Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-16
RUSSIAN FINANCES ToTTERING.
German Syndicate May Take Hold Of
Country's Affairs.

SouutIy AAdIo
Special Cabegram to The Star.
ST. PETERSBURG, September 15-For-
egn financiers, apprehending either an im-
minent crash or a radical change of ffnan.
cial policy, all Russian securities have
fallen. By the end of October the govern-
ment must largely increase its paper crcu-
lation with a probable decrease of the gold
reserve, whereby the price of the rouble
and the entire financial system may be en-
dangered. rumor has been circulated to
the effect that a German syndicate will
manage the government finances. In mon
archist circles it is firmly believed that
the future duma will withhold its sanction
to the budget, compelling the crown to
choose between revolutionary democracy
and national bankruptcy. The monarch-
lists, therefore in the cabinet and outside,
are DESTROYS of dscounting that dilemma
while there is still hope of winning over
the population, but M. Stolypin prefers to
rely on the loyalty of the population, on
the heroism of the employees and on the
sympathy of foreign nations. NJ. Stolypin
is bureaucrat whose knowledge of the
population is acquired from pigeon-hole
reports. In reality a large percentage of
the bureaucrats are in favor of the revo-
luton.
Police Quitting. I
In Hcny districts the police are quitting
the service because the government pro-
tects them only with words, while the
anarchists kill them with bullets. Some
governors and vice governors are also
frightened and are endeavoring to get re-
moved from the posts of danger. On the
other hand, secret partisans of the revolu-
ton are slowly supplanting the servants or
the car, ready to cooperate with the IN
surgents when the tocsin sounds. There
are such secret allies of the revolution
among the cars paid and trusted ser
wants upon whose heroic loyalty the pre-
mier relies.
Bomb-throwing has become sport less
dangerous to the throwers than American
base ball. Few are captured and most OF
them escape again. On Friday, in the Vll-
lage of Hughesoffka, founded by an Eng
lishman named Hughes, wedding festivities
were interrupted by an explosion. While
dancing was going on three youths entered
and, crying Let US play" one flung
bomb, which removed part Of the ceiling.
shattered the windows and grievously
wounded the bride. her mother, brothers.
uncle, two sisters. eleven guests and q
baby. The bomb-thrower himself was
wounded and was arrested, but escaped
during the night.
The Polish socialist party officially
nounces that the outrage on M. Stolypin
was organized and executed by the section
of the social revolutionists known as maxi.
malists because they favor the employ
ment of the maximum number OF forms or
violence in the struggle against the mon
archy The police announce that one or
the assassins killed in NJ. Stolypin's house
was Jew.
The newspapers daily proclaim the USE
lessness of law courts, prisons, exile jailers,
conveys and other methods relied upon by
the premier. Many criminals escape two,
three or four times, butcherlns more VIC
tins during the interval Last saturday,
at Lodz assiZes, a prisoner named NoVach
was indicted a second time for participating
in armed attacks. He rose in court dashed
to the window, leaped from the second
story fell rose, tottered and escaped while
court and counsel looked on open mouthed
at each other At the station of Lipiga on
the same day two of the Sveanorg nlu-
tineers who were being conveyed by the
police in a train, Unexpectedly jumped out
of the carriage while the train was in mo-
ton, disappearing for good. In the prlnci,
pal street of st. Petersburg pol1tlcal prs
oner who was being taken to prison in
broad daylight, sprang from an open car
rage and vanished. From the khanoVnl-
koff prison. in Moscow. student na,nsa
prison are so numerous that the minister
of justice has delegated an offlcia} TO in-
ouire into the reason why imprisonment mas
become the laughing STOCK Oh the ahai eii@
lists.
Revolutionists Are Masters.
Reyolutionists are virtually masters OK
the Baltic provinces and they CONSTITUTES
the real government, Furnishing ferociousiy
whoever, refuses to cooperate with them.
Last Friday they burned down the house
and belongings of a wealthy peasant VINO
favored Stolypin's program They also
killed his wife and fifteen-year-old son.
Their secret tribunals visit the towns ana
villages administering lynch law. carrying
cat-o-nine tails with little metal balls at the
ends for effective fiogging. In Garvoiinsky
the reyolutionists arrested a man named
Ramp and tortured his wife, burning the
soIes of her feet with candles. At the VIII
lage of Bonsky they tortured the cashier
of the saw mills abstractfng money be-
longing to the firm The firm of Motta was :
attacked on Friday and a sum of 1f.00O
rubles was taken. The railway station OF
Tula was assailed and 1000 rubes was
distracted. The collector of the money OF
the government spirit shops was waylaid,
beaten, and relieved of 10000 rubles.
Peaceful inhabitants in the Baltic and Cau-
casian towns complain that the revolution
lists often forget bombs In public vehicles.
In Riga two were found in cab this week.