Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-01-25
THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

The press dispatches sent out from st.
nothing but news of riots in all quarters,
clashes between troops and revolution
lists, narrowing accounts Of death and
suffering, and general indication of an
uprising of an oppressed people against
an oppressive, cruel and merciless gov
ernment that has too long turned deaf
ear to the loud appeals of it's subjects
for a tightening of their burdens and the
granting of needed reforms.
Thousands of tho oppressed laboring
classes asked an audience with tho en-
pcror last Sunday at 2 o'clock, assuring
him of personal safety and respectful
treatment at their hands, and giving
every assurance that their desire was
but to plead with him as the head of the
government for certain reforms. But
this conference was denied them, and
instead the palace was guarded by extra
troops, instructed tn give no quarter, but
to suppress the mob at any cost. Within
two hours from tho time the crowds
gathered in the streets outside the pal
with hundreds of bodies, shot from the
ranks of tho increasing mob, and during
the entire day the angered revolution
lists surged through tho streets, men,
women and children being shot down by
the armed forces of the government.
1t seems to us poor show of the
warning power of a once great monarchy.
When a government meets the cries of
its subjects for mercy and reform-for
justice in place of an all brit unbearable
serfdom-with n fiat rebuff and an
unholy massacre, it is but the sign of
fear and the appearance of a decay that
is eating into the very heart and life Of
the opprcssor.
Poor old Russa We can but pity her
with pity akin to that which goes out
to the condemned criminal who pays the
penalty of his crime with his life. There
is but that shrinking away from the
scene of the death struggle--pity for the
misguided, erring one-but no sympa-
thy. To us it seems that Russia is sink
ing, step by step, and with increasing
speed, into that abyss of oblivion into
which, one after another the oppressive
monarchical governments have gone, to
be remembered only through the pages
of history, and standing out boldly
there as silent yet powerful warnings
to those governments which still live.
Russia has failed to heed the W; bing
given through the fal! or disgrace
other powers; she has been following in
their steps, and to-day she is entering
the fields, now burdcucd with their
fruits and "white unto the harvest" to
reap. What? Disgracc-humiliatio
death? Certainly disgrace and humilia-
ton, for she has already garnorod an
abundance of these, and possibly death
as a government so far as the present
government is concerned.
But there must be Russia And
when the present struggle is over and
the old Russia is divested of her arbi-
trary power, the new Russia will appear,
all the brighter and grander as a con
servative Republic 10y contrast with the
black shadows that will still hover over
the territory once harassed by an un-
feeling ruler and an asscmblage of
advisers, bloated by power and rride.
Hail the new Russia that to be! |
And speed the exit of the ole rom of !
the stage where has been re-cna led the |
folly of former tyrants