The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-10
CHAOS IN RUSSIA
Industry Is ParaIyzed and Bus
mess. Is Ruined.
The Postal and Telegraph
Services Are Tied Up.
RAILWAYS STOPPED.
Crimes Unspeakable Are Charg-
ed to the Revolution.
Authority Of the Government Is
Practically Nulliled.
WHITE DISCOURAGED.
He Is Ready to Quit But the
Gar Won't Let Him.
Neither Army Nor Navy Can Be
Depended Upon.
Crimes Unspeakable Are Charg-
ed to the Revolution.
Authority of the Government Is
Practically Nullifed.
WHITE DISCOURAGED.
He Is Ready to Quit But the
Gar Won't Let Him.
n either Army Nor Navy Can Be
Depended Upon.

St Petersburg, via Eydtkuhnen.
Dec. 10.-There is but one question
which is being asked at present In this
unhappy country and that is. where "a
the revolution leading Russia? It is
the one all important subject before
the people and happy would be the
man who could foresee just what ~
ahead.
But this Is impossible. The best
informed men can only guess at what
may come to pass. All is chaos and
disorder and what is worse there Is no
light ahead. Russia today might well
be Hkened to a giant staggering down
blind alley IN the BLACKLIST midnight.
he can not tell what pitfalls are be-
fore him. What the end Of Il all viii
BEGAN only be guessed and no predic-
ton is of any value.
For this revolution is a terrible
/ thing. It has paralyzed industry it
has ruined all business, it mas tied up
the postal and telegraph and when it
desired 1t has effectually stopped ali
railway traffic. It has been RESPONSE
BILE for crimes unspeakable; It has
caused the blood of Russian patriots
TO flow from one end of the empire to
the other. It has arranged class
against class and man against man. It
has bred mutiny in the navy and
created dissension among the soldiers.
1t has taught the peasants to rise
/ against the tyrants who for centuries
have dominated them and ground
them to the earth. It has practically
nullifed the authority of the govern
ment and given to the proletariat pow
ers it never dreamed of possessing a
twelvemonth ago, because 1t has
/ learned how it may bend all authority
/ even that of the car to its will. The
revolution has rushed blindly in
! thousand directions. It has made
great leaps then 1t has halted for a
moment in the face of some uneE-
pected check from the government.
But it has only hesitated for a mo-
ment before turning in another dtrec-
ton to rush into new excuses.
Revolution without a Head.
The most paralyzing feature of Il
all is that there is no head to the rev.
olutfon. With some strong man to
take the helm Russia might weather
the storm without the reign of terror
that is felt must come. But there is
no controlling mind there is no man
strong enough to command obedience
from all the millions of people who
are striving to obtain liberty, OF which
they have received but q taste and
know not how to proceed to obtain II.
There is little wonder then that the
question of tsWhere is the revolution
lea ding Russia ?" is on the lips of
everyone. In the struggle between
monarchist, royalist, bureaucrat, con-
stitutionalist, conservative radical
peasant socialist, proletariat, an
archist, and a hundred other Este
enough people rally to give it control3
No one can answer.
In the awful turmoil it is not
strange there should be great fear lest
before conditions are adjus. ed and
the country passes into a state where
it is possible for all to live it will ex-
perience a reign of terror, the like OF
which the world has never seen.
10 III
tually to assert itself and restore ore
der, or will the throne fal12 # the
army remain loyal the problem will be
worked out and Russia may continue
as a monarchy within constitutional
limitations. But it is extremely prob
lematical whether the army will re-
main loyal. In Manehuria the troops
are on the verge Of open revolt. There
have already been outbreaks of minor
importance, but they show the tenn
per of the soldiers. Throughout Rus
STA proper there is hardly a garrison
that is not in a state OF mutiny The
frequent mutinies that have occurred
nave proved eonclusively that at least
a considerable part of the army is not
loyal.
The Last Resort.
The question of the army's loyalty
can hardly be tested until it becomes
necessary to establish a dictatorship.
This will probably be the last resort
of the car and if it fails Nicholas will
PROBABLY be q monarch without a king
dom if, indeed, his life is not forfeited.
And the revolution has hardly com
menced. There have been revolution
airy outbreaks in nearly every torn and
hamlet in the country but they do not
really represent the revolution. In
many instances they have been in
cited by the bureaucrats with the in
sane idea OF forcing the car to -eia-
state the autoeracy which is now i'm
possible. The real revolution that is
to be dreaded is not this affair of street
brawls, mutinies Of the garrisons, clash
es between revolutionary hotheads ard
the troops ana shouting of defiance TO
the car ana the government. The real
revolution is something far deeper,
quieter more powerful, full of silent
threatening. It is the force that organ
lied the. great railway strike that vrang
from the car his grant Of a constitution
which has not been put in operation. It
is the power that has tied up the teIe-
graph lines and put the. postal sarvsce
out Of commission for ten days. 1t Is
the influence that has aroused all Rus
STA to think, to compare the conditions
Of its miserable subjects of the car
with that Of the people OF every other
civilized nation
Revolution Is Resting.
Just at present this dreaded revoIu-