Milford chronicle., 1892-11-25

M had m,
10 emperor about
n and he thinks an.
We that religion is sonnet.
n and his God, and no one
m terfere with it. You may
st. Petersburg and Moscow
" Episcopal liturgy or your Pres
. eatechism, or your Congregationalist
u eralism, c. your Immersionist's Baptist.
y or any other religion, and if you mind you
own affairs and let others mind theirs vot
q will not be molested.
OTHER cALUsINIEs REFUTED.
( Calumny the Fourth-Russia is SO yer,
I grasping OF territory, and she seems Il
/, want the world. But what are the factsi
Il During the last century and a quarter tbs
United States have taken possession m
I everything between the thirteen colonies
! and the Pacific ocean, and England, dur.
/, ing the same length Of time, has taken
possession Of nearly three million square
miles, and by the extent Of her domain
mas added two hundred and fifty million
population, while Russia has added dur-
ing that time only one-half the number Of
square miles and about eighteen million Of
; population-England's advance If domain
by two hundred and fifty million against
hussia's advance Of domain by eighteen
million. What a paltry Russian advance
OF domain by eighteen million as comparetl
with the English advance Of domain bv
two hundred and fifty milhonl The United
states and England had better keen still
about eXtravagant aud extOrtionate en-
largement Of domain.
Calumny the Fifth-Siberia is a den of
horrors, and today people are driven ike
dumb cattle; no trial IS afforded to tbe
suspected ones; they ara nut into ouick. |
/ silver mines. where they are whipped and
I Starved, and some day find themselves GO I
ing around without any head. Some Of /
I them do not get so fqr as Siberia. Women /
after being tied to stakes ia the streets. are ,
ulsrobed and whipped to death in the pres
enee OF bowling mobS. Offenders hear their
own flesh siss under the hot ifons.
But what are the facts2 There are no
kinder people on earth than the Russians
and to most Of them cruelty is an impossi-
biiity. l hold in my hand a card. You
see on it that red circle. That is the GOV,
ernments seal on a card giving ne per-
mission to visit all the prisops OF st. p..
tersburg, as had expressed wishin that
QlFecH9n, As The messenger han4ed this
eaHd to me he told me that a caisksige y,is
et the door for my disposal in visiting the
prisons Il so happened, however that
was crowded with engagements and could
not make the visitation But do Won sup-
pose such cheerful permission and n car
riage to boot would have been afforded NE
II the prisons Of Russia are such bells on ,
earth as they have been described TO beg
asked an eminent and distinguished
American, Have you visited the prisons
OF st. Petersburg, and bow do they differ
from American prisonsF' He replied, ~
nave visited them, and they are as well
ventilated ami as well conditioned in every
respect as the majority Of the prisons in
Are women whipped in the
streets No; that statement comes from the
Of fabrication, a manufactory
that runs day and night so that the sun
ply may meet the demand.
SIBERIA,
But how about Siberla2 My answer is,
siberia is the prison Of Russia "a prison ,
more shaA twice the size Of the United l.
states John Howard who did mors for !
ne Improvement Of prisoners and the ref
'rinatlon OF criminals than any luan that .
,VeF llIed, his name a synonym :or mercy II
throughout Christendom, declared BY j
oice and pen that the system Of transDur-
alton Of criminals from Russia to Siberia
-as an admirable plan, advocating open 3
ir punishment rather than endungeon- Z
tent, and also because it was taking all y
henders hundreds Of miles away from -
heir evil companions. john Howard y,
tier witnessing the plan Of deportation Of y
iminals from Russia to Siberia, COM y.
Iended it TO England. u
II man commits murder in Russia he -
not electrocuted as we electrocute him. sf
choked TO death by halter as we choke az
~ 70 death. Russia IS the only country
! earth from which the death penalty has -
zen driven, except in case Of high treason. W
urdere-s and desperate villains ure sent "a "a
the hardest parts Of Siberia, but no man en
sent to Siberia Or doomed to any kind Of s~
RishIient in Russia until he has a fair
al 30 far as their being hustled off in II,
e night and not knowing why they are ~
lied or punished is concerned, all the ~.
minals in Russia have an open trial be-
e jury just as we have in America, ez- rr,
1t in revolutionary or riotous times, and ~.
i know in America ut such times tile ~.
It Of habeas corpus is suspended. - -
There are in Russia grand iuries ana -.
lit iuries, and the right to challenge the ~ 20.
'ors, and the prisoner confronts his ac- eti,
SER and, mark this, as in 10 other coun- ~
?, after prisoner has been condemned AZ
JuFies and judges he may appeal to the n
mister OF the interior, and after that to 49,.
senate, and after that to the emperor, ~.
o IS constantly pardoning As I said, M,
violent and murierous are sent to the
'dest part Of Siberia, but the more mod
70 criminals to more prOpitious parts OF
eria, and those who have only little r
ninality TO parts of Siberia positively ter,
ial for climate, for you ought to know. is s
on do not know, that Siberia is so large deel
wide and long that it reaches from tain
,idity to tOrridity. from almost arctic WOO
lt 80 climate as mild rs that OF Italy. ter
IN your finger along the map OF the tion
Id, and will find that the lowest per
Of Siberia is on the forty-dfth degree gam
and She richest part Of Italy Is Is ol
he same foFty-lfth degree Of latitude. logW
nat Siberia reaches from the furs at
north to tine palm leaf fans at the south mn
las been demonstrated that ninety
cent Of the Russian criminals colo Ton Son
q into Siberia 60 into a eli aate mildcr al h
New nor1-a land soaZfLl with birds and
embroidered with flora enough nani-
to confouud the hotanists Much Of
soil IS a r'sl loam, and harvests wait
plow TO liberate them.
hen q criminal is sent TO Siberia, in the
majority Of cases il gives him an op
unity to make new start under the
possible circumstances. The criminal
lowed TO take his or her family along.
tnat sa mercy no other country grants.
DO quicksilver mines Of Siberia-tht
est place Of expatriaiiou-only one
IN OF the miners are criminals. Tie
three-fourths 90 there because the,
Sc II as place TO earn t,ciT living
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