Arizona republican., 1905-03-20

interests 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 revolu- tionists in order to frighten the Jewish malcontents
 Tt 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
 THE SEVENTH COUNT.
 "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 represent ed the government of the people, were not allowed to speak. Plehve held all Russia down on the plea of safe guard He covered Russia with a net work of gendarmerie and multiplied the police and secret police so that in the infected atmosphere it was impOs- sible 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 perish ins, it's most healthy and robust citi- zens are dying and the peoples mon ey is being wastefully squandered. 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 prevent it.
 THE SENTENCE OF PLEHVE.
 All this was done in Russia dur ing the two years Of the government of Plehve. All these crimes were com mitted by Plehve himself or by his agents, and for that the party Of so- cial revO,utionists found it necessary to remove PlehYe in order to save Rus sia from his future crimes, and in or der 10 show that such fearful crimes against the Russian people could not remain unpunished. That is why the party of social revolutionists called it's fighting organization together and gave to it the sequence of death on Plehve and l. a member >of the fighting or ganiZation of the social revolutionists with the feeling of deepest gratitude for the great honor shown me. swore to do my duty and carry out the sen tence
 Personal motives for killing PIehve had none. Although I am not a nov ice in socialistic propaganda; although by experience I can appreciate the aw- ful wrongs of Russia, I should not be able to raise my hand against the life of a man from personal motives. To this I might add that one of the crimes which was committed in the time of the government of Plehve, and which l took to heart as much as if at had been directed against me per sonaIy and against my nearest rela- tives, was a procession of twenty eight coffins in the streets, an unlimit- cd number of wounded. and two files of soldiers. I remember the awful hecatomb of inhabitants shot down near me and whe were victims of the interior policy of Plehve.
 THE ASsASSlNs LIFE.
 NOW l would with your permission like to relate how I. a man by per sonal character and by my, birth des- tined for a peaceful and contented family life. was converted into a rev olutionist- and gladly undertook to kill the man. My family was highly re- ligiOus and monarchial and had emi- grated from a village to a town where they became wealthy in the eXploita- ton of the Bashkid forests. The spir- it with which I was brought up while : entirely under the influence of my fam fly, was utterely opposed to every kind of protest and diScontent with the con- ditions of Russian life PhotOgraphs of the emperor and ikons ornamented the walls in the house of my father. The school did not destroy the tradi- ' tions which I took from my parents house, but developed them even more eff school can be permitted to make any tangible impression on such young i GA fnY f~,. o1r ! comrades without exception was hat i ed house.. There they stamped out all l life they eXtinguished systematically our spirit and the lively questions | which came into our young minds. Not only did the latter get no answer but ! the most interesting subjects of his | tory were suppressed, and the teach CTS openly jeered at the Jews and Poles. It was not the fault of the Rus sian teachers they were used to read i ing the lies which the government told i them, and it was contrary to their own ideas and perhaps to former traditions. | AN INTELLECTUAL, REVOLUTION. 1 And so I was total stranger to any 1 general wants and without any form ed ideas of the existing laws of Rus l sia. If I had any sort of humanita- ! rian opinions. to these I am wholly ] indebted to Russian literature, and school has nothing to do with them. went to Moscow university yearning 1 for knowledge with the idea of pass i ing several faculties, so that in the l end l could be zemskie doctor, a doc l tor absolutely for the poor.s I was | compelled to offend my father serious i ly because I would not follow his ad- | vice and enter some special high school l in order to make a brilliant career as an engineer The word career was | hateful to me. The knowledge which got in the university and in the | public library made a total revolution in my mind. A few months changed my former ideas. But this was only an intellectual revolution My first year in the university read the 'Vied- omostf and the 'Svet.' I never thought of revolution and if I did know some l thing about it, it was only what occa- sionally appeared in the papers. I took no interest in | 1t and found the idea