Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-25

appointed by the emperor as the presi-
| dent Of the National Society OF Russia
| for the Education and Moralization OF
the Children of Convicts. Please to
name any such national society in ouf
! country supported by government fol
taking care of the children Of convicts.
| You know, If you know anything. that
! there is no chance in this country Tor q
man who has been imprisoned or for his
children. God pity them and haDten
the time 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 on the
| imperial family and the nobility OF
| Russia bellies men and women as gracious
and benignant as ever breathed oxygen.
| The merciful character of the present
| emperor was we'll illustrated in the fol-
lowing occurrence: The man who super
yised 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
| tie Second--I say the man who super
vised all this fed from st. Petersburg and
uuit Russia. But after awhile the man
repented of his crime and wrote to the
emperor asking for forgiveness. for the
murder Of his father and promising to be
a good citizen, and asking If he might
come back to Russia. The 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
sympathy felt in America for the suffer-
ings Of the drought struck regions of
Russia, she evinced an absorbing inter-
cat and compassion and an emotion Of
manner and speech such as we men can
hardly realize, because it seems that God
has reserved for woman as her great
adornment the coronet, the tear jeweled
coronet of tenderness and comm;scration.
Tf You say that it was man, divine
man that came to save the world, / say
yes, but it was woman that gave the
man. Witness all the Madonnas-Ital-
ian, German, English and Russian--that
bloom in the picture galleries of Chris
tendon. Son Of Mary, have mercy on usl
But how about the knout, the cruel
Russian knout, that comes down on the
bare back of the agonized criminalsp
Why, Russia abolished the knout before
1t was abolished from our American
navy. But how about the political pris-
oners hustled off to Siberia? According
to the testimony of the most celebrated
literary enemy of Russia, only four hun
dred 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, will guess at least one
hundred thousand. Americas one hun
dred thousand political prisoners versus
Russias four hundred and forty-three
political prisoners. Nearly all these
four hundred and forty three Of twenty
years were noblemen or people des-
perately opposed to the emancipation
Of the serfs. And none of the political
prisoners are sent to the famous Kara
mines. For the most part you are
dependent for information upon the
testimony of prisoners who are sent
to Siberia. They'all say they were inno-
cent. Prisoners always are innocent
Ask all the prisoners Of America today,
"Guilty or not guiltyY' and nineteen out
of twenty will plead, "Not 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 find these prisoners admire
tho 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 Russopho-
bia, with which SO many have been Bit
ten and poisoned, be cured? BY the
God of Justice blessing such books and
pamphlets as are now coming out from
Professor 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
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 authorized from
Russia to offer free of charge to any re-
sponsible American publishing house
that will do them justice. Let these
Russians tell their own story, for they
are the only ones fully competent to do
the work, as none but Americans can
fully tell the story Of America, and as
none bnt Germans can fully tell the
story of Germany, and none but Eng
land, and none but Frenchmen can fully
tell the story of France. Meanwhile
let the international defamation come
TO an end. Cease TO speak evil Of digni-
ties merely because they are dignities.
and of presidents merely because they
are presidents, and 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 prin-
cess, seven years of age, who came skip
ping into my presence in the palace Of
Peterhof last summer! Glory to God in
the highest, and ON earth peace, good
will TO menl