Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-05
NO EXTRADITIONl |
THE SENATE MUST REJECT
THAT RUSSIAN TREATY.
Indignation of the American People
Strong Protest from Boston
Another brave Woman Sacrificed
by the Car.

by the Car.
The wave of Indignation against Rus
STA is steadily mounting. Should the
United States Senate ratfy the extra
dition treaty which our plutocratic adj
| ministration, with its SO called Plumed
knight at the head of its State Depart.
ment, had the indecency to conclude
with the representatives of the Gar
that august body" of shoddy patricians
may find that they have at last exhausted
the patience of the American people,
We gave in our last number the pro-
test of organized labor IN st. Louis. In
many other cities similar action has
been taken. The last we heard from
was Boston, where resolutions denounc.
ing the treaty were passed at an eight
hour meeting, held last week at Grand
Army Hall under the auspices of the
Socialist Labor party. David Taylor
presided. At the conclusion of an ad-
dress by E. M. Chamberlin on the eight
hour question, supplemented by re-
marks from P. F. O'Neill, T. B. Spillane,
Jos, Waldock, E. NJ. White, and others,
the Russian treaty was taken up, the
speakers declaring that its ratification
should be regarded as public calamity.
The aforesaid resolutions were then
passed. They not only protest against
its ratification, but state that it is the
duty of this free republic to extend its
material aid and moral sympathy to the
oppressed people of the earth, and re-
quest our government to use its power
for the adoption of humane policy by
the Russian despot. AS we 60 TO press,
a grand mass meeting is being held at
Faneuil Hall, which score of we'll
known speakers have promised to ad
dress, among whom the Rev. John
Brown of Fall River, E. M. Chamberlin,
Geo. E. McNeill, Mrs. II. s. Lake, Mrs.
Abby M. Diaz, Rev. Rexford John C.
Fitzgerald, II. Robinson, and David
Taylor.
In its issue of last Thursday the N ew
York Sun published communication
from George w. KEENAN,, which our
plutocratic Senators in Washington will
do well to peruse before they outrage
the American people by ratifying the
proposed extradition treaty. Mary
Tsebrikova, a Russian woman of noble
birth and nobler mind, is TO be sent to
Siberia for having recently addressed to
the Gar frank, earnest, but temperate
and respectful petition for liberty, JUS
tice and the redress of wrongs. A copy
of this memorial is the hands of Mr..
KEENAN,.
1T is", he says, calrn, reasonable
review of the existing state of things in
Russia, coupled with an earnest appeal
for more liberal and progressive po-
licy in the administration of the affairs
of the empire. The address is too long
OF course, for use in such communica-
ton as this, but l hope soon to print it
in full, and in the mean time | quote
its concluding paragraphs. They are as
follows:
Russia paid dearly for he policy of
Nicholas |. The bitter lesson of the Cri-
mean war compelled Alexander IL. at
the end of the fifth and beginning of the
sixth decade of the present century to
change his policy. Is it possible that
another such bitter lesson is necessary
in order to make manifest the decay of
existing imperial institutions! Salvation
is to be found only in return to the re-
forms of your father and in further
extension and development of them,
Freedom of speech, inviolability of per.
sonal rights, freedom OF assembly, open
courts, ample opportunities for educa
ton suited to all capacities, prevention
OF administration license and a national
assembly in which all classes shall be
represented by delegates of their own
choslng-these are the only things that
will save the State.
The measure of endurance is filled to
overfowing. 1t may be that revolution
which shall overthrow the monarchy is
far distant, but local disorders are proba-
bic, and the district rulers appointed by
you, and thrown as an additional bur
den upon the shoulders of the rural com
mune will do more to incite such disas-
tiers than will all the efforts of our revo-
lutionists. The nation will grow up to
bio dshed. Honest citizens look forward
with terror to the miseries that sooner