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

ticieS 90 not admit of any trust.
l During Plehve's time freedom of
fspeech and protection was given to on
ny those papers which could tell lies
ana papers which hated the Jewish
people, which during a long space OF
tnne tried to make Jews and Russians
enemies and tried to make the common
PEOPLE hate the Jews. Poles and Firms.
me Jewish press could not protest as
was always being prosecuted in
russia and could hardly breathe.
Fiehve permitted the Kishineff massa-
ere IN the interest of the same policy
winch he had followed in other parts
OF the country. He tried as much as
he could to weaken the power of the
IreVolutionists in order to brighten the
Jewish indictments.
II is known for a certainty that
When the Kishineff massacre was
Known all over Russia. Jews of some
OWNS Tearing the same thing asked
LOT the protection of the governors and
ponce, and received answer that they
Mouid De treated in the same way if
'ney did not keep quiet.
th. Plehve put down all attempts
70 work legally for the people The
press was suppressed and put under
the yoke of the censor. Zemstvos were
suspected and disbanded. The elected
or the Zemstvos, who represented the
government of the people, were not al
lowed to speak. Plehve held all Rus
STA down on the plea of "safeguard.'
He covered Russia with a network
OF gendarmerie and multiplied the pn-
lice and secret police SO that in the in
fected atmosphere it was impossible
to breathe.
| Sth. On Plehve falls the chief re-
fsponsibility that in the existing wa;
| Russian blood is flowing like water
and the flower of the land are perish
ing. its most healthy and robust citi-
Zens are dying and the peoples money
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.
"All this was done in Russia during
the two years of the government OF
Plchve. All these crimes were commit
ted by Plehve himself or by his agents
and for that the party of Social Rev
olutionsts found it necessary to re-
move Flehve in order to save Russia
from his future crimes, and in Or,ie.
to show that such fearful crimes
against the Russian people could not
remain UNPUBLISHED. That is why the
party of Social Revolutionists called its
lighting organization together and
gave to it the sentence of death on
Plehve. and l. a member of the fight
ing organization of Social Revolution
} lists" with the feeling of deepest graf
itude for the great honor shown me
swore to do my duty and carry out the
sentence.
Personal motives for killing Plehve
I had none. Although l am not d no.
vice in socialistic propaganda; al
though by experience l can appreciate
the awful wrongs of Russia, l should
not be able to raise my hand against
the life of Il man from personal mo-
tNeS. To this I might add that one OF
the crimes which was committed in the
time of the government of Plehve. anu
which l took to heart as much as il
it had been directed against me per-
sonally and against my nearest rel
atives, was a procession of 2S collins il
the streets. an unlimited number OF
remember the awful hecatomb of in
ha bitants shot down near ne and who
were victims of the interior policy OF
Plehve.
"Now l would with your permission
like to relate how l. a man by person
al character and by my birth destined
for a peaceful and contented family
life, was converted into revolution
list, and gladly undertook to kill this
man. My family was highly religious
. and monarchial and had emiGra;et
from village to a town where they
, became wealthy in the exploitation oil
the Bashkir forests. The spirit Will
i. which I was brought up while entire
ly under the influence of my family
was utterly opposed to every Kind OF
protest and discomfort with the condi'
lions of Russian life. Photographs ol
the Emperor and ikonS OrnamenteC
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
Gf school can be permitted to make
!, any tangible impression on such youh-
ideas, school for me and for all IN!
| comrades WITHOUT eAtSpAWii "o'
"hated house." There they stamped OUT
. all life. they extinguished systematic
ally our spirit and the 'lively ques-
, lions, which came into our young
minds. Not only did the latter get nc
, answer. but the most interesting sub
iects of history were suppressed, and
!. The teachers openly jecred at the Jews
: and Poles. 1t was not the fault of the
pussian teachers. they were used to
reading the lies which the government
, told them, and it was customary to
tbeir own ideas and perhaps TO for
mer traditions. And so 1 was a
total stranger to any general wants
and without any formed ideas OF the
existips laws of Russia. If l had any
sort of humanitarian opinions. to these
am wholly indebted to Russian lit
erature and school has nothing to dc
!, with them. / went to Moscow Uni
versitv warming for knowledge with
the idea of passing several faculties SO
| ,b,t i'm the end l could be zemskie
hector q doctor absolutely for the poor.
was compelled to offend my father
serious,v because 1 would not follow
L.; a,;ca and enter some special high