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Show EMANCIPATDN ANNIVERSARY - Celebration in St. Petersburg IPasses 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 Home quarters that tho anniversary of (the emancipation of tho serfs on Sunday Sun-day would bo commemorated by nn agrarian ukase- was not fulfilled. All tho newspapers, howovcr, seized tho occasion to discuss tho peasant question ques-tion In vlow of tho general anticipation anticipa-tion of -cxtenslvo agrarian troubles in llio spring, unanimously agreeing thnt only legnl satisfaction of tho land hunger of tho MuJIcks will prevent nn fiwful Jacquerie. Tho conservative Journnls draw a striking parallol of riots which followed tho proclamation of civic -liberty and tho events that succeeded Emperor Alexander's decree de-cree of personal freedom for tho purpose pur-pose of proving that the present pollt leal ferment Is only Incident to tho adjustment of tho population to a new (regime. Then, ns now, they sny, tho emperor's act was mlsunders od. The peasants believed the lann ,wlth which they wero endowed wns n (freo gift, nnd when they wero undo-jcelved undo-jcelved Jubllntlon over their freedom Itirned to anger, and wns followed by uprisings and rlotH throughout tho cm-plro cm-plro which provoked tho sternest re-prcsslon. re-prcsslon. On tho contrary Itho radical Journals llko tho now situation nnd paint n sorrowful .plcturo of tho unfortunato 'peasant or tho last forty yenrs bound to tho soil burdened by a debt not yet discharged nnd subject to tho knout. iThey attribute tho mlscrablo condition condi-tion of tho peasants to tho incompleteness incomplete-ness of emancipation nnd ask if tha Russian people nro now condemned to nnother such -period of misery and struggle becnuse the grant of civic liberty Is insufficient |