Show I 1 THE C EXILE SYSTEM I 1 despotic cruelty of tile the auslan govern merit ment toward in siberia at tho the congregational club of new kew York Mr core cor 0 e kennan gave aavo an ail interesting te g talk upon tile siberian exile eile system in 1881 1884 mr bonnan was sent to russia and siberia by the century company and lias has devoted more than chait two years to the examination of the question ot i which t ho he disc discussed assed ile he had previously lived in ill russia for several years an and fd returned to america a defender oi of the russian government against tace charges k of despotic cruelty so continually in made tile etwas on oil account news of ionic sonic of his newspaper paper articles defendi defending nef 0 russia that thai lie he obtained the letters from tile the R russian minister of the I 1 interior n t arlor N which hi il I 1 I 1 enabled him top to pursue arbue 11 his is invest g gallons lons letters lie he would haic ha a been arrested before seeing I 1 the a outside of a siberian p prison io n till th result of mv mr kennane Kon Ken nans t two 0 o years experiences x erien ces is 13 that lie he can no langri bofo afo nd ild ille he ment against any of the charges preferred hi i met in siberia a great many political some of them cultivated young yemen women and he not obly ceased tt ti regard them as 19 half crazed fanatics put tut he came to love and respect rany of them as among among M the most high ended and noblest natures lie he had evel met very few of them none of lit than b in in fact were nihilisms nihilists lists there werl ilbong among them socialists of all de descriptors scrip 1 ons but the majority would be contel wit with 1 a 3 constitutional the in russia russi i says mr kennan arc re rely for the detention of prisoners tiers I 1 awaiting I 1 trial offenders Offender of every description are e exiled to siberia of these th there I 1 are now about twenty th chouan thousand ouan a y F r contrary to popular opinion bout lit one percent per cent of the exiles ire are 1 c p pc criminals the prisons ill in site sib ia are so overcrowded as almost to inato insi j 0 o disease and the hospitals so ov r owned is as almost to insure T death deat I 1 ds and flooring are s saturated at M vil with i th t t 1 c gernis germs of all kinds kindi of diseases and b with all kinds of vermin vermill while lie ailis warmed only by the pent penti d i beat front from the human t bodies lot long u iYa shed it is the loathsomeness so none sl 0 of ft i 3 quarters rather than soil t lie 1 hardness i tile alio work which red renders siberian lie le so inhuman sentence to aeria is not always the result of trial ve very ry often it is by executive orde sentence by the court works the civi oath eath of the exile his I 1 property is di as if lie were dead and his fe a is lem legally ally divorced in spite of t tp however tile the wives cinto rt uway te company their hus bands to abc mr kannan kc inan says that when iv acs s are sentenced the husbands husband do a lit A as a rulo rule show an ail equal devo devotion tiou J I 1 mr N ir kennan kennai sic count of how lie ho met tile political eiles their talks wit with it him and t ie ae mesa I 1 ea which they so sent lit by him tc the friends enabled his hearers to iee ee to te russian exile system from the c L of view mr ke kc man inan was uniformly well treated bythe 1 bussian officials but lie gave soma incidents of how 45 these offic 1 lils is treated the prisoners the closen closeness Ss ith which the political prisoners at are evat ched is almost ludicrous on one official asked mr kennan how lie he would earch a prisoner mr kennan repaid that he would have hini him strip paled and examine every square inch inchol of lis clothing inside and out T the ila official official 4 cill smiled and said 1 I 1 I 1 have ave found hai files in prisoners cars letters and months mout lis and even messages sealed up in ill the hollow of a prisoners s tooth when mi rennau feinau was asked bow long he tho glit the present system of russian g 0 would survive lie he replied replie d certainly for twenty or thirty year 1 I not more than one in a thou chousa din russia roads reads tile the newspapers aril ama litis it is dangerous for a student lent to tri tr to teach the peasantry the vast inert gnass of illiterates mak es cs revolution practically impossible christian |