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‘I‘RUTH'ABOUT RUSSIA
IHE SITUATION A8 VIEWED BY THE
REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE.
I. My Bethle- tho licorice Told
, W Cruelty. the We Merck
f h rec-ed, on Ilurron of sum:- and no
' our: r133: on lino-t.
‘ Blooxlnt. Nov. x—ltev. Dr. 'I'nlmlge
today fulfilled his premise that. he would
W'npnk of his visit to Russia and cor—
rectneny-wrong impressions concerning
theta-um nod its ruler. After an exposiv
} m Scripture and congregational using
by he took for his text [I Peter ii, 10,
“Prefimrptnom ore they, self willed; they
on not efnid to speak evil of dignitiesz"
Amid I mm reprehensible crew Peter
-- here point- byono stroke the portrait of
than who delight to slush at people in nu-
. , thorny. Now we all have n right to criti-
3, cine evil behavior, whether in high plum-es
_ It low, but the fact that one in high up is
”woof that he ought to be brought down.
It II I had streak of human nature now, ml
.t wuin the time of the text a bad streak
d human nature, that success of any kind
excites the jealous antipathy of those “ho
mum climb the same sleep. There never
was. David on the throne that there was
not route Absalom who wants-«l to get it.
There never was a Christ but the world
had now and hammer ready to fnshlonn
cum on which to msmsinnte him.
Out of this evil spirit grow not only in-
dividual but national and international
defnmtion. To no country has mom in-
justice been done than to our own in days
that are mt. Long before “Martin ("mm
:lew’it’Hvas printed the literature of the
,world scoffed at. everything .-\im-ric:ln_
Victor Hugo, as honest as he was no
- equaled in literary pmwr, “as M) mirirr
formed concerning America that he wrote:
”the most singular thing is the mid of
whittling. with which all Aizlericnm :m»
. . It. is such that on Sun-lug they
give the sailors little bits of wood. bl r'ztlbt‘
If they did not they would Whittle the ship.
In court, at the most critical nmmmi, tim
judge, whittling, says, ‘anm-r. are you
guilty? and the accused trumprilly re-
sponds. whittling, ‘I am not guilty)"
Lord John Russell called us "a bubble
bursting nationality.” But our country
hunt Inst recovered from such caricature.
' Ind there is not a street in any city of lin-
rope or Asia where the word "Alllt'rll'n"
will not. win deference. But there is a siv
for nation on the other side of the son now
going through the process of internationnl
(Infiltration. There is no country on earth
lomimfr‘derstood n8 Ros-Jo. and no mon-
arch more misrepresent-id than its em
”or. Will it not. he in the run-to of jlhtire
I” try toeet right the minds of those» who
ampere this august assemblage and the
millilof those to whom, on both sides of
them these words shall come? If the
dander“ oueperson is wicked. then the
donderof one hundred and twrlvemillinn
Mkiooue hundred and “vein! million
times more wicked.
In thename of righteousness. and in be»
half of civilization, and for the encoumznu
merit of all those good people who have
been disheartened by the Scanvlullzutiuu of
Rosin, I now speak. But Russiu in so
not eenhject that to treat it in one dis-
eourneislike attempting to run Niagara
fell: over one mill wheel. Do not think
that the very marked conru-sics extruded
mellstnuurmer by the emperor and cm—
pren and crown prince of Russia have
mplinreuted me intothemlvm’m'y of that
empire, for I shall present you nutln-ntl
outed facts that will reverm: your opinium,
if they have been antagonhliv. :u mine
was reversed.
Iwentlnst summer to llnssln nith as
many Inleful prejudices m would nmkc nu
nvnhnche from the mountnin of morn-n
t‘lonvrhich her for years been henpml up
against that empire. You ltsk how is it
punihlo that such appalling mlhlfl‘prI‘Nl-ll-
WM Russia could stand? I account
If! It by the fact that the Russian Inn-
m in to most on impassable wall. Mn-
liurr the United States or mulign firm:
WI! In Germany or France, and by [he
lutenhlegram the falsehood is exyxml.
forwenll understand English, and many
1‘ our people on: familiar with German
and French. But the Ruseahm language.
harmful nndmy tothose born In spank
It, h to most vocal organs on unpronnuxm
able tongue. and if at St. Pelersburg or
flower: any anti-Russian calumny were
denied the most of the world outside of
Julie would never see or hear the tII-tliltl.
nlmt'nenlo ulsurzl'llrzalisrn'nox.
What are the motives for lniereprcsentw
1“ Commercial interests nml inn-row
1th.] jealousy. Rumin in mlnrge ns all
filtered of Europe put together. Iit'llll'lll-
Ell-nthdn union In only a man or n mmlnn
anemia-scale. Go into any neighlmhml
(1 America Ind Ink the physician who hurt
A “null practice what he think» of the
who hula large practice. Ant
0 hwy—r who he no brleln what he think»
oftkeln‘yawho hm three mum Illlnl
with clerk. trying I- vain to transact the
III-nut DUBIMM thnt corner: to
him: Ask the minister who Illlfl [I very
m nudience what he thinks of the
III!” who him overflowing nuclirmrcs.
