The Red Cloud chief., 1892-12-02

"SSiohhoeiou tndV nnuue tne CITY
hall Of ST. Petersburg quake
foundation stone TO tower, and
those names were George Washing
ton" and Abraham Lincoln" Now, is
1t not important that we should feel
right toward that mighty, that God
given friend Of more than one hundred
years?
Calumny the first: The emperor and
all the imperial family are in perpetual
dread of assassination. They arc prac-
tically prisoners in the Winter palace,
and trenches with dynamite have been
found dug around the Winter palace.
They dare not venture forth, except
preceded and followed and surrounded
by a most elaborate military guard. My
answer TO this is that l never saw a
face more free from worriment than the
emperor's face. The Winter palace,
around which the trenches are said to
have been charged with dynamite and
In which the imperial family are said
to be prisoners, has never been the resi-
dence OF the imperial family one moment
since the present emperor has been on
the throne. That Winter palace has
been changed into a museum and n
picture gallery and 4 palace of great
levees He spends his summer in the
palace at Peterhof, fifteen or twenty
miles from St Petersburg; his au-
tumns at the palace at G~atschina,
and his winters in a palace OF
St Petersburg, but in quite n diff
ferent part of the city to that occupied
by the Winter palace. lie rides through
the streets unattended, except by the
empress at his side and the driver on
the box. There Is not a person in this
audience more free from fear of harm
than he is. His subjects not only nd.
mire him but almost worship him.
There are cranks in Russia, but have
we not had our Charles Guiteau and
John Wilkes Booth? But" says some
one, did not the Russians kill the
father of the present EMPEROR" Yes,
but in the time that Russia has had
one assassination of emperor, America
has had two presidents assassinated.
But Is not the emperor al autocrat?
BY which you mean, has he not power
without restriction? Yes, but IL all de-
ponds upon what use a man makes of
his power. Are you an autocrat in your
factory, or an %autocrat in your store. or
an autocrat In your style of business?
1t all depends on what use you make of
your power, whether to bless or Cypress,
and from the time of Peter the Great
that Russian who was the wonder OF
all time, the emperor who became in
cognito n ship carpenter that he
might help ship carpenters, and a
mechanic that he might help me-
chanics, and put on poor mems gart
that he might sympathize with poor
men, and who In his last words said;
my Lord, l am dying, o, help my un.
belief" l say from that time the throne
of Russia has, for the most part, been
occupied by rulers as beneficent and
kind and sympathetic as they were
powerful. To go no further back thar
Nicholas, the grandfather Of the pres,
ent emperor: Nicholas had for the
| dominant idea of his administration the
emancipation of the serfs. When II
was found that he premeditated the
freedom of the serfs, he received the
| following letter of threat from q depu'
tation of noblemen: "Your Imperia
Majesty: We learn that the council
and senate of the empire have before
them for deliberation, with your sane
ton, the plan to abolish serfdon
throughout the Russian empire. w,
are perfectly willing to abide by you
majesty's decision in this matter and I.
Loyalty support your will, blt ther'
are in Russia n large number of small
owners of serfs, who are dependent To-
actual subsistence on the labor of thosa
serfs and who consequently will be lief
wholly penniless and without any re
source by the operation of emancipa
ton. They will then undoubted
ly resort to desperate measures
and, in the extremity of thei
despair, will put the life of your males
ty in jeopardy" The emperor replied
in words that will last as long as his
tory: "Gentlemen, II l should die be
cause Of my devotion to such q cause,
am willing to meet my fate"
Calumny the second: II you go +
Russia you are under severest espion
age, stopped here and questioned Their
and In danger of arrest But INV opin
ion is that II q man is disturbed IL
Russia IL Is because he ought to he dis
turbed. Russia is the only country Il
Europe in which my baggage was no
examined. ] carried In my hand, tie
together with q cord so that their title
could be seen, a pile Of eight or ter
books, all OF them from lid to lid ours
ing Russia, but I had no trouble in TAX
ing with me the books There Is te
times more difficulty in getting you
baggage through the American custor
house than through the Russian.
speak not for myself, for friends inter
cede for me ON American wharves an
l am not detained. l was several day
in Russia before I was asked il I ha'
any passport at all. Depend upon I
II hereafter a man believes he is uncom
fortably watched by the police Of s
Petersburg or Moscow 1t Is becaus
there is something suspicious abou
him. and you yourself had bette,
when he is around, look after you
silver spoons.
Calumny the third: Russia and Il
ruler are 40 opposed To any other relis