Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
THE SECOND RUSSIAN DUMA.

suits later on, notably with those who in
pace OK marrying. Or returning to their
MONIES. live isolated and follow q course OF
superior Instruction.; that they are uncertain
and undecided as to their calling in life and
then comes certain cerebral-intellectual
arrangement which If not immoral is none
the less grave and constitutes In many cases
ver'table social danger
The first revolt of the students began in
1861. From the reign of Alexander ii In
1885, the universities were
nusslan opened wide to the sons of
Students. the peasants and servants to
people who took upon them
selves the heaviest sacrifices in order to
give their children superior education.
subsequently under the influence of the
zurich school there was started in Switzer
land In 1Si0 the populist party which the
Russian students adopted and undertook
trines in Russia. The theories of the aboli-
ton of property. free love, the suppression
OF social contracts were actively developed
among students during the reign of Alex
ander ii, from 1860 to 1878. under the in
huence of certain French. German and Eng
iish writer's (Buchner and John Stuart MILD
From 1852 to 1854 under the reign of Tcher-
nltchevsky nihilism ceased to be philoso-
ply to become a political party. Tcher-
nftchevSky criticised the fundamental theo-
res of political economy of his time. which
lie ltTfIleu d DOuTSeOlS pOntlcai economy.
and he substituted for it the theories of a
peoples political economy"
|, The terrorist system inaugurated by the
students eliminated in the assassination of
Alexandra II (who had abolished serfage
in 1863 in 1881
The students renewed their agitations In
the universities. In 1901 they inaugurated
reign of terror and violence in the streets
of Moscow, which was only suppressed by
armed force. From the close of 1903 the
students again asserted their influence. In
November of that year they seized the
Cathedral of kaZan. The Cossacks under
took the siege and there were many vic
TINS. For the first time workmen made
common cause with the students and this
unnatural union increased the danger to
society and government. In 1904 there was
the Intervention of Gapon and the bloody
manifestation of the I'D of January, 1865,
when the students, abandoning the uni
versities, openly melted the workmen to
anarchy and assassination. 1t was retribu-
tive justice that these same workmen, con-
scious of the use made OF them by the stu
dents, subsequently turned upon them and
shot them down without pity. The assas sina-
ton of Generals Trepoff, Reimbott Igna-
tieff, Won der Launitz. Pavloff and others of
recent date may be charged largely to the
account of the students.
But aside from the disgusting brutality
and thirst for blood which characteriZeS the
Russian student and socialist is the revolt
ing spectacle of his lack of patriotism.
They do not kill for country. and even this
preteXt or QeVOtlOn TO country which might
be invoked in their favor fails
X
During all the Manchurian war the stu
dents and others of their kind disclosed the
Supplying spectacle to
heJo1ced IN the world of a people
Defeat. loudly boasting of the
military defeat of their
own country. In America where patriotism
is principle as sacred as religion. the mo
country idea was represented solely and
singularly by THE late Herr Most, who was
tolerated only because OF the pity usually
accorded the demented. That Russia should
send so many of it's people to exile does not
astonish the stranger who takes the pains
thorities than Gapon, Cork or Alexis
Aladdin.
The Russian student the particular
class to which reference is made, is
pope or the peasant. NJ. Louis de SOudak
has written and interesting study of the
peasant in the Bibliotheque Universelle for
January entitled THE Russian Peasant"
The author cites in the beginning what
Tourgueneff said when arrested on one oc-
caslon for some infraction of the laws of
fourteen days of captivity. Hunting
awaits me at Spankoe. am going there
to write something about the Russian
fishing being in all the world"
A very close relative of Tourgueneff said
with sadness to NJ Soudak:
Although you think you know the Rus
sian peasant, you have still very imper-
feet idea of our wretched moujiks. He
has a horror of continued work, a total
lack of forethought Of probity, of con-
science. He Is dirty physically and moral
ly, and such are the vices which these
'wretched people endeavor to wash out in
ignoble vodka that gives them the illusion
of happiness at five copeks glass. All
of US in our family have inherited from
my uncle his large liberalism, but confess
to you that we are at the end of our cour-
age In winter, when they are often with
out clothes, and more often without bread,
we clothe and feed them. Their work
achieved we furnish them with seed ask
ing nothing in exchange but few days of
labor on our estates labor which they
promise with many oaths and invocations
to ancestors and to posterity. But all this
does not prevent them, when the time
comes, to find thousand pretexts to avoid
payment of the modest tax. When. their
crops are harvested they hasten to sell the
products and empty their pockets into the
drawers of the kobaks or vodka shops, re-
turning to their homes to sleep off their
drunken stupor under the Indifferent gaze
of their wives and children, or empty the
isba of it's contents to obtain money, to
again satisfy their scottish passion"
In reading this it seems reproduction of
what may be said of the Korean coolie
whose ascendants. it should be borne in
source in the polar regions.
X X
In the French chamber of deputies on the
9th instant a socialist member, NJ. Rouanet
challenging the ministry on
Russ1a's its financial policy, violently
Credit, attacked in turn the credit of
Russia, her policy and her
sovereign.
NJ Rouanet said there were twelve bill
lions of French money in Russia. Were
these billions in complete security? During
the Russo-Japanese war Russian values
were maintained artificially by French es-
Establishments. M. Rouanet attempted to
excuse the assassinations in Russia and
characterized them as executions
M. Delcasse, from his seat as deputy, pro-
tested and likewise NJ. Pichon, minister.
Of foreign affairs, who said: '"The Russian
government has always kept it's engage
ments, not only financially, but diplomat
ically, and that it was due to the friendly
relations between France and Russia that
the benefits of peace had been made. It
was not possible to permit friend and
ally to be spoken of in such terms" NJ.
Brisson added his protestations, and the
chamber sustained the attitude of the min
istry by a. large and enthusiastic majority,
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