Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-11-13

10 bite leg, but alI succeeded iu freeing
I thom.oivos from this iAcumhfancs.
They stole % japanese sc0w ami with
forty pounds Of rice and "a
bsg OF water. started out % sca. As
mono of them were sailors they made
little urogfeti, bat were ab.o 90 ge. too
[ nr ont 90 Do discovered from shore,
though they only accomplished forty
miles from land in ten days. Then
thelr food and water gave out, suI
they suffered severely for three or four
days. AZ tho expiration OF that time,
on September o, whaling ship came
along aud picked them up. The ves-
ssl arrived at The COLLEEN Cato ON the
sih Of this month, aud landed i've Of
tho Russians.
The exilos, ne they aro called, com.
plain OF the tJusiics OF their sentences
under the Russian laws. Two were
under sentence OF eight, ono ton ami
one fifteen years, and tue nth to
impriaonmeut for Ito. This might
bo severe, aud oven or ret, la the case
OF political prsonors, hut according 10
tho statement Of the i've mon, three
% ihcm are Ina Tor MURDER one tor
couutor'eiting, aud the other for q
deadly assault upon government
ntllglal. one says he k,lloi his man
accidentally unjilsrslys hisIsa case
OF mistaken Identity, while the re-.
maiulug three confess their eulL TIE
account each one gives OF himself
shows tnnt he causC1 the prison officials
much trouble Ia violating rules AMI
making efforts to escape.
Token altogether, this kind Of exilcs
is such a., Of all classes, the United
States cannot an0fi to receive within
ts borders The sympathy which 30
showufod upon them because Of thci
being "Siberian exlics" IL uuleservei
aud there orc wasted. Il is all RICH, to
pity and thol.ct men who have been
Imprisoned for their political or rcli.
si1us views, but 10 IL ashame that those
real criminals, whose deeds would
mako them criminals In any clviuz d
country, should be received and en-.
Outraged Ia this country, mere.
~ because thoy bear Russian
names and como from Siberia.
In California there Is q cry
raised, AMI Justly no, when q China.
man gains admission contrary TO law;
nut whom this quintoIto OF conyic,s Of
,ho hardened class were landed Ia
violation OF the statute, they wore
publicly pattcd on the Sack ami iu.
iormed that they need not fear being
returned to Inc country whence they
anne, o. lne law requires that convlc,s
shall b., Such a o1urso a. this en-.
cIutasumeut of oonvicts Is not only
Inconsistent but dangerous 10 the iu-
tcrnnl peace Of the c0uuiry.
But the law officers did not take the
Same Wow Of the situation ~ did the
coast newspapers. The frst i've con.
ylcls who arrlved,nnd who had secured
positions Ia dime museum, aud the
other i've who landed on tue llth,
we're taken into custody next day, aui
are now In Jail awaiting an invest.
alton. This official action was
taken, however, by the direction ofthr
immigration commissioner ut New
York, who had none Of the eickiy
sontimontslisn that would have
shielded the criminals. The latter now
claim that they are political exilu', but
thoir former recital VI specific crimes
for which they wore being punished
docs not harmonic with this claim,
which evidently 10 mato IN tho hope
of securing freedom. Russia l. NO
douu. glad 10 yet rid Of tho refusoes,
ani The people o. the United State,
should be- equally sorry 10 receive
hem. They are not entitled 10 sym.
pathy for their crimes, and thoir pun
,snment was not any greater II as
great, ns they would have been liable
TO In any country whore wholesome
avs arv properly enforced.