Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-21

| miles, and by the extent OF her domain
| has 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
| opulation-England's advance of domain
| by two hundred aud fifty million against
| Russa's advance of domain by eighteen
| million. What paltry Russian advance
| of domain by eighteen million as compared
| with the English advance of domain by
| two hundred and fifty million The United
| States and England had better keep still
| about extravaganza and extortionate en-
| largement of domain.
Calumuy the Fifth-Siberia is a den OF
horrors, and today people are driven like
| dumb cattle; no trial is afforded to the
suspected ones; they are put into quick
silver mines, where they are whipped and
| starved and some day find themselves go
| ing 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 pres
ence of bowling mobs. Offenders hear their
own flesh siss under the hot irons
But what are the factsp There are no
kinder people on earth than the Russians,
and to most Of them cruelty is an impossi-
bility. I hold in my hand a card. You
see on it that red circle. That is the gov
ernment's seal on n card giving me per-
mission to visit all the prisons Of st. Pc
tersburg as had expressed a wish in that
direction. AS the messenger handed this
card to me he told me that carriage was
at the door for my disposal in visiting the
prisons. 1t so happened, however, that
was crowded with engagements and could
not make the visitation. But do you sup
pose such cheerful permission and car
rage to boot would have been afforded me
II the prisons of Russia are such hells on
earth as they have been described to bei
| asked an eminent and distinguished
American, 'Have you visited the prisons
of St. Petersburg, and how do they differ
from American prisons" He replied, ~
have visited them, and they are as well
ventilated and as well conditioned in every
respect as the majority of the prisons in
America" Are women whipped in the
street, No; that statement comes from the
mandatory of fabrication a mandatory
that runs day and night, so that the sup
ply may meet the demand.
But how about Siberia? My answer is,
Siberia is the prison of Russia, a prison
more than twice the size of the United
States. John Howard, who did more for
the improvement of prisoners and the ref
ormation of criminals than any man that
ever lived, his name synonym for mercy
throughout Chrlsteudom, declared by
voice and pen that the system of transpOr-
tation OF criminals from Russia to Siberia
was an admirable plan, advocating open
air punishment rather than endungeon-
ment, and also because it was taking all
offenders hundreds OF miles away from
their evil companions. John Howard,
after Witnessing the plan Of deportation OF
criminals from Russia to Siberia, com
mended it to England.
II man commits murder in Russia he
IS not eectrOcutcd IT'S we clectrOcute him,
or choEed to death by a halter aswe choke
him 20 death. Russia Is the only couHtry
on earth from which the death penalty has
peon driven, except in case Of high treason.
Murd"rers and desperate Iluius are sent
. tbs hn@fc@t~p&et7 Of Siberia, tSEaiod lRa
ssrlt 70 r,lfrtr+e or aooned to Any kin't H
| punishment IN RUSSIA uhIl he mas iaLr
trial. 30 1ar as thelr DelnS hustieu OH III
the night ana not knowing why they are
eSlled or punished Is concerned, al the
criminals IN Russia nave an open trial pe-
lore jury Just as we nave III America eA
cept IN revolutionary OF rlotous times ana
you Know IN America at such tlihes Ohe
writ OF habeas corpus Is suspended.
Ihere are III kussla grand Jlrles ana
petit Jurles' ana the rlSh1 TO chailen9e inc
jurors ana the prisoner cohlrohVs MS "c-
cuser' and, mark this, as IN no other couh,
Try, aiter prisoner mas Oeeh coliueIilnSu
by Juries ana Judges ne may appear 10 Ille
minister OF Che interior, ana ai0er thaI 10
the senate, ana alter that TO the emperor
who is constantly pardonlng. AS sald,
the violent ana muruerous are SEM 10 tie
hardest part OF siberia, DnC lhe more MOD
crate criminals to more propltlous parts OF
Siberia ana those VINO nave only niue
criminaIlty to parts OF Siberia positively
genial for climate for you ought to know
If you do not know, that Siberia IS so large
and wide ana long thaJ 1t reaches from
frigidity to torridlty, from almost arctic
blast to climate as mild rs that of Italy.
Kun your hnger along the map OF the
world, and you Will ma that the lowest
part OF Siberia Is on the torty-1ith degree
of latitude, and the richest part OF Italy IS
ON the same forty-flfth degree OF latitude,
so that Siberia reaches from the ldfS ut
thenorth to the palm leaf fans at the south.
1t has been demonstrated that ninety
| per cent OF the Russian criminals colo
nized into Siberia go into a climate milder
than New Nork-a lana songtul with blrds
and embroidered with flora enough mani
fold to confound the botanists Much of
the soil is rish loan, and haryests wait
for pillow to liberatc.them.
| When criminal Is sent to Siberia, IN the