The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-12
EXTRADITION WITH RUSSIA
Gen. John B. Turchin Tells Why the
Pending Treaty Should Be Ratified.
President Adams Defines the Position Of the
Union Pacific As To Its Debt to the Gov
ernment-Other Washington News.


Cen John B. Turchin Tells Why the San
ate should CONFIRM the Agreement
Special 70 the IndanaDolis Journal
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1l--Col. Charles de
Arnaud well known Russian officer, who per-
formed valuable services for the Union cause
during the late war, has just received from Gen.
John B. Turchin letter in reference to the
Russian extradition treaty. in which that gen.
tleman criticises soma OF the statements made
by Mr.. George Kcnnan, in his series OF articles
on the Siberian exiles, as we'll the statements
made by Stepniak in letter recently published.
General Turchin was lieutenant-colonel in the
Russian army. He served this country faith
fully as brigadier-general during the war. and
In now living in Radour. Washington county,
Illinois In his letter he says:
81 read the two articles of George Kennau In
The Century, on The Prison Life of the Russian
Revolutionsts.' They are elaborate preliminary
articles. 1t 10 evident that the man has given a
good deal of time to collection of information
and documents In the first articles he states
what ia the object Of the book, and If he is sin
cere liz As evident that his general premises are
wrong He says that the principal cause of all
tho attempts on the life of the Car ls the bad
treatment of the arrested revolutionists by the
authorizes, which produced such intense
hatred among the Nihilists that they want to
revenge it. This il a wrong superstition, If he
H. sincere. and shows that he has net studied
lnarchism. which Is exactly the same thing
that pihilism il, as Bakounin was the originator
of both. suggest If the government, instead
Of putting arrest ed Nihilists in common prisons,
had pnt them in palaces and surrounded them
with luxuries, it would not produce . PARTICLE of
difference in their methods and objects. 1t
looks as il Mr.. KEENAN,, rowing through
Siberia ana seeing many educated Nj
hilists there suffering had naturally had his
sympathy strongly excited IN favor of them,
and by the misrepresentation received an i'm
preston that, because they wanted to ameliorate
the order of things in Russia, the government
treated them inhumanlv. And this is be-
lieve, his mistake. He doesn't know enough of
the creed Of the fellows. They are the civilized
thugs Of Europe. az there are wild thugs OF In
dia Their doctrine is to kill everybody who is
the present order of things They commence
with the Gar, but they would kill officials and
even private individu als IL they find them dan
gerous to their objects. They have particular
code of morals, too, like the Jesuits have. They
will lie, forswear, deceive, and do hum
dishonorable but to them they are
honorable, because they help them to attain
their objects. Neither government nor
private individual can deal with them in any
ordinary way. Knowing what anarchism is.
and having experience practically as to what it's
teaching may lead, the in Chicago.
and partly in New York. it would be a folly for
this country to refuse to make the proposed
treaty with Russia. Here the anarchism is not
better than in Europe. They do not acknowl-
edge q political republic the best form of gov
eminent; they despise it, anarchy is their
panacea for all evils, and only anarchy can lead
the world to happiness. Were in Washington
or il was asked by the chairman of that COM
mitsee my idea of it, l would write MIN, but as
1t is don't care. Mr.. Struve ought to find
parties to support him before the Senate"