The Cotton Factory Times. — 1915-08-13 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

TNE RUSSIAN STRUGGLE. i victims of tite Ibissiatt po;itical regime were ; proved to he •si simple a, to rive credence to the To naz Eorroa or Tel - FAcroar 'lntim.' ; Czar's words aboot •• forgetting all previous differSir.---Having read - '..N.D.•s " letter I must 1.n,, and rmarrel,•• and „no, for permisainn m frankly POllfe. that it is extremely difficult to , a„, and riain agam„, the German,. Bur, of eou, argue with such an oPPonent, for eii-Ilwn he is en- i N.., were allowed io do to. ho to the - maintera tirely ignorant of what he speaks about or he ! an, " of the a.rtny, miles can hardly even find intentionally perverts the truth. I • bit of work to maintain themselves in their He repeatedly and persistently refers to Hos• : deserts, anti 1 know cases of madness. of suicide, toes-sky to prove that life in Russian prisons is, 1 and of pi,:rit 00011 111700011 among them. after all, not to bad. Rut does he flOt knoiv that I Let it be remembered also Oust among smiles tio Dostoevsky in ' Crime and Punishment " took an I terrorist ean be found. All those, ei-to young unreasonably optimistic view about prison life in I girls, were either killed on the spot or hangoo order to prove his absurd thesis that suffering ' after trial by martial conrt -and the number of purifies the soul? Did he riot read the •• Memoirs 1 thoee hanged by Stolypin must be counted by From a Dead Howe," a-here the same author re- i thousands. a very large percentage of them being presents the Katorga in an entirely digerent innocent-or •• happily moaned "-to katorga for light? Did he never hear that Dostoevaky himse Ilf life.  I.Oncion, 96 August. 1915.  nqurned from Siberia • mental and physical As to the Social Revolutionist's " objectionable" wreck? Does he not are, besides, that DoetoeYsky's methods, I have no intention to di-runs their merits hero Raskolnikow was condemned for murder, and with men like "ND." I only want to ray that not for political offence? The difference is essen- no Russian Socialist has ever sirearnt of "turning tie], because even in those remote times political an autocratic regime into a complete Socialistic prisoners were treated. as sre now our t-omrades. state by few bold strokes." That would be on snore severely than criminals. And there no, 110 stupid indeed that the calumny of •• N.D." is quite "Sweetheart Sonia' to visit in prison our great obvious. I could gise quite an overwhelming nin4 scientist and socialist Tenernyshevsky, or hundreds of illustrations as to what is going on in Russia of Poles who died in Katorga for hating taken part even now, under the cover of loud exclamations in Poland's struggle for freedom. about the lihexty, fraternity, and union between By the bye. Poland's " Pacifiem.r," Governor- the Government and the people, so that "N.D." General Muravieff, who event down to history with and his like might judge ho themselves whether it the name of " hangman." did his ghastly work in Ik, possible to "mock for modentte ooncessions " in the beginning of Alexander's reign, when the latter I Russia. It would be nor,,, instructive subject for wars still •• reformer" and " liberator." .And English readers judgirtg now of Russia by what in " N.D." does not cure bit about I,lle following I said in the caP•tabstir nu.... But period. when the revolutionary "red terrorism" I of space prevent me front touching this question was hut n feeble reply tu the extreme reaction just now. --Tours, etc.. a 04.1 " White terrorism" of the Government. • V.