The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-29

OF A TfRANT
White Talks Of Won
Plehve'S DepOtiSm.
ATROCITIES OF RUSSIA
Finland'S Liberties Crushed
by the Minister.
Present Condition Of the Cars EN-
pire the Most Desperately bad
In its Black History of
Oppression.
ATROCITIES OF RUSSIA

Former Minister to Russia, Andrew
ID. White, who also served ably for his
country, was seen by a Post-Standard
reporter at the residence of his BROTH
er. Horace X. White, just before he left
for Ithaca yesterday afternoon.
When asked If he had the acquaint-
ance of NJ. Plehve. the Russian Minis
ter of the Interior. Mr.. White answered
that he knew him WE'LL having met him
frequently In the course of official bus
mess during his stay at st. Petersburg
in 1929, and 1894, as Minister of the
United States to Russia.
In discussing Plehve's assassination.
Mr.. White said:
AT that time NJ. Plehve had not ar
rived at the position of full Minister
of the Interior. but was First Assistant
Minister in that Department. and in
that capacity took up various American
Matters especially the dealings of the
Russian Government with some of the
great American insurance companies.
The Russian Government had made the
companies a great deal of trouble, and
l was Instructed from Washington to
discuss the matter General Bachelor,
now Judge of the International Court
ia Egypt very ably representing the
companies
Won PIehve's Personality.
pOti 1tHtldi
myself found Mr.. Plehve very agree
able and apparently, as far as his gov
eminent allowed Aim, reasonable. l
also met him socially at various times
and found him agreeable and interest
ing.
was, therefore, greatly surprised
at learning when he was promoted to
the first place that his whole character
seemed to change.
~
and plumber of the Jews men, women
and children, at KishineT caused him
to be regarded with adherence by the
whole world Even more frightful has
been his connection with the destruc-
tion of the liberties of Finland. In
my mimi that is the most wicked thing
in the = story of the last two centu-
ries ---
There is no time to go into 1t here
further than to say that 1t has turned
| the best, the most civilized, the most
| educated and most loyal province in
! the empire into land in which the
| opposite OF all these Characteristic is
more highly developed than in any
| other part of the empire. Other things
| done by him were also calculated to
| bring most bitter hatred against him.
A Weak Defense.
He attempted to help his cause by
\ uefenSe OF MS COHuuCL lpWdTd
| land which was published in an Ameri-
can magazine. But it certainly must
| have failed to convince any thinking
man at all aware of the circumstances.
| During two summers l lived mainly
| in Finland, coming frequently to st.
! Petersburg, and the transition in pass
| ing from the cultivation and civiliZat-
| ion of Finland to the atmosphere of
Russia was the most depressing I have
| ever known.
| II do not wonder at his assassination
! although | deeply lament it, Among
| other reasons for this regret 1t will
| doubtless be made a pretext for new
| oppression and new crueitles towards
the Jewish population and toward the
| Finlanders Assassination always de-
| feats its purpose and this will be,
| fear, no exception to the rule.
Conduct Most AtrOcious.
| II can only account for Mr.. Plehve's
atrocious, reactionary and despotic
conduct since he came to the position
| of minister on the theory that he found
| that the clique in control of the winter
| palace. men and women who seem tC
| have brought the present emperor into
subsection to them. obliged Mr.. Plehv'
as a-condition of his tenure of office
| to do their will
His ambition doubtless led him to
adopt the racial and religious hatred
as well as their detestation of any
thing like constitutional government
Mr.. White concluded by saying that
having lived twice officially in Russia
he had observed closely the condition
of the Empire and that though he saw
| the most wretched condition of things
during the Crimean war. the situation
| at present is the most desperately baG
in Russian history, and that it has
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potism more unreasonable. cruel and
| shortsighted than anything in recent
human history outside of the Russian
Empire.