The Cairo bulletin., 1904-07-29
CHANGED IN CHARACTER.

BY the Associated Press
Syracuse, n. Y. July 2S.-The Pos
Standard tomorrow will publish ii
interview with Former Ambassador &
/ Germany White on Russian MlnisteI
! plehve. Wh0 wHs~ ~assassinated today
White met Piehye in the course of OF
| fielai business in st. Petersburg ii
| 1924. White said:
AT that time Plehye had not arriy
| cd at the position Of the fuli ministe
ct fhe itnarior hut was tirst assistant
minister o. that department ami ii
thar capacity took up various AmerI
can matters especially the dealings 0i
Jhe government with some great
/ American insurance companies. The
Russian government had made the
| companies a great deal of trouble and
| was instructed from Washington to
discuss the matter, General Bachelor,
now judge of the International court
in Egypt, very ably representing the
companies.
Il think both Bachelor and myself
found Plehve very agreeable and ap
parently, as far as his government al
lowed him, reasonable. | also met
him socially at various times and
found him agreeable and interesting
Il was, therefore. greatly surprised
at learning, when he was promoted to
first place, that his whole character
seemed to change.
His part in the horrible massacre
and plunder of the Jews, men, women
and children at Kishineff. caused him
to be regarded with adherence by
the whole world. Even more frightful
has been his connection with the de-
struction of the liberties of Finland.
In my mind that is the most wicked
thing in the history of the last two
centuries.
There is no time to go into 1t here |
further than 10 say it has ssturned the |
best, most civilized, most educated |
and most loyal province in the EN-.
pire into land in whichrthe opposite |
If all these characteristics is more |
highly developed than in any other
part of the empire. Other things done |
by him were also calculated to bring
he most bitter hatred against him.
"He attempted 10 help his cause by |
/ defense of his cabinet toward Fin
and. which was published in an |
American magazine But it certainly |
must have failed TO convince any 1
hinking man at all aware of the cir
During the two summers | lived in I
coming frequently to st.
and the transition in
passing from the cultivation and civ
lization Of Finland to the atmosphere
# Russia was the most depressing |
lave ever known.
Il do not wonder at his assassina-
ion, although ! deeply lament IT,
Among other reasons for regret. il
win doubtless be made the pretext for
lew oppression and new cruelties TO
ward the eJwish population and to-
ward the Finlandcrs Assassination
always defeats its purpose, and this
viii be, fear, no exception to the
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Itrocious. reactinnary and dcspot.
.onduct since he came to the pOsiuFl Z
# minister on the theory that the
lique in control at the Winter palace, /
ueu and women. who seem TO have |
,rought the present emperor into sub
ection to them, Obliged Plehse as a
condition Of his tenure Of office, to do
heir will
"His ambition doubtless led him To
dopt their racial and religious hatred
IS well as their detestation Of any
hing like a constitutional govern
aent
White concluded by saying that,
aving lived twice officially In Rus
ia. he had observed closely the con
ition of the empire, and that. though /
Ie saw the most wretched condition
4 things during the Crimean war. the !
ltuation at present is most desperate
y bad In Russian history and that II {
las been brought on by the exercise
4 a despotism more unreasonable.
ruel and short sighted than anything
n recent human history outside the {
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