The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-08
DELUGE OF BLOOD FOR RUSSIA
William T. Stead Predicts Continued
Reign of Horrors.

beIlln, vow. o.-W llllam SCeaQ, IreSn
Copenhagen, stopped over in Berlin yes
terday@ on his way to Paris. For an
vivid impressions Of Fheli pretty we'll
let loose" as he called it, Of the things
that he had seen and heard and Of the
CHASTITY welter into which Russian So
ciety has drifted.
said Mr.. Stead. TThink of Of tthinti the Incl
dents at Reval Some determined per-
sons marched down the street to the
town hall, followed by crowd. There
the mayor and councilmen were sitting,
celebrating on the situation. In came
our determined friends.
".We demand they said, we de;
mand liberty. universal suffrage and
the right to rule ourselves Ia e
: - But, said the mayor, Il cannot
give you these things. I would gladly
| ""Well,' continued the delegates,
| swe are delegates Of revolution and
if we do. not gel; what, we want, we
US $500 roubles.'
"The mayor, and his colleagues
thought it was better to pay the I, 500
roubles than have the city burned, SO
they raised the money, paid the dele.
gates and the latter went away prom,
Using to be very good, and they were
good.
+ ~~.. 80 Mob Gathers. -.1-s>@ =
| 1x-ssBut another: CROWD came and said;
What about us9 2 Pay us, too.'
! HThis the mayor would not do anC
the crowd went away with threats OF
destruction. '-
"The red virgin of the French com
mune was Louise Michel. Well, II
| Ravo1 toin widow no,,ooS do
dressed in scarlet from top to toe, ane
with an ak over her shoulder, placed
herself at the head of the mob. AL
night the revolutionists whetted them
selves up. In the meantime, the COVER
nor had gotten out troops and the mol
gathered. in the morning, facing tn,
soldiers in n the great square; The gov
and said that if after fifteen minute
they did not disperse he would orde
the troops to, fire. Five minutes wen
by and the Widow Linde in re,
climbed lamp post and cried out en-
couragement and exhorted steadfast
> ness for the revolution. The soldier
began to call out to the people, to e
they must do 50, and they did not wan
= Xii II him; kill him. screamed tn
| Widow Linde, pointing to the governor
Volley Kills 1876.
"Several revolver shots were fire
from the crowd, but no one was hi
The governor, who waited to the en-
Of the fifteen minutes, then gave tn
command to fire, and the Widow Lind,
: : shot thrn the body, fell ta the ground q
Baron Euxull, an eyewitness. told M
; like sparrow from twig.'
r "One@ hundred and five dead person
were picked ,up, from the square an
thirty more died in the hospitals. !"
81 The coolest man in Russia is til
emperor. God grant that he may kee
his seat; that the liberals may gathe
: about him,1and that they may resist tn
forces Of dissolution. His authority
are likely to be worse. There may +
= fearful slaughterings. AS an optimis
think a, hundred thousand lives ma
fall. sIf.I were pessimistic, would sa
! two Millions. The situation is som
thing like this: .... ... !.
"The police, gend ndarmes and Cossacl
have been supressing a revolution
the name Of the emperor. Suddenl
they say, the emperor goes over to tt
liberal side, and thinks more of thos
/ who want to vote and who arc doin
: everything in the way Of meeting an
tagitatiOn which the police were taugl
to believe was unlawful than he does
: them.
A Natural Attitude. g..
* Simply human nature the polio
q: q .SOh, very we'll, if. the emperor
new friends act like this, it is no co
Germ Of ours.
y "And when the police are indifferen
the hooligans' break loose, and tor
ism in society also breaks loose. Th
mass Of ignorant conservatives who on
think Of killing-the black hundred,
& Moscow-are conservatives who are Q
Tended by the liberals getting the ,lpp
hand. All thru the Russian empi1
authority, as represented by the polio
L Cossacks and gendarmes, is shaken.
n tear society apart are at work.
r>~ EfThe fuller liberties have be,
4 granted too late. Autocracy lost the j
/ spect of the country during the war al
& during the delay in granting those libe
ties which the emperor decided upon tv
months ago. The situation has been
tho a man who owed you thousa1
\ pounds, and had promised to pay it al
meant to pay it, was dunning you
eight shillings and six pence.
The thing to save Russia is for
liberals to organize special constaL
laries, to uphold order, and allow Til
to work out The new government n
chinery. Things are about as bad
possible, but / hope that order W
emerge, especially If all the a1cot
could be turned into sour milk duri
the next three months. Wherever gre
excesses are committed, they are p
] ceded by liberal consumption Of