The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-16
THE MUSCUVITE KINGDOM.
Siberia and Nihilism as Told by William j.
Armstrong.

u.
Armstrong.
A rather warm Saturday night in the
dog days is not conducive to the gathering
of large audiences, or even to listen to so
interesting theme as that of Nihilism in
the Russian empire, but very intelligent
and attentive one of about two hundred
greeted Mr.. Armstrong, of Washington
city, at the theatre last night and followed
him for two hours, from the establishment
of the Muscovite government to the last
attempt upon the life of the Czar-from the
Caspian sea to the Polar circle-and lis
tened with marked interest to all that
came from the lips of a forcible and at
tractive speaker.
The subject was one which naturally in
terested an American audience, the cause
Of the oppressed, misunderstood, but intel
Hgent and liberty loving element of the
lIusSlaS Since the Sermon on the Mount
was delivered the greatest event in history
was marked by floating to the breeze the
American flag, and since that day no crown
has been secure unless it represented 1.-THE
divinity of the rights of the ruled.n In
the great brotherhood of nations there
seems to have sprung up strange friend
! ship between the one nation representing
the greatest liberty and that which stands
| for the least humanity; and when Uncle
Sam is embraced by the polar bear there is
sly wink passed round which indicates
! that international courtesies are not all
what they seem.
In the attempt to evolve good govern
ment in Russia, class composed of the
| best educated and most advanced elem ent
among her people has been forced to the
front and has become known to the world
under the name of Nihilist, or a faction OPP
posed to the present order of things, and
banded together TO secure much needed
governmental reforms. They were the i'm
mediate outgrowth of the influences re-
sulting from the contact of the Russian
army with western Europe in the early
part of the century, for in the very attempt
to suppress freedom and crush out repub-
! licanism as manifested in France, the con-
tagion took strong hold and the seed
OF discomfort was carried home under
the great coats of the northern host
which had helped to throttle liberty in it's
western cradle. AS in other lands the
schools and colleges were the nurseries for
thought and the hot beds whence sprung
! the lovers and defenders of liberty.
In country possessing most stringent
! and cruel regulations of the press, as well
as police system without parallel in his
tory; where not only the physical move
ments, but the mental action of men are
necessity forced the advocates of good gov
eminent to resort to extreme methods, and
IN the event Of discovery they were con-
fronted with the most inhuman treatment
known in all the annals of time. Although
their code Is included in fifteen volumes,
yet public opinion is only mythology and
the Car is above all For the crime of
thinking, and advocating reforms, the I'M
fortunate citizen is banished, and from the
schools of the land all sciences are eX-
cluded to the end that the less the people
know the more easily they are governed.
While masquerading as liberator of the
serfs, the head of the government sends
into perpetual exile quarter of million
freemen to whom not stain of crime can
be traced; and into prisons, where the
} death rate is rs per cent, are crowded the
best men and women which the land pro
duceS, to whom relief comes too often in
the form of insanity
The first jury trial that of a woman)
convulsed the entire empire, and its failure
to result in conviction produced the in
famous system of secret police. by whose
action alone without investigation more
than sixteen thousand victims have beer
sent to Siberia. Russia is Tartar
: YET to-day the same as when founded,
| Byzantine in morals, in religion Greek
5 A nation of gag, of an asphyxiated press
the land of Tolstoi, that, not content Will
T0uuCluS IOldnu 10 ASHES, mas renewed II
modern days the persecution of a nobl
race, and bids fair to attempt the fulfilling
4 of the Napoleonic prophecy of making
= Europe all Cossack.
; In our view of western JUSTICE no inter
national courtesies should be extendet
: such government and it's ruler woult
y look well at the end of moose or regnin
in chair of state of the Sing Sing patterl
e with electric attachments, and the curren
: turned on at full blast.
The speaker was earnest all through, an
> in his descriptions as well as reference
:. to the Jewish people, the dismembermen
u of Poland, and the duty of America, quit
eloquent, and he elected much applause
e His pictures were vivid and instructive a
g through.
Nine Nelson at Walker Bros. & Fyle
Co. left early last week for New York an
Chicago, for fall styles, combining busines
= and pleasure. Our dress making parlor
/ will open September g. This department
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h cordial invitation is extended to all, TO in
!, spect a most artistic line of dress good
S and trimmings, as well as exclusive hig
I art styles in dress making.