Show AUTOCRACY AND NIHILISM tho calmest ie unable to tho e of the electrical flashes occasionally shooting now across the atmosphere it is as if words of doom were traced in lurid streaks breaking hero and there through the darkened sky in these descriptive terms karl blind one of Eu ropes foremost political writers indicates the present political situation in russia who lias only the news from the empire of the czar must realize a similar feeling of electrical charges in the political atmosphere of russia ready to explode with a fearful convulsion at a moments notice we will endeavor to put the situation in the clearest light russia is an absolute despotism in he fullest sense of the odious word e eighty millions of human beings arc subject to the bock and wink of one single individual who derives all this responsibility from the mere fact of being hi fathers eldest son in a country larger than all the rest of europe bt retching across the whole length and half the width of the continent of asia one mans will is supreme law unlimited untrammeled by any constitution code articles or anything whatever truly there aro laws but only many fatal net there are public officers but only as many bervile tools of the despot response ble only to him an ukase dodici of the emperor can levy a million of soldiers at once can drain the wealth of the nation into the bottomless safes of tho war treasury can send thousands of innocent men women youths and maidens into an exile than death can tear asunder all bond of family friendship love affection alt these of course with an appearance of official red ape with ceremonious mock legality no caste no rank of society however exalted or however lowly in close proximity to the imperial court or thousands of mile on secured the azare from unprovoked unjustified arrest conviction and execution the merest shadow of a all sufficient yea even the of suspicion can le construed into felony and punished no wonder therefore that deep v ij i I f VA irrepressible feeling of dissatisfaction of rebellion of revolt and revolution penetrates the people from the very azars czars cabinet down to the mud hut of the caucasian peasant and siberian exile whose classes in russia are penetrated almost to desperation with a bense at social oppression and wrong against this pressure exerted virtually from alie sovereign on the people there is active a resisting force working in a horizontal extension all over the empire all classes of society nobility officials professors fes sors artisans soldiers peasants aro permeated by tho subtle but irresistible influence of despair and disgust autocratic despotism and bureaucratic secrecy havo at all times called forth secret i combinations mysterious conspiracies of the oppressed by such russia has been honey combed for centuries and never more than at present when the exertions of the to crush out alie last glimmering spark of liberty and popular rights have reached their acme of tyranny the most popular most dreaded and most misunderstood of these secret conspiracies is the party of the nihilisms nihilists lists the first nihilist society properly speaking is said to have been founded by russian students about the year 1859 german works on philosophy and natural science were then much in demand as forbidden fruit among the aspiring youths of russia the books not being allowed to pass the frontier stray copies were smuggled in and lithographer lithographed litho graphed translations passed from hand to hand an agricultural college near moscow was one of the first places chero young men became imbued with advanced ideas among these and other young men nearly all belonging to the educated and wealthy classes nihilism was originated the word nihilist when understood literally as a derivative of the latin nihil nothing is bolever bo wever somewhat misleading at first it was given to the new school as a nickname like the patriotic hols landers arising against King Philip oppression were called dulux beggars liko elioso long since glorified heroes of popular freedom and of the free movement adopted the nickname and it has covered ever since a great many varieties of political and social discontent as well as of philosophical radicalism there re nihilisms nihilists lists who from the sheer and inevitable hopelessness engendered by a tyranny taking a thousand years have come to cultivate a aphis of despair of disgust and of destruction pessimism without troubling themselves about the bonx ution of the future these are men that profess a wish to do away with all state organizations for the sake of a morbid individualism others there are who incline towards a socialist collectivism in a rather utopian not to say hierarchic form ala oneida community to them SG strictly speaking the word nihilist covers at most a email group of persons of a brooding and impracticable temper being the usual reaction of oppression and tyranny the majority of those who use thedac ger and derringer against the odious agents of an intolerable despotism would hardly call themselves socialist or nihilisms nihilists lists it is a fact within our personal information that tho very leaders of the nihilist party hold mostly views and ideas which leavo been sanctioned and ratified in switzerland france and the united states it is true that the