Show rAMous FAMOUS NIHILIST VISITING SAt SALT fLKE lit LAKE 1 1 t Count Gount Poniatowski i Exile Exie and andWan Wan w p deter C HE DESPISES D TILE T CZAR C G BUT U UT DOES NOT NO WH WISH TO TO KILL mIlL I f t Reared Roared on vast vat estates in Russia Russin the te pampered son son of a nobleman a university sUy sity student a friend of Count Leo LeoT I Tolstoi T a Siberian SIberia exile eUe a celebrated el nihilist and ad a wanderer all these i things thing has been Count C Anton Ponia Po ia I who is now a sojourner In Salt Sat Lake The Te count arrived quietly yes yesterday yesterday e afternoon and took quarters quarter at atthe atthe atthe the Knutsford I The count count has ha all aU the suavity and nd Pot Pol Polished manners maners of a Russian diplomat His conversation is fascinating in its it frankness when he chooses to be frank frnk and In Ia the deftness with wit which he avoids committing himself on subjects subject that tha he wishes to avoid In appearance e the count is a typical Russian and swarthy On the Knutsford register his name appears appear written in an a odd apparently labored but legible hand with the res residence re residence given as a Moscow Iosco Russia Rusia I call cal Moscow my home because my fathers estates were wee near there he explained last lat evening and because that is where I attended the university I In reality realty I have no home I am a wanderer over the face of ot the earth Count Poniatowski Is an accomplished pUshed linguist and speaks English without the tinge of an accent Russia is my native land however he went on and I shall shan always ahva s owe oW to the country count although not notto notto notto to the government Despises All Al Titles Tte The count ranks close behind Prince Princ who is now in New York Yorka as a a leader of the nihilists He ad his identity last lat evening But do not call cal me count he said nor am I a nihilist I have come cometo to despise all al titles tte as much as did your own Call Cal me Mr Pon Pen Poniatowski Poniatowski latowski The TV title tte of count came to toone toone toone one of my from the czar and andI I spurn anything from such a source I am not a a nihilist in the sense that it itis itIs Itis is generally understood Nihilist comes from the Latin word nihil nothing It means a man like an anarchist who wishes to destroy to annihilate That Thatis is not the purpose of the Russian pa patriots patriots trots like myself We do not wish to destroy Russia for tor we love our native I land But we wish to wipe out this absolute government which is a relic of barbarism and substitute for it a free and enlightened government by which our Russia will wi become the greatest grandest grandet nation naton on the face of the globe Did you ever notice it i on the map how it stretches from the Baltic to the Pacific across two continents It I can be greater than your own Amer America America ica if we but get the government and we will wil do that How will wil you ou accomplish that by killing the czar and having a revolution tion ton was asked Czar a Weakling We e do not wish to kill kin the czar was the reply He is a weakling and andin andin in some ways harmless harless But the system s s stem tem tern Is wrong Look Lok at the y hun bun hundreds hundreds of students have been sent into exile exie recently by the czars czars command for an offense that in this country countr would not bring them into police court The horrors of the system can scarcely be imagined I what they are I for I have been through some of them themI I was wa a student in Moscow and became interested in hi political economy and in inthe Inthe inthe I the study of the various governments of other lands This very ver tendency aroused suspicion A few of us met to toI I study these things We were plotting I nothing merely studying One night I we were ed down do n upon uon and ar arrested arI arrested I rested There were five of us We I were not tried Even Een my m family r was not notified We were vere sent off on to Si Siberia SIberia SIberia beria beria We had to walk walk chained to other prisoners for mile after mile mie until some dropped with wih exhaustion I One woman In our party died tIled from and She fortu fortunate fortunate fatigue exposure was fatge nate for the existence in a penal col colony colony colony I ony of Siberia is worse than death I spent pent a year year there before my famil could co d find where I was wa and ad bring enough influence to bear to get me out outTo ou ouTi To Ti Tt Save Russia Rusia When I came back It I was wa with the sworn determination naton to life lie lieto to aa attempt to help save Russia from I r My re resulted r uit d in my r being ing obliged to w leave leve Russia Rusia perhaps forever but that does doea i not mean that I have given up my determination The cause cus of ot fb Rus Rue Russa sten Sian sa patriots is daily gaining strength S I ImM may m not live lve to sea the te day when ople shall Sh al be free but Kt will not be a a great while In coming How Kow will wil it i be was W Wagin again agin asked aked As other great get reforms have have been accomplished was W the te reply The occasion will wil be met as a the needs nes re require requite quite quire q uh stol The count is a friend fiend of Count Cou Tol Tolstoi Tolstoi He SHe is a a grand gad character declared has done don Poniatowski and a man ma who ha much for the Russian Russia people and for all ali mankind The count criticised the attempts at pt of or present government of Russia Russia to t enlist States the friendship of the te United The Russians themselves feel fe l friend friendly ly by I toward the United Unie States he said but the te motives of ofte tie the present go gov government are ar not sincere It I Is an un unnatural unnatural natural alliance one between a des despotism despotism and a republic When e Russia Russia has a limited monarchy or a 8 8 republican Bean lican Ican form of government then ten the th two nations should join hands and be bethe bethe the greatest powers in the world But Americans who love freedom and hate hat S oppression should not help to strength strengthen en a government that tat Is using Its It po power er erto to oppress oppre its Is own people The count is reported to be ve very y wealthy and ad has ha contributed largely from his own fortune to the cause cuse of r nihilism He Is traveling about the country countr partly party for recreation tion and ad part 5 ly to familiarize himself with wih the tho American system of government He has taken a great get liking lkins to Clerk Hat Hai Hairy HatI ry I Burton Buron of the te Knutsford and said sid I last lat evening he would pay pa all al of Mr 1 r Burtons expenses for the sake of f get ting him as a traveling t companion IOn for fora a month The often offer wa was necessarily declined d however a |