Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-20

IT,. us foster mother. The theo-
es Oh mat party and We their "chi,.
arc the same. but the conditions
when the members of the "Peo-
IT,. n.eu and acted are differen.
ET,,. eohoitions OF the present day.
IT., government terrorized. now we.
ne people only just freed from
e,""a were illiterate. Habit of living
is independently was slammed
". :" them during centuries In ono
nc Ha'ior had hardly got awav
from slavery and was In its infancy TIC
members of the peoples WIZ, w. 49,.
suadcd pv experience that to fp,f, tho
.i'eh' mission OF agitating socialistic
a'.'ohs such unconscious people,
"o having oeiore them the ghost of the
w"i.e terror was an unproductive action.
"'s nope mat the people would fight
1ndependently for their own interests or
come to the help of their chamnion. ~.
members Of the Free viii" by means 81
j. the red terror decided to connner ~, az
But they were forsaken alone on the fn,d
OF battie and had to fight like Titans.
We social revolutionists. children Of tho
2nh century do not feel ourselves alone.
on the contrary. we feel behind us tho
mOnHrChio
regime was MORALLY wounded 40 YEARS
ago the nation has grown intellectually.
1t already has wants. and is able to tbinl
and govern its own dostinies The mem-
bers Of the party of Free WIZ dreame
OF presenting the nation with free fnst;-
tutions as a present obtained from tba
government in single combat. We have
no such broad aims. We are much moro
modest. The system is already falling
under the pressure of national needs
which 1t now ceases to satisfy, and under
the pressure of national discomfort with
1t. The nation has problems and de.
mands. If we followed the example of the
members of the Free Will and if we
have taken to arms it is only because rem
tresentatives of a government which is DIV
ing out have taken charge of the auto
cratic power and have gone quite out of
the hounds of humanity in their dealings
with us revolutionists and the dissatis
fed people. We are treated like hunted
: and beaten animals. For this reason we
have barred our teeth and taken to arms.
And so against the present system we
have the peasants. workmen and intelIi-
Terror against the terror of the Off
Gals who have lost their heads in their
actions. Death for DEATH wounds for
wounds and dishonor for dishonor.
! A revolutionary tribunal for the dig
, archists who are not answcrable before
the law and the nation.
Consequently I state that when throw
ing the bomb at Mr.. Plehvc I did not
think that it would fall on the existing
form of government in Russia. I threw
; the bomb at Mr.. Plehve not in his capac-
ity as Russian minister there are still
many of them left but l threw the bomb
at him certain person who in a GER
tain way filed the position of minister
OF interior. Mr.. Plehve in fighting against
national discomfort had resource to force.
He committed the gravest of crimes.
list. Plehve gave up to execution. inn
prsored in the fortress and subjected our
comrades to all kinds of tortures and pun
| ishmonts. He forced us to rise against
: him as the prosecutor and murderer Of
7 the people. Balmashev and Hrketch were
placed on the scaffold. Gershuni and Fem.
, kina were buried in SlisseIbers fortress.
Such facts we social revolutiOnists can
no: 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.
End Plehve. as director of the depart
ment of police. choked the party of "Peo-
pies Free VIII by means of jails. fort
resses. penal servitude. prisons and exile
People had no opportunity of forgetting
) his hangman. The old-time hanSman
} again placed his white hand on the peo-
: pies necks. To speak about forgetting
: was only possible in case Plehve tried ia
redeem his former crimes by reforms and
: concessions during the latter part of his
life.
3rd Plehve. before the declaration o!
c war with japan, arranged n war in tn.
: interior of Russia. He looked on Russia
as though it was a foreign country. He
! strcwed the land with its citizens blood
He shot the workmen when they spoke
! plainly about their needs and their in
z terestS.
2 Yes for the shooting Of worknen Mr.
:. Plehve is to blame more than anyone else
2 Although he did not give the word fire
he il. guilty because the shooting was
l initiated by him minister of the int
, rior. and by orders Of men who fulfilled
t the orders of him who had appointed
them. As he did not punish the govern
S ors lc himself sanctioned their ideas and
gave temptation TO Otner nigh uI2IutdIics
to act Just as cruelty.
4tf The personal dignity of the Rus
c sian citizens during Plchve's government:
S was subjected to the basest humiliation
peasants and workmen were subjected tt
. wholesale corporal punishment. Vor
I lWahl and Obolensky received promotion
land reward. Russian revolutionists were
2 tbeaten and Inundated on every possible
l occasion in the police stations by the po
llcemen and secret police. Russian revo
y IutiOnists and citizens were Inundated
and beaten in prisons. and sometimes
f their position there became unbear
: able that they refused food and starved
themselves in protest against insults.
9Th. Plehve put on the hungry heavy
L taxes. When the peasants. driven to OK
Itremites by hunger. want OF arabic land
n and subjected by the landowners. no,
b seeing and not expecting help from any
y where. tried to obtain bread by force sc
i as not to die. they were answered with ar
. increase of taxation. This was