The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-19


and murderer of the people Balmas-
hey and Heketch were placed on the
scaffOld GershUni and Femkina were
buried in Slusselberg fortress Such
facts we social TevOlutiOnists cannot
but regard as crimes and the fault of
these crimes lies on the head of the
man who carried on an untruthful
fight for the state
Second-PiehVe. as director of the de-
partment of police, choked the party
of Peoples Free VIII by means of
Jalls, tOTtTeSSes. penal SCTVitude. priS-
ons and exile. People had no opportun-
ity OF forgetting his hangman. The
Old time hangmIn again placed his
| white hand on the peoples necks. To
speak about forgetting was only posi-
bic in case Plehve tried TO redeem his
former crimes by reforms and conces-
SIOns during the latter part of his life
Land strewn With Blood.
''Third-Plehve, before the decIara-
ton OF war With Japan. ARRANGED a
war In the interior Of Russia He
looked on Russia as though il was IL
foreign country. He strewed the land
with its citizens blood. He shot the
Workneu when they spoke plainly
about their needs and their interests
Yes, for the shooting o. Worzmen
/ Mr. Plehve is to blame more than any
/ one else. Although he did not give the
| shooting was initiated by him as min
! lister of the interior. and by orders OF
men who fulfilled the orders Of him VINO
! had appointed them. As he did not
! punish the governors he himself sane
/ toned their deeds and gave temptation
! to other high dignitarieS to act just as
| cruelty.
"Fourth-The personal dignity of the
/ Russian citizens during PlehVe's gov
/ eminent was subjected to the basest
/ humiliation, peasants and Workmen
| were subjected to wholesale corporal
| punishment. Won Wahl and ObolensIly
| received promotion and reward Rus
! sian revolutiOnistS were. beaten and hu-
! inflated on every possible occasion in
! the police stations by the policemen
! and secret police. Russian revolution
! lists and citizens We're Inundated and
| beaten in prisons, anG sometimes their
| position there became 50 unbearabIe
| that they refused food and starved
| themselves in protest against insults.
Increase of Taxation.
| "Fifth-PIehve put on the hungry
| heavy taxes When the peasants,
| driven TO eNtTemitieS by hunger want
| of arabic land, ard subjected by the
! landowners, not seeing and not eX-
i pecting help from anywhere. tried TO
! obtain bread by force so as not to die,
! they were answered with an increase of
| taxation. This was PIehve's idea of
| satisfying national needs. In this
! manner he gave them a stone instead
! of bread In this manner he deprived
| the naked Of their only shirt Plehv
] exhausted the people, spending their
| hard-earned money on the DEVELOPMENT
| of the secret police in Russia and on
| the protection of his own person.
Massacre of Jews.
| 'SiXth-Plehve allowed the wilful
massacre of the Kishineff Jews in the
! presence of the police; Jews. old men.
women and children We're beaten and
! killed. Women were inSulted- the
| property of the poor Jews was de-
| stroyed and plundered. OF PIehve's
/ participation in this wilful massa ere
| the foreign press and the Russian revo-
! lutonary press clearly made mention.
| Further mention of this is made in the
! description of the circumstances which
! preceded il 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 believe
! either it or the servile remarks OF the
| Ofhcial Messenger? What right have
! we to believe either il or the serviIe re-
| marks of the anJi-semitic newspapers
| when they attempt TO exempt PIehve
| from participation in this crime and
| attempt to put all the blame on the
! drunken crowd OF Vaudals and the peo-
| pies 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 enc
| mics, and tried to make the common
| people hate the Jews, Poles and Firms
| The Jewish press could not protest rs
| 1t was always being prosecuted in Rus
| STA and could hardly breathe. PIehVe
! permitted the kishineff massacre i'm
| the interest of the same policy which
! he had followed in other parts of the
| country. He tried as much as he could
[ 10 weaken the power Of the revolution
/ lists in order to brighten the Jewish NAL
! contents.
1t is known for a certainty that
| when the KishiEeff 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.
| SeVenth-PlehVe put down all at
| temptS to work legally for the people
| Ihe press was suppressed and put I'M
| der the yoke of the censor ZemstvOs
| were suspected and disbanded- The
| elected of the ZemStVOs, who repre-
| scented the government of the people
! were not allowed 10 speak. PIehvt
! held all Russia. down on the plea OF
| safeguard He covered Russia with 2
network of gendarmerie and multiplied
! the police and secret police so that in
the infected atmosphere it was impOs-
! sible to breathe.
PIehVe Responsible.
'Eighth-On Plehve falls the chief re.
| sDonsibility that in the existing wal
! Russian blood is flowing like water. anC
/ the flower of the land are perishing
its most healthy and robust citizen.
are dying and the peoples money i.
being wastefully sQuandered PIehv,
IS guilty because he gagged the pres,
and Russian social opinion and did no
allow them to speak about the war il
order to prevent it.
'All this was done in Russia durin.
the two years of the government o
PlehVe. All those crimes were com
mitted by Plehve himself or by hi
agents, and for that the party of sOcia
reVoluuOniSts found it necessary to re
! move PlehVe in order to save RuSsi:
! from his future crimes, and in order [,
show that such fearful crimes agains
the Russian people could not remain
unpublished That is why the party o
! social TeVOlutionistS called it's fightinj