The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-20
REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA
Finnish Woman's Views on tho
Prospect of One.
BELIEVES IT Is INEVTTABLR

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People Are Prepared TO sacriAcs
Themselves When the Time Comes.
The Gear Will BE Killed, She Says,
but There VIII Not he q Republic.
Russia to Have q Constitution ana
an Emperor.
A Finnish lady who Is studying her
profession in London and who recently
returned from three months visit to
her native land and to Russia related
as follows her experiences to a member
Of the staff of the London News:
1.-THE people Of Finland and Russia
are now acting together, whereas their
relations before were characterized BY
mistrust and misunderstanding. They
are now united in working for the rev.
olution and freedom. A revolution 10
now inevitable. had not been to
Finland for two years and the change
was not to be mistaken. When people
talk together by day and when they as
semble together before the fire at night
there is only one SUBJECTIVE coming
revolution. God knows how my people,
and l think also the people Of Russia,
have hoped and hoped that constitu-
ton would be granted. But that Sum
day Dan. 22) settled the matter All
the people there now know that revo-
luton must come"
And the women-do they realize
what revolution will meanY
Yes, they know there will be terri
BILE bloodshed, but they are prepared
that the price shall be paid. l found
all my neighbOrs reading books about
the French revolution. There is an
other thing about which there are no
differences Of OpiniOn-it will be pal
ace revolution"
What, is it supposed, will happen to
the czar?"
He will be killed. But there will
not be republic. With so many mil
lions uneducated, a republic is impos-
sible."
How, is it supposed, will the new
Russia be governed?
1T will have constitution and there
will be an emperor"
"IIas a new emperor been chosen by
public opinion:"
mo. Every one is asking every one
else, Who will be EMPEROR 1t is con-
sidered that Grand Duke Constantine
or Grand Duke Nikoli may be chosen.
Both Of them are awfully nice"
Must the new emperor be of exalted
rank, then, in public opinion?"
Eyes. The emperor will be grand
duke-unless, Of course, Napoleon
steps forward and wins the right to
the crown by leading the people to
their freedom"
But did not gather from you that
the people are waiting for leader"
"They are not They are secretly
arming and winning over the police
and the soldiers. Great progress has
already been made. For instance, the
police of Moscow are already with the
people, but the soldiers have not been
won over yet"
do not any of your people point out
that instead Of repeating the Servian
horror they might quietly depose and
depOrt the car and his family?"
ut will be much safer to kill them"
But cannot your people see that
murder is still murder, even though the
victim be tyrannical ruler and him
self slayer of his subjects?"
Murder is not illegal in my coun-
try, for my poor country has no laws.
Those that we had have been taken
from us, and those that have been
thrust upon us we refuse to accept. l
admit that blOodshed Is wrong and
hateful, but it is necessary in this case.
There was a time when the thought of
killing filled me with horror, but now
| the idea has become familiar to my
mind. 1t is familiar throughout Rus
STA. Six thousand brave unarmed peO-
pie in st. Petersburg stood up to be
| killed: thousands of others will as
calmly go to their deaths. Gentle nur-
tured women talk eagerly Of the day
when the car and his family will be
killed, and with respect to all the re-
cent assassinations l can laugh lightly
and say, "A good job done! 1t all
sounds very horrible, but that Is the
condition to which we have been
brought"
"Have you been to st. Petersburg
since Red Sunday"
Eyes; arrived there on the follow
ing day to stay with my uncle, who is
a retired army man and in a good posi-
| ton. He said I was not to go out. l
went, and saw the streets filled with
crowds-not poor, ragged crowds, but
we'll to do people-and shall never
forget how serious and determined
they. all looked. Some houses that 1
saw had blood splashed on the outer
wall, and T saw lot Of bullet holes IN
the arsenal. l went into one shop to
buy some chocolates, and l asked the
girl If she saw any of the killing. She
told me she was looking out of the win
dow, and she saw the soldiers on horse
back swinging. round their sabers and
slashing at the people. She saw six
men fall, hacked, bleeding, and then
she turned away. She could not bear,
she said, to see any more, and she had