The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-02
TOCHECK PEASANT OUTBREAK
Russia ARRESTTNG HUNDREDS
LN8 OF AGTTATORS.'
pHny Have 10 Send Loyal Troops From ~.
Pctersburk and Moscow TO Provinces
Already stirred Up-ErrOr Of the Nigh
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4 school Closing Order 10 Now Seen.
Special caDis Despatch to TUa SUN.
81. PETERSBURG, Sept. 1.-THE Govern
mont Ia endeavoring to ~forestall the attempt
At an armed uprising during the last week
In September by making hundreds OF ar
rests Of members OF the social revolutionary
organizations throughout the country who
have been sent from st. Petersburg and
Moscow to call the ~peasantry to arms. The
Baltic and southern provinces are special
danger points, as they are we'll supplied
with rifles and ammunition.
The plan which the Government In at
tempting to defeat involves a peasant re-
bolton on such a scale that ~loyalreRiments
now concentrated at 81. Petersburg and
Moscow must be sent TO the provinces,
Thus there ia the added danger that in their
absence the proletariat Of 81. Petersburg
and Moscow will rise and wreck the GOv
eminent residences and assassinate the
authorities.
Although there nave been many arrests
the Government regards the plan Of the
revolutionaries with the utmost anxiety,
40 IL will be the first great test Of the fight
ing strength Of the peasantry. 1t is known
that many thousand agents Of the revolu-
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false passports. A band yesterday entered
the branch passport ONCE, overpowered
the star, seized 200 stamped passport forms
and escaped.
The most evil Of all the blunders Of which
the bureaucratic oligarchy has been guilty
was the suppression Of all high school
and university eIuCation in Russia two
years ago. It was in a measure prompted
by fear and for a time had the appearance
Of superficial success by preventing class
rooms from becoming centres Of revolu-
tionsry agitation. What IL also did and
what tho rulers of Russia failed to foresee
was to convert tens Of thousands OF the
most daring and ambitious among the youth
OF the country into implacable enemies
Of constituted society. They are en-
Filtered beyond words at the conkcioue-
ness that the opportunity has pas sed them,
never to return, Of becoming educated
members Of the population and capable
of earning a livelihood in some recognized
profession.
These youths were OF hat class in the
low grade schools who with little family
means still hoped TO struggle through
q full educational course. The doors Of
learning were looked against them two
years ago. What many Of them have be-
come In the interval is told in the daily
record Of revolutionary robbery and as
s~assination all over the empire. They
have become the executive Instruments
Of the older revolutionaries, and instead
OF the former conditions, where in secret
societies lots we're drawn to see who would
have to commit a political crime, there
are nov abundant candidates eager for
the opportunity.
The heads Of the educational institutions
have managed to demonstrate to the Minis
ter, OF Education what an irretrieveable
disaster Il has been to close higher educa-
ton against the people and the Minister
has promised to resume university classes
\ NEXT month. It is part Of the tragic in
levitableness which seems inseparable from
every act Of the present regime that this
step will avail nothing toward peace. The
parents and students alike tell you that the
classrooms will again ring with demands
for free political institutions and will nave
70 be closed until such time as the present
eyntem Of government is uprooted forever
or the youth now struggling for indepen-
dence are driven back to darkness.
The scheme for appeasing the peasant
movement by the sale of 4 portion Of the
appanage land is ever more hopeless. Its
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Of the present ~Occupants' leases to the
Peasant Bank, which is a VIGOROUSLY Ill
managed institution under the Govern
ment's control, demonstrates low sbso-
lutely impossible it was for independent
conservative leaders such as Shipoff and
OutchkoY to enter the present Administra-
ton. From every part Of the country
come declarations from both the land
owners and peasants that they prefer to
have nothing to do with the Governments
Peasant Bank
The Conservative leaders have declared
categorically: Grown and appanage and
must be converted into a public State fund
for the purpose of allotting land to neces-
eitous peasants" IL is fatal to the scheme
from the peasants point OF view that 1t
does not follow the precedent OF Alex ander
H. who, when he liberated the serfs, made
alIotments Of lands to them forthwith,
whereas here it is proposed to sell the land
for the full price at the end OF the leases to
suspected government department, with
which the peasants would have to bargain.
LONDON Sept. 1.-MscKenzis Wallace
In his investigation Of the revolutionary
movement in Russia makes a spirited de-
fence of the Russian Jews. which is all the
more significant because he acknowledge
a change Of heart OF this subject. He
writes:
Il have found broader intelligence, larger
Sdealism, greater power Of grasping per-
sonal conceptions and reader devotion
to the service Of ideals and Of men among
the Jewish revolutionaries than among
revolutionary Christians Of an analogous
class. / nave seen the passions OF an
ORTHODOX crowd restrained by the temper
ate speech Of a Jew and / shall long remain
under the impression Of a scene l witnessed
at q meeting last week In a workman's
house; in which men and women were
crammed like wood In a stove and were all
ablaze With revolutionary fire, and a vener-
able Jew, whose own innumerable wrongs
seemed but gently TO touch his heart, plead
ing for love, charity and a noble aim and
noble cause.
L wa told by the officials in st. Peters
burg that ] should lose my interest in the
revolution when / discovered the extent to
which 10 was dominated by Jews. I have
made the discovery that the officials do not
~oxaggerate the influence Of the Jews. Not
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