Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-11-26

slsre ~ no cnance 10 TINS country Tor man
who has BEEN imprisoned, or for his chil-
dren- God pity them and hasten the time
when We shall by some national institution
established by the congress OF the United
States initiate the mercy OF the Russian
government toward Che innocent children of
imprisoned offenders. He who charges
cruelty on the imperial family ami the no.
bIlity OF Russia bellies men ami womsn as
gracious and benignant as ever breathei
oxygen.
Tbs merclfui character OF the present em-
peror was well illustrated in ths following
occurrences; The man who SUPERVISED the
assassination Of thu father o. the present
emperor, standing in the snow that AWFUL
day when the dynamite shattered to pieces
the legs Of Alexander the Second say TIE
man who supervised all this flsi from st.
Petersburg and quit Russia. But after
awhile the man repenssd OF his crime and
wrote to the emperor asking foe forgiveness
for the murder of his father ami pro nissug
to be gooi citizen, AMI asking il he might
come back to Russia. Tue emperor paraoned
the murderer of bis father, and the forgiven
ASSASSIN is now living in Russia, unless re-
Gently deceased.
When l talked to the empress concerning
the sympathy felt in America for thu sui
ferings of the drou yht-strusk regions OF Rus
STA, she evinced an absorbing interes. AMI
compassion and an emotion Of manner and
speech such as We men can hardly realizs,
because it seems that Go has reserved for
woman as her great adornmsnt the corousr,
the tear jewellel coroaet of tendern sss AMI
eommiseration. IL YOU say that it was a
man. divine man that came 80 saws the
world, [ say yes: but it was a woman that
gave the man. Witness all the Msionnas-
Italian. German. English and Russian-tlat
bloom in the picture galleries OF Christen-
dom. Son of Mary, have mercy on Us.
Rufh 1u f,a Hrr,. tha Rfsa-
sian knout, that comes down on the bare
back of agonizei criw:nalss Why, Russia
abolished the knout before it was abolished
from our American navy. But how about
the political prisoners hustled of to Sibsrias
According to the testimony OF the most csi
ebrated literary enemy of Russia, only four
hundred and forty-three political prisoners
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 thou
sand Americas one hundred thousand pc.
litical prisoners versus Russia's four hundred
and forty-three political prisoners. Nearly
all these four hundred and forty-three Of
twenty years were nobiemen or people des-
perately opposed to the emancipation of the
serfs. Aud none of the political prisoners is
sent to the famous Kara mines.
For the most part you are dependent for
Information u9on the testimony OF prisol-
ers who are sent to Siberia. They all say
they were innocsnt. Prisoners always ara
innocent. Ask all the prisoners OF Americs
today, equity Or not guiltyT aud nine
teen out of twenty will plead mot guilty"
Ask them how they like tneir prison, AMI
how they like sheriffs, and how they like
the government of the United States, AMI
you will find these prisoners admire the au-
thority that arrested them and punished
them just abont as much as the political
prisoners OF Russia like Siberia.
But you ask how will this Rnssophobla.
with which so many have been bitten and
poisoned, be cured, By the God of Justice
blessing such books AMI pamphlets as are
now coming out from Professor de Arnau1,
of Washington; Mr. Horace Cutter, of San
Francisco; Mr.. Morrill,, of England, and by
the opening of our American gates to tbs
writings Of some twenty-four OF the Russian
authors and authoresses, in some respects as
brilliant as the three or four Russian authors
already known the translation of those
twenty -four authors, which am authorize
fro n Russia to offer free of charge to any
responsible American publishing house that
will do them justice.
Let these Russians tell their own story,
for they are tbs only ones fully competent
to do the work, as none but Americans can
fully tell the story OF America, and as mona
but Germans eau fully tell the story OF Ger
many. and none but Englishmen can fully
tell the story of England, and none hut
Frenchmen can fully tell the story of
France. Meanwhile let the international
defamation come to an end. Cease TO speak
evil of dignities merely because they are
dignities and OF presidents merely because
they are presidents aud of emperors merely
because 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
summerl Glory to God in the highest, AMI
Oh earth peace good will to menl