The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-20
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BY WALTER DUNKIRK.
1907, by the Internationa
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Press Syndicate ) | Berlin, Jan. l9.--A real royal couple may dwell in the United States for quite n while If Prince August Will helm of Prussia has his way, Already some time ago the Kaiser, who Is ever nxio,is to show his admiration of ev- erything American decided to send the young Prince, who is his fourth son. across the Atlantic to study American prosperity and social system.
 Since then the young man. who IS only 1s. has become engaged to Pr,n- cess Alexandra Victoria. second dhugh- ter of Duke Friederich of Schleswig- Holstein- -senderburg- -Glueeksbure and he has now, If what l hear Is true. made up his mind that 1t is not good for man to be alone, ana that It would be far better if he could marry before going to the land of the Yankees and then take his bride along.
 am not surprised to hear that the Kaiser Is strongly opposed to this plan because of the~Prince.s youth nor 10 hs told that the young fellow has found an ally in his uncle Prince Henry Of Pr,,esia. who argues that if the boy Is allowed to go alone he might lose his heart to a beauteous Yankee girl, whom of course he could never marry, while as u married man he would be compar- atively safe.
 A compromise between the Kaiser and his son is looked for as the Prince will be allowed to marry and to take his bride along to the promised land across the sea on the condition that he postpone the trip for little while
 Russian public opinion has become so dulled by the repeated horrors that the wholesale execution of child rev oIutionaries'' no longer attracts atten- ton. although the execution of minors is forbidden by Russian law.
 During the three last months of 1906 over i5o boys and girls were illegally executed by the field courts martial. instituted by NJ. stoiypin in defiance of the law The majority of these were over 1S years Of age, but nNIr score of boys and girls of i7 and Gev- erai of 1e and is have been sent to the scaffold.
 The greater number of these childrsn were guilty of n3 more serious offense than ordinary robbery. their crime merely consisting In belonging to gangs of robbers.
 The Stolypin ministry has persistent ly acted on the theory that the way to restore peace to Russia Is to execute certain proportion of men, women and children. Whether they are guilty or innocent is immaterlsl--indeed. inuo- coHl DcOplC DNitiB hdH6Su ONSfS day in order to keep up the average. which otherwise would be too low, as tho police show hopeless incapacity in apprehending real criminals. --
 Ton persons were hanged in Riga the other day. All but two were minors. Among them was a 15-year old school boy, Rudolh Ruman. His cffense was that he stole $500 from a cashier and that he looked on while the revolution tota hurnaA thn caafla of Rnrou Ma dam. He was not a revolutionist and realized his danger so little that he laughed when asked questions in court md drew comic sketches while being sentenced to death.
 He was ruthlessly hanged and as no ordinary Russian could be found to undertake the task a convict was made drunk and forced to hang the unfor- tunate boy who struggled in the moose, fell to the ground and altogether was in misery for fifteen minutes before death.
 Even worse atrocities take place. A 1e-year old girl was shot in Warsaw. Her crime was that she belonged to a gang of robbers, though the head of the gang was her father, in whose company she was naturally forced to be. Father. daughter and seven others were shot by Cossacks. At Kieff a 14- year old boy was hanged with his l. year older sister whose only crime was that they lived in the same house with q man suspected of manufacturing bombs-aud that they did not betray him.
 Even under the much abused rule of the murdered NJ, Plehve cruelties of this kind were unknown and not one woman or minor was executed. M :. Stolypin's cabinet has theref@re set a record for bloodthirtiness which Is en- tirely fruitless for the mass of genuine revolutionary murders and robberies increases from day to day.
 A prince and a shoemaker are cppos- ing candidates for the votes of the electorate of Gotha in the coming Reichstag elections.
 The hereditary Prince gu Hohenlohe- Langenburg, who was regent of the duchy during the minority of the pres ent Duke of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha. ~is running on the radical ticket. while his opponent, Johann Book, a shoemaker, Is the Socialistic candidate. Although the prince Is personally popular, the radicals have a certain distrust of him as a politician, as he is a close friend of the Kaiser and was until lately di- rector of the discredited Colonial De- pertinent.
 Her Book, the shoemaker. on the