80th November.
Lone foretold as the revolution i Rusa has been, it has had'to wait forthe opportunity off-re! by the war with Japan, and now that it has. come its gravity and exten are hardly realised, © We are looking. on ab an event to which history will attach an importance, which it does not seem to bear. fo. contemporary observers... The year 1905. will be regarded in future days us an epoch-;: making: date, for whatever be: the ultimate result of the present strug: gle, one.thing is assured, that is, the fall of absolutism. in Russia, 'This momentous step has been carried witt by the people with very few, such excesses as marked the French' Revolution, at least as far s the towns are concerned; we hear very utile "of the progress of the movement in the provinces; that there have been agrarian outrages in many distiic's, we know by direct reports and by the recent proclamation of the Huly Synod calling upon the peasants to abstain from murdering landlords and, destroying their property, What massaers there have been, have. been. ordered by the authorities and carried out by the soldiers and police, the people being the victims; the revoln=. tion has been ably organised carried out mainly by the peaceable means of strikes. Its sus-ess. was problematical as long as the anthoriz ies could rely on the troops remaining obedient to their orders; but the "oneessions so rapidly made Intely.ab-St. Petersburg and to Finland indicated that the troops could. not be implicitly relied on; and we. have since learnt that some of them are in open revolt. A socialist prop"ganda his, it is known, bren going on-among the troops of late years,.and the seed. has not fallen on stony ground...
We have already referred to. the remarks on' the subject of therevolus
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