River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-07-27

1t is said that Russia had long feared
her own more than an outside enemy.
We quote from Prince Trubetskoy:
'The bureaucracy has been searching
for an enemy, but it did not notice the
foreign enemy, because it's attention
had been diverted into another chan
mel, it was constantly haunted by the
ghost of an internal enemy. /.
1t found treason in every man
who placed the dictates of his
own conscience above the command
of the bureaucracy" Another Rus
sian, Vladimir Simkhovitch, writ
ing in the Worlds Work, says the
cars government tried its best to
down The internal troubles. cit fought
as well as it knew how, but the place
of every man shot to death, foggsd to
DEATH exiled or entombed, was taken
by hundred men ready 20 meet the
same fate" 1t is told that 16 Rus
sian regiments destined for the far
east were retained at home for the pur-
pose of keeping down revolt.
In Russia, industrial centers are the
hotbeds of revolution Not only the
workmen are fired with revolutionary
ideas, but the Russian capitalist, too, is
against the bureaucracy. The article
in the Worlds Work says: "The Rus
sian industrial classes have been bled
mercilessly by the bureaucracy. Prog
ress and development have been con-
stantly interfered with; and great in
dustrial undertakings, doing legitimate
business, have had to pay police pro-
lection and are at the mercy of petty
officials. A well-known captain of in
dustry recently informed the writer
that he once disagreed with Trepoff
when he was chief of police in Mos
cow. The disagreement cost him $780,
O00'
The government tried foolish way
of dealing with the disgruntled work
men. AS they could not exile all the
many thousands to Siberia, the agita-
tors were sent back each to his own
village; wherefore resulted widely
scattered preaching of the rights of
man. The villagers were given oppor
tunity to learn what had been taught
those dwelling in cities. The disaf-
lection grew at an amazing rate.
The industrial strikes have political
character. The petitions ask for eco
nomic reforms, but more prominent is
the demand for political changes. The
bureaucracy, as usual, does not play
fair. When the workmen elected dele
gates to the imperial labor commits
sion, the delegates were discharged
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political position held.
The widespread nature of the rising
in Russia may be better understood if
it is known that practically all the peo-
pie of education outside of the
bureaucracy and those that share in
the spoils. are eager for change. Con-
servatives stand side by side with ter
rorists in the desire for reforms.
The most downtrodden of all the
cars unhappy subjects is the peasant;
over-taxed, education kept from him
as a dangerous tool, victim of official
dom from petty village plunderer up.
he is densely ignorant, sadly underfed,
fast degenerating. His ignorance pre-
cludes use of improved agricultural
methods. Famine devastates with ap-
palling regularity, the peasant is being
ruined.
About So per cent. of Russia's 140,-
Oe0, 900 people are agriculturists. As a
rule they DO not live in isolated farm
houses but in village groups known as
Mrs. The mobiles still have their great
land holdings, the peasants acres are
paltry and mean. The great body OF
Russian peasantry own $4,000 acres OF
land the small body of mobiles 100000.
This prophecy was made act long ago