Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-08
SIBERIAN CRIMES.
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against them because we cannot look at
them effectively; we feel we are parti-
cipants in those crimes. We feel we
are guilty ourselves.
The man who DEGREES the heinous
deeds of Siberia is called in our Official,
diplomatic language our good and great
friend; we receive his plenipotentlaries
at Washington; we send TO him, with
terms Of love and affection, our repre-
sentatives to ST. Petersburg. In the
banquet halls of nations wa associate
with him III terms of frienship, we shake
his CORY hand and figuIatvely press TO
our hearts his being heavy with the
walls, the misery of his fellows.
In ascertaining the genesis of our
own feelings it would seem that, by en-
larging the field of the wrong. we render
the solution more difficult. The reverse
is true. BY understanding the reason of
our own action and feelings the path we
should adopt in this matter is pointed
with all the greater distinCtness,
Do | mean to suggest that we, the
United States, should break off diploma
tic relations with RusslaY Indeed not
A thief is not induced to drop his thiev
ing instincts by another thieis breaking
off with him while he himself continues
his theving practice. A murderer is not
induced to reform because another muir
derer, who practices his crime all the
while, turns his back upon him. 1t is
not pretence or even precept, or in some
cases physical force, that brings about
reform. 1t is EXAMPLE.
Now can we hold up to the world in
general. or to Russia in particular, that
example that will shame her out of her
present criminal actlonp Do we show %
proper regard to justice and humanity :
DO we show proper respect TO the dig
nifty of man and w0manhood? Do we
practice that human Difference and soil
citude to infancy that distinguishes the
civilized man from the savagep No |!
Here in these United States. there is
not one, but a score of fostering Sibe-
rias Every mine, every factory, every
tenement house, every farm that is eaten
up by the slow process OF interest, every
such is Siberia among us, Il Siberia
all the more mischievous because less
visible, less tangible. We have no one
Gar here, no visible knout, no physical
wounds inflicted; but in fact they are
here all the same.
Knowing this, the road we should
take becomes clear. With yourselves
it lies to stop the outrages in Siberia
right here in this country. The day you
determine to wipe out our own Siberias
that day the Russian Siberia will cease
to exist. Wipe out all these United States
he iyin hn nd
the instruments OF production. Then
we may protest to a purpose.
In 1922 the Holy Alliance, with Russia
at his head, undertook to suppress de-
mocracy 1t sent its emissarles abroad
to browbeat the nations, But here in
the United States when the Russian
= minister announced his masters de-
signs, John Adams fatty informed him
OF the existence and prepUnderance of
Democracy as against Imperialism.
From that moment the Holy Alliance,
while it still pref nded to live and do,
reeled and staggered, smitten at its
vitality by the most potent of weapons
the iirmness of people actuated by and
practising a noble example.
Let us there fore set the example OF
justice here in our own midst and then
when we raise our voice it cannot fail tC
be needed.
Mr. Zametkin made a speech in Rus
sian, and the following resolutions which
were read by Benz, j. Gretch. were un
animously adopted;
"The nameless, blood Curdlng outra
GEES perpetrated by the servants and OF
fciais OF the Gar of Russia on the per
sons of men and women in Siberia, whost
only crime was to love liberty with al
their heart and soul, have sent thrill OF
horror through the whole civilized world
If our civilization, If humanity itself, Ii
not miserable shame, we hold it to be
the sacred duty of every nation in whoso
heart the love of liberty still lives, not
only to protest against such outrages
but to take such steps as may etleCtuaIly
prevent their repetition.
Therefore, be il resolved that we, Cit
zens of New York and vicinity, in mas,
meeting assembled, do HEREBY express
our loathing and detestatlon of a Govern
ment capable of committing such crimes
as those pelpetrated by the Cars mi
Mons in the Siberian dungeons.
THAT we reverence the victims OF
those crimes as the noblest and most
exalted champions of liberty and huma
nifty.
THAT we hold it to be the duty of the
United States Government, in the name
of the people of this country WHOSE
fathers have fought and bled for liberty
to enter solemn protest before the
throne of the Car against the perpetra
ton of such unspeakable horrors.
"That copy of these resolutions be
forwarded to the Secretary Of State il
Washington,
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