Show nussIlS UESrOTlSM THE HARD FATE Ol jiiE ISmuRI KOA WHO SENT A UTTER TO TJIF CZAR Some weik ago a dl latch from SL IVtervljurK to the London IJIIler nuouncbtl that the Czar had re ctivcU threatening letter tram a woman named TtlitLrikovo nut tint a copy of this ItHtr liad 3u left with Mich of tin miukterv The event caused couMdciaUtFcnsatlnn as its author Is a dy who enjo nl a high reputation In liUrary irclen 11 mt Tslitl likova ac cording toll elx > mlon7lttiebabout iIJ I years old nut for the last twenty Yars has been known for her writ lug on women questions and on educational Riljects Many of herS her-S wire Subllhld In tRio lnnalB of Ute Aahon and the Lhdo reviews which lion ever liar teen Hip nM < l lij the government Ilir resent action is the more remarkable remark-able as Mme Ttlubnkova had no relations wIth the Russian rcvolu ionary party she wrote pontane ously and her letter was not due to any Migs < tloiu > from the rsihillsU MOle JYlubrikcna went to Paris there composed her epMle I nut nldly tool it herself Lack to Rugja caubtJ It to be delivered and awaited await-ed the cori iiieDCCP Mme Tsliebrikova virus of course arrested IJecent news of her fate is that she w ill to fcent to Siberia The czar was tlUic ctl to slum her mercy but liii rainltra opposed him JUIovrarctljenictt IniivrLant > a raic3 of this IiiU reting docu nenl Your Jt ty tile laws of my country punIsh free speech All that i < honorable in Kusslais condemned 10 see thought iwrseculiU by an arbitrary Urninltration W witness wit-ness the moral and lij steal massacre massa-cre of youth the spoliation J > and ilagell4tion oC a lieoj lo cuuuciuned to remain sixcelilcr lint liberty sire > lIb i niuurulal ncctiO ei a fieoj Ie and fuomr or later the hour will come wlienlhucltzen < haviiig under thin tutelage exhausted theIr patience ttiUraUc their voids and iticn your authority will itaTtI to yield There Is also In till iiveuoludl l vlduab monienU when tiny an ashamed of their iknct and then they dare to rlA all that is d ar to hem SOOT to sny to the person who hold m his hands all thu power an I all Uie strength the person who could jit an end to to much evil and MI much shame Loctk at what you allow to take place look at what you > alL doing either consciously or note notThe Italian emperors are ob llged to sec and to hear only what their functionaries the tchiuovnifcl allow UR in to we Tin latter form H thick wall between the czar and the Rm lan zenitro tliat b the million Qf Inhabitants WilD ire not In the eini lox of the government fh tb f The terrible death of Alexander II has throw a lugubrious Jiadou on your iccf iou to the throne You were told that this death was the remit re-mit of the ideas in favor of freedom which had I develsicci I In consequence lOI rhll r W of the reforms Introduced during he irevious reign and jon wen inspired to take measures by which ItTia > > dln1 to make flue ola go lock to the combru epoch of NIcholas 1 They frighten you b > agitating Cite spectre of evolution of i i revolution which would siipj > nt monarchy yet this at the prcent time and in sarI a country as jour IB a purr illusion After the catastropnu of the Jttof March the rrglclJes themselves did not hope to HV the convocation of a constituent assombl The eneml ol the Czar bate been executed every one oUs blindly the will of the monarch Then by what tidal misunJuitaudluxloes the government govern-ment supjrets all traces of tlntc re brms projected durlcj the best j ears Alexander Ila reign It YL as net till reforms enacted during the prettou reIgn that brought our ter corlt Into exi tenct no It was Ute lark of Ouch reforms it was their insufficiency in-sufficiency linSIOTIC FTMTIONAItlK If the policy of Mcholis I i dictated toyota It is because favorc ho autocracy of your ministers and functIonaries becnusc th 3 desire ohavo under them a > eolenHh out rights and without the power of speech Ioucr iutoxlcatts in > nand n-and if for perrons such as the late Count ToUtoi ioer was an lustru ment to break alM mutilate Uusira and mold her according to their fhvo and antedated theorie this samu power wan for the crowd ol mediocre funcUoiiarirB 5 means of securing rile aiid low plnsurus These j leaAUrVb consist of placing iiemwlves over and above 1 the country and its Jaws of gov ruing according to their own will and caprice Power in the hands of Jiere wretches becomes a 11111 ol advancing their own dubious nflalre and interests Authority which hike a