Show VON WAS AN OPPRESSOR 4 Consequently His Death Was Decreed by Reform Party STORY TOLD BY 0 SOCIALISTS AT PEACE FL PUL PROP PROPAGANDA t 51 St Petersburg Dec the Ups lips or of a high personage who nho attended time the trial ot of the assassin of Minister of the Interior Von the Associated Press Is enable enabled to give the substance of the prisoners speech in which he strove to justify his act I ISu Su onet spoke camly and eloquent eloquently explaining the alms aims and objects of the Socialist revolutionary party The rea reason reason son for Von murder the pris prisoner otter oner said wa was his own biography Sn Sa sone told how he joined the party natty an l committed the crime He declared that the Socialist revolutionary party part did I Irot rot contemplate a forcible destruction of the impossibility autocracy realizing H ity of such a task without the aid of ar an army The Socialist revolutionary party said is entirely the party of the national wi will which slew Emperor Alexander I II This later latter party part he said ald was engaged if 1 a desperate duel with the autocracy in which to annihilate was the sole aim aim I and object Peaceful Propaganda The Socialist revolutionary party Is a peaceful propaganda to show the evils eI f autocracy and gradually Inculcate the princIples ot of socialism among al all casses of the nation but realizing that the attaInment ot of a perfect socialistic state is so remote that hb by the time It ItIS itis IS reached RussIa probably wi nill be ob obliterated from the face of the globe This peaceful and idealistic mission en encountered countered the ruthless opposition ot of certain ministers such as minister of public who was shot Jan 27 i 1901 and died March larch 13 of the same year ear and min minter J later ter of the interIor assassinated Apt ii 1 1902 and notably Von who made a business of hunting down apes apos I ties e of socialism The party wa was com coni to defend Itself and thIs gave tse to a fighting organization whose j embers are pledged to exterminate I Wy Why Von Was Billed recited a list of acts lr for Von Pl m im Vew s clu eluding the persecution of Of the of workmen aL the or J Ws at K anti d te the of Arma alls beside his hi treatment of oC socialists When hen the corn com of the organization de decided on Van death there Here ere over volunteer volunteers to execute the sentence Sason f wa was selected and was told he woUla have huc an accomplice itt he did not know kno the name ot of hi his accomplice until al af alter after ter the murder declared that It t was wih with horror and loathing that he undertook to deprive a human being of life but that tha he realized that the mon monster monster ster Von could only be met metS with the monster death S Caleer C Relating the events of his life Sa said he came of oC a family belong belonging belonging ing to the old faith which had enriched in the lumber lumb r trade at lila Ufa He was sept sent to the s y Q f m v where for an act which he hid had not committed he was to n a grievous penal penalty He then returned to his home In Wa Uta and began to study socialistic doctrines Th The murder murder or of r greatly impressed hIm and he began to te think the pistol bulet bullet was the only for for t tyranny ranny Soon afterward hE joined the Ural committee of the socialist revolutionary party whose headquarters were ere at Ut ura Sent to Exl Exile He was again arr arrested sted on n the charge ci spreading the doctrine of socialism and condemned to five years exie exile 1 iii Siberia While in prison at Wa Ufo h met Peasants awaiting trial in oiT with the strike and learned how Governor General Bog under Von inspirit bAn tian ga gave ve orders order to fre fire upon a crowd helpless Innocent peasants He vowed to slay but later laier heard that a cO comrade who has not et been discovered killed the governor i g general r then t told ld how he es s I from a SI Siberian erlan convict gang and the frontier ultimately reach I Geneva whence he came to St rg to kUr Von He Wound up Wih with a declaration that no I power on earth was nas able to stop the spread ot of the humane ideals ot of the so soa I a st p party whose work II was has canle carried on by tho sands of willing hands throughout bo t f the length and ami breadth of o the empire S I |