Show NIHILISM DEFINED A Kutsiuu on the Great llugbnir of His Jfutlicrlaml Nihilism is of less consequence in Russia than Fenianism in England or Socialism in I Germany I could take you to Russia and travel over thousands of miles of country and you might ask of the strong country peasantry What is Nihilism Who is Nihilism Where is Nihilism and they will tell you that they never came in contact with it Now said my Russian friend I will tell you what Nihilism is We have in Russia a certain number of young men who go to the universities to be educated and they must pass a strict examination at the conclusion of their studies and then they are put into various divisions of the public service the army the navy the civil bureaus the church or what not You see that Russia is not a democracy I it is a great country in extent and population popula-tion where a limited class does the thinking and gets the education for the benefit of all i I A proportion of those young students instead i j in-stead of preparing themselves at school take the money given to them and have a career of dissipation and when they come for examination thoy fail to pass The gqvernment will then not accept them in any i responsible position and their families kick them out and tell them to take care of themselves them-selves So they go into the cities where they have been living among mistresses and with low associates and they say to the working mechanic who has come up from the conn try to the city and is exceedingly ignorant You ought to own that building you are working on You who make shoes ought to be a great shoe manufacturer We will bring about for yon that happy condition of things but in the meantime you must give up twentyfive cents a week to carry on the great cause So they take from these poor ignorant fellows twentyfive cents a week and that is what Nihilism is It is the indoctrination in-doctrination of a few ignorant men by a few dissipated young and desperate men Socialism in Germany ha a much stronger basis than any Nihilism in Bussia because the nature of the German government allows any min to come no and be a member of the government no matter what his views are if He has received sufficient votes That is not the case in Russia It is true that onr late emperor lost his life through some of these deceived and ignorant people but at the same time your President became the I victim of an equally ignorant and insane man I S |