The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-17

Past and Future in Russia.
Having once tasted power, it is
probable that the Russian parliament
will not easily let go. 1t has been
so more or less with every such body
in history In the French case a
weak king went to the guillotine.
There is in Russia deeper ignor-
ance among the peasants than there
was in France and they feel de-
vout devotion to the car as the head
of the church as well as royal ruler
feeling the French did not have
for Louis XVI. There is also, as
there was not in France, secret
revolutionary propaganda, which has
been working on the peasant mind
from about the time of the emanci-
patton of the serfs. That act gave
birth to peasant hunger for land
They were given some at that time,
but they have made no accumulations
since, except of descendants, and
their portions are now too small
The revolutionists long ago con-
WINGED them that the intrigues and
frauds of the bureaucrats, the mobiles,
the rich, prevented the peasantry
from getting all that the car intend
ed they should have. For many years
they have been told that the car
wishes to get close to his people
meaning the peasants-anG govern
with them, but his will has been de-
feated by the mobiles and governing
classes, who have intercepted the
lands intended for distribution. stolen
them for themselves, in fact, and
have deceived him in thousand other
ways.
A year or two ago, they covered
the empire with cloud of emissaries,
teaching that the car had issued pos
tive orders that early all the crown
lands, the lands of the church and
those of the mobiles and other rich,
should be given to his faithful peas
ants" but that these wicked holders
had rebellcd against lis orders by
concealing documents containing
them and IN other ways.
In remote districts these fomenters
of hatred have travelled in the COR
geous uniforms of pretended imperial
generals, carrying pretended imper-
ial charter in a gilt frame-really a
revolutionary fraud-commanding his
peasants to carry out his, the cars,
wishes by taking the lands and other
property from the mobiles who had
intercepted them.
This has bred ferocious hatred of
the rich and noble and in many once
rich and populous districts every
gentleman house and farm estate.
books, pictures, furniture, crops.
horses and cattle have been destroy
ed. The rioters could not risk hav-
ing anything in their possession and
so destroyed everything, and whenev
err questioned about it maintained
with stupid simplicity that they did
it all in obedience to the cars pos
tive commands.
Recently they have been quiet. hay
ing absorbed vague notion of be-
ing somehow represented in the new
douma. They have been convinced
that the mobiles would not permit the
douma to meet if they could help it
In that case or in case the douma
can not or will not carry out the
cars commands then they will take
| control themselves, which means a
reign of terror without even the
semblance of court or the ghost oil
formality.
The propaganda hopes to include
enough of the army to cripple the
military arm of the car and expects
when the peasants find that the dou
ma will not give them what they
want, as of course it can not, then
douma and car alike will be branded
as recreant an dfalse and with the
rich and noble go down in the chaos
that will be the consequence
Out of this "scum that rises when
the nation boils" the revolutionary
propaganda expects to evolve the CO.
| operative commonwealth of which
many dream. That is to say, the sin.
cere fanatics SO expect, and will try
for it until struck down by the inevi
table hand of reorganized power al
home. The intriguers who have
brought on the situation expect to
amass enough plumber each for him
self to live in luxury the rest of Their
days under the protecting hani o
some other nation and very likely to
pose as poor, unfortunate martyrs t.
"the cause of liberty"
1t is not an encouraging prospect
but known facts make it look only toe
probable.-Chicago Chronicle.