The Red Cloud chief., 1892-12-02

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with his prefermcnt for either
Office or social position.
Calumny the fourth: Russia Is so
very grasping OF territory and she seems
to want the world. But what are the
facts? During the last century and o
quarter the United States have taken
possession Of everything between the
thirteen colonies aud the Pacific ocean,
and England. during the same length
of time, has taken possession OF nearly
three million square miles, aud by the
extent Of her domain has added $50, 000,-
900 population, while Russia had added
during that time only half the number
OF square miles and about 5000, 900 OF
population-England's advance of do
main by ESQ, oo0,o 900 against Russia's adj
vance of domain by $4,000, 900.
Calumny the fifth: Siberia Is n den OF
horrors, and to-day people are driven
like dumb cattle; no trial Ia afforded to
the suspected ones; they are put into
quicksilver mines, where they are
whipped and starved and some day find
themselves going around without any
head. Some Of them do not get so far
as Siberia. Women, after being tied to
stakes in the streets, are disrobed and
whipped to death In the presence OF
bowling mobs. Offenders hear their
own flesh siss under the hot irons. But
what are the facts? There are no
kinder people on earth than the Rus
slams, and to the most OF them cruelty
is an impossibility.
But how about Siberia? My answer
Is Siberia Is the prison of Russia, u
prison more than twice the size OF the
United States. John Howard, who did
more for the Improvement of prisoners
and the reformation of criminals h
any man that ever lived, his name a
synonym for mercy throughout Chris
tendon, declared by voice and pen that
the system of transportation OF crimi-
nails from Russia to Siberia was au adj
mirable plan, advocating open air pun
ishment rather than endungconmcnt,
| and also because 1t was taking all OF.
| tenders hundreds Of miles away from
| their evil companions. John Howard.
after witnessing the plan Of deportation
| of criminals from Russia to Siberia,
| commended II to England. Russia il
| the only country on earth from which
| the death penalty has been driven
except in the case of high reason.
| Murdercrs and desperate villains are
sent to the hardest parts Of Siberia,
but no man Is sent to Siberia or doomed
to any kind Of punishment in Russia
until he has n fair trial. So far a
their being hustled off in the night and
not knowing why they are cxiled or
punished Is concerned, all the criminals
in Russia have an open trial before .
jury just rs we have In America, except
in revolutionary or riotous times, and
you know in America at such times the
writ Of habeas corpus is suspended.
After being in Siberia awhile, the
condemned go to earning u livelihood,
and they come to own their own farms,
and orchards and vineyards, many OF
these people coming to wealth, and
thousands Of them under no induce
ment would leave those parts of Siberia
which are ~paradises for salubrity and
luxuriance. Now, which do you think
is the best style OF a prison-Siberia OF
many Of our American prisons?
The merciful character of the present
emperor vas well illustrated in the fol
lowing occurrence: The man who su
pervised the assassination Of the father
Of the present emperor, standing in the
snow that awful day, when the dyna'
mite shattered to pieces the legs O
Alexander Ill say the man who su
pervised all this fed from St Peters
burg and quit Russia. But after awhil,
the man repcnted of his crime, and
wrote to the emperor asking for for
giveness for the murder Of his fathe'
and protesting to be a good citizen, ant
asking II he might come back to Russia
The emperor pardoned the murderer o
his father, and the assassin IL now liv
ing in Russia, unless recently deceased
But how about the knout, the cru
Russian knout, that comes down on tn
bare back Of agonized criminals? Why
Russia abolished the knout before /
was abolished from our American navy
But how about The political prisoner
hustled of to Siberia? According I
the testimony OF the most celebrate
literary enemy Of Russia, only 443 poll
tical prisoners were sent TO Siberia 4
twenty years. How many politica
prisoners did we put In prison pens dur
ing our four years of civil war;? Well
l will guess at least 100, 900. America
10000 political prisoners versus Ru.
sia's AS political prisoners.
But you ask, how will this Russophe
bia, with which SO many have been biz
ten and poisoned, be cured. by Tn
God of Justice blessing such books an
pamphlets as are now coming oat iron
Prof. de Arnaud, of Washington; Nj
: Horace Cutter, Of San Francisco; MI
Morrill,, of England, and by the open
, ing of our American gates to tn
writings of some t~wenty-four q
the Russian authors and author
esses. In some respects IS brilliant q
; the three or four Russian author
already known Let these Russian
. tell their W story, for they or
. the only one fully competent I
to do the work, as none but American
, can fully tell the story Of America, an
as O but Germans a fully tell th
story Of Germany, and none but Ell
. glishmen can fully tell the story q
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