrage and the right to rule our
selves
these things. I would gladly send your petition
TO the Emperor"
gates Of revolution and, if we 90 not get
what we want we have decided to burn the city.
Give us $500 rubes!'
The Mayor and his colleagues thought 1t was
better to pay the 1900 rubles than have the
city burned. so they raised the money, paid
the delegates and the latter went away prom
Using to be very good. and they were good But
another crowd came and said:
What about us? Pay us. too
This the Mayor would not do, and they went
away, with threats of destruction
The Red Virgin Of the. French Commune
Louise Michel Well sina Resa1 certain
widow named Linde, dressed IN scarlet from
top to toe and with an axe over her shoulder
placed herself at the head of the mob All
night the revolutionists whetted themselves up.
In the mean time the Governor had got out
troops and the mob gathered in the morning,
facing the soldiers in the great square. The
Governor called on the mob to disperse, and said
that if after fifteen minutes they did not dis
perse he would order the troops TO fire. Five
minutes went by, and the Widow Linde, in red,
climbed a laInppost and cried out encourage
ment and exhorted steadfastness for the reVo-
| luton. The soldiers began to call out TO the
| people TO go away. as. if they were ordered to
! fire. they must do so, and they did not want to
! kill anybody.
! Kill him! Kill him. screamed the Widow
| Linde, pointing to the Governor.
| Several revolver shots were fired from the
crowd but one hit. The Governor, who
waited to the end of the fifteen minutes, then
gave the command to fire, and the Widow Lnde,
shot through the body. fell to the ground
Baron Euxull an eyewitness told me, like
sparrow from twiG.
One hundred and five dead persons were
picked up from the square and thirty more died
in the hospitals.
The coolest man in Russia is the Emperor.
God grant that he may keep his seat, that the
Liberals nay gather about him. and that they
may resist the forces of dissolution His au-
thority is shaken, passions are loose and things
are likely to be worse. 1fhere may be fearful
slaughterings. AS an optimist, | think hun
dred thousand lives may fall If We're pessi-
mistic l would say two millions. The situation
is something like this:
The police. gendarmes and Cossacks have
been suppressing a revolution in tho Of
the Emperor Suddenly. they say, the En- peror
goes over to the Liberal side, and he thinks
more of those who want TO vote and who are
agitation which the police were taught to be-
lfeve was unlawful than he does of them. The
police and gendarmes say:
"Ohi Very well II the Emperor's friends
act like this. it is no concern of ours"
And when the police indifferent the hooli-
gans break lose and -TorvisTn fn rDciety also
breaks loose. That mass of ignorant conserva-
tism which thinks only of killing-the Black
Hundred in Moscow-are Conservatives who
are offended by the Liberals getting the upper
hand All through the Russian Empire author
ity as represented by the police. Cossacks and
gendarmes is shaken. have said, and the
forces that tend to tear society apart at
work
Mr. Stead added that the army could
longer be depended on. Several officers at Hell
singfors had sent word to the Liberals while
holding meeting that they need not be afraid,
as the troops would not fire. He continued:
The Liberal; are unfortunately holding
back from support of the at
time when every man who has good coat on
his back or a ruble in his pocket should stand
by the Emperor. who has placed himself on the
Liberal side. The Liberals unab BILE at once
overcome their distrust. The fuller !bertles
have been granted too late Autocracy lost the
respect of the country during the war and dur
ing the delay in granting those liberties Which
the Emperor decided upon two months ago. The
situation has been as though a man VINO owed
YOU thousand pounds and had promised to pay
eight shillinss and sixpence. The thing to save
Russia is for the Liberals to organize special
consta bularieS to uphold order and allow time
to work out the new government machinery.
Things are about bad possible but ] hope
that order will emerge. especially if all the
alcohol could be turned into milk during
the next three months. Wherever great eXcesses
are committed they are preceded by a liberal
consumption of alcohol