Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-21

There was some suspicious over tA'
fact that he died at the house OF the
Austrian minister. But there wal
nothing to this His death vas nat
urel.
Events moved rapidly from that
time on. The grand duke was MUIR
dered June so. A month later Austria
sent her peremptCry demand 10 Ser.
via. which that country rejected. Ir
the meantime the kaiser had beer
doing all he could 10 prevent the war
which all knew was inevitable. from
becoming general. While the Russian
car was sending pacific messages
his armies were assembling and the
Germans knew ii.
"They knew, too, that France
preparations for war were not com
plete, and could not be for another
year. They knew that Russia's army
was in worse shape today than al
the outbreak of the war with Japan.
ION Russia's western border are
millions of Poles, who for loo years
have been trampled upon by their
Slav masters. They have been for-
hidden to speak in their mother
tongue They have been forbidden 10
teach the history of their nation to
Ineif GHiiuftl llCg nav 49,
hidden to read the literature of their
great writer's. And now Russia has
to move her armies across this lano
and through these downtrodden peo-
pie to attack the German frontier.
There are a quarter million Jews
In the Russian army. The Jew is ex-
pected to go forth and fight and die
for a government that denies MN
every political right, government
that forbids all men to sell him lanu
or to rent it to him, government
that tries TO keep MIN in certain pre-
scribed districts For the good czaI
who let the Black Hundreds raVlsh
and murder at Kishinev the Jew Is
exnected to go forth to nattle..
"In the north there is Finland. rln-
land was another country on Whlch
the iron heel of the Slav set heaVlIy'
We struggled there for generations.
l was active in the revolutionary
party and one night in l90S 1 was
warned that the czar's officers were
coming for me- left my home and
nv people that night and escaped and
have never dared return to my native
land. In 1905 came the revolution and
the car granted us autonomy-such
as he now promises the Poles. He was
in desperate need then. Japan was
pushing him, revolution was threat
ening in all parts Of his empire, and
he had to placate US. So he granted
us what practically amounted TO our
freedom and we were content.
when the war with Japan ended
Finland was in a prosperous condi-
ton. We had elected our own con-
gress. We made our own laws Our
constitution was taken from us. Our
official positions were filled with Firms
who understood our language, our GUS
toms, our hopes, and who Joined us in
our ambitions
Then came the reaction. Here and
there a Finnish official was removed
and in his place was installed a Rus
sian. BY last year the revolution of
1905 had been completely undone. All
the gains we had made had been
taken from us. Russian officials and
Russian soldiers were our law. Our
Congress was dissolved. Our people
were back again where we We're when
1 and my comrades were fighting for
a free FinalLd.
"A citizen of Finland appealed from
the acts of the czar and the case vas
taken to our Supreme Court Twenty
two judges of that court declared the
acts of the car and his officials un-
constitutional and contrary to the
law of Finland and the proclamation
of liberty which the car had granted
us-just as he has now promised 1t
to the Jews and the Poles and Sec
ond time to the Firms
1.-The next day the twenty-five
judges of the Supreme Court were ar
rested and carried to st. Peters
burg"