Bisbee daily review., 1905-03-19

dignitaries to act just as cruelty.
 4th. The personal dignity of the Russian citizens during Plehves gov ernment was subjected to the basest humiliation, peasants and workmen were subjected to wholesale cor poral punishment. Won Wahl and Obolensky received promotion and re- ward. Russian revolutionists were beaten and humiliated on every pos sible occasion in the police stations by the policemen and secret police. Russian revolutionists and citizens were humiliated and beaten in pris- ons, and sometimes their position there became so unbearable that they refused food and starved themselves in protest against insults.
 5th. Plenve put on the hungry heavy taxes. When the peasants driven to extremities by hunger, want of arabic land, and subjected by the landowners, not seeing and not expecting help from anywhere. tried to obtain bread by force so as not to die, they were answered with an increase of taxation. This was Plehve's idea of satisfying national needs. In this manner he gave them stone instead of bread. In this
 manner he deprived the naked of
 their only shirt. Plehve exhausted the people, spending their hard earn
 ed money on the development of the secret police in Russia and on ths
 protection of his own person.
 9th. Plehve allowed the wilful massacre of the Kishineff Jews in
 the presence of the police; Jews
 old men, women and children were beaten and killed. Women were in- suited, the property of the poor Jews was destroyed and plundered. Of Plehve's participation in this wilful massacre the foreign press and the Russian revolutionary press clearly made mention. Further mention of this is made in the description of the circumstances which preceded it and which description was given in the more or less decent organs of the Russian press. How can we trust the information given by the govern ment? What right have we to be- lieve either it or the servile remarks of the OFFICIAL MESSENGER? What right have we to believe either it or the servile remarks of the anti semitic newspapers, when they at tempt to put all the blame on the drunken crowd of yandals and the peoples hatred of the Jews. Such articles do not admit of any trust.
 During Plehve's time freedom of speech and protection was given to only those papers which could tell lies and papers which hated the Jewish people, which during a long space of time tried to make Jews and Russians enemies and tried to make the common people hate the Jews. Poles and Films. The Jewish press could not protest as 1t was al ways being persecuted in Russia and could hardly breathe. 'Plehve per mitted the Kishineff massacre in the interest of the same policy which he had followed in other parts of the country. He tried as much as he could to weaken the power of the revOlutionists in order to frighten the Jewish malcontents.
 it is known for a certainty that when the Kishineff massacre was known all over Russia, Jews of some towns fearing the same thing asked for the protection of the governors and police. and received answer that they would be treated in the same way if they did not keep quiet.
 7th. Plehve put down all attempts to work legally for the people. The press was suppressed and put under the yoke of the censor. Zemstvos. were suspected and disbanded. The elected of the Zemstvos. who repre- sented the government of the peo- pie, were not allowed to speak Plehve held all Russia down on the plea of safeguard" He covered Russia with a network of gendarme- rie and multiplied the police and se- cret police so that in the infected atmosphere it was impossible to breathe.
 Sth. On Plehve falls the chief re- sponsibility that in the existing war Russian blood is flowing like water and the flower of the land are per ishing, its most healthy and robust citizens are dying and the peoples money Is being wastefully squan- der-ed.- Plehve Is guilty because he gagged the press and Russian social opinion and did not allow them to speak about the war in order to pre- vent it.
 "Ali this was dore in Russia during