The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-21

Of the children Of convicts. You know. if
you know anything, that there is no chance
in this country for a man who has been i'm
prisoned. or for his children. God pity
them and hasten the time whed we sUall by
some national institution established by the
congress OF the United States, initiate the
mercy Of the Russian government toward
the innocent children Of imprisoned Of
Tenders. DE who charges cruelty on the i'm
perial family and the nobility of Russia he-
lies men and women as gracious and benig-
nsnt as ever breathed oxygen.
The mercitul character Of the present EN-
peror was we'll illustrated in the following
occurrence: The man who supervised the
assassination of the father Of the present
emperor, standing in the snow that awful
| day, when the dynamite shattered to pieces
the legs Of Alexander III say the man
who supervised all this fed from st. Peters
burg and quit Russia. But after a while the
man repented of his crime and wrote to the
emperor, asking fer forgiveness for the
murder of his father and promising to be
good citizen, and asking If be might
come back to Russia. The emperor par
! dOned the murderer Of his father, and
| the forgiven assassin is now living IN
Russia, unless recently deceased. When /
talked to the empress concerning the SYM
patty felt IN America for the sufferings of
the drought-struck regions OF Russia, she
eyinced an absorbing interest and COM
asslon and an emotion of manner and
speech such as we men can hardly realize,
because 1t seems that God has reserved for
woman as her great adornment, the cor
onet, the tear jeweled oJronet of tender
ness and commiserstlon If you say that it
was man, divine men that came to save
the world, | say yes, but it was a woman
that gave the man Witness all the
Madonnas Italian. German, English and
Russian, that bloom in the picture galleries
of chrisJendom. Son Of Mary, have mercy
on US!
But how about the kuout, the cruel Rus
sian knout, that comes down on the back of
agonized criminals? Why, Russia abolished
the knout before it was abolished from our
American navy. But how about the po-
htlcal prisoners hustled of TO Slberia2 40
cordlng to the testimony of the most cele-
brated literary enemy Of Russia only four
hundred and fortv-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
wars Well, l guess at least one hundred
Thousand. Americas one hundred thou
sand political prisoners versus Russia's four
hundred and forty-three political prisoners.
Nearly all these four hundred aud forty.
three of twenty years were noblemen or peo-
pie desperately opposed to the emancipa-
ton OF the serfs. And lone of the political
prisoners are sent to the famous Kara
mines. For the most part you are depend
ent for information upon the testimony of
prisoners who are sent to Siberia. They
all say they are innocent. Ask all the
prisoners of America to-day: "Guilty or
not guilty." and nineteen out of twenty
will plead mot guilty" Ask them how
they like their prison and how they like
sheriffs. and how they like the government
Of the United States, and you will fud
| these prisoners admire the authority that
arrested them and punished them just
about as much as the political prisoners of
Russia like Siberia.
But you ask, how will this Russophobia,
with which so many have been bitten and
poisoned, lie cured9 By the God of Justice
blessing such books and pamphlets as are
now coming out from Prof. de Arnaud of
| Washington, Mr.. Horace Cutter of San
Francisco, Mr.. Morrill, OF England. and by
the opening of our American gates to the
writings of some twenty -four of the Rus
sian authors and authoresses, in some re-
spects as brilliant as the three or four Rus
sian authors already known-the translation
OF those twenty-four authors, which l am
authorized from Russia TO offer free of
! charge to any responsible American pub
| fishing house that will do them justice. Let
| these Russians tell their own story, for they
are the only ones fully competent 90 do the
work, as none but Americans can fully tell
the story of America, and as none but
Germans can fully tell the story of Ger
many, and none but Englishmen can fully
tell the story Of England, and none but
| Frenohmen 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 be-
| cause they are presidents, and Of emperors
merely because they ara 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 ;llustrious
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
J on earth peace, good will to men.