The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

the wife of Richard Henry Savage. the
author declares Russian workmen to be
beasts" those assembled at Ssaroff were
not dull-witted enough to swallow this
from the Holy Synod:
Have implicit reliance in the wisdom
and patriarchical goodness of the govern
ment. You may not always understand
our ways, but OF their correctness there
cannot be the least doubt. Many things in
this world are battling comprehension. For
instance: The bones of st. Serafim, buried
more than sixty years. have of late COM
menced 20 diffuse a most precious aroma,
sweeter than altar of roses and all the per-
fumes that money can buy. How this hap
pened no living soul can say, but the Holy
Synod assures the faithful that the divine
aroma comes direct from the fiower-strewn
paths In Paradise, our blessed saint is priv
LEGGED to walk" The bloody uprising OF
Odessa was the workman's answer to this
unprecedented attempt at bamboozling.
A WOMAN'S FREE TONGUE.
Mrs Savage, by the way. may have to
face expulsion on account of her too free
uterances on Russian affairs. That she
designated as beasts the common SUBJ
jects of the White Car, may not be to her
discredit in Official circles, but the Black
Cabinet complains that in letters addressed
to friend in Germany Mrs. Savage per-
mtted herself to become severely critical
with respect to Russian high officialdom.
That such is heinous crime in Muscovite
land will be demonstrated to Anna jose
phine Savage in short order. This corre-
spondent saw copy OF one OF the incrim-
mating missives at the office of leading
st. Petersburg official, who was amazed at
what he termed the lady's ''preposterous
accusations"
eff she were a mere German, and not
married to a famous American author, she
might make the acquaintance of Siberia,
and not from a car window either" said
the Excellency.
Mrs. Savage's letter is dated Kishineff,
end of July, and deals mainly with the Jew
massacre. After reviewing the known
facts, Mrs. Savage asserts point blank that
the massacre was instigated and managed
by the st. Petersburg Cabinet, (which
bound the Governors hands and after
wards prevented him from seeing the
Gar" She says: "The best circles are
was ordered for political reasons; it might
have Deen prevented IL the ioCoi
ties had been free to interfere.
Mrs. Savage continues: Il know OF one
army officer, who held thirty or forty of
these beasts (the people) "in check with
his pistol, while three soldiers, standing be-
hind him, covered the other side OF the
street. One rich Jew owned big Amer
lean safe, and when the trouble began his
friends deposited their money with him,
supposing that the mob would be unable TO
get at it. AS matter of fact, the rioters
worked eleven hours before the door gave
way; in the meantime the Governor had
twice promised to send soldiers, but failed"
.',ro write such stuff" said an official, us
a penitentiary offense; there are thousands
of people i'm Siberia who were sent up for
inditing infinitely less offensive utterances."
Nine. Savage, whose daughter is married
TO an imperial eX-chamberlain, now mar
shall of the nobility in Kichineff, claims 10
voice the views of Russian aristocrats, with
whom she completely identifies herself. IN
the circles of the arstocracy there is much
unfavorable comment, for elegant society
people have likewise suffered during the
riots She tells of ''rich and noble wom-
an" who was nearly HIT by a stone that
came crashing through her parlor window,
while outside Jews were being slaughtered.
Mime. Savage thinks there is a great diff
ference between the aristocracy and COM
mon Russians.
while the mobiles are gentlemen and hui
man beings for the most part" she says.
1.-The common people are nothing but poor
beasts; 1t is very dangerous TO set one
kind of animals the other, for I'm the end
1t will make no difference TO them whom
they attack
Mrs. Savages letter winds up as follows:
"The Russian government incites and toll
crates .nassacres of this kind in order TO
please the masses by letting them have
their fill OF murder and robbery; in this
way il hopes TO draw the masses away
from nihilism and socialism. But that is
a mistake; the opposite will happen; after
getting through with the Jews the mob
will fall upon the mobiles, rob them OF their
money and spill their blood. As it is, we'll
to-do mobiles are no longer secure here"
AS an afterthought Mrs Savage opines
that the United States had no right To in
terfere with Russia on account OF the Kich-
meff 'bestialities."
Mrs. Savage was Anna Josephine Scheible
of Berlin, Germany, before she married the
famous American author. She was married
TO Mr.. Savage at tie German embassy in
Washington WERE CAREwE.