A RUSSIAN PLEA FOR ASSASSINATION.

Kumara Times, Issue 1170, 29 June 1880, Page 3

A RUSSIAN PLEA FOR ASSASSINATION.

+ . A Russian Nihilist in England has offered the following plea for the justice of the attempted assassination of the Czar : —" English journal!-," writes the Russian, " are making a mighty todo about the atrocious attempt on the Czar." They cry out because we have striven to slay the good Alexander. Let us see how logical they are. A man named Paiue is being tried for his life for having given a women brandy in order that she might drink herself to death ; at least, this is what i 3 alleged of him. Should he be condemned not one of them will have a word of pity, and his condemnation will certainly not be called " atrocious." Now in 1862, a powerful teetotal movement began in Russia; and as every solemn pledge is taken—according to custom—in church, the priests were obliged to assist the community. The new disease spread rapidly, and the effects on the revenue were becoming apparent. Whereupon the Czar issued a ukase commanding a dissolution of the Society of Abstaiuers, and the apostles of temperance were forced either to keep absolute silence or to work secretly. In one case a single woman is the victim ; in the other case eighty million of our countrymen are refused all release from the national vice of drunkenness, which is destroying our peasantry body and soul. The English writers condemn Paiue and called the Czir blessed, although the latter has a hundred crimes on his shoulders equal to the crime of crushing the tempeiance movement." For remainder of news see last page.