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Show Ipfj' Numbers of newspapers havo ex ist11 pressed horror at tho assassination of W Grand Duko Sorglus nnd havo dopro- la,.' catcd It In unmeasured torms. Whllo hi not believing In tho theory of killing Si! as ho was killed, Truth does not fcol i hm Hko expressing nny sympathy for tho u.1 slain ofllclnl. Ho was tho man who caused tho recent slaughter of tho w Innocent and Ignornnt Russians who appealed for slmplo justice Ho was Kj tho man who stood behind tho weak- Wj H"B Czar and moulded him to do tho things ho, Sorglus, desired. It was ho who took from Finland her Individual!-0 Individual!-0 y what little liberty she enjoyed. Mf. 110 wns tho autocratic brute behind tho Hf throno, who with tho dowager cm- jf'- Prcss. bullied tho monarch Into slaying persecuting and punishing people bo-caused bo-caused they havo dared to doslro liberty. lib-erty. Tho right of petition is denied tho Russian. Ho may not approach tho powers that bo and ask for his rights. It is a fact that a concession was recently mado to a delegation of workmen, but when they had been ushered Into tho presence of tho august au-gust monarch they were told they had dono wrong and to go back and bohavo themselves. What recourse has tho Russian under such conditions? condi-tions? Nothing snvo the bomb and tho bullet. Unless he desires to contlnuo con-tlnuo In servitude all his days ho must adopt desperate means. Ho is not pormltted to educate himself; ho can read nothing not censored by of-fldlal of-fldlal authority without violating law; his ideas of liberty come to him through channels limited in volume. People havo always resisted tyranny and always will. When rendered desperate their resistanco has taken tho form of killing. In tho case ot Serglus tho work seems to havo had a good effect. Tho house of Romanoff Roman-off trembles for its safety; tho nobility nobil-ity Is agitated and declaring that something should bo dono. Meantime tho Czar and his mother may meet a slmllor fato to tho Grand Duko. Russia Rus-sia should bo given a constitution and from an autocracy bo changed to a limited monarchy, where the voice of tho governed may bo heard In Its councils. |