The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-03-28
. STIRRING DENUNCIATION

sTIRRING DENUNCIATION
.,,bc Russian Extraditiom Treaty
Being Sent Out i'm the Form
of an Appeal.
social to he Jews.
New YORK, March O. Fifty
thousand copies of stirring de.
annexation of the Russian extradi-
ton treaty are going out today to
labor organjz atoms and labor lead
eu throughout the United States
from the head quarters of the
American Federation of Labor in
! this city. Accompanying the adj
dress is an earnest re q uest that every
! wage worker mail at once a protes
against the treaty to Pres dent
Clevelan', Secretary of State
Gresham, and the senators from
their respective states. The appeal
reads as follows:
ITO the trade ard labor unions Of
America. Fellow To,lers, Greeting:
Representing the producers of the
wealth of the country, we cannot
remain silent witnesses CT the great
outrage that has been perpetrated in
the Star Chamber proceedings of
the United States senate.
can extradltion treaty with the
greatest tyrsnt upon the face Of the
globe-tl e Russian Cxar--is about
to be contaminated by our govern
ment in the name of the people; the
fundamental principles engrafted in
the Declaration of Independence
and the constitution of our glorious
past. BY this treaty every Russian
patriot seeking to liberate the
Russian people from the yoke of
despotism, and striving to establish
d government of, by and for the
people, il to be considered and
treated by our government as a
common criminal, and as such shall
b. delivered to the mercies of the
Car and his hangmen.
"We, American workmen, jealous
of the liberty aud indet endencs of
our country, are at the same time
intensely interested in the struggle
for liberty and brotherhood of all
hum an races and nationalitiee: aud
We therefore must empb aticaIly
protest against this infamous un-
American compact with ba,barism
Our protest must be sharp against
this attempt to make our govern.
ment the safe & lard Of despotism
our people the consorts and
sccomplices of the crimes Of
Carbon; our country the Fugitive
slave trap of the Cars mercenary
hirelings and spies.
The Yakntsk massacres, the
Siberian horrors and the craelties
daily perpetrated by the Gar ard
his minions are too we'll known to
u.s. absolute absence Of any trace OF
Justice IN relation TO the so-called
political offer ders" of Russia; the
most ba, barous laws" if they may
be called such, making free ex-
preston Of opinion against the in
human government rules Of Russia
crime sui iect to capital punish
ment Is all this not suili cieut that
We may not only refuse to entertain
all propositions from the Car, but
to shut up all our diplom attic inter
courses with that country until
freed from the yoke of tyranny and
and despotism. The free people OF
Russia will enter into a brotherly
alliance with the free people of tht
United States.
IN. Russian people want + et
speech, free assemh!age, free press
and electoral suil age. Shall no
all civilized nations combine te
assist those noble heroes an,
patriots of Russia. who, in th
Struggle for those inalienable rights
OF man, sacrifice their lives? lie
Inc voice of the people be h.a d il
'ne senate, let all organized labo
lalse its thunde rous protest sgains
'nls shameful encroachment o
politics upon tt moral sense of tn
People; let as sound the strongos
"sfm, until our sense Of indigns