Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-11-24

when he is around, look after your silver
spoons. / promise you, an honest man or
an honest woman, that when you 60 there,
as many of you will-for European travel
is destined to change its course from south
ern Europe to those northern regions-you
will have no more molestation or SUPER
visal than in Brooklyn or in New York or
the quietcst Long Island village.
Calumny the Third-Russia and its ruler
are so opposed to any other religion except
the Greek religion that they will not allow
any other rel 9ion that nothing but perse-
tution and imprisonment and outrage in
tolerable await the disciples of any other
religion. But what are the facts? | had
long ride in st. Petersburg and its sub
urbs with the project, brilliant, efficient
and lovely man, who is the highest official
in the city of St. Petersburg, and whose
chief business is to attend the emperor |
said to him, 81 suppose your religion is
that of the Greek church," "No,n said he.
81 am a Lutheran" "What is your rel-
gion?" | said to one of the highest and
most influential officials at st. Petersburg
He said, II am of the Church of England"
Myself an American, of still another de-
nomination of Christians, and never hay
ing been inside u Greek church in my life
until | went to Russia, could not have re-
ceived more consideration had been bap-
! tized in the Greek church and all my life
worshiped at her affairs. l had it demon
strated to me very plainly that a mans re-
| ligion in Russia has nothing to do with his
| preferment for either office or social posi-
ton. The only questions taken into con-
sideration are honesty, fidelity, morality
and adaptation. | had not been in St.
Petersburg an hour before 1 received an
| invitation to preach the Gospel of Christ
! as believed it. Besides all this, have YOU
forgotten that the Crimean war, which
shook the earth, grew out of Russia's in
reference in behalf of the prosecuted
| Christians of all nations in Turkey?
But" says some one, "have there not
been prosecutions of other religions in Rus
! siaY" No doubt, just as in other times in
| New England we burned witches and as
we killed Quakers, and as the Jews in
! America have been outrageously treated
ever since | can remember, and the Chi
nese in our land have been pelted and
their stores torn down, and their way from
the steamer wharf to their destined guar
ters tracked with their own blood. The
devil of persecution is in every land and in
all ages. Some of Us in the different de-
nominations of Christians in America have
felt the thrust of persecution because we
thought differently or did things different
" from those who would, if they had the
power, put us in n furnace eight times
heated, one more Ccgree of coloric than
. Nehuchadnezzar's Prosecutions in all
lands, out the emperor CT Russia sanctions
. none Of them.
bad most satisfactory talk with the
emperor about the religions of the world.
and he thinks and feels as you and do,
that religion is something between a man
aud his God, and no one has Il right to in
tcrlere with it. You may 90 right I'D 20
ST. Petersburg and Moscow with your
Episcopal liturgy, or your Presbyterian
catechism, or your OnSregationalist's lib
| eralism, or your immcr>iOnist' 5 Baptistry
or any her religion, and if you mind your
| own affairs and let others mind theirs you
will not be moestcd.
OTHER CALUMNiEs HEFUTED.
Calumpy the Fourth--2ussa is so very
Erasping Of territory, and she seems 20
want the world. But what are the facts?
During the last century and "a quarter the
| United States have taken possession OF
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
has added two hundred and tIrty million
population, while Russia has added dur
ing that time only one-haf the number Of
square miles and about eighteen million of
northumberland advance of domain
by two hundred and fifty million against
Rus.ias advance Of domain by ei.htcen
million. What puitry Russian advance
OF domain by eighteen million as compared
with the English advance Of domain nv
two hundred and fifty million! g'he United
States and England lad better keep still
shout eXtravayGnt and e.tortionate en-
la"gement Of domain.
Caumuy the Ffth-Sibaria 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 lind themselves 90
ing around without any head. Some Of
them do not get so far as Siberia Women,
after being tied 20 stakes N the streets are
disrobed and whipped to death in the pres
encc of bowling mobs, Offenders hear their
OVID flesh siss under the hot irons
But what are the facts? There are no
kinder people or earth than the Russians,
and to mos: of them cr,clty is an impossi-
blity. | mold in lay hand Il card. You
see on it that red circle. That is the gov
mission to visit all the prisons Of St. Pc
tersburg, as had expressed Il wish in that
direction. AS the messenger handed this
card to me he told me that Il carriage was
at The door Cor my disposal in visiting the
prisons. IL so happened, however, that !
was crowded with engagements and could
not make the visitation. But do you sup
pose such cheerful permission and IL car
rage to boot would have been afforded me
II tbs prisons Of Russia are such hells on
earth rs they have been described TO be?
| asked an eminent and distinguished
American, Have you visited the prisons
of st, Petersburg, and now do they differ
from American prsons?" He replied. II
have visited them, and they are as well
ventilated and rs sell conditioned in every
respect as the majority of the prisons in
American Are women whipped in the
street? No; that statement comes from the
mauufactory Of fabrication, "A mandatory
that runs day and night. SO that the sup
ply may meet the demand.
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