The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-29
REVOLUTION RUNS
RIFE IN RUSSIA
ACCORDING TO WORKS JUST PUB
LisHEo BY STUDENT BUT
THE SPIRIT is NOT IN EVIL
DENcE.

Moscow. Aug. Waldemar Bogo-
ras, known in New York as once hav-
ing been on the stan of the Natural
History museum, has published in
English several works ON scientific
matters, and contributes. under the
psendonym of Tan" to the more lib
eral press of Russia.
BY means of this medium he has
produced from ais St. Petersburg study
not a few additions to rich forbidden
| literature which circulates under the
guise of cons gnments of eggs. toys,
or bicycles in every part of the Cars
realm:
The authors bilingual visiting card
describes him as member of the
North Pacific expedition" He is by
descent a Little Russian" his family
hailing from the Don region. Rus
sian, therefore, is not his native
tongue, though this does nor prevent
him from stirring his audience deep
ly when he takes the platform. as at
the Literary club Zemstvo banquet. to
recount in queer accents-so 1t Is said
Ibis experiences anG observations in
all parts of the country and his pas
s.onately expressed deductions from
| them.
II is, of course. almost impossible to
| meet an authentic "reyolutionist, in
the current Russian sense of the word
and 10 know him for what he is. You
cannot. even in the Russian of today
put the question pont blank 1t would
be insulting. because it would often
compel lie it would be Intellectual for
the same reason.
Nor is there any use taking the 9th
er way round-in hoping thar your
man, if only a moderate liberal, will
express disapproval of revolutionary
methods.
Ask a liberal leader what he thinks
of bombs and bombists-of the policy
Iof assassination. He will shrug his
/ shoulders; ii is no affair Of his. He
has no bombs in his cupboard, bu
/ he will not condemn.
Fears for the Future.
Few foreigners, therefore. know
/ what Waldemar Bogoras thinks Of tht
right of revolution. Certain 1t is, how
ever, that he is more outspoken in hi
dread of the near future than most o
those Of the constitutional party.
This dread, be it noted, is not in
consistent with the adoption of revolt
tionary methods. Many very mil
hammered and moderate constitution
4 aHsts frankly recognize thar their owl
agitat on may have a terrible answe
from the pecple-a terrible issue Il
blood and havoc Yet they persist.
A speaker at the zemstvo banquet
who bade his hearers prepare to Civ
their lives for liberty, asserted pr
vataly, before the cheering died down
tnat the general Russian rising whicl
may well come will be fearful beyon
anything the world has known.
Russ Is not land of compromise
When the "Nietchevo" stage is passe
III, Russian strikes, not stopping TO
any horror he foresees. The man VIII
makes up his mind that the way t
liberty is through revolution will no
pause because revolution threatens t,
get out of hand and become universe
chaos.
A panRussian chaos is what Bogc
ras thinks is coming. For one reasoi
or another he has travelled from en-,
to end Of the country from Siberia t,
the Caucasus, from Poland to Turltes
tan.
Everywhere ! find an extraordinar
change" he says. THE land is avail
ening. The old, placid acceptance ha
quite gone out from the mass of tn
people. Here and there they rise
formidably. They are quelled for tn
moment, perhaps, but they stir agai
soon, take counsel together again. d
some new terrible thing. They wi
not be put doM
Il draw you concentric circles. Eacl
circle represents a class touched witt
the idea of discomfort, disconten
fCnucIudnd IN fnurih Dapp