Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05

II
| Trepo1 and that they would never
Refuted. turn against their sover-
eign' has received singu-
lar denial In the mntfnies at Syeaborg.
| Slratudden. Ssvastopol and Cronstadt, and
the threatened revolt Of the Baltic and
Black Sea feets.
| The chaos in Russian administration
may be imagined when this disaffection,
| II Is explained, IL not due to any affection
for. or affiliation with, the reyoiufionists
but simply according to the dispatches)
because of the ill-treatment and death OF
. soldier belonging to the 200 sappers
and miners who mutinied because OF
money due and unpaid. which means, In
tbs absence OF more precise information,
! that the money which should have been
paid the soldiers had been appropriated
by the tcffnornsk
| The Rech. In an editorial on the list in
stant said: before the government could
even induce few men enjoying a meas
ure OF public confidence to countersign
tts promises OF liberal reforms the first
blow has fallen, not delivered by the
PEASANTS or workmsn. but by the army,
whose loyalty the premier was vaunting."
The Rech made further invfdieus and In
conAscated at the same time as the RAJ
vitotvade and Ekstrana, the latter being
under the direction OF Prof. Kovaieysky-
For the Information Of those in America
l.
sympathy with the socialist who would
replace government In Russia 1t may be
well to reproduce the following dispatch
from Yekaterinoslav. July 81: For the
| nrst time distinct anti-foreign senti-
| ment is manifested among the Russian
wo-kmen here. The recent attacks on the
three foreign managers of works were
followed by an attempt yesterday Of 5000
Russians employed at the Belgian glass
works at Tronstantfnovka to expel so
foreigners, chiefly foremen and engineers.
Thes were only prevented from SO doing
by detachment OF dragons. 1t is fear
ed that the attempt will be renewed.
Nany OF the Foreigners are afraid to go
| to their work"
1t Is for such freemen these Maxim
Gosky has mission to collect funds In
America.
The Workmen's Union, the socialists and
| reyo,utionists ISSUED a proclamation to the
peasants the 31st ulto.
Appeal to The grand work, it said
| Peasants which the douma should
have accomplished had been
prevented by the diabolical work OF the
grand dukes, rich seignors and financiers
who surround the car. The government
has declared war against the nation. and be-
Sdes. has betrayed the country in demand
Ing the aid Of German and Austrian troops.
and consequently the people should drive
Il OUT the authorities ana replace tn6m Dy
men of its choice, elected by universal suf-
| TRACE. confiscate the funds and capital The
! troops should obey those elected by the
people. the people to strike for liberty and
take By force the land the government has
refused. The proclamation terminates:
Down with the government of the car!
Long life and liberty to the dear Russian
| people!''
Small wonder that agrarian troubles have
Increased under such incendiary appeals
and that vast estates and properties are
being given over to the flames.
The assassination of nj. Herzenstein, a
distinguished member of the dounaa, is
widely ascribed to policy recently adopted
! by the Counter Terrorist League COM
posed OF the BLACK Hundreds" organized
TO execute vengeance upon the revolution
| lists: that is for the life of each victim OF
| the Terrorists. a life from the ranks of the
latter should be exacted. M. Herzenstein, 1t
Is said. was selected for sacrifice IN retaiia.
| ton for the assassination of Gen. koslon
| on the 14th ulto. The terrorfsts are thus
given to understand that the devil may be
| fought with fire.
whose authority has been heretofore cited.
| in a series of recent letters to the Figaro,
in which he refers to Russian classes, that
the world may understand things which are
obscure even to the Russians. says:
I'm the first place. the clergy. Iheoretic-
| ally the clergy Is taken to be superior to
| the general public. In reality it is not so.
and this is not the least of the pecularities
| of Russian society. In Russia, where the
great majority practice religious duty. the
| clergy have no influence and inspire no re-
Spect.
1.-The next category in the social scale is
| the merchant In the first guild the in
| scribed may head the wholesale merchants,
| in the second retail only The next IS the
artisan in which one Is inscribed as corps
de meter" Those who are not inscribed
| in either Of these are cassed as bourgeois
or miestchanie.
"The Russian nobility is but little known
| to the occidental Russian nobility has
nothing in common with the
Russian nobility in France and Spain,
inability the result of the German
conquest. Russia has never
| been conquered by the Germans. Russian
nobility does not take Its name from the
soil as that of France formerly. There is
no chateau in Russia, and for this reason
the de" which characterizes occidental no.
bility does not exist in Russia.
1.-The only recognized titles in Russia are
! kniaz (prince) and graf count. The title
of grand duke, borne by the relatives of
the czar, is in reality grand prince.
Russian nobility dates from Peter the
Great. who based 1t upon service to the
state. All functionaries became gentlemen
without regard to origin even IL foreign
nationality was preserved. High offices
and eminent services constituted hered-
itary nobility. but which descendants lost
If they ceased yte-ser the state down to
Peter lid.
1.-The noble is taxed more heavily than
peasant or bourgeois and his privileges
are largely offset by increased responsible
ity Russian nobility indeed Is but little
distinguished from the nation except for
its superior instruction Formerly 1t was
a rich and military class. Today ii is very
literary and with decided occidental ideas.
Doubly ruined by the rapid wealth acquired
by the merchant class and by the enamel
patton of the peasants. 1t has now lost ali
esprit de corps. Besides, 1t has become lib
eral and oftentimes revolutionary. and in
the douma there was the spectacle of
prince seated on the extreme left and hold
ing extreme socialist sentiments.
RUSSIAN nobility is very much compro-
missed politically and socially. The czars
have attempted In vain to elevate II. but
have failed. 1t is an elegant aristocracy.
but without force: IL Is in extremis. 1t will
disappear without protestation in the tenn
pest which Is sweeping away old institu-
lions In Russia Equality already exists
In Russia in fact Very soon, without
doubt 1t win exist IN law
A deputy in the last hours of the douma
concluded his speech on the agrarian ques-