Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30
Father Gapon's Strong Plea
in a Recent Manifesto
ISSUED TO RUSSIANS
RECOUNTS THE PARABLE OF THE
GOOD SAMARITAN.
His Whereabouts Known, but the
Secret Police Have Been Unable
to Capture Him.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

special Cablegram to The Star.
VIENNA, July 29.-Father Gapon, with
the knowledge, but not the consent of the
RUSSIAN authorities, has been travelling
throughout the country for the last six
months. and the failure of the secret police
u capture him has created the gravest dis
trust In the bureaucracy. Millions of
copies of the following manifesto from
Father Gapon has been circulated through
out the country. The letter begins with the
parable of the good Samaritan and then
goes on as follows:
Tell me. workmen, peasants good Chris
tians all. what does our Lords parable
teach us? To follow the example of the
hypocrite Pharisee or of the good Samari-
tam Why are you. my Christian brothers,
so ready to act against the Saviour and
against humanity? Why do you fill your
hearts with blind hatred against the Jews?
why do you allow your brother and your
children to raise armed hands against the
Jews on holy days? They murder them
prosecute them. smash their heads. rob
their poor property. mock them. iltreat
them when on holy Easter day songs are
heard in the Lords temple
Let us embrace our brothers when the
bells announce the happy springtime and
speak or peace to all men. These brothers
OF yours shed Jewish children's blood in the
streets. Sully Gods earth and thu. stems OF
His temple with it,
Il will answer the question for you, my
beloved Russian people. whom love more
than my life. You far from the
Samaritan that you are worse against the
Jewish people than the Levites and the
priests: worse than wild brigands. because
you are in dark ignorance and extreme pow
erty, and see no way out of your misery
Your misery holds you fast, clings to your
heels, makes you drink your last kopeks III
treat your wife and children presses you
under the yoke of blood suckers, manufac-
turers and landed proprietors
Misuse of the Peoples Money.
What think you is done with the peo-
pies bloody money without its knowledge
or control? Think you it is used for peo-
pies wants, education, welfare or reputa-
ton? Into whose hands, think you the
money goes? Into the hands of the Jews?
oh. dear. no. The car and his bad set take
it: his ministers and his adherents world
ly and spiritual, squander the savings of
the peasant and the workman.
Where are thy children, my Russian
people? Perhaps they are wounded or mu-
tilated, perhaps slaughtered on January -
in the cause Of TRUTH perhaps they are
languishing in prisons Who eats up your
children. who puts bayonets through them.
kills them with bullets? The Jews? No,
The ministers of Nicholas II, greedy squan-
derers and traitors. They send the Cos
sacks and soldiers-your sons-against the
poor peasants, against brave workmen.
against fathers and mothers. that is against
all those w.4o give their life and land for
liberty
That any orthodox priest. even Father
Gapon. should cry out against the persecu-
ton of the Jews is ntoiera bic in the eyes
of the Russian bureaucrats.