fire may be MibdlvHed Into lame becomIng srnailerniid niall eras wo go Jown the scnJe oC func Uonariesdes < eridiiK from the czar to the pcojile fclmply conferearbl trary rights exercised l wilt im punlti punlThero are no longer any punish meats for rpoliation and exce cc committed I 1i iieoplo in lower < oJ i Each governor is an autocrat in tile fTovIncc each irpravnik Is an autocrat his district each stan oval is an autocrat in his canton and each ouriadmc Is an autocrat In Ins village After thott Ing that all guarantee against the arbitrary conduct of he functionaries had been abel shed Mme Tsliebrikova exclaimed ex-claimed What L fAY to you Ii no fable as your laouals and ministers would bate you believe it is the truth ToU > tol himself did not wish io sup press the vIlUjo Justices of tne peace and la your own initiative Is attributed the abolition of this llSt remaining guarantee tho peasants nt d vi t L scUncc with such a measure you who knew not what life he people iei Do yon Imagine Imag-ine lISt t < cau e you arc an Lnpln al sovereign you ate a divinity llIg1nowloogcoC all thing flvou could fl lc lite the sovereign the in tlie fIIbli pa0a invisibly over towns and villages K as to know what life the Uusslan pswihe live you would see its misery you would tee how the governors bring up your soldiers to shoot down tlio peasants and tile workmen You would fe LhatordcrmalnUIned ly thousands of soldiers by legions of function arlcc by an army of spies tIlt order or-der In the name of which every word of protestation Is fuppre ed that this order i not order nt all Mil a suite Cf adminIstratIve DIIU The poorer section of tile nubii I fly together with the oilier claws of nureiin socIety art irntated against adopted by the tin most mlriUttr ravens of public racarura instruction in-struction by which the doors of the hIgh schools and unIversities are closed agaInst youlg men wbohavt no furtums All the measures taken 1 this minister tend to inFo n by tch tso cute education In Ruesla Tin students are obliged to remain lu i their own district awl have not the right ef choosing thu universities where the best i rofe 8jrs may ie found The Spartans used to imll out the eyes of their slaves to vent them from amusing them prevent they turned round the selves when grIndIng mlllJ But In tIe nine the eve teenth century and Jut on oC Uie twentieth Century such hica urea will not help to conoliaate offer Thclrcular of the mltiUter Instruction whleh closes of public the doors of the universities to student who arc peer onlr Hares n net am1ln the hands cit the terror lits What Is th use of tho JeasoM Sren to a child in a school Ho we tho first step will see at very contradIction that exists between the acts of the government nalW doctrines taught In the Scripture At school he Is taught to betray There are spies In the gymnasiums Such a corruption of social customs dhl not exist even in the reign of NlclKilas C ATitr enumerating at length all tho nirasurea taten against educa Uon In the schoub iime ftntun 101 speaks of the censure and persecution per-secution of that press Your ruajttty and your msjtslj family lhcm < clveH nearly became victims of tub ir eculion of thee the-e Ix > ngholheprcra denounced the construction of the railways and the conceslonaries who In league J with the fuiatiunaritr ou Iched thcmxUis Jt wos the lo tcuutTultol Who cmllhIK will B request of the mInister In elurv of the mean of coramuiilcalU 1 ossleIII gave ordero u nmuv li puDphld > whici cxpuwd the cxatl ruth and the criminal facts Tim government aiipreelaeil the force of the urea and Uils li why It laYs large eulldles to IU press a res whrch it patronizes through the fpravniks The government alto employs rroVGClltillj agents In tie revulullonao it accepts with oIleD l arms trioso vlio iiive betrayed the revolutIonary press Lilt It commits com-mits an error in estimating their force The word eta Irnilor rannot have any inlliience over a sincere conviction A KKVOLUTION inroinvn The experlence of the past reign and your own xpcrlence must hiv demonstrated to your majesty that he policy of perecutiou I does not luilii lUolJeet llm day will corn hell the ptr ecuUon of the ngln of thought will seem as tile memon ofa hal dream but I fear that the advent of such ada > will be accoru anted with llames ntd HcoJs of blood The whole of jcuryjstem luluS UIOHB who ore doeaiiflcd nlo the camp of the rcvolutlonbU even those who feel a Strong and natural rejiuUion for