Whydoel not Europe like Itoulal Ile-
“Ihe bu enough acreage to swallow
Ill Europe and feel «he had only halt a
heel. Rumi- it I“ long All Ncmb and
South America put together. “lint,"myn
me one, "do you menu to charge tin-
“than and the lecturers who have written
«spoken mun» Ronnie with falsehood?"
By no mane. You an hurl In any city or
Idio- evilu innumerable If you who: to
«beam nhout them.
I Did at St. Peterslmrg to the moat emi-
Ifltlldy of Bunti- outultleof the imperial
bully. “Are thou Merle» of cruelty and
. Millet I have bend and read nbout
“If" She replied: “No doubt some of
there true. but do you not in America
"In" officers of the law cruel and out:
I” In their treatment of offenders!
no 3. not hove instance: where the police
”clubbed innocent Item? Have you
;um where people In Idle! author.
.31., .6 tlyl” I replied. “Yes, we
,‘u" m Mid: ”Whytloe; the; world
M our government respond II or ex~
amino-l mm! A- town on no nfliclnl
4! full! to his!!!“ he Immedintoly loser
” II
1mm» mm". Dom we
do Amelia hold the government It uh-
” mm for the name»:
3 link
W nun-o immediate. or for
. ' ii the villein that eon-omen
d has, or for the whim
album“ tell we, musician-nee
up their em- unrll the purine
. Why, then. hold the emperor
who II no lmpradve and mill
he ever looked our talked
rpoueihlo IOI’ or that down-ri- til»
mlghtydomlnlon? Now you Inuit
her that Alexander the Third reign- , or
wider dominion than all those empim put
together. A» a nation is only a man on
woman on u bin: mule. let me ask, wotlld
you individually prefer to be judged‘lry
your faults or your virtues? All people
except ourselves have faults. l
The minus! attempting to write ml
e r
biography would take you in your w
moods, and the picture of you on the lint
page of your biography would he as you
looked lifter Home mealtimes» had been pm
ticevl on you and you were tearing Inhd.
Now, no I am an optimist, I give you r
warning that if I ever write your bi
phy I will take you no you looked the ‘nyi
yonrtlividende come in twenty per cent.
lnrgerthnn you ever anticipated. or he
morning on your way to business or
your first child was born. or the morning
trite-r your conversion, when hcnven haul
mill-ll in on your soul. The most. occurred
homuncnli of all the earth are the pessi-
mi~ts. who. whether they judge individual
or national clnlr;lcter.anll whether tie
wield umqnc or pm. are filled with anathe-
nmtimtion. and who have more to my
Iihout the Inchirs on the cheek of hen tty
than of the Mlnriee» nml sunsets not
flush it.
Alllimv‘A's nrvr run-3'1).
It Isllltvrl importnnt that this country
have right icims concerning Romain, ‘for
among all the notions this shit-of hen "en
. winten in e palace at St. Peterohnrg, hut
3:1"le one
emperor he been on the throne.
m winter pollen lin- been changed Into
3 museum and n picture and n
place clue-t levees. He upend- hlo lum-
rnor in the pollen at Pcurhof. fifteen or
twenty miles from St. Pet-reborn his on-
tumor at the pal-ca rt Gretnchne, and his
h quite a different part of the city to that
occupied hytho winter palm. He rides
through the street: unattended, except by
the empress at his Ilde and thodrlver on
the box. There is not. person in thin-mil.
enee morefree from fear of h-rm than he
is. His subjects not only admire him but
nlmoot. worship him.
There are crank: in Russia, but have we
not. had our Charles Guiteeu and John
Wilkes Booth? “But," says some one,
“did not the Russians kill the father of the
present emperor!" Yen, but in the time
that. Rustin has had one urination of
emperor Amelie: has had two president.
unstimulated. “But is not the emperor on
nutrient!" By which you manurhne he
not power without restriction? Yes, but
it all depends upon what use a man makes
of his power. ,
Are you an nutocrat in your factory.“
on nutocrnt in your more, or an ntltocrnt
lin your style of business? It all dependu
,on what use you make of your mover,
whether to bless or toopprats, and from
the time of Peter the Great—that Russian
who was the wonder of all time. the em.
GRAND OIL HEATER
unokoorrmellondwmmptyour roomfor
meant-n hour. .
STURTEVANT’S
III OTIEETO
'nny other religion; that nothing but pence-
{uswin is America's IK‘SI. friend. There Peml' WIW became incognito I 5MP ell"-
hzu not been on hour in tlw lust St'VPl'ty- [renter that he might help ship carpentcre,
live years. that the r-llEpu-nnck of free Illfiti- and nmechnnicthot he might help mechan-
tnliom in America would not have on led its. and put on poor men’s garb that he
forth frnnl all the «ll-.lulzisms of l-iurlype might sympathize with poor men,nml who
and Asia at eimut of glmlxms wide or earth in his last words said: “My lord, lmn dy-
nnd IIl'Pp :H pl-rditiun. But whoever vise ing. 0h, help my unbelic I"——I any from
foiled us, Rum-in llt‘th’ did, and oboe-Iver: that timethe throneof Russia has, for the
else wan doubtful. Rumin never mm. Ruse f most pun, heenoecnpied by rulers as benef—
sin, then on old government, smiled on the
crzulh-ol' our government while yet in its
c-nrliret infmn-y. Empnws (‘zrllu'rim of
lln~~in in TTIiorthe-realmutsofl'eml kin
interferenw that our thirteen calories
might not godown under the cruelties of
W'II'.
