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Show nk ohly of pleasure ; during reign of terror Russian Seem Indifferent to Fate,. Having No Thought of Tomorrow, Spending Vast Sums in Riotous Riot-ous Living. 91. Petersburg. Tho renewal1 of tcr rorlsm on a largo scale has greatly Intensified In-tensified tho hostility of tho ruling Classen against tho Jews, who long havo been regarded ns tho brains of a tho revolution, nnd, It Is believed, daWj has correspondingly diminished tho f chances of tho Jews obtnlnlng moro than a nominal enlargement of their rights. Every ofllctnl report of assassination assas-sination or other crime ornphnRlr.es tho rolo played In It by Jews; nnd tho last week saw tho launching of two par ties, "tho National," at St. Petersburg, nnd tho "RuBsIan Popular pnrty," at Moscow, tho principal plnnks In whoso platforms nro for tho exclusion of Jews from nil political activity ana from scrvlco n tho army, the latter to bo commuted, as In tho cases of Tar tars and Finns, for a money consider-ntlon. consider-ntlon. Tho Moscow orgnnlxatlou proposes pro-poses to rid tho country of Jews by endorsing tho Zionist movement and urging the government to assist It It Is remarkable that nmld all tho crime, bloodshed and horror with which tho country Is filled, tho music hall and cafes nro thronged nightly by gay crowds. A brother of Premier Stolypln, writing In tho Novoo Vrem- j ya, calls nttentlon to this weakness of j his countrymen, who, In tho presenco I of the gtvntest crisis, ho says, think I only of pleasure. M. Stolypln says It I wns always thus In Ruisla; that of- I llccru on tho cvo of n bnttlo carouso- I nnd spend money thnt would feed I starving peasant families. He calls it is-- I tho spirit which Inspired tho orgies of I tho middle age, whllo thousands wero ! dying of the pbguc. Tho only reaction reac-tion notlccnblo Is tbo Increaso In tho activity of the Illack Hundred organization. organ-ization. Count Konovulteln, tho hend of tho organization known ns thn . "l'ruo Russian Peoplo," whoso llfo- was attempted recently, calls on bib I followers to rovengo hla death by tho destruction of thousands of those "who aro terrorizing tho nation under tho i (lag of liberty," In case tho next at- jf tonipt Is successful. m) In tho vendetta between tho govern- . Bfa ment and revolutionaries, wonfen.andi ' cspeclnlly girls, who have alwayn a prominent part In tho liberation movement, continue to enact lending roles. Many or them nro high born. Princess Obolenskl was arrestod Saturday Sat-urday nt Ityblnsk, nenr Yaroslav, fur pirtlclpntlnK In n conspiracy. |