government of st petersburg through its diplomatic and journalistic agents and accod alices blackens the reputations of its enemies the true friends of the trodden down nation in a manner only too successful but the worst thing that can bo truthfully asserted of opponents of the divino rights of the sovereign is eliat wear their hair long while tho woman wear it cropped short and both sexes aro passionate smokers of cigarettes but even these oddities of alie exterior are being replaced by as sober and avery da y appearance as that of any city broker or bourgeois it is an undeniable fact tho nihilisms nihilists lists have abo most in cimato connections and most effective sympathies in tho upper class of russian society those very classes which would have to lear the most from a party devoted to death and destruction tho violent means employed d against tho autocrat and his agents are only the outcome of a feeling of revenge easily to bo understood der stood and condoned under the circumstances or else they aro to be regarded as a dire necessity in insurrectionary ary warfare no worse than william tells arrow or the battle of with tho obstinacy of the tho revolution of hie grown a very natural indof action and reaction which it would bo useless to deny ead as the outlook is for the cause of humanity tho atmosphere of blood which has for ages the imperial palace ol 01 russia has spread now the at A aurora boreali of mysterious fires once more the horizon with its dark red arrows nihilisms nihilists lists are at work fire raiser aro at peasant alno have broaten out into revolt we can only hope that these ayo the inevitable thunderclouds thunder clouds of a necessary storm destined to purify the air to daire away the foul mifu of tyranny and to confer upon long guttering the blessing bles eing of light and right THE tat straw hae been lau upon those who havo no great regard for ohio or jt people an ex change has just discovered that the de young came from bat sam o papers generally appear to all take the view of ev arts plan of stopping mormon immigration london examiner treating upon alie subject has the following it is not in the power of the free united states with any regard for the law the constitution and the rights 01 man to prevent cormons mormons from entering the country merely because they are suspected of polygamous view in england there are several thousand cormons mormons Mor mons and in scandinavia quite as many they hold their meetings publicly and try to make proselytes prose lytes yet though their views may be abhorrent to every one of common sense and decency yet so long as they do not transgress the law of the land there is not injustice enough in england to punish them simply because some ot their faith may have ten wives in another part of the world surely the united states will not be less fair for years alie great republic has afforded a refuge to the visionaries vision aries of europe into its bosom have been welcomed the professors of every faith and of no faith at all imperialist princes and democratic nihilisms nihilists lists go equally through castle garden unnoticed the honest german with no ambition savo the acquisition of a lager beer brewery and ft corner grocery and the irishman plotting murder and mischief to the land he has left are equally sheltered under tho stars and stripes it is therefore not a little painful to every well wisher of the united states whatever may be hiis political or religious views to read that the letter we have commented on is believed to be preliminary to government action forbidding vessels from landing cormons mormons in its ports in pursuance of its obligation to prevent alie immigration of lawless people why do they not prevent the landing of german so sia lists russian nihilisms nihilists lists and irish feniane Fen ians BASKETS are very pretty and desirable bilings to have around a house and when they can be con strutted ted as easily and cheaply by the subjoined sub joined plan for which we are indebted to the everybody can have them in abend ance procure a wooden bowl a stray rusted tin basin or wash dish which is the best shape for the present purpose cover the outside with a coat of putty and place on it in rows groups of clusters little shells A row of tiny dust pan shapes are pretty for a border or if shells are not to be had a pounded mixture of bits of different colored glass pressed into the putty makes the uninitiated believe your basket to be made of diamonds especially when the sun is shining on it the snowflake baskets made of graveled raveled white cloth look cool and hint of woods and nodding violets through the long winter it filled with ferns and hung in some shady window gather the ferns while green and fresh and pile them on a platter or oven a board cover them with thick wet moss and they will keep moist and green during tho winter to replenish the baskets or vases try it THE louisville courier journal very sensibly and truthfully remarks that all tho democratic sinco tweeds downfall have been in the face of Tamm anys opposition whenever tammany has made a ticket it has been beaten kellys gamo of rule or ruin will be thwarted and that ignorant and absurd individual will be sent permanently to the limbo prepared for political mountebanks mount ebanks and traitors |