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Show ISl TOO LUTE GRANTING LIBERTY Things Arc as Bail as Possible in the Czar's Domain, Savs Stead. I LIBERALS UNABLE TO I OVERCOME DISTRUST I Polici and Troops Vre Indignant Indig-nant at Concessions to the Enemy. I BERLIN, Nov. 7. William T. Stead, fresh from Rus.sIh, stopped 0er in Berlin Ber-lin today on his way l Paris. lror an hour and a half he poured forth his vivid I Impressions of heii pretty well lt loose," he called It. for the things he hnd seen and heard and nf the "ghastly I weit-er into which Rt;.slan society hnd drifted. " Strange Things Happen "Strango thing are happening. ' ;ild Mr Stead. Think t the Incidents at Reval. Roiiia determined persons marcht S down the street to the (own hall followed fol-lowed by a crowd. There the Mayor nnd Councllmen were fitting, deliberating on the Hituation in came our determined friends. What They Demand, ' 'We demand,' they xuld, 'we demand litiertv universal "lf'ntge :uid the right to rule run-Helves.' " 'But,' said the Mayor, 'I cannot give you these thlnga I would gladly send your petition to the Emperor " Well.' continued the delegates, 'we are delegates of a r- volution and If we do uoi get what we want we have decided de-cided lo burn the cilv. 'Jive nr. VA") rOU-b Bought Them Off. "The Mayor and his colleagues iho.ight it was better to p:r J the 70"n roubles than to have the elty burned. o ihoy raised the money, pairl the delegates and the latter went away, promising to be very good, and they wi re pood. But another crowd ranip and said " What about iis Iiy us, too.' "This the Mayoi wouhl not do and thr weni awa', With threats of destruction destruc-tion 'The "Red Virgin of the French commune com-mune was Louise Ml, he Well, In lv.ll i certain widow named Llnde, dressed in searlet from lop to toe und with an ax-p ax-p r her shoulder, placed herself at the head of the mob. AH night the revolutionists revolu-tionists whetted themselves up, In the meantime the Governor had gotten out troops and the mob gathered In tho morning at Ing the soldiers in the great square. The Qovernor called on tho mob to disperse and said that If yfter fifteen ruin ites thev did not dispense ho would order the troops to fire Widow Exhorts Them "Five minutes went by and tho Widow Llnde, In red climber S lamp post and rled out encouragement :ind exhorted steadfastness for the revolution. The soldiers sol-diers began to r:i) oul to the people to go away as If they wen- ordered to tlre they must do so and they did not want . to kill am body " 'Kill him kill him.' screamed the Widow Llnde, pointing to the Qovernor 'Si-verai revolver shots weroflred from the crowd, but no one was hit The Governor, Gov-ernor, who walled to the end of the fifteen minutes, then ga e tho command to flro and the Widow Llnde, shot through the body, fell to tho ground, aa Baron Kuxull. an eje-wltness told me. 'like n sparrow from a twig ' "One hundred and five dead persons were picked up from the square find thirty more died In the hospitals Emperor Is Cool. "The coolest man In Russia Is the Em-peror Em-peror God grant that he may k ? seat, that the Liberals may gather about him and thru the m:i; resist tho forces of dissolution Ills authority Is shaken, passions ar loose and things are likely to be worse. There may be fearful slaughterings As in optimist, i think a hundred thousand lives me fall if I were pessimistic I would say two millions mil-lions The situation Is something like , this "The poller-, gendarmes and f'ossarks I v.- been suppressing a revolution In the name of the Kniperor. Suddenlv, tluy s.iv the Emperor c-s over lo the Liberal skie and he thinks more of those who wvnt lo vote, rind who are doing everything every-thing In the way of medting and aglta-tiOTl aglta-tiOTl wli'ch the police were tr.nlit t.. belli be-lli was unlawful, than he dues of them As simply human nature, the police nmi gendarmes say: Whit Police Say. "'Oh. very well. If the Kmperor s new friends act like ;hls It Is no concern of or.rs ' 'And when the puli, e are Indifferent the 'Hooligans' break loose und Toryism In soi-lei) also breaks h oS That mass of Ignorant Conservatives which only thinks of killing the Blade Hundred of Mos- cow an i i His, -r a 1 1 V" who are offended by the Liberals getting the upper hand All through the Russian empire authority as represented by the police, Cossacks and gendarmes, is shaken, us I hae said, and the forces that I n. I to tear society apart are at work Can't Depend on Army. Mr Stead added that the army could no ImiK ' tie .1. pi nde, i por Several officers at Helalngfors had sent word to the Liberals while holding a meeting that they neod not be afraid, as the trooivs would not fire. "The Liberals." he continued, "are. unfortunately, un-fortunately, h tiding back from support of ihe crown at a nine whin every man who has a good oal o i his bark or a ruble In his pocket Bhould stand bj the Kmperor. who has placed himself on the j iheral side The Liberals are unable at once to overcome their distrust. Liberties Too Late "The full liberties have been granted too lnte. utwrai lost the respeel of the country during the war and during the delay in granting those liberties which the Emperor decided upon two months ago. The situation has hern nr though a man who owed you a thousand pounds :nd had pt utilised to ..i It. and in- nt to pay It was dunning you tor eight shillings shil-lings and six pence. The thing to ga ' Russia is for the Liberals to organize yp,--Clal constabularies to uphold onbr and allow time to work out the new Government Govern-ment machinery. "Things are about as bad as possible, but I hope thai order will f l.titi . -h dally if all the ah oho) could be turned Ihto sour milk during the next three months. Wherever great excesses are ecmmlttci they are preceded by a liberal consumption of alcohol." |