A unin, in 1813, Ilusnin stretched forth
\vzrr-i us A merciful Ill’llllI. When
dreadful civil war was rn:ing and the
to
. or
\m
thunder clouds of northern and southern,
valor clnahmi. Rustin pructlmlly Salli to
the notions» of Europe, "Keep your hands
off and let the brave men of the north 41ml
the aonth settle their own troubles." l rt»
heaned some of those scenes totheemrx ror
Inst July, saying. “You were prolmbly too
young to remember the pmition your fire
ther look ut that time." but with rmlinnl
smile, he rvornuzdml, “Uh, you, I remember,
I remember." and there mm :In m-centno
tion of ”it"“tvrllrl which «lemomtrntev to
me that thus v-n-urrrnwshaal often been
talked of in the imporinl house-hold.
I stood no New York Buttery during the
war, n< l fillillllfit’ many or you did, looking
all through :1 nmgnilying glass upon I!
fleet of Illusion ships. “What are trey
doing thorn!" I asked. null 50 every one
Mined. “What business have the Russian
warships in our New York hurhv r?"
“'nnlcnnn- that another fleet of Rim-lion
ships WIN in Sun l'nlncinnlmrbor. ”\l‘hnt
docs this rumor?" our rulers united, hut‘tlitl
not get mum-diam.:umwr, In tin-helm".
Amerirmi harbors the Iluxvinn fleets
seemed mood mil-op. Their gnarl. mouth:
of iron will.» out n word, and the Iinsflnn
flag, whether Hunting: in the air or tln‘xlp
ing by the ll:rz~.mfi'. made no answer to
our lflqlllnii IH'lli‘Si.
“'lllinm ll. Sewnrol..~vrn-mry of some.
uni-ml the Russian minnter at Washing-
ton the meaning of [INN Ilusbhln shipk in
American milersnnd got no Silllsfltchllry
mponse. Admiral Farragut sold to :1
Russian officer IIIN‘I’ dining in the home
of tbecminrnt politician, ’l'hnrlmv Wet-d,
that mulu-r nnd unrnnker of presidents,
"\tht ore you doing how with than.» line
slim “NM-Ia of war?" Not until the u'ur
“11> over mu it found out that in cash ol
foreign intervention all the guns nnd‘the
lost gun of flu-5c two fleet» in New York
and San Francisco harbors Were to own in
fllllvllllpusnll upon any foreign ahip'tlmt
ehould dare to interfere with the rip-hi. of
America-nu, north and moth, to settle their
own controversy. ‘
Ilut fut those flee-ts and their presence in
American Wlilk‘rfi there can be no doubt
thuttwoof the mightieat lillflullfillf iiunlpv
vvonld have mingled in our light. llurlfor
those two flu-ls the American governuh'nt
would have llt‘t'fl today only it none in ill-'4
tury. Iderlnru Ilt’IUI’t'(;IlII nn-l the notion
that I IN’III‘TI' liumin rmvrd the I'nin-ll
.‘Stntcsof Ann-rim. Lust .lnlylelnaljlm
fon- n grout throng of Row-inn.» in thc rm
lmrrnssing lhlhlllflll of l-pt-lth‘ltlx to unlnw
Iliener three-Afmirlhu of which mulsl not
understood my luntzunge (my mom thnjn I
could understood theirs. lint then-“Turn
two mum-s limt they thoroughly until-r
otwcl ml \vcll ltz-l you nnolernluml them, ltnd
the utteruurc of lhme two home» bronhht
forth an occlunmlion tlrnt inn-l0 liu- "lly
hull of St. Petemhurg quote from IIIIII do
tion atom- to IUW‘I‘H. nml IIIUIN' twu on nm
were "lit-urge Worthington" null “Aim
lmrn Lincoln.”
Now in it. not Important (but we nlunhl
feelrighl luwurll thnt Iniuhty.thnt (,lml
uiven friend of more than on:- bnnc‘n-il
your»! I'm, bet-now it in n nutlun of n ore
pm-«lhilitics than any other. except on
own. should we cultivate ltn frh-mlu-lip.
Them in n vim rvnlm of itnw'm M yet on-
occupied. If the pupulnllon of the not of
Europe were wuml into Itmmiu it would
heonly partially occupied. After awhile
Amt-rim will be N) no” populated Ilmtithe
titles of elulurnllun will go the other may,
end by milnwln from Rum-In nt [hinting
ntrnilnwwlwrn Akin comm within ”titty
six miles of joining .-\nwrlen~milllon of
pruplo trill pom down through Itlrmin in!
