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Show - KING EPWARb'S VISIT TO CZAR. There will be Avide popular sympathy in America with the protest in parliament from the Irish Nationalist Na-tionalist members and the labor members against a visit from 'King Ed ward to the Czar of Russia at this time. Diplomatic reasons may perhaps render the visit a necessity, but it is intensely distasteful to see the head of a free and constitutional government gov-ernment exchanging compliments with an autocrat in whose name the most atrocious crimes and cruelties are constantly being committed. The breach of faith with Finland, the torturing of political prisoners, the court-martialing and summary execution of hundreds of civilians guilty ' of no serious offense, the massacre of multitudes of innocent Jews, the withdrawal of all the liberties liber-ties solemnly promised to the Russian people, the imprisonment for an indefinite time of noble men and women convicted of no crime, like Catherine Breshkovsky and Nicholas Tchaykovsky. the exiling of thousands to Siberia every year by arbitrary decree, de-cree, without trial or conviction these are but a partial list of the crimes which have darkened the reign of this unhappy czar. And the record is growing darker daily, with ever-increasing reaction and oppression. ; The protest in parliament represents humanity against despotism. The working people of England Eng-land have shown themselves to be on the side of the oppressed now, as they did at. the time of our Cnil v'arf irowe jn Chicago Tribune. " Newport, R. I.. June 7. 1908. |