Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-21
5enF oYWc Na4i66al -Eociefy a. RUSSIA

dent 81 the National Society a. RUSSIA
for the Education and Moralixation OF
the Children of Couvicts. Please 10
name any such national society IN our
country supported By government TOT
taking care OF the children Of couvicts.
You fnow. II Won know anything. that
there is mo chance In this country Tor
man who has been Imprisoned or for his
children. God pity them and hasten
the tisne when We shall. by some national
institution established by the congress OF
Of the United States. initiate the mercy
Of the Russian government toward the
innocent children of imprisoned offend
ers. he who charges cruelty oa the
imperial family and the nobility OF
Russia bellies men and women rs gracious
and bcnignant - ever breathed oxygen.
The merciful character Of the present
emperor was well illustrated In the fob
lowing occurrences: The man who 8uper-
vised the assassination OF the father OF
the present emperor, standing In the
snow that awful day when the dynamite
shattered to pieces elegs OF Alexander
vised all this Aed from St Petersburg and
repcntsd Of his crime and wrote TO tho
emperor asking for forgiveness for the
murder of his father and promising to be
. good citizen, and asking Il be might
come back to Russia. TIE emperor
pardoned the murderer Of his father, and
the forgiven assassin Is now living in
Russia unless recently deceased. When
talked to the empress concerning the
L. - A. 60, ~ ~vr<
ings Of the drought struck regions Of
Russis. she evinced IN absorbing inter
est and = Comparison and an emotion OF
manner and speech such as We men can
hardly realize, because Il seems that God
has reserved FOR woman q her great
adornment the corunet, the tear ieweled
corouet of tenderness and COMMUNICATION.
II Won saw that Il was man, q divine
man that came to ave the world, l say
yes, but it was . woman that gave tho
man. Witness all the Madonnas-Ital-
ian, German, English and Ru4ian-that
bloom in the picture galleries Of Chris
tendon. Son Of Mary, have mercy on us!
But how about tho knout, the cruel
Russian knout, that comes down on the
bare back of the aeonized criminalsi
WHY. Russia abolished tho knout before
It was abolished from our American
navy. But how about the political priD-
to tho testimony Of tho most celebrsted
literary enemy Of Russia, only four hun
dred and forty-three political prisoner
were sent to Siberia In twenty years.
How many political prisoners did We put
in prison pens during our four years Of
civil war? Well. ! viii guess at least one
hundred thousand. Americas one huu-
dred Thousand political prisoners versus
Russia's four hundred and forty-thres
political prisonem. Nearly all these
four hundred and forty-threc OF twenty
years were noblemen or people des-
perately opposed to tho emancipation
OF the serfs. And none Of the political
prisoners ara cent to the famous ksra
mines. For tho most part you are
dependent Tor tuformat>on upon the
testimony ct praeoosss who are sent
to Siberia. They al! say tney were inno-
cent. PRISONERS always are innocent.
Ask all the prisoners q America today,
"duiity or not guilty. and n1neseen out
OF twcuty wall plead mot gulty. Az
them how they Ike their prison, and
how they Ike sheriff. ana how they AXE
the government Of the United States
and you Will hnd these pTfsonefs adm1r.
the authority that arrested them and
punished them 1ast about 9 much q
the political prisoners Of Russia hk'
Siberia.
But, you AK, how viii this Russcpho
bia, with which 50 many have been bit
ten and poisoned. DO cure0 By TIT
God Of Justice blessing s-,ch books and
pamphlets as are now coming out from
Professor de Armand. Of Washington
Dir. Horace Cutter, OF San Francisco
Mr.. Morrill,. Of England. and by th
opening OF our American gates to Tia
writings OF soma twenty-fuzr OF Oh
Russian authoS and authofessee, Il
some respects as brilliant as the thre