The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-10
BUTCHER FIRES
CARS CAPITAL
AGAINST JEWS.
Organizer Of Kishinef Mas
sacre Is Preaching in St.
Petersburg.
Eighteen Thousand Jews at
Capital Arm Against
Massacre.
Sailors Mutiny and Are Sub
dued With Great Diff J
!. ficulty. 4
Millions of Roubles Are Sent
Out of Russia for
81 =, Safety.
All Is Chaos and DESCRIBES
in the Muscovite j,
;aE s: Nation.
sw York Herald Special Service.

~ - AnAL1SODOhus EtlQay, VIZ
- Eydtkuhnen, Dec. An. Kuthe.
van, the organizer Of the frst
bloody Kishinef riots, is here In st.
Petersburg, preaching against the Jews
to the intelligent classes and the
students, apparently with the con-
sent off the authorities. Eighteen
thousand Jews here are armed
with revolvers and knives and are well
able and organized to resist attacks.
Serious mutiny has just taken place
among the sailors Of the Fourteenth die
vision, 1000 men positively refused to
leave the city, saying they were being
sent into a trap. It ended by their be-
ing surrounded by the Proebrajenk and
Ismalovski regiments and the horse
guards and conveyed in specially pre.
pared barges.to Kronstadt.
In Moscow NJ. Drugili, the postal
delegate, who was arrested, is now re-
leased. He made terrible speech
against Count Witte, M. Durnovo and
NJ. Sebastian, the latter being the head
Of the st. Petersburg postoffce.
he rum on the banks continues; the
people clamoring for payment in gold
and silver; they do not want to accept
paper money.
M. Nobel, the petroleum king, is re-
ported to have sent 100000 roubles
1 abroad. The minister of finance pro-
tested, but M. Nobel insisted. The
Novia Zehison asserts that 10000, 900
! roubles worth Of gold have left tho
country. s9.s
| > Conditions IN Russia. !,
/ st. Petersburg, Dec. 9.-Via Eydtuh.
men, Dec. 1o.-There Is but one
question asked at present In this
unhappy country-Where is the revo-
luton leading Russiaf It is the one
IaH-important subject before the people,
and happy would be the man who
could foresee just what Is ahead. Bit
this is impossible. The best-informed
men can only guess at what may come
to pass. 81
All is chaos and disorder, and, whaS
is worse, there is no light ahead. Rus
/ STA today might well be ikened to- 4
giant staggering down a blind alley in
the blacklist midnight. He knows not
where, his path leads; he cannot tell
what pitfalls are before him. What tho
end Of it all will be, can only be
guessed, and no prediction Is OF auN
value.
| For this revolution Is terrible thing.
It has paralyzed industry, It has ruined
all business, it has tied up the postal
and telegraph service, and, when IL de-
sired, effectually stopped all railway
traffic. It has been responsible for
crimes unspeakable; it has caused the
blood Of Russian patriots to flow from
one end Of the empire to the other. II
has arrayed class against class and man
against man. It has bred mutiny in
the navy and created dissension among
the soldiers. It has taught the peasants
to rise against the tyrants, who for
centuries have dominated them and
ground them to the earth. It has prac-
tically nullifed the authority Of tho
government and given to the proletariat
powers it never dreamed Of possessing
q twelvemonth ago, because 1t has
learned how it may bend all authority.
even that of the czar, to its will.
The revolution has rushed blindIy In
a thousand directions. It has made
great leaps, then it has halted for 8
moment in the face of some unexpected
check from the government. But it
] has only hesitated for a moment be.
fore turning in another direction to
rush into new excuses.
A Headless Revolution.
The most paralyzing feature Of it all
is that there is no head to the revolu-
tion. With some strong hand to take
! the helm, Russia might weather the
! storm without the reign Of terror which
!: it is felt must come.
j But there is no controlling mind,
there is no man strong enough to com,
mand obedience from all the millions
of people who are striving to obtain
that liberty of which they have had but
a taste, and to obtain which they know
not how to proceed.
Little wonder, then, that the cues
! tion, Where is the revolution LEADING
: Russiafo is on the lips Of every one
u. a rv.H--..g.