The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-11-06

9sSs2s, turvey from the moral as
well as other standpoints
For latest example, take
the Staying of Premier Stolypin Who
Killed him, and for what purpose? The
answer is not as obvious as an Amer
lean would assume. Amazingly enough
the assassin, Bogroff, was claimed
both by the government and by the
revolutionists. "Ile was a cog in our
machine who went wrong" assert the
police. "He was a revoutionist who
obeyed our orders" say the disciples
of terrorism.
1t requires thought to appreciate
the niceness of the dilemma which the
situation presenss, especially on the
side Of the police. The officials find
it shade preferable to take the
wrong cog view, and assert that 30
CROFT had regular permit to enter
the theater. and used a revolver sup
Piled by the authorities. 1t Is less
injurious to the police to take this
view than to admit that they were
outwitted by the enemy, and that ter
rorism is in successful ascendancy.
If Bogroff had been asked which
side he worked for, he would have
found it difficult to answer.
There is an increasing roll in Rus
STA, headed by the arch betrayer Azeff,
who helped to kill grand duke and
a minister while in government en-
ploy, of ambiguous persons who may
be styled the missing links or unclass-
flied monstrosities of revolution.
Agent proYocateur, Secret co-worker,"
government spy, revolutionary spy
these seem to be simple terms whose
meaning can be easily learned and IN
derstood. But the dictionary defni-
tons do not satisfy an impartial stu
dent. There are things in the phe
nomena not covered by the definitions
The revolutionists are with the diction-
airy. Like the police, they do not be-
lieve in a twilight zone; they separate
the sheep from the goats with a clear
cut line. They explain most elaborate
ly that a sheep is a sheep and a goat is
q goat. Nevertheless, a survey of cold
| facts shows that there are woolly goats
and goatish sheep. Azef, Gapon, Pc
troff, Bogroff. they worked on both
| sides and helped and hurt both sides.
i Az psychological zoologist would have
difficultysin placing them.
The Russian agent provocateur is a
! ANT ,1ykr,
commitslcrime for the sake of making
arrests. But any spy or detective is
likely to conduct a degree of crime in
order to succeed in his work. BE.
! tween direct provocation and condona-
ton the difference is not always per.
ceptible. The terrorist operating
against the government must needs
use to greater or less degree the
same methods. He must betray some.
what, injure his party little in or
| der to injure the enemy more. In q
game, of desperate intrigue, where the
stakes are life and death, only the
stanchest characters preserve their
moral and mental balance So great
is the peril Of losing integrity that
many leaders Of the revolutionary
| movement disapprove of any revolu.
ZIONIST entering the service of the DO.
lice.
Some new light on the spy problem
in general and the Azeff case in par.
ticular was given by Leonid Menschik.
1 of, late senior assistant to the chief
Of the Third section at st. Petersburg
Mr.. Menschikoff is the original ea.
poser of the terrific Azeff and has
supplied evidence against lesser stars
of the inferno Of provocation.
A boy Of sixteen in technical high
school at Moscow, Leonid Menschi
koff' was arrested for belonging to a
revolutionary circle He was betrayed
by fellow member of the circle, zu.
batoff, who became an eminent pro