Siberia. IIIIII on down through nil the; re
[ion-t waiting for the cirllizntlon of lthe
lent century to command culture great
harvest» and build ml hty cliicn. }
What the United SI It" now urt- on the
western hemisphere Run-tin will be our"
eastern lu-mioplwre. Not only IK'f'flII. - ul
Vbut Itouin lure been to our republic. int
because of whet she will he. let namlm
the defamation of III rim pertain: to that
great empire. If Humberto illIuflI to‘ In
the friend of A merien. America can ndorrl
to be the friend of finale. And now!
ml todo what I told the emperor end the
empreon and all the leaped-l femlly at he
glare of I’m-rho“ would do if lover
t'lt to America. and that fl to on ex
Dome of the walnmnles which have
announced and reiterated And my
union Bunnie.
ammonia Arawrmm. I
Cniumny the Fink-The emperor nod all
the Imperial femlly are In perpetual d
of Assassination. They on motion by
prim" in the «Inter trainee. and main
with dynamite hove been fonmldng nd
the winter palace. They am not vent n
forth. except preceded and follower] Ill
“mod-II by 3 meet elaborate Irllll
joint.
Hymn-lotto lull-ti other. a
ham tree from worn t that .
when -
h ,
"y; the, grantlfnther of the present emperor.
3 Nicholas had for the dominant idea of his
icent and haul and sympathetic as they
Were powerful.
To go no further back tlmn Nicholas,
administration the enmucipotion of the
serfs. When it nus found that he preu
meditatrd the freedom of the serfs he re-
ceived the following letter ol threat. from
n deputation of noblcmen: "Your Impe-
rial Majesty—We learn that the com»
‘ oil and senate of the empire have
before them for deliberation, with your
sanction, the plan to abolish serftlmn
throughout the Rznsinn empire. We
lire perfectly Willing: to abide by your
majesty’s defirion in this matter and to
loynlly support your will. but. there are in
Russia a large number of small owners of
serfs who are dependent for actual sub
nislence on the labor of those serfs, and
who consupmuly will be left wholly pen-
niless and v‘ilhont nny resource by the
operation of enmm-ipntimr, They will then
undoubtedly resort to III‘RWHIIP mt‘lhlli‘t‘fi,
and in the extremity of their despair will
put the life of your majorly in jempnnly."
The emperor replied in words thnt will
last as long as history, “Gentlemen. it]
should die because of my devotion to such
neaueeJ am willing to meet my fate."
“'hen. under an nttack of pneumonin
from exposure to severe weather in the
service of his people. that emperor put
down his head on the pillow of dust, Rus-
sia lost as good u monarch m was ever
crowned. Then come A It‘Xllmlt'f' t he 8w: Ind.
father of the present cmgu-rur. Amid the
mightiest opposition and innumerable
protests. 'he, with one stroke of his pen,
emancipated twenty million serfN. practi-
cally saying: “Go free. lie your own nun»
ters. and this is for you and your rhihln n
forever.”
0n the tiny he was ImScly‘nsmwinnlrll
(null I will parenthetical” say that I saw
his carnage in l-piinlers, M it looked when
he stopped from it, not to save bimgelf. but
to look after some poor people of the WKI'I‘Q‘I,
who hurl been hurt. and I an the bed on
which he died, the nuttms yet crirnsoo
with hislife'n bloody—on the day hr mm
Lssnneinuted he had on his table, found
potml to give the right of suffrage to the
people of Russia. I! it had not been for
the maeinntion he would how soon
signed that constitution, but that horrible
violence put things back, no violence al-
ways does.
What a marvelous character of kind-
nous was Alexander the Second. lb.- fnl her
of the present emperor. so that the pm.-
ent emperor. Alexander the Third. in-
herits his henignity. Alexander the
Second, hearing that n nobleumu bod
fornmlncnrmyirney again-st his life. had
him arrested. Then the eyes of the rrimi»
uni were lmnduud,nntl he wow. put inn
torringemml for name time tron-led on.
only stopping: for food. After awhile tne
bandage won mineral. and «opposing that
he must by that time have been ulrnmt in
Siberia he found tlmt he Wm at the door of
hisown home. Ilut thlnpuninhmeut rum
nnllle lent.
The amine emperor, having heard that a
poet had written a poem defamatory of his
ernprem, ordered the poet into his prov
once. Expecting great reverity, the pot-L
entered the pal-ct and found the emperor
ml emprero Ind duke: and duehm unth-
ered together. “Good morning,"nnltl the
urn ror tothe ufl‘rluler. "I hear you have
V: tit-n u must lieuntlful poem, and I have
pent for you that you may read It to us and
we may hnve the phronure of hearing it."
The man cried out. “Sr-ml me to Sliwrlu or
do Anything wlth me. but do not make mu
read this poem in your prmenee." Ila I'M
unopened to rend the drlmnnlory poem,
end then the rmprerlu, nunlutt whom It. was
nlmed,mld: "I do not think he will write
any more verses about us Insulin. het him
go." Ami no be was freed.
