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censors of the party, but that nothing shall be issued 

 which favours the reaction. There shall be liberty to 

 speak the truth— the truth being socialist and revolutionary 

 only. There shall be liberty to toil and moil as there 

 used to be in the old unregenerate days, but only so long 

 as the party does not suspend it. The power of forbidding 

 all kinds of labour — even for the purpose of saving human 

 life— which the Autocracy never dared to tamper with, is 

 henceforth to be vested in the managing board of the 

 party. Whatever they do is justifiable, excusable, or at 

 the very least intelligible and natural: whatever the Cabi- 

 net seeks to accomplish is proof clear that it has gone 

 over to the reaction. 



SALVATION BY DESTRUCTION. 



The revolutionary plan of campaign is genially simple. 

 The workmen are to be egged on against their employers, 

 labour to be pitted against capital ; the peasantry is to be 

 incited against the gentry and the nobility j the troops 

 are to be seduced from their allegiance to their officers 

 and from their loyalty to the Tsar; property is to be 

 abolished; and even the right of labour to be circum- 

 scribed and, when necessary, suspended. Hence adminis- 

 trators may be assassinated, machinery and works may- 

 be destroyed, railways torn up, the conveyance of corn to 

 famine-stricken provinces stopped, country manors, farms, 

 out-houses burned to ashes, millions of people reduced to 

 misery, and the Eussian nation ruined. The Phoenix that 

 will then arise from the ashes is the proletariat. 



A SOMBRE FORECAST. 



Dr. Dillon wrote before Moscow had been con- 

 verted into a cockpit in which 6000 troops and 

 15,000 revolutionists fought out their quarrel among 

 the homes of a million non-combatants. But, bad as 

 things are, he sees no very good reason to think 

 they will become worse. The peasant has still to be 

 reckoned with. He says: — 



The peasant wants the Tsar. Him he will not have re- 

 moved. They are ready to proclaim a Republic, they say, 

 on condition that the Tsar is its Emperor. The Tsar, 

 especially in his legendary shape, is the peasants' friend. 

 He was in favour of giving them land, but the gentry 

 hindered him. In secluded parts of Russia, where the 

 Manifesto has not yet been read to the people, revolu- 

 tionists tell them that it is an Imperial authorisation to 

 take the land they need without more ado. The Tsar they 

 know has lately been hampered and fettered by the nobles, 

 and they are anxious to free him and punish his captors. 

 That might mean a Russian Vendee, characterised by the 

 nameless horrors of Tomsk. 



by the railway strike that they were preparing trains, 

 filled with Prussian soldiers, and driven by Prussian engine- 

 drivers, which would steam into Warsaw without a word 

 of warning. The result was miraculous. At a meeting of 

 railway employes held the same day it was decided to 

 return to work immediately. 



TOE ANARCHY IN THE CAUCASUS. 



Mr. J. Gordon Browne, writing in the Contem- 

 porary on the Tartars and Armenians, describes with 

 local knowledge the civil war that rages in the 

 Caucasus. He says : — - 



Since last February fully 2000 Tartars and Armenians, at 

 the lowest estimate, have been killed by each other, many 

 have been wounded, material damage to the extent of 

 £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 has been done, thousands of people 

 have been rendered homeless, all sense of security for life 

 and property is gone, feelings of bitter hostility have 

 been roused which it will take a generation to obliterate, 

 and at the present moment, although the strong military 

 garrisons in the towns will probably prevent any more 

 violent outbreaks like those at Baku, peaceful occupations 

 in the country districts have practically been abandoned, 

 and Armenians and Tartars stand ready to fall on each 

 other at the first favourable opportunity. 



My own impression, gained after considerable experience 

 of both parties, is that if the Government were to stand 

 aside altogether and allow the two peoples to fight out 

 their quarrel to the bitter end. the Armenians, although 

 outnumbered by two to one (1,500,000 against 3,000.000) 

 would ultimately prove the victors, thanks to superior 

 education, brain power and moral fibre. 



Unfortunately the Government has hitherto set 

 the Tartars upon the Armenians : — 



Whatever may be the truth about Prince Golitsyn, Prince 

 Nakashidze'8 (the Governor of Baku) responsibility is un- 

 happily beyond question. His conduct during the massacre 

 shows this only too clearly. There was no need for any 

 definite instructions. A large proportion of the minor 

 officials, and especially of the police of Baku, were Tartars, 

 and a word, a whisper, to the effect that if the Tartars 

 vere to fall upon the Armenians they would have nothing 

 to fear from the authorities, was all that was required. 



The mot d'ordre was given. " The Armenians are traitors 

 to the Tsar and must be killed." The Tartar proletariat 

 betook themselves joyously to the congenial task, and for 

 three days the Administration stirred not a finger to pre- 

 vent the massacre. 



THE END APPROACHING. 



Another writer, signing himself " Z.C.K.," who is 

 apparently watching the movements of the Gadarene 

 swine from Warsaw, contributes to the same Review 

 a paper on the Russian Socialists. To judge from 

 his paper, they are largelv directed by Jews and 

 Poles: — 



Socialism has hypnotised the Russian people to-day. The 

 Socialists promise the workman a proletarian republic, the 

 peasants unlimited land, the soldier and sailor unlimited 

 license. It would seem that the end is fast approaching. 

 The Tsar's counsellor stands alone, the intellectual classes 

 give ear to anarchy, a helpless Government has recourse 

 to massacre, strikes demoralise the working classes and 

 threaten the country' with ruin. The signs of the times 

 are unmistakable. Tsardom is falling. 



• THE PRUSSIANS ARE COMING." 



He gives a curious account of the way in which 

 the Polish strike of October and November was 

 brought to a close. 



The situation was growing unbearable, when at last, on 

 November 15th a paper called The Polioh Gazette made a 

 coup d'etat which baffled even the Socialists. In an 

 article headed " The Prussians are Coming," the editor told 

 his compatriots that German intervention was certain 

 unless the railway strike came to an end within the next 

 twenty-four hours, as the Germans were losing so much 



OUR SH0P=MADE NOBILITY. 



Mr. W. Gordon writes in the Grand Magaznii on 

 - Coronets and Commerce," or noble British houses 

 founded by business men. The farts adduced may 

 be summarised thus: — 



present Title. trade origin. 



Baron Ashburton \ 



Earl Northbrook f Jo h n Baring, clothmaker. 



Baron Revelstoke 1 



Earl Cromer ; 



Duke of Northumberland ... Hugh Smith son, haberdasher. 



Duke of Leeds Edward Osborne, merchant's 



apprentice- 



Duke of Bedford Henry Russell, barge-owner. 



Marquis of Northampton ... John Spencer, clothworker's 



apprentice. 



Marquis of Ripon Robinson, tradesman in York. 



Marquis of Bath John o' th" Inne. publican. 



Karl of Craven William Craven, farmer's son. 



Karl oi Denbigh Godfrey Fielding, mercer's ap- 

 prentice. 



Earl of Warwick William fireville. wool stapler. 



Earl of Dudley William Ward, goldsmith's ap- 

 prentice- 



EarY Spencer lb0r ° Ut "' 11 ! John Spe^er. grazier. 



Earl Carrington John Smith, draper. 



Ea-1 of Radnor Lawrence de Bouvene, mer- 

 chant's apprentice. 



Lord Monntetepben 1 Shepherd boys. 



Lord Strathcona ) 



