The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-11-22
: The man who supervised

ing occurrence: The man who supervised
the assassination of the father of the pres
ent emperor. standing in the snow that
awful day. when the dynamite shattered TO
pieces the legs of Alexander the Second,-
| say the Inan who supervised all this fled
from st. Petersburg and quit Russla. But
after awhile the man repented of his crime
and wrote TO the emperor asking tor Tor
givenss for the murder Of his father and
promising to be Il good citizen, ana asking
if he might come back to Russia. The en-
peror pardonetl the murderer of his father
and the forgiven assassin is now living i'll
Russia, unless recently deceased. When L
talked to the empress concerning the sym
patty felt in America for the sulfelmgs OF
the drOugAt-StrucE1 regions OF Russia. she
eynced an absorbing interest and u COM
passion and an emotion OF manner and
speech such as we men cen hardly reallzt,
reserved for woman rs her great
alornmcnt, the tear-jeweled coro-
net OF tenderness and commiseration If
you say that it was Il man, q divine man
that came to save the world, L say YES out
it was 4 woman that gave the men. Witness
all the Madonnas, Italian, German, English
and Russian, that bloom i'll the picture gal
leries of Christendom. Son Of Mary, have
mercy on us.
But how about the knout, the cruel Rus
sian knout, that comes down on the bare
back of agoniZed criminals? Why. ltussIa
abolished TIE knout before it was abolished
from our American navy: But how anout
the political prisoners hustled Off to Siberia
According to the testimony OF the most
celebrated literary enemy OF Russia. only
443 political prisoners We're SEM TO SIBERIA
i'll twenty years. How MANY political prs
OnerS did we put i'll prison pens during our
four years of civil war? Well, / viii guess
at least 100, 1000. Americas 100000 political
prisoners versus Russia Az political pflS-
oners. Nearly all these 443 of twenty. years
We're n0biemen Or people desperately or
posed to the emancipation OF the SerlS. ANA
none of the political prisoners are sent 10
the famous Kara mines. tor the most part,
you are dependent for information upon the
testimony Of prisoners who are sent TO 81
IBERIA Lhey all say they We're lnnocent.
Prisoners always are innocent ASK al the
prisoners of America today: Guilty or
not guilty" and nineteen out of twenty VIII
plead Not guilty" Ask them how they
like their prison and how they like sheriiiS
and how they like the government ot the
United States, and you will lind these pfiS,
oners admire the authority that arrested
them and punished them just about as
much as The political prisoners OF Russla
like Siberia.
But you ask, how will this Russophobia.
with which so MANY have been bitteh anu
poisoned. be cured? By the god OF justice
blessing such books and pamphlets as are
HOW coming out from Professor de Armand,
Of Washington; Mr.. Horace Cutter, OF Sfh
Francisco: Mr.. Mortiil, of England, and by
the opening OF our [AiltGlttu Edlto " '4S
writings Of some tWenty-foUr OF the fuS-
sian authors and authoresses, IN some re-
>pcctS rs brilliant rs the three or four Rus-
sian authors already known--the transla-
ton of those twenty-four authors when l
am authorized from Russia to offer free or
charge TO any responsible American pub
fishing house that will do them justice Let
these Russians tell their own story, tor they
are the only ones fully competent to DO the
. work as none but Americans can fully tell
the story of America. and as none put
Germans can fully tell the story of Grr-
many and none but Englishmen can July
tell the story of England and none but
Frenchmen can fully tell the story. OF
France Meanwhile, let the international
defamation come 10 an end. Cease to speak
evil of dignities merely because they are
dignties, and Of presidents merely because
they are presidents, and of emperors merely
b. a use they are emperors. And may the
blessing of God the Father, and God the
Son. and God the Holy Ghost, be upon all
the members of the imperial household of
Russia from the illustrious head Of that
family down TO the princess, seven years OF
age, who came skipping into my presence
in the palace of Peterhof last summer
Glory to God in the highest and on earth
peace. good will to men.