all Ideas of blood violeiuv For one Impruii nt word for a revolutionary print elIcit taken out of mere iirieMly a Ollllg nun amereclilld isilrtlartd tube a ltoiiihcal criminal have olitlcal 1 cnmluab who arc oiiy burteen years ohl who are ronfli ol ucelluLircounnenicnt Tho govern meutUial mien 100000000 Ipl trembles before children In our country loi learo srnl for twelve years to Easier SiberIa for of eLHS which lu Austria would be mtiLihed Iv two weeks sinipe t tTIlew rus I nijiriOiineiit The youth of Use country thus Inmi led upon bevouit red voIulioHLl < 11 avc a horror nC blonMml 110 nutter who limy U ho vletlni but WloNI for tIe spill ng of blood 1 we find that on one Mile distributed I and on the other there Is the rope and he xiobet it is easy to Understand the uipathieti oi young en thus biotic and heroic youths sty tle I side of the Draconian punish nenls inflicted bj the tribunals we live also llnr unthmenU < by nd mlnltratlvuorder llj tlic < e latter tie ov ernmenl geLi rid of Its e u eusies sxalutt whom Ureri iv In jtllelcnt proof A man h hilled lle liecauye there are established 1ofu airnlnt him but because po Ice icofuuotIouariuvanJuwardI con vluced hUguilt and such conviction convic-tion is I boMd ou the reports of spies compared b > tile higher functIon nile theinjtlvn lo ia ouree ol roubled waters Tliu la the wsy orders of deiortatloii are drawn ujr Though there are no proofs on which to condemn still hIs h-Is exiled to These warrants w ill I transmitted to iiosterlti suit It Is Mid that jour mijistj signa i Cure lit aftixed to such orders The political 1riOne I Ire the vk ims of arbitrary conduct whhli at times 5 ° 1umc lon olutcy savage character MInMer Tottot vas himself uhniud bj the extent of the spoliations and rmvuatre Every prison jailor every elOJ < olllccr may Itbouttbnjtl to hlmlf rob strike nurtjrize the unfortunate irluuers tile iwJr vorucn nut dill then The lower fails a stonu the greater the shock thus each order repression Minding lower and lower In the uimlnltiralire hkr aigtuenUrogrviviy in iU destructive force and falls on de Tenselefs victim All their com 1 Jalnts are uselox The victims jroll8t tby vvluutarj slarvation orb or-b some net of vIolence whicli Is I often of-ten an art of fully All lhie measures of terrorism which com uectv with exile under admlu itrativu cutter mid ind bv the gibbet do nut eiluet the oljeit fur which they are Intended The iiuru ber of olltica criminal will Increate In-create every day Tile imagination of the young people will become icculonied to the idea DC the exile to the cxevutlon Uieir numtr will go on increasing liecautt I of tlietc political olfe1SCi 18 firmly rooted Incur In-cur political and aerial conditions A cove rnincnl whIch tend Itself Ity means that are condemned by all ml lie moral sentiment suds as ex lie bv admlrilslritivc order spIes logging the gibbet and bowUhcd Itself teacher tlicrevolcitlon the fe > ulticjl l > inei le that the object 1 utlHi8 tlwinesus M here the violins vio-lins ofaulocracj die bj the thou sands wlicru people I are flogged lo iliitli vvith Inr > unit > an ardent I trl iuo comm RS m laivtlllVxlways i iringlnto exigence titus e wIt arc willing to seek 1 revenge Tim policy of Nicholas I costa lueia cost-a heavy trice our Mac Ma-c < t s re form made rued go back rani townrd Uils lugubriuu epoch The lessons > taught tile rinicnn campaign compelled jour father alter the policy < oC Sl Ieh IasI Isan equally creel lesson net cssarj to lay bare the rottenness of a similar state of afluiri Your salvation depends on your return ta theref irms commenceHl by your father reedom of speech nvloksbllit of the persia the fnc dom meeting public given to all trial education widely accessa I blew all the suppreKion of arbitrary arbi-trary admliiKtrations nut Vie I convocaUon of the zenisklsolier or national parliament this Is salvation One word from you and wo shall have lu Ilu > sia a pacific pa-cific revolution which will constitute consti-tute t luminous page of history houl i you however desire to leave in the history of your country a sinister I blot yon willjnot hear the maledictions x > f posterIty but your children will hear It BUt what a lurille legacy 3oU Mill have left worTd laalnitau iloni among a crowd of mlllloni of beings sImilar to myself whoSe fate ts In your lands And yet my conscience my right my duty as a Ru = ian woman compel me to speak out what is on lilY mIni and lo say what I had to ray MAniA TsiirnniK |