The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
KAISER WILHELM DON'T,
 M SHOCKS. DOD CAST EM

and practical. Starvation and oppres- slon nave turned her into a fury: and hef one aim In life is to. escape hunger ana to return as far as possible to Her IoSher position Of physical comfort, Desperate at last of obtaining her am by other means, she sells her eider daughter to disgrace This dauRp- ter Sonia, is depicted as high-spfrit- cd high minded girl. She is in iova wlyh young workman. n flodger rin to marry
 But the fury Dina finds that rhe 1 marriage would turn out unprofitably rom the point of view of her own con- venience. She foils 1t. and finally de- llVers her daughter to shame, that she herself may live in comgort The undertaking proves such a success that she attempts to maze her younger daughter. Eva follow the same road; and Eva commits suicide as ths only means or escape. ut the mother happy in the fact that Sonia's downfall has brought the family something like comfort treats the tragedy wfth- indifference
 The terrible tragedy culminates. when child, whose father she does not know. is born to Sonia. The child becomes the one happy thing in her life She spends all her day with it: she thinks of nothing else. But this devotion raises the anger of her mo- ther, who sees in 1t the cause of a disappearing revenue. She forces tho unfortunate girl to hand over the child to stranger and to return to her life of enforced degredatIon.
 You will forget him. says the mother, consolingly, as she takes tho child :rom her daughters arms ''You1I forget it all. l forgot Eva; you will forget the child. And we will no long CT starve. You win buy your father q new coat. a new hat What are you crying over?
 With this the play ends. The Rus- sia critics are attacking 1t fiercely on the ground that the depth of degrada- tion reached by the heroine, Dina, ia unattainable. NJ Yushkevftchss ad- mirers retort that he Is himself a Jew has lived in a ghetto town, and. knows Jewish life better than any Russian. The tragedy of Tn Town" has hap- pened. they assert. to more than ono Jewish family; and 1t will continue to happen as long as the Jewish people are crowded in stifling ghettos where hunger and despair drive them to un- natural crimes.
 The Russian Cove .nments military courts and punitive expeditions have this week surpassed themselves for cruelty and recklessness.
 At Riga. eleven men were brought before court-martial on charge of breaking the window of a state drink store with intent to steal. One lwaa seen breaking the window The guilt of the others consisted in not prevents ing the crime. All were condemned tn death, and shot next morning.
 At Tukum, the police attempted to arrest three men. One shot and wounds ed a policeman. The other two mere ly threw away their revolyers and fled. All three were hanged
 A peasant was shot at Libau because he refused, or was unable to say where his brother -in-law could be fouhti. -fzss- Courland, a squadron Of dragoona captured seven peasants on suspicion of having burnt house. and shot them all dead without trial.
 All these atrocities are welI-authen- ticated The local press gives even worse cases A woman, it says. was hanged at Nenkendorf for hitting a policeman, who arrested her husband, The husband was also hanged for ''complicity in resisting arrest" In other words. for allowing his wife ta defend him.