Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-04-25

Ieisue Win the iunCtiUnarltS, en-
riched themselves II was the Isu
Count TOlstOi who, complying viii
n request OF the minister in charge
Of the means Of communication.
Possietti. gave orders 10 uyslIuA a..
pamphlet which exposed the exact
Truth and the criminal facts.
The government appreciated the |
force OF the press, and this is why it !
pays large subsidies TO its press, a
press which it patronizes through the
lspravniks. The government also
employs Provccating agents in the
revolutionary pres; it accepts with
open arms those who have BETRAYED
the revolutionary press, Tut il COM
mits an error in estimating their
force. The word Of q traitor cannot
have any influence over a sincere
conviction.
A REVOLUTION PREDICTED.
The experience or the past reign
and your own experience must have
demonstrated 10 your majesty that
the policy OF persecution does not
tam is object. the day VIII com,
shen the Persecution Of the night
Of thought will seem rs the memory
ola bad dream: but | fear that The
advent Of such day will be accom-
panied with flames and fiCoIs Of
Olood. The whole OF yGur system
pushes those who are dissatisfied
into tie campo OF the revolutionists.
| even those who feel strong aud
natural repulsion for all ideas Of
bioOd or violence. For one imprud-
ent word, for n revolutionary print
often taken ont Of mere curiosity. =
young man, Z mere child. is declared
10 be political criminal. We have
political criminals who are only
fourteen years old vino are cOnfiI 81
10 cellular confinement. The govern
ment that rules 10000, 600 people
trembles before children. In our
country people are sent for twelve
years 10 Eastern Siberia for Of
fen ses which IN Austria would lie
punished by two weeks simple
imprisonment. The youth Of TIE
country thus trampled upon becOmc
red fevolutiOAists. I.have n horror
of bloOdshs,l. no matter who may lie
the victim, bat when, for the spill
ing of blood. we find that ON one
side decorations are distributed, and
on the other there is the rope and
the gibbet. il Is easy to understand
the sympathies of young. enthus-
iasiic, and heroic youths. By
the side Of the Draconian punish
ments inflicted by the tribunals we
have also the puni=hments by adj
ministrative order. BY these latter
the government gets rid Of its Gu
emies against whom there j. in
sufficient proof. A man b killed,
not because there are established
proofs against him, but because pO-
lice fuuctiOuaries are inwardly con-
WINGED OF his guilt, and such cOnvic-
/ ton j. blsed on the reports Of spies,
compared 10y the higher function
! aries themselves 10 "a source OF
troubled wa'eus." This Is tine way
orders OF deportation are drawn up:
"ThOugh there are no proofs on
| which 10 condemn ---, still he
is exiled 10 -" These warrants
will be transmitted 10 posterity, and
il Is said that your ma esty's sigma
ture is affixed to such Oriers.
The political prisoners are the vie
Tins Of arbitrary conduct which nj
times aSsumss an absolutely savage
character. Minister Toistoi was
himself alarmed by the extent OF the
| spOliatiOns and ruhsslcnes. Every
prison jailOr, every etdpe officer,
/ NAV, without danger 10 himself rob,
strike, mlTtyrize the unfortunate
prisoners, the poor women aud chill
dren. The lower falls stone the
1 greater the shock; thus each order
l OF repression descending lower aud
lower in the administrative hier-
archy augments progressively in its
| destructive force and falls on de-
fenseless victims. Ali their COM
| ulaints are useless. The victims
protest by voluntary starvation, or
by some act % violence which is Of
ten an act OF folly. All these
measures Of terrorism, which COM
mense with exile under admin
istratiye order. and end by the
| gibbet, do not effect the object for
which they are intended. The num-
Der Of political criminals will in
crease every day. the imagination
Of the young people Will become
Accustomed 90 the iea OF the exile,
TO the execution: their number will
I 90 on increasing because OF these
political offeuses Is firmly rooted in
our political aud social conditions.
( 4 government which defends Itself
by means that are condemned by all
public moral sentiment, such Is eN-
lie by administrative order, spies,
fiogging, the gibbet, and bicodshed,
| itself tearhes 20 the rcvolutiOn.st the
Jesuitical principle that the object
justiiies The means. Where the vic
Tins of tauiocacy die by tine thou
sands, where people are logged TO
death with in.punity. an ardent
feeiing. . comm 'sseIa'lon wili,always
bring into existence those who are
willing 10 seek revenge.
The policy Of Nicholas l. cost
Russia a heavy price. Your Ma
jesty's refoFm made Russia go back
ward toward this lugubri0us epoch.
The lessons taught 10y the Crimean
campaign compelled your father to
alter the policy Of Nicholas 1. Is an
equally cruel lesson Necessary 10 lay
bare the fOttenness Of similar state
Of affairs?
Your salvation depends on your
return u the reforms commenced by
your father. Freedom Of speech,
invielsbi!ity Of the person, the free
dom Of meeting, publicity given 10
all trials, education widely accessl-
bleIO all, the suppression Of arbi-
trary administrations, and the
eonvocation OF the zeniskisober. or
national parliament-in this Is
salvation. One word from you and
we shall have in Russia n pa
cific revolution which will consti-
tute a luminous page VI history.
Should you, however, desire 10
leave in the history Of your country
a sinister blot, you wililnot hear the
maledictions of posterity, but your
children will hear it, aud what n
horrible legacy you will have left
world; | am but an atom among a
crowd Of millions Of beings similar
to myself whose fate Is in your
hands. And yet my Coincidence,
my right, my duty As a Russian
woman compel me TO speak out
what is on my mind ami to say
what had TO say.
MARIA TsHEBRIRoVA.
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