Show KUSSIAX STLIIEXTS 1 sr IIIIKM USDEK tills Led the New York Tribune has tie following apparent Iy logical statement 11 shows wha danger might come from merely intellectual education unaccom pole by religious restraints or useful use-ful employment Under ordinary circumstances any attempt to obstruct education and en llghtenment would constitute an act of almost tcnocle barbarism With out accepting J it may b useful to recount count tbeargumcnti officially put forward for-ward in Russia the present lie In defense of Ibo retrograde policy of tbe imperial administration The object which tho latter proposes 10 attain by restricting access to the universities and high schools is to diminish the vast number of college graduate who being unable to obtain employment employ-ment which they consider worthy of their scholastic attainments become discontented with their lot embittered against both government and society and form the kernel and backbone of the Nihilist movement Among the sudden and advanced reforms inauj nested by lao late Czar after his noses sionto the throne in IBM wa one which practically rendered education plccly eucton oven in the highest branches of ad cure almost entirely fr As the ex penso was merely nominal lb orated serfs petty tradesmen and poor artisans made I sat s-at to send their sons to the college and university with Ibo conviction that successful studie would necessarily involve lucre and Influential appointments in the service of tho government Uufortun aclythe government service wasanc has continued to b crowded with the eons of Ibo wealthier and more aristocratic aristo-cratic classes It was entirely closet lo Jews and utterly nimble to met the multitudinous demands of Ibo candidates for employment Russia i as yet 8 poorly developed a regards gards trade and manufacture agriculture agri-culture constitntingthe principal national na-tional Industry that tho students could find no career open to Ihem The absence of any technical training at the university rendered their services ser-vices unavailable in connection with the progress of Russian Industry and they were too proud of their classical and scientific accomplishments to condescend con-descend to follow Ihe humble pursuits of their fathers Without profession without regular mon of existence and dangerous on account of their unemployed un-employed learning and knowledge they became the nucleus of Ibo Nihilist pry with the object of obtaining through an overthrow the existing order both of government and of society ciety the means of livelihood which are now denied to them At least 0 per cent of the J lhlll t brouKht to trial during the last fifteen years have belonged to the student or college graduating grad-uating class and I almost every C they have been the sons of cither some peasant or pLy tradesman The 1 Count Tolstoi was the first to real lao tIle peril to the monarchy which was constituted bJ this last body of highly educated men without employment employ-ment or means of existence and held that It was unreasonable for the Government Gov-ernment to afford gratuitous instruction instruc-tion and training to line very persons who were destined to become its moat dangerous enemies Daring tine reign of the late Czar ho attempted in vain I to restrict the educational system to ta a the higher bnnce of S I were concerned I was no until two years ago that he was able t enforce his Ideas and to issue an imperial decree de-cree debarring Ihe masses from access to the universities I was projected jOe a the time 10 organize for the lower classe a system of technical and trade schools for Instruction In the various forms of roua o manual labor But tH have not yet been established Since Count Tolstois death last yearIlls policy b been continued with undiminished vigor by the present Minister of Public Pub-lic Instruction Count DelUnolT D tree destined t restrict education toll in timid snmssion anil ham led to tbo present stndent riot ane which the Czar b taken as a pretext for closing all tho universities of the empire em-pire lllie Tchebrlkova In her recent public letter to Ibo Emperor likened the new educational policy of Russia to that practiced by the Spartans tans when they deprived their rinse of their eyesight and stigmatized It a being equally barbarous TLo comparison com-parison I a good one The distress big stato of affairs which has been mada the excuse for such reactionary measures on the part of the Russian government Is truly deplorable |