Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-31

Jews. II Is they who have brought about
the defeats of Manchuria, they who cor.
rupt the generals. sacrificed the soldiers
| Ihen: furious to see peace concluded. they
/ arrested the GEAR. Some there are who
amrm that they have killed him. It Is
the car. therefore. whom they would de-
liver or avenge. And the public conscience
| thus warmed up, Is lighted as a torch b,
| the news which reaches them from the
cities. Spontaneously the revolt Is organ
! lied az at Pongatchef. Thus the scenes a,
Odessa, kishinef Iitcmir. liver and Irkouteh
In many places the schooimasters are
| chased away or beaten and thrown down
| by the peasants in their fury. In MANY
villages student risks to be hung OF
drowned"
The facts. indeed. are undeniabIe The
peasant acts according to the lights given
| him. The student is given to
Ae~eAns vs. riotous manifestations The
student. Image of the car Is pub
licly insulted and destroyed
| the flag Is torn and thrown in the dust
! These stories reach the peasants ears, and
are listened to with indignation. No won
| der. then. that when the opportunity ar
| rives he eagerly seizes 1t to manifest his
| loyalty and devotion to car and church
| What may be said when another class OF
"foreigners." the Jew. who speaks Ger
| dent and brags that he has for defender the
hated kaiser!
The Russian correspondent of the Debats
gives US an idea of the chaos which exists
Public business is suspended: the trains
have stopped running for long distances;
the post is not working: the telegraphs are
suppressed. AS for the journals. they are
seized If they appear. Some days only Mos
cow journals are to be found at st. Peters
burg and vice versa. One day they an
nounce the cessation of the strike and the
next the announcement Is made that the
workmen have deserted the factories: an
the next morning the workmen are re-
ported as having resumed work, and this
eternal charivari is endless.
THE most tragic Is the strike of doctors
and pharmacists who refuse to attend the
sick or furnish medicine! There Is the
comic strike Of the students who imagine
that to annoy their professors they must
manifest likewise and thus show their de-
votion to the revolution! There is the
strike of the washerwomen, the footmen
and the porters.
"All this may be classed as burlesque,
but here is something serious: the police
in many cities have struck and refuse to
obey instructions or make arrests; regi-
ments dismiss their officers and non-com-
missioned officers and elect those whom
caprice suggest or who pay for their
drinks.
THE revolutionary committee reigns
supreme. Under such license menacing let
tiers are sent to rural land proprietors or
dering them to deliver their land to
peasants designated under pain OF having
their houses burned. fields devastated,
beasts killed and themselves hung.
TN the cities It is the wholesale ner-
chants who receive such amiable notes as
the following: AS you are too stupid to
understand the spirit of our revolution, we
invite you simply to turn over to the
central committee the sum of -. Fail
ure to comply will necessitate our dyna-
hitting you in your house.
Such drafts. adds the correspondent. are
usually paid promptly. and 1t Is easy to
understand that those who are not obliged
to remain for a supreme reason hasten to
improvised creditors.
Many theaters are open and are well
attended; the Slav gayety. or perhaps pub
lie indifference, is maintained. But there is
nothing particularly singular in this: It
was the same during the great pest at
Florence. at Herculaneum during the hor-
rors of the eruption OF Vesuvius, at Paris
during the reigns OF the pest-and the gull
lotine!
A thousand rumors furnish variety to
bursting bombs or the discharge Of artil-
lery. Among these. An at
" ho tempt at regicide at Tsar
Rumors. skoe-Selo; that a soldier of
the guard had fired upon
the czar; that the grand duke had attempt
ed to kill Nicholas, ETC., etc.
The only foundation for the above rumors
widely circulated in Europe was an alterca-
ton between the car and his uncle, the
Grand Duke Vladimir, because the former
sustained with energy Count de Witte
against whom the grand duke holds the
most violent antipathy. Then, again. there
are rumors: That Poland Is in insurrection
and republic proclaimed at Varsovie;
t,a& lyofc ~ hol he
frontier, followed by the Emperor of Aus
tria; that German squadron was in the
Gulf Of Finland to take away the car and
his family; that Nicholas had promised to
William the Baltic provinces If he would
smash the Russian revolution, and, finally,
not to continue the list, that the ozar was
mad, that his abdication was imminent and
that he would retire to monastery.
the speculative cafe loungers OF the Rus
sian capital and cabled already at much
expense by the many foreign correspond
ents at st. Petersburg. Bubbles light as
air, but not entirely without value because
showing the way the wind blows in Russia.
The Russo-Japanese conflict was con-
eluded several months ago and only now
few battalions are permitted to return
from the far east. The reason Is manifest;
it has been deemed unwise to expose these
men, already discouraged by defeat, to the
demoralizing contact with the anarchistio
influences in Russia: A correspondent In
worn expression of Russian soldier. ask
ed him, among other things: How many
children have your" ''Piatz stuck" GIVE
pieces'), he replied. and the smile on hts
face as he waved his hand to the west
showed how vast and inexpressible was his
desire to he once more with these piatz
stuck.
The Russian soldier never had either con.
fdence or hope in the issue of the war
against the Japanese. for whom he had
sort of affection. This is the same Russian,
II should be remembered. who In 1877 was
placed face to face with the Turk, the I'M
faithful the slayer of Christians. the her.
editary foel The prodigtes of valor achieved
by the Russian soldier at Plevna are I'M
surpassed.
Under the circumstances 1t may be asked
not why he did not fight better in Man
churia, but why he did not fight even
worse. Fortunately, the Russian is a hap
py-go-lucky' sort of devil, and virtuoso
In executing a successful retl eat When we
shall have all the details of the battle of
Mukden, for example. we shall be simply
amazed to see an army of 100000, sur
rounded hopelessly in appearance. save al
most all its artillery and commissariat and
a few weeks thereafter assume the Of
fensive! When this army returns to Russia
it will have a long account to settle with
tho would-be revolutionist. against whose
nrospectiye coming to this country the bus