And now (‘Otlll’lt in Alexnmler the Third,
doing the inset things [rumble for the nu-
tion which he loves and which M nnlcntly
love: him. But whet an undertaking to
rule one hundred and twelve million peo
ple, mule up of one hunched trllm and
recon and eventing forty dlflerent lan-
gong“! But, notwithstanding all thin,
thlnp there more on morvelomly well.
end I do not bellm that «not live hun-
dred thousand nutrient; you would and
more than not perron who dlulllm the ero-
peror, M no that alumoy of «trend of
urmlurtlondmp- I0 all. It can tell no
latter.
mono: AID malt”.
Color-amt: Quentin" yr: 30 to Run-In
m r reverent esp allege, stopped
II: and gunman! there, and In
donut. Buimyoplolonlntmtfom
b dimmed In ital-lo it Is Menu hr
errant to be unturned. Ito-ei- In the only
country In Europe In which my Will!
we! not ermlned. I vet-rial In my hand,
tied herwlth until no that their title:
wold resumption! e‘lshtortenlluokr,
allot them from lid to) curling Illinois,
nfterwnrd, n free «institution that pro,
Houses,
‘ebhfilhl‘hx uni-plain:
Ibout hlm, and you youmlf haul better,
when hel-rrouml, look nfter your silver
rpoonr. I promise you. an honest man or
an honest women. that when you anthem,
n m-ny of you will—for European trovel
is destined to chenge its course from mouth-
orn Europe to those northern regime-you
will here no more molestation or super»
viral then in Brooklyn or in New York or
the quietest Long Island village.
Cult-tinny the 'I‘hlul—vlluuin and its ruler
no lo oppmed to any other religion except
the Greek religion llmt they will not allow
cation Ind imprisonment and outrage in
tolerable await the disciples of any other
religion. But what are the facts? I hm!
nlonn ride in St. l’etembnrg and it- rub
nrhe with the. prefect, A brilliant, efficient
and lovely man, who in the highest. otiicinl
in the city of St. Petersburg, and whose
chief business is to attend the emperor. I
laid to him. “I suppose your religion is
that of the Greek church?" “No," said he;
“I turn a Lutheran." "What is your reli-
gion?” I said to one of the highest nml
most. influentinl officials at St. Pelt-ruining.
He said, “I run of the CIIIII'CILNI England.”
Myself. no Ann-rival), of still another de-
nomination of (‘hriolinns nnrl never hav-
ing been inside (I (Em-it church in my life
until I went to Rania. could not have re—
ceived more consideration lnld i been logy
tiled in the Urx-ck church and all my Ii
worshiped at hurnlmrs. fin-«l it demon-
stunted to me very plainly that u man's re
ligiun in Russia has nothing to do with his
prefernlcnt for eithrroflleeur meiul poeh
lion, Th:- only qllt’rllulfl taken into eon-
sixlerntion nro honesty. fidelity. morality
and utlltlltlttiflti. I hurl not Iron in St,
I’vtt-mllurgnn hour Iit'flll't‘ I M‘t-th-d an
invitation lopn-uvh the (impel of t'hrivt
no I believed it, IIL‘FIIIIN :ili [Ill‘u have you
forgotten that llle I'rimmn war. whil-h
shook the. earth, grew out of Russia's». in»
tI-rfe-rrnre in lit-half of the pom-ruled
Christians of all nations in Turkey?
"Brit," say.» some one, "have tin-re not
been persecution: of other reimimw in Hus.
nin?" No doubt, jn-t us in other Illlll'n ;u
New Hnglnnvl we llerm'rl \vi'chl-i, and as
we Lillml Quaker“. nml n: the .Ivll‘n‘ in
Amcrit‘u hun- hn'n outrun-mid) (nu-uni
over More I can I'vlllruelu'r. :Indtllcl‘lli
nose in our land hove inn-n pelted. and
their atom. turn down. mod the ir way from
the steamer \\ hurt to their ill-Mined quar-
trrs trucked with their mvn Illowl. -The
devil of [h‘l’rll't'llllnll in in errrv hind nnd‘in
ullnges. Someofus in the IIltIt‘l‘rlll do
nominationa of l‘hriuluns in America have
felt thethruet of persu-uliun breathe we
thought dilfrrently or did things dim-mn-
ly from those who would, if tlmy had the
power. put us in n furnmw eight times
heated, one more degree of caloric than
Nelmchminrzmr's. Persecution! in all
hunk, but the emperor of llumin sanctions
none of them.
I haul a must mlidnnmry talk with the
emperorhbout the religions of the world.
nnrllie thinks nnd feels as you and Ida,
that religion is something between n man
and his (led. and no one hits 3 right to in-
terfere with it. You mny go right up to
SI. Petr-radium; IIIIII Simeon- u'ilil your
Episcopal liturgy, or your Dru-shyh-rinn
catechism, or your l'ongnlgntionulm 'a ill»
enrlism. or your Imnlersionlpt‘s Ilitflll‘lry.
or any other religionmnzl if you mind )lzllr
own nfl’wironrul let others mind ti rlh‘ yo;
will no: I... moicsinl.
mum: (axiom: ,, lii.l‘L"l'lill.
