Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-21
UPRISING EXPECTED
IN RUSSIA SOON.
Agents in United States TO Buy
Arms for the RevoIu.
tionists.
THEY ARE NOT TERRoRISTS.
Believe In n Resort To the Sword But
Are Not Back OF Assassina-
tons.

New York. March 2l.-Nicholas
Tchaykowsky. associate Of Prince Kur-
opatkin, IN the first beginnings OF the
Russian revolution and for 10 years an
exile In London, Is here In the interests
of the revolution of the present day.
For month refugees OF the pure Rus.
sian stock have been drifting into New
York. Tchaykowsky comes in advance
of 10 Russian "lntelectuals," mainly
deserving ofiicres, who have fed the
country He IL here, he says, to rails.
the money to buy arms for the upris-
Ing which he confidently expects as
soon as spring breaks In Russia.
Tchaykovsky brings underground
news of the revolution from the stand
point of the social revolutlonsts. Tho
social revolutionists believe in "A re-
sort to the sword, but this is not to be-
confused with terrorists. which have
been back OF the assassinations.
Tchaykovsky was one of those youne
intellectuals who choked the roads to
Siberia In the early eighties Sergius
Stepnak and Catherine Breschkoysky
were members OF the same group with
Tchaykovsky. He himself was arrest
ed three times, and spent 10 years OF
his life in Jail. After his last imprison-
ment he retired to England, and he haa
lived since In that group which has
kept up the revolution at distance.
He was born to wealth; and at one
time the Arm with which he was asso.
ciated controlled the mineral output OF
the Caucasus.
1T seems to me that the uprising In
coming sooner than We desire" he ga 10
last night. THE peasants will hardly
be denied. The impression In the Unit
ed States that the peasants are with
the conservatives is wrong. Their con.
dillon Is desperate. They are not or
ganizing for the revolution but they
are ready to break loose on their own
account, They want n new allotment OF
land that Is the chief OF their troubles
now.
Before the serfs were liberated thu
allotment OF land was 10 acres to n
peasant. After the liberation OF the
serfs this fell TO seven acres. THE
agrarian population OF Russia has. ncar--
~ doubled since, but there has been no
increase In the land allotment. That
shortage OF land, together with the in
crease OF taxes. has kept them nearly.
bankrupt, Then came the war. or
disease and wounds there died aboul
100000 peasants. Their families wer,
throNn on the hands or the other peas
ants for support, the government would
DO nothing for them. Then there ar
rived the crippled soldiers from Man.
churla for further burden 10 their
friends and relatives. The country has
been on the verge OF famine.
NOW the peasants declare that in
case there Is not new allotment of
land In the spring they Will plough
over the public lands and the esta toe
OF the mobiles That ploughing over ha.
a meaning In peasant custom. II signi-
iles that they have taken possession OF
the land In their own rights. Then TIN,
government Will Send troops. the peas
ants VIII resist. and the fight win b..
on.
Trouble viii probably occur who,
the elections for the douma reallys,ome.
the only thing ! fear Is that ii vii,
come before we have our forces armed
and ready"