The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-06-15
SECRET PRESS IN
AUTOGRATIC RUSSIA
Daring Work Of Men and
Women Who Strive for
Freedom Of Speech.
JEW STARTED THE FIRST
1t Was in 1877 That the First Free.
Printing Office Worthy of the
Name Was Started in the
Heart of Spydom.

London, May 30.--Of all enterprises
dynamite, perhaps, eXcepted) a clan
destine press in Russia is most danger
ous.
1t is now eight md twenty years
since a Jewish conspirator, Aaron Zun-
delevic BY name. a native Of wilma in
~Lithuania, am forward and assured
the organization to which he belonged
that If they would find the means he
would find the press, and would, more
over, set it up in st. Petersburg. A
sum or money was provided, and from
abroad Aaron Struggled into ST. Pet
ers all the necessary plant. Then he
set to work to learn the compositor's
art Gust as, in the first days Of the
Propaganda, young mobiles taught
themselves a trade in order to go down
among the people") and in 1877 the
hrst free printing office worthy Of
the name was established in the heart
and center of spydom.
During four years Zundelevic ran his
press undeT the nose, as it We're, Of
the Third Section, and was only then
detected by a mere misclance. From,
that date, however, the Russian secret
press has never been in a condition
of absolute allegiance. AS often as it's
work has been interrupted in one place
1T has been instantly resumed in an
othe". Father Gapon indicates the
spirit in which 1t is pursued: I'VE shall
continue" he said the other day at
deneva, TO launch manifestos, and
work s~teadfastly, but secretly, toward
our ldeal-the overthrow Of suppress
sion and the bureaucracy and the es-
adjustment of popular government.
we VIII, we must, win in the end"
ms clandestine press is clandestine
N everything. 1t is the most secretly
conducted press in the world. There is
30 editorial office, with an editor in a.
inner chamber. receiving the
visits of his contributors, discussing the
artlcles for the next issue. A mystery
and ~lnTiolate secrecy govern the whole
WORKING OF the affair. The editor him
sell nay or may not, know the
persons who are responsible for the me-
production of the paper: he
seldom, If ever, visits the place at
which it is produced. A confidential
comes to a given spot on u
gwen day to receive manuscript from,
the editors hand; he comes again to
deliver the proofs, and the rendezvous
never twice the same. The con-
are known probably to none
except the editor. In a word, precau-
the most minute and ~extraordi-
lary, must be observed if the secret
press is successfully to battle the ever
astlng efforts of the police to un-
it.
At Office Only Once.
etepnlak tells US that during the time
was one or the editors Of Land and
Liberty he was taken once. and once
~ to the printing office. An import
llt piece or news had to be inserted in
ne nunper that was about to be is
,ued, and he made his way to the Of
ice IN one of the central streets of the
ity. Inc chief of police had declared
nat ms ONCE could not possibly be in
u. petersburg, because otherwise he
infallibly have discovered If
'tepniak found the people of the a.
Ice, and the women who helped them
no managed for them, living in almost
solut dIrance.
Inc workers of the secret press are
n fact, prisoners, and, in addition to
heir all but total loss of liberty. thew
ndure the anxieties of people who are
arriving on an Illegal business in the
most OF a ceaseless vigilant police.
LEO Tlkhomirov, the author of Conn
p~lrateurs of Policiers,'' has drawn a
iVld picture of the hidden life of one
I these strange undergrounds. It is
ne once or the paper with which Step
'lak himself was associated. "Narod-
ala Volia.'-"Land and Liberty
In hVe rooms including a little kitch-
n, tour c~onspirators were installed.
men and two women. Maria Kri-
VINO passed as mistress Of the
.ouse, a woman Of about As, had de-
'oted her life to the cause she had
cen transported to Siberia and es-
aped. The other woman of the party
under 20, fair and delicate; name
known OF the two men, one was
'asil Buch, of Boukn, 1.-THE son of a
eneral n the nephew of a senator"
ne second was a figure as enigmatic
8 the younger woman; he was known
My as "Ptiza,'' "L'Osieau" and "The
cknam which he owed to
IS voice. The mel were entered as
1me. Kriloff's dodgers, the delicate in
onnue was the nominal maid Of the
iOusehOld.
outwitted the Police.
Ihese four brought out the Narod-
ala VOLTA, which the head Of the DO
&c declared could not be produced in
t. Petersburg. The plant Of he paper
principally of a few cases Of
ype, a small n large cylinder. a lar
/ two OF printers ink, and a few
rushes and sponges. 1t was a modest
utft. but remember how dark it must
e kept. The dvornik had to be hood |
linked from day to day.
Maria Krilon went upon the bold
ian or sending for him at any and
very hour, and CONDUCTING hin,
all the five rooms, under the
retense or hunting for a troublesome
at. They learned in this way how ia
Of the plant at from Ave to ten
1inutes' notice. At night, behind .
ouble curtain of canvas, sealed across
window. the type was set. In the
ranging monotony of this existence,
ne workers. tasted only one excitement
ut that was a daily and an hourly n
ne Likelihood of discovery and arrest
g eyer-present al this danger that
passed into a joke, and the ladies'
sed to speculate at their meager even.
lg meal whether they would he hanpad
transported to Siberia.
The expected happened at last at the
nice OF the Narodnaia. VOLTA. one
lsnt the police came down on IT. VIVA
ney had reckoned on as an easv
azure transformed Itself into q Pour
ours Siege and battle. Maria KrIIoff
rev on the gendarmes with her re-
and to a challenge or this sort
ne response IL always prompt and
lerciess IN st. Petersburg. The Office
riddled with bullets. but for four
ours the conspirators kept their stand
survivor was THE Bird who blew
rs brains out when the game was lin
10 1as transmitted no name to nos.
arsty; ne Is among the Russian terror
US VINO have elected to be nothing h,,t
memory. But while there ara s,.ch
? choose from the clandestina press IL