Milford chronicle., 1892-11-25
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After being IN SIBERIA awnne rne coi
denned 60 TO earning livelihood az
they come to own their own farms an
orchards and vineyards, 5many Of 5hes
people coming to wealth, and thousands
them under no inducemont would leaY
those parts Of Siberia which are paradise,
for salubrity and luxuriauce. now whlcl
do Vou think is the best style Of a prison
Siberia or many Of our American prisons
when n man commits "a big crime ia oul
country the Judge looks into the fright
ened face of the cuiprit, and says, You
have heen found guilty; ! sentence you T.
the penitentiary for ten years" lie goes
10 prison. He IS shut in between foai
walls. No sunlight. No fresh AR. NJ
bathroom. Before he has served ms ten
years he dies Of consumption or Is so en-
ervatad that sor the rest OF his life he sits
with folded hands-a Wheeling invalid.
In preferente to the shut in life OF the
average American prisoner, give me 81
beria. Besides that, when orenders come
oct OF prison in America, b 't chance
hive thew Ask the poorly supported so
cieties formed to get these people places
for work. Ask me, to whom the newly
liberated cOme from all the prisons In
ploring what they shall do. No one will
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tion is on their cheek. Who wants 10 en-
ploy in factory or store man or woman
who, In answer to the question, where
did you live last" should make for reply,
Estates prison at Auburn or Moyamen-
sing?" Now in Siberia they have a better
chance They are never spoken Of as Grim
inals, but as unfortunates, and they are al
lowed every opportunity of retrieving their
lost reputation and lost fortunes.
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tional Society of Russia for the Education /
and 1foralization of the Children of Sibe-
" C6nvicts. The president Of that soci-
$.,, Gointed by the emperor, is lady of
- -lishments and much sym !
- % OF ram mines her face and makesr
lonia Sery atpd tremulous her voice. |
re stronas. slA9 W ~ e her house&n st. |
ming, and whsnli slsas ebeuld nds BE msshorable
ras the physici6ii's /, ~ - attempt
,,,,do,t,l,o,. nyor thou. : at noble wom-
i, ,ee he caiied - had bee eror as the presi-
= !, a. ofte- social g.. oeiety Of Russia for
,,,o,e I'd wz-.ir y, OF the Chill
+ 2 uslAs4 s5sty in our country, supported
e1pefiilif lient, for taking care of the chill
gs WsSconvicts.
e on know, if you know anything, that
snere is no chance in this country for
man who has been imprisoned, or for his
children. God pity them and hasten the
time when we shall, by some national in
stitution established by the congress Of the
United States, initiate the mercy of the
Russian government toward the Innocent
children of imprisoned offenders. He who
charges cruelty on the imperial family and
thenobility Of Russia bellies men and wom-
en- as gracious and sbenignant as ever
breathed oxygen.
TTTu oZAV7ic ~ raft7Arr,-
The merciful character of the present en-
peror was well 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 the Second-I saw
the man who supervised all this fed from
St. Petersburg and quit Russia. But after
awhile the man repented Of his crime, and
wrote to the emperor asking for forgive
ness for the murder OF bis father, and
promising to be good citizen, and asking
If he might come back to Russia The en-
peror 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 suf-
fertngs of the drought struck regions of
Russia, she evinced an absorbing, crest
and a compassion and an enle nan-
neH and spsesfI such as yFs,sst te can harJiiy r
realize, because it seems that God has re-
served for woman as her great adornment
the coronet, the tear jeweled coronet Of ten
derness and cOmmiseration. If you say
that it was a man, a divine man that came
to save the world, I say yes; but it was
woman that gave the man. Witness all the
Madonnas-Italian, German, English and
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leries of ChristendOm. Son Of Mary, have
mercy on usl
But how about the knout, the cruel (
Russian knout, that comes down on the /
bare back OF agonized criminals? Why, |
Russia abolished the knout before it was
abolished from our American navy. But
how about the political prisoners hustled
of to Siberia3 According to the testimony
Of the most celebrated literary enemy Of
Russia, only four hundred and forty-three
political prisoners were sent to Siberia in
twenty years. How many political prison 6
ers did we put in prison pens during our !
four years Of civil war? Well, 1 will guess ,
at least one hundred thousand Americas ] !
one hundred thousand political prisoners
versus Russia's four hundred and forty
three political prisoners. Nearly all these
four hundred and forty-three OF twenty
years were noblemen or people desperately
opposed to the emancipation of the serfs
And none Of the political prisoners is sent
to the famous Kara mines.
For the most part you are dependent for
information upon the testimony of pris-
oners who are sent to Siberia They all
say they were innocent. Prisoners always
are innocent. Ask all the prisoners of
America today, Guilty or not guilty?"
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 pris-
oners admire the authority that arrested
them and punished them just about as d
much as the political prisoners of Russia
like Siberia. n
STOP DEFAMATION. z
But you ask how will this Russophobia, ii
with which so many have been bitten and !;
poisoned, be cured? By the God of Justice =
blessing such books and pamphlets as are -
now coming out from Professor de Arnaud, le
Of Washington; Mr.. Horace Cutter of San Il
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- lr
spects as brilliant as the three or four :,
Russian authors already known--the trans y, |"
lation Of those twenty-four authors, which ~
l am authorized from Russia to offer free VI
Of charge to any responsible American pub eN
fishing house that will do them justice OF
Let these Russians tell their own story, 81
for they are the only ones fully competent n
TO do the work, as none but Americans can cc
fully tell the story of America and as none nj
but Germans can fully tell the story Of E.
Germany, and none but Englishmen can =. =
fully tell the story Of England, and none ~
but frenchmen can fully tell the story of ut
France. Meanwhile let the international te
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