Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1909-07-08
Preparing For The Reception of
The Royal Hangman.

institution inseprable from his sys-
tom Of government The asew affair
from this point OF view has torn down
every covering. IL has laid bare a
reign as corrupt from n moral point of
view as Il is from an economic point
OF view and has proved that the st.
Petersburg camarilla has tnstigated
political crimes in order to lead its
authors TO certain death.
Lastly, a recent Interpolation in the
Douma has demonstrated that the eX-
aminations are accompanied by
threats of death, which are meant to
false dcpositions from the accused.
Acting on orders from high places,
the prison administration practiscs
systematic logging and torturing of
prisoners with more than once, death
as a result. BY the directors, orders
the soldiers shoot men and women
prisoners through the windows. At
the present moment cpidcmicc of
typhus and fever are raging in the
majority of the prisons. as result
Of insufficient sanitation, as a result
of the lack-or the bad quality of
foods, as a result of over population.
In February 1903 there were 1S1,137
prisoners, where there is not sufficient
room for half that quantity. There
are numerous cases of acute phthisis,
OF insanity and the prisons trans
formed first into torture chambers,
become finally cemetarics for the
prisoners and hotbeds of contagion
for the rest OF the population.
Will the civilized world Declare
itself accomplice of all these abom-
nations, by letting their responsible
author pass without protcstation2
Will IL bend the knee before this
potentate. who surpasses in cruelty
Abdul Hamid, who revengcS himself
for crushed revolution, by torture
and assassinations, and whose object
Is to extract new millions in order to
continue his nefaTious work? Does
that when the Russian government
undertakes to try eXtradited pris-
oners by the regular court, they have
them shot point-blank during trans
port To- another prison and that they
justify this crime by stating that the
prisoner tried TO escape?
IL secmsto us that the time has
come To react against this regime
which threatens the whole of the
East Already in Germany, without
much trouble, we can fiud divisions
OF police who cooperate i'm the acts
of spying and provocation of the oc-
cult organisations of st. Petersburg,
pliublC magistrates who arrange JUDI
| iCiary comedies. with the object of
pursuing students lnd thNg furnish
/ ing to Nicholas H., some food for his
/ Eallows. In Switzerland. high JUS
/ tic" has shown what IL is worth
/ from moral point Of view, at the
/ time OF the Vassilicm affair, and in
| Belgium, AT the present moment an
( attempt is being made to make this
| little country an accomplico of the
crimes Of Czarism. Lastly i'm France.
the secret Russian police extend its
qualifications all over under the dircc-
| u"ns OF Asow's accomplices, who,
several times, have tried TO compro-
misc the right Of shelter
These facts know To all. characters
one of tho points OF the present
moment. They tend To prove that
Czarism is seeking To rcestablish its
ancient hegemony policy and at the
same time 10 renew the liborticidc
tradition OF the Sacred Alliance. But
the lih"rating movement of work.
ing-men must ont be hampcred either
by the pusillanimy of middle-class de-
mocracy, nor by the violence Of the
desuotic autocrat. That is why it
shall make its voice TO be heard
| everywhere and il shall signify To the
chiefs of the black bands, that we are
not yet ripe for the knout
Executive Committee Of the II. S. l.
| Edouard Anscolc,
Leon Furnemont.
Emile Nandcrvelde.
Camille Huysmans,
Secretary.