Miscellany.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1002, 1 July 1881, Page 3

Miscellany.

SOCIALISTIC SENTIMENTS. Among tho articles seized by the London police ou the premises of the Socialist paper, the “Feiheit,” at the time the proprietor, Herr Most, was arrested, was a quantity of type set up. apparently ready for the next publication. Pulls were taken from th t type, and the printed matter was translated into English. The following is an extract: “At last revolutionary justice has to record a triumph. Alexander 11., the most abominable and most patent of all imperial wild beasts, is now happily despatched. It is to be hoped the same fate awaits his successor Much as we rejoice over the heroic execution of Alexander 11., we' must yet own that through this isolated act the revoIn ion only gains a moral success. It is therefore urgently necessary, whether the sham refer.ns promised are executed or not, to continue without delay as hitherto the war against the monarchy and .everything that belongs to it. The establishment of a constitutional regime would bring to the Russian people no good at all ; for the revolution, however, it would be a danger. The neutrality observed at present in Russia by the middleclasses towards therevolutionary deeds of the Russian Socialists would, after the establishment of a constitution, be very quickly changed into bitter enmity to our comrades. A powerful revolutionary action would thereby be made imoossible. Let us hope therefore, in the interests of the revolution, that our friends may proceed to continue on the way hitherto trod with such incredible success, so that soon a tombstone may be erected to Czardom, nobility, and officials. . . . At the time the carcase of the torn-up Romanoff was buried, the police took measures of security the like of which have scarcely ever been known. All the houses in the street through which the procession had to pass were carefully searched from top to bottom. Every suspicious inhabitant was arrested. On this very critical day the cavalcade passed through a double row-one of soldiers, the other of police. And yet the princely and other daylight robbers who let themselves be driven beliind the coffin of the executed felon trembled visibly for their lives. So must it be ! ’