Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-24
CRISIS IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

. limited part Of the population. which had
emigrated. Besides these properties were
acquired by rich peasants or the small
bourreoisie well provided with capital and
sire for progress. Between that situation In
France at the end OF the eighteenth century
ana proposed appropriation Of the large
proprietor In Russia there = no similarity.
the hands Of m ignorant peasantry would
mean simply financial ruin for government.
and this idea doubtless has finally found
todgment In the brain OF President Mour-
onna6. who. ~ has been remarked. has
submitted the agrarfan question to . com
mittee whose report promises TO be tardy
and In any event little satisfactory to the
raised to the highest point by the proposed
appropriation.
Prior to the war in the far east the Rus
sian government had already taken up the
aErarfAn question and special commission
headed by n. Wftte. then minister of
finance studied the situation of agricul-
ture and the cause of the evils that afflicted
Il. Tho commission favored as a solution
the abolition OF the community or MIR of
the village.
In tho year 1902 the government publish
ed instructive resume OF the long In
Quiry made by the commission; all the evils
OF the Mir were recited: the instability of
laborers on the lots, their dispersion, the
absence OF views as to the future. the I'm
possibility of amelioration, the lack of
credit and means for the exploitation of
poor and inferior farmers, the difficulty ex-
perienced by good farmers 70 develop their
expioftations; briefly, all the Ills resulting
from limited tenure Of the occupied lands
were all brought to light
II Is necessary to liberate Russian lands
take them out of their attachments. render
them changeable: capital and the means
OF exploitation to be constituted. Marshy
grounds so numerous in Russia to be drain
ed and rendered sanitary; the agronomic
methods OF occidental Europe to be prao-
ticed The agricultural production may
thus DO doubled and quadrupled in time
This will be progress.
1t viii be fruitless to divide the lands
between the peasants In small lots. In ten
years the same difficulties will exist. Agri-
culture will be little productive. the rural
population still poor and miserable
The Revue Bleue of June published an
article from the pen of M. Frederic Loliee
entitled. la Presse Russo
Inc RUSSIAN ct tou Role Actuer' (The
Press. Russian Press and It's Role
in the Present Crisis). He
says: I'm 1900. according to NJ Prechkor.
there were not more than eighty-nine jour
nails In all immense Russia-one journal to
d province. II each department had in fact
a journal, but from that aggregate there
must be deducted twenty journals belong
ing to St Petersburg and Moscow. Forty
two departments possessed no journal at
al; twenty-six departments possessed one
each; eleven departments two each: three
possessed three each; one indeed had four
and another had seven. Eighty-nihe daily
Journals for a population of $50, COO 900
souls!
:Indeed until the manifesto of the 18th of
october. 1905. the fundamental status of
the press in Russia was unchanged At
St Petersburg 1t was always the Novosti
ana the Novoie Vremia which reflected so
much as was permitted by the ministry of
Plehve the two currents Of public opinion.
The Vremia was the grand daily. the most
read and the richest and most influential
OF the st. Petersburg journals. At Moscow
the Rossata Viedomosti. which affected re-
form IDEAS the Moskovskia Viedomosti i'm
bued with the governmental ideas of Pof-
1edonotsev. At Odessa the Listov and the
Novosti At Knew, NijuI Novgorod the
Rostov-Surle- Sakator, attacked gov
eminent, as practiced in Russia under cover
Of yelled language. No nation has been
subjected to such laws of prohibition as
Russia, and yet there is not one which may
have manifested moro ardent aspirations
than hers for complete freedom: continued
and profound uprisngs occupy her; revolu-
ton is whirlpool which fascinates her.
The 18th Of October the car spoke A
new era was proclaimed for the Russian
mindI souls until then repressed were now
to breathe feely,- =, What a, metamor-
phosis! Everything was published; there
participated openly and things were said
outright +" The ministry Of Witte ap-
piled itself to re-establsh order against the
revolutionary effervescence which nearly
shook to pieces the throne of the Roman
offs. The Vetcherny Yolo made the follow
ing statement:
% The state of siege was established in
sixty-two localities, extraordinary surveil-
lance in twenty-three. During this period
of one month from the 25th of December.
1905. to the 25th Of January, 1909, seventy
eight journals were suspended in seventeen
cities, hfty-eight editors were arrested OF
whom forty-six were liberated with bail
amounting to $4,000 francs. There was
time when it was said that the Russian
government was an autocracy tempered by
the nihilist assassinatons. Now 1t may be
said that 1t Is an anarchy tempered by the
state of siege.
However harshly the government of Rus
| STA may be criticised the world may surely
find no fault that, although
Anarchist the cradle and rendezvous of
Journals anarchists. 1t does not permit
the establishment of public
press for the propaganda of anarchy.
The Gaulois recently compiled list OF
anarchist papers throughout the world, In
GLIDING those In America The London
Times of the 9th instant in reproducing the
note of the Gaulois. says:
'NIno anarchist press winch ten years
ago scarcely existed, has today a certain
importance. In Paris there are five weekly
anarchist papers-the Libertaire, the Temps
Nouveaux, whose circulation exceeds 5000;
the Anarchie. the Tribune, the Russo. The
number of anarchist papers in all countries.
exceeds $50. which is remarkable, consider
ing that the party numbers 10000 The
anarchist publications In Spain are numer-
GUS. At Madrid the Germinal, the Huelga
Generate, the Luz de Obrero. the Humane
dad Libre. crhe editors of these are in
custody.) The Communists is secretly cir
culated; the Persequido, for circulation
among soldiers, has successfully evaded the
police. In Belgium Lhomme Libre; in Eng
land the Anarchy, the Freedom. the Com
monweal and Die Antonomie; In Italy the
Anarchista Of Venice Anarchia of Rome
Demolitore of Turin. the Grido Telia Foia
(the Cry Of the Crowd. Cagliar Sardinia,
le Noyatore, Rome; Marcia, Fano, Ger
ninal. Catamsetta, Sicily; IN Germany the
Revolutonar; in Austria, the Rathenische
ct Prace, Prague; In Holland. the De Wa
pens Neder; in Denmark, the n. Y. It'd;
in Norway, the Anarkisten and the Til