(‘nlnmny the Fourth ~ltu~l~ia is so very
grasping of territory. and :he N‘l‘llh to
want the world. But who: are the flu-h?
During the bust. century nml :1 quarter t In
linited States have taken [kisses-«ion of
everything betwcenthe thirteen volatiles
and the more or run. and Hugh-uni, clur
in: the ennu- length of time, has tn'un
lulauxsaiun of nearly three million squurv
mill-a. and by the extent of her domain
hnss milled two hundred and fifty millhm
population, while Ilussin hns nil-led durv
in}; that time only uni-«hull tlw number of
squan- milcs nnd about eighteen million of
poptllotion—England's advance of donmin
bytmrhumln-dnnrl fifty million rigs-ind!
RIINHIII'II advance of domain by eighteen
million. Whut n paltry Russian mlvmu-r
of domain by eighteen million in I'umpm‘r-rl
with the English advance of doumin by
two hundred and fifty million! The l‘uiml
Slates nnd I‘Inglnnil hm! better kw-prtlll
about extrnvmzunt nml extortiouzun- rn-
lumement of domain.
(‘nlumny the l-‘lfth—-§iiwrin in a den of
horrnnl, flllll today people are driven like
dllmll cattle: no trial is nlluninl In the
lllfipfl'tfil one»; they are put lllln quirk
“Iver mill”, Where they lire \vhlppwl uml
ltnrvml. and some- rhly Iltzrl IIIt‘IIlM'IVt‘H gt»
ilnz around without any hcml. some of
them do not get so for m Siln-rin. \t’mnrn,
after being IIHI to mikes in the Mtt‘l‘l‘, ltl’I'
dismiml and whipped to sleuth in the pron
eneo of bowling; mom Ulla-mien hrnrllwir
owu flesh also under the but rrntu.
llnt whnt are the forth! Thorium-no
kinder pt- lle' on I‘ltflh lhun tile Rumlnm.
and to mom of them arm-ll y i» an immuni-
hillty. I hold in my huml II card. You
see on it that red circle. That is the [luv-
erument’u mt] on n curd giving me per-
mission to vl-it All the prime of St. l’e-
territory,” 1 bud rrnmml n will; in that
direction. All the mom-nu" handmllhi»
can! to me he told me that e uni-no mm
at the door for my (Hermon! In viniting Iim
prisons. It to happened, huwrver, that I
wnucrowlletl with rngnuemnntu nml l muhl
not make the visitation. lint do you Imp
pow ouch cheerful permiwion and n rnre
Home to boot would lmve been nmmb-d me
If the primm of lttmln urn nun-h hell» on
enrth on they have hem tlmrilml to be?
I poked nn eminent. and distinguished
American. "ilnve you vlniteol the primate
of St. I’eienhurgulntl hmnlo they differ
from American pristine?" lie wpllnl. “l
hove Halted thrill, Ind they um M m-ll
ventilated and on wall comlltloned in every
mix-ct no the majority of the printout in
America." Are women whipped In the
rtreetl No: thntslntomeut comes from the
monument-y of lubrication. n menufoctmy
rim runs any mu] night, so thnt the sup-
ply may meet the demand.
SIIlIEIflA.
But how about Siberia! My answer in,
Blind-in the prison of ltussin,n prison
more then twice the size of the t'ulml
Bum John "ward. who did momlur
the Improvement of primer. on] the ref
ormntlon ofcrimln-Ir than any run tlmt
ever lived, his name uynonym for mercy
throughout t7hrlrleiulom, declared by
voice and pen that the ”intent of tramplin-
Intlnu of criminals from Russia to Siberia
war In numb-shin phenomenon; open
Ilr punlrhment rather than endn
meet, and alto hereon-e It true taking all
offender: hundreds of miles away from
their evil companion. John Howard,
after «linen-lug the plan of deportation of
A...
line before buying elsewhere. ‘
trill. So for ”their being hustled of! in
the night and not knowing why they no ‘
exiled or punhrhed hr concerned, all the
criminals in Russell; have, no open trial be
fore e jury jlnt on we lune in America, ex-
cept in revolmionnry or riotous times, and
you know in America at MII'II times the
Writ of buttons corpus hr Mupfltdul.
There ere in llnwsln grand juries and
petit juries, and the right to challenge the 3,
jurors, and the prisoner confronts his u» l
tuner. and, mrrk this, as in no other noun. i
try. after-a prisoner has been condemned l
by juries and judges he may appeal to the
l
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ll, Jackets, -
rich, not! when we roll you a Cloak for 85 dollars we guarantee
to give you n hundred cents for your doll
.. ,
H. ‘ KRIEGER,
1' Under Mahackemo Hotel.
bdfllhmfllrt m ultilf‘l’itllllo hill. an.» m humid, I" all in Tayztlfnz‘mW—M! ,
your were nobleman or people desperately
upon-ed totlle emancipation of the rerfh.
And none of the political prisoners in rent
to the famous Kern mines.
