Show EMANCIPATON ANNIVERSARY Celebration I in St Petersburg Passes Off Without Bloodshed Newspapers Attribute Miserable Condition Con-dition of Peasants to the Incompleteness Incom-pleteness of Emancipation and Ask If They Are to Be Condemned Con-demned to Misery St Petersburg Tho expectation in some quarters that the anniversary of the emancipation of the serfs on Sunday Sun-day would be commemorated by an agrarian ukase was not fulfilled All the newspapers however seized tho occasion to discuss the peasant question ques-tion In view of tho general anticipation anticipa-tion of extensive agrarian troubles in the spring unanimously agreeing that only legal satisfaction of the land hunger of the MuJIcks will prevent an awful Jacquerle Tho conservative Journals draw a striking parallel of riots which followed the proclamatlou of civic liberty and the events that lucceoded Emperor Alexanders de ree of personal freedom for the purpose pur-pose of proving that the present political polit-ical ferment Is only Incident to tho adjustment of tho population Lola new regime Then as now they pay tho bmperors act was mtsunders Od The peasants believed the lane with which they were endowed was a tree gift and when they were undeceived unde-ceived jubilation over their freedom turned to anger and was followed by uprisings and riots throughout tho empire em-pire which provoked tho sternest repression re-pression On the contrary the radical Journals like the now situation and paint a sorrowful picture of the unfortunate peasant of the last forty years bound to the soil burdened by a debt sot yet discharged and subject to the knout They attribute th miserable condition condi-tion ofthe peasants to the Incompleteness Incomplete-ness of emancipation and ask if tlfo Russian people are now condemned to another such period of misery and struggle Because the grant of rlvlc liberty Is Insufficient |