New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-08

They have neither forgotten nor forgiven inc
fact that II was through the assistance given
NV the Armenans to the Russians that they ndu
lost their independence; that their natiohal helo'
Scbamyl had been taken prisoner, ana theii
o,,,.ein Businesses overrun and captured by
the Muscovite invader. They were only 100
glad of the opportunity Of wreaking tneir ven
geance on those whom they regarded as tneir
betrayers and the result is that neither me
nor property is safe
A new complication arose with the develop
ment of the oil industry in the Caucasus ihe
Tartar and Moslern element furnishes the major
portion of the labor, and with the advent OF
foreign capital and of foreign buyers. traders
and exnert workers became imbued not merely
with the doctrines of the labor unions of west
ern Eurone and America but likewise with
sociaIistic ideas so that the anarchist party In
Russia has found among them most heruie
field Frugal. industrious and with an apso-
lute ignorance of ali the devices OF specua'ioi
and of high finance it was easy TO persuaU0
them that all the fruits of their lapofs were 10
ino r,oponoIized and absorbed by the Arneni-
ons who as the Jews in other parts OF Russia
o .bera most of the shops, banks, houses OF
business and are to a great extent the ioca,
representatives of the foreign capitaI lnVes'e0
In the oil wells of the Russian Caucasus. AhoS
were induced to put forth demands WHO" Inv
o,,-Iovars of labor were neither willing nor
yet able to grant, melted thereto oy iofee
labor leaders and by Russian anarchists. ana
when these demands rejected the next step
was. of course. to resort to deeds Of violence
Tho Caucasus had meanwhile been denuded OF
the troons ordinarily kept there for the purpose
Of maintaining order. To the number OF more
than two hundred thousand men they had peeh
disnatched not to Manchuria, but to the Afgnan
border. for the purpose of making an armed
manifestation there against Englands empite
at that moment of the war with Japan WHEN
the conflict seemed likely to develop into nos
tilities with Great Britain.
THE consequence was that the Russian au-
| thorities were able to dispose of nothing but
Cossacks, who, being of the same creed as the
! laboring masses in and around Baku, not mere
w refrained from interfering with them, but
actually helped them to the extent OF FURNISHING
them with ammunition in their attacks, which
were at first directed almost exclusively against
Armenian life and property. but which after
ward extended to foreign property well. In
deed In the early stages of the trouble the Rus
sian authorities seemed to look upon the riot
ing with rather a friendly eye, since after all
il was in the line of their policy against the
Armenians But when the Governor Of Baku,
who had smingly watched the massacres OF
the Arnenians by the rioters and turned
deaf ear to the appeals for protection from
Armenian women and children, was blown to
pieces by an Armenian bomb, and when the
destruction of property became so extensive that
the entire oil industry has been put out of
business for more than year to come, 5000
out of a total of $500 wells being ruined, the
government became alarmed and is now pour
ing troops once more into the Caucasus for the
or,5or inf tioey FAaf-
ure of the situation being that the troops in
question are in command of General Prince
Louis Bonaparte, only brother of the Bonapart-
ist pretender to the French throne and grandson
of that King Jerome who is also the grand
father of Charles Bonaparte, the present Secre-
tary of the Navy OF the United States. It may
be said in conclusion that according to experts
the value of the property destroyed and the
losses sustained in connection Herewith exceed
the expenses of Russia entailed by her recent
war with Japan. EX-ATTACHE