For the most part you are dependent for
information upon the testimony of prio-
noon who Are sent to Siberia. They all
ray they were innocent. Prisoners always
on innocent. Ark all the prisoners of
America today, "Guilty or not guilty!”
nineteen out. of twenty will plend
“Not guilty." Ask them how they like
their prison-and how they like therlflr,
and how they like the government of the
1 , w , wmarlals, vale.
lrnonoedot Indier‘coincontoftowntohuytheir winter
in. We do not ndveri’uo notch-penny roles, nor do we in.
tend to tell you» garment for til worth 810, or oné_for to.”
worth-‘15. ‘Wo hove one prieefor the poor as wellartor the
on. Comede our
minister of the interior and after that to , - '
the senate, and after that to the emperor, i United States, and you "in find these pris-
eneroulmire the authority thnt nrmted
who is constnmly portioning. A: I mm? "m . w
the violent and mnnierom are sent to the ‘ them punished them Ill“ about ‘5
Bast laterial is lined. Combining Durabililyaml .
“ Nakingltthoboetwhtweamleu Bhoeinthemnrket.
., EVERY PAIR WARRANTED.
Call and examine them before purchasing any other shoe, at
H'. s. BROWN’S,
South Main Street. 80. Norwalk. 2 ‘
FH msn & BRo.
Plumbing. Gas-Filling, Tin and Sheet Iron will.
Brick Set Ranges, Uncle Nick, Duchess and New York Rangers
best quality of Rubber Hose, Decorated China Din—
ner and Tea Sets, Plain China, Agate and
Tin Ware’ at ,Lowest Prices.
hardest part of Siberia, but the more mod- '
crate criminals to more propitious parts of
Siberia, and those who have oulyn little
crimiunlity to palm of Siberia yumitively.
genial for climate. for you ought. to know. I
if you do not. know, that Siberia is so large
and wide and loin; that it. ranches from
{rigidity to lorrirlily. from almmt arctic
him! to climate as mild {B that of Italy.
Run your finger alum: the map of the
world, and you will final that the [om-st:
part. of Elberin in on the forty-fifth degree
of latitude, and the richwt part of Italy is
on the wine for! yvlifth ill-gru- of latitude,
sotlult Siberia rent-hen from the furs nt
STOP DEFAMA'I’IOX.
But you ink how will this Russophohin,
, with which so many have been bitten and
poimrml, be cured? By the God of Justice
blessing such books and pamphlets as are
now coming out from I’rofeesor tie Around,
of Washington; Mr. Horace Cutter. of San
Francisco; .llr. Morilli, of England, and by
the opening of our American gates to the
writings of some “verity-four of the Run
sine nolhnm and nulhnresses, in some re
specks as brilliant as the three or four
Rumiun authors already hnorvn-the trans
f lotion of those twenty-four authors, which
' l an: authorized from Erwin to utter free
f of charge to any msponsible American pub
the north to the [Hill] leaf ions at. the south.
It Int-s been Ih-mnnstmtnl that ninrty
r rent. of the Russian criminnls mlo-
nlzcd into Sibel-in v.10 into n clinmte milder
than New York—n land slingflll with birds
and embroidered with llorn enough nmniv'
fold to ronfnuml the botzmirts. Much of
the suil is a I’I‘Il loom,:md imrveatsrwnit
for :t plow to liberalc- them.
\l'inn n criminal is sent in Siberia. in the
vast nmjorlzy of law-Q it gIVl“ him unop-
pommity mun-dam new hum under the
Ih'fif plus-iblei irrmml;um->. The l‘l’tllllllltl
is alliam-d to lake hiya or ln-r family along,
and that is :: lin'rt‘)‘ nmytlwrcnmury umnm.
In Hm Illlll'hrlll'l’l' mimw of Sllwriu~the
hunlret place of rxpulrinliun ~-<>nl_v one
futlrlll of the miners Ill‘l'l'l'lilllll'tl“. 'I'ilo
othrr threefonrthv gothch: In u‘they
(home It nu n pint-r- :1» mm tm'lr living.
After being in bilnrrm nubile the 10n-
(h-nmed go to running». livehhawl. and
they come to own their own farms and
orchards and vineyunL. runny of these
people routing to wealth, :md thonxunds of
them under no imluu-nn-nt \vouzd leave
threw porn of Siberia which :m- purmliws
for mlubriry and luxuriant». Now which
do you think is the beat style of n primal——
SIIK‘I’HI or runny of emr :lfrlt‘rlt‘flll prisons?
Whennmun mtmnimn big (‘rliilr‘ in our
country. the judge lmh info the IiԤ;lzt-
eued face of the culprit, and says. "You
have been found guilty; 1 sentence you to
the penitentiary for ten yours." lle gum
to prison. He is shut in lit-tween Ii-ll?
walls No sunlight. No fresh mr. No
bathroom. Before he hm: served his nu
years he dies of consumption or in so on-
ervatrd thnt for the rest of hia life he sir-l
with folded hnnrismu \wnxzinq invalid.
