The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-10

shed in like manner; others were deport- !
ed OF late Punishment has been quite /
superseded by deportation. which the /
government regards as safer for itself. !
An exile, you see. can go where he pleases |
outside Of the Cars dominions and talk |
as freely as l can do He can write for /
the press. He can also stir up affairs at /!
home in manner sometimes disquieting |
to the authorities. For example at Darn !
stadt in Germany, while the Gar was
there last fall, a committee of exiles, with
myself at the head. drew up a memorial I
to him. setting forth the facts Of the Fin |
nish situation We did not obtain an au
dience with the Gar himself but min
lister of the court accepted our memorial,
for presentation TO him, and have rea-
son to believe that it was duly delivered
Our paper was a nanswer to misrepresen-
tations. which NJ. de Plehve, the minister
Of the interior, who happens now to be at
the front of affairs, had made in in
recent publication. We feared that he
had made the same misrepresentation TO
the Car directly and wished to counter
act them while there was still an oppor-
tunity.''
But how came minister in attendance
on the Gar to transmit TO his majesty
such a paper as this, practically accusing
NJ de Plehve of lying?'
He did so because he found nothing in
that was new; nothing that he did not
know to be true. You must not suppose
that the three men-Plehye. Bobrikof,
and kouropatkin-who now are carrying
everything with so high a hand repre-
Z sent the intelligence and real weight Of
the Russian government. Their influence
has overcome for the moment the infiu
ence Of the Iarge-a very large-majority
Of the Imperial Council; but there are
plenty of wise and intelligent men in the
Russian government who feel no sympa-
thy with the Vaccinations of this trio.
They. know, as we co, that this man
Plehve is not statesman. but merely
big policeman, who believes in controlling
the whole empire by terrorism, as he has
hitherto managed unruly communities
with his secret police and his gendarmes."
What offense was alleged against you
that caused your eXile?''
I have never learned. There is onthing
in the form of the letre de cashet to allow
for the statement of a charge. You are
simply uspected-vaguely, perhaps, and
of nothing in particular-and the first
thing you know you are visited by
functionary with one Of these orders, or
guard comes and carries you of to the
place in Russia or Siberia TO which you
have bee ncondemned without notice and
without a hearing. In one instance OF
Punishment, which occurred soon after
mine, the victim being a former officer
in a Russian troop of guards instead Of
avif.. MT
simply 10 St Petersburg for a visit to his
old comrades. They received him cordial
". and this very fact proved his undo
ing: for the police bounced upon him
when they found it out and arrested hlm
again They We're doubtless fearful OF a
seditfous association with the army. l be-
lieve, however, that he was afterwards
released: do not know where he is now.
In a certain case of deportation two
good and Iaw-abiding citizens were
snathched away from their homes and
carried over into Russia. where they
could not communicate with any one. as
they were ignorant of the language. Here
they were imprisoned a long time, with
soldier, locked in the same room with
them day and night, and never letting
them out of his sight for ninstant Ana
all on mere unvoiced suspicion. Think
of that-you who live in a free country
where, as in ours before this era OF
tyranny began. Il man has to be accused
and tried before he can be punished even
for the most terrible OF crimes!
You asked me about my own Offend
ing. As I said I do not know what 1t
was. But I was a member of the judi
ciarv committee of a diet which refused
to sanction CERTAIN arbitrary and uncon-
stitutional measures. Also, my wife gave
a private concert in aid of fund for pop
ular education, two years before my pam
jshment In the midst of our guests strobe
the governor. with an order that the as
semhlage disperse. l refused to submit
tameIv To the insult and drove him out
He was Kagoril<off. 4 Russian. who had
no constitutional right to his governor
/ shin: and this was his public debut after
Z taking his chair Possibly the incident
was cherished against me, and nursed for
| two vears-I do not know. 1t was the
/ same Karorikorf concerned iii this who
/ ordered the whipping of the people by the
/ Cossacks a year later. He was sued for
that last performance; but the only salts
! faction thrown to the victims of his bru-
3
. bade any appeal against the acts Of such
/ a functionary except by permission Of his
s,lpcriors in office and even that rule was
made retroactive so as to protect this
ruftiian.
Are such things still going on in Fin
I laud?'
Every day Summary arrests deporta-
! lions on mere suspicion. domiciliary visits
! in the midst Of the night-these are what
nay unhappy countrymen are enduring
No man can guess. from one hour TO an
other. whether he is safe How do ! know
what is happening there2 Here is a little
nCwspaper-as you see. without a title
or a heading. simply the date and the
news-printed in small type on a sheet SO
. soft and thin that il can be smUgGled into
and out of the prescribed communities
without much danger Of detection, except
/ through treachery. Patriotic itizeus find
il in their homes without knowing where
il comes from: st reaches me regularly
. through channels known only 10 the pub
. fishers This keeps al parts Of Finland
informed of what Is going on in all other
parts. and tells us who are now without
a country what is happening at our old
homes
I nthe opinion % Count Mannerheim'
there will be no change in present condi-
tions til the people. through their att
tude toward the Russian government in
its hour Of trouble wrest from its aG-
rhorities some permanent reforms. In that
case. H. hopes that the exiles ard the vic
time Of deportation may he allowed To re-