In preference!“ the 5 lit in life of the.
average American priwner, give» me Si-
berin. Besides that, when urlendvra come
out of primn in America, what chance
ban-they? Ania the poorly Mlppurfml so
c‘etira formed to get these people p1 u-m
for work. .\~‘k me, to vrhnm u.- no};
h rite-1i rome from till (he pnwih im—
plnrlhl: wl’mr they shall cl». Xnunl- mil
commend the-m. Tlu- pullur nt' lupin m.
tionlum thi‘lrchttrk. Who “opium-m.
ploy in factory or store :1 manor woman
who. in answer to the qur‘illnfl. "\vizrrr
did you live lost?" should make fur 1-. pl)”,
"State's prison or Auburn or .‘Inymnrlr
sing?" Now in SIIR'I'III they imvenln-m-r
chum-e. They are never ”when of lb crim-
lnaL. but as unfortunzlles, and they on. al-
lowed every oplxirtnnityuf retrieving rhrlr
loot reputation and lost fortunes.
Itnlketl with the provident of the Nu
tionnl Society of “meta for the I'lelu'nlinn
and Murulimlion of the (‘hilolren of Film"
rinn Convicts. The president of [hm w i-
ety, appointed by the emperor. Is a lady of
great occoniplishnwntsl nml much rym»
patby, which illumlnes her face and makes
tearful her eycu and tremolom her wire,
The evening I [xi-sell or her holler: in r‘r.
Petersbun: WM one of the nwnmmble
events of my Ilfelllllr’. I will not attempt
to pronounce the noun- nf that noble omn-
nn appointed by thm-mpI-ror nubr presi-
dent of the National Society of lion-ml fur
the Education and Mornlizm ion of t be! ‘1sz
drrn of Convict». I’ll-nae to name any snrh
national society in our country, suppnrml
by government. for taking cure of the chil-
dren of convicts.
You know. if you know anything, that
there in notimnce in this country fum
man whom been imprisumed, or for hiss
children. God pity themnml hum—n the
time when we shull, by mm» mulnnul in~
ntitutlon estl‘illleI by thermomew of the
United States, imitate the mercy of the
Rumhln government toward the innocent
children of impriwnul nth-mien, II» who
charges cruelty on the imperial family and
the nobility of llumle belles men end wum»
en no rncioun «ml benignnnt as ever
breathed oxygen.
rut: czrn's simmer.
The merciful clmrncterof the present em-
peror Wmt well Illustrate-l In the following
occurrence: The mun who mpervlud the
min-llama the father of the prevent
emperor, standing In the snow that nwlnl
day when tlw dynnmitr, nlmtlnml to piecm
the legs of Alexrrmh-r the Swornl»! my
the min who unpervlml all thin fled from
St. Pen-rshnm and quit llumht. lint after
awhile the man repented of his crime. and
wrote to the emperor necking for forgin-
nm for the murder of his father, end
promluimt to be a good citizen. and linking
if he might come back to “main. The em-
peror pardoned the murderer of hill hither,
and the forgiven emuln is now living in
Ito-rte nulm recently dmwl.
When I talked to the empreu wheel-ping
the sympathy felt in America for tho mf-
feringr of the drought mmck rvglnns of
Rotate, the evinced nu nhoorhing inherent
end a mmpomloo IllII nn emotion of man-
ner Mid Ipvech such as we men can hardly
ruliu, Incense It seems that God has re-
mod for women to: her amt ulmment
the count, the ten jeweledoorunetof ten—
deruero and nomlnieerntlou. It you my
that it one a men. a divine man that come
oholhhed from our American navy. lint
Irlmlmde from Rural: to Slim-In, com»
rounded it to Shula-rd. ,
If a rim commit- nmrder In Itemi- he
I: nettle-streamed u we «batman him.
around lode-Ill tournament.
lulu um II II the only country
Mdtlnthmltyhu toll
brownfield!“
how III!“ the llticnl prime"- hauled
of! in Siberia? recording to the mtlmony
or the moat Melly-null literary enemyof
Eur-II. only tour hundred and forty~three
petition! pvt-ohm were rent to Bil-em In
Went! ’UII‘D. flow runny politic-l prime
maid in no ”More «luring our
civil our? all
l‘
comb-m
iI Ill
w n- r:
lw'
liaising house tlmt will do them justice.
Let these Bunions tell their own story,
for they are the only pnes fully competent
, to do the work. no none but Americans can
fully tell the wiry of Americn.umlns none
but Germans can fully tell the story of
Germany, and none but Englishmen can
fully tell the Mary of England. and none
but Frenchmen can fully tell the storyot
France. Meanwhile let the internationll
defamation come to on end. Cease tospenk
evil of dignities merely because they are
dignitirs. and of presidents merely because
they are presidents. and of emperors merely
became they are mnperom
And may the blessing of Gulthe Father,
and God the Sun and God the Holy Gilest
he upon all the members of the imperial
household of Ilus>ln, from the illustrious
head of that inmily down to the princess,
Devon year.» of nge, who came skipping into
my pom-nee in the palace of Peterhof Inst
summer! Glory to God in the highest,nnd
on earth pence, good will to men!
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