The Owyhee nugget., January 29, 1909, Image 2

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Entered aesecond-elasp matter January
4.1905, at the post office at Silver City.
Idaho, under the Act of Congress of
March 3,1879.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1909
An Appea.1 For Jvistice
To The R^xissiecn
Patriots.
(Continued from page one.)
Remember their alleged crimes
are purely political. They are
the crimes of patriots. Remem
ber too, that in the treaty under
which extradition proceedings
are being taken this clause is
plain, perfectly clear and im
possible of misconstruction.
"If it be made to appear that ex
tradition is sought with a view to
try to punish the person demanded
for an offence Of a 'political
character surrender shall not take
take place.''' Those are words of
the treaty, the United States Rus
sian treaty made in 1898 And the
Russian authorities do not even de
ny that they seek Rudowitz and
Pouren for political offenses and
political offences only. So under
the treaty they cannot be surren
dered, but there is another way.
Mark well the way. Commissioner
Foote before whom extradition pro
ceedings are being conducted has
declaired that "/w this case we
must act under the Russian law
rather than under the American.
Great God! An American court,
dealing with fugitive patriots, must
act "Under the Russian law rather
than under the American." Must
invoke the law of the Czar, must
proceed under the law of a tyrant.
That startling and infamous dec
laration of an American court ought
to ring like a bell of alarm sounded
in the stillness of night to every
American who loves liberty, who
honors the memory of the patriots
' of 1776.
That damnable utterance of trea
son to American traditions ought to
send a thrill of horror through the
heart of every man and woman who
believes that liberty is worth the
price paid by the fathere of the Re
public. It should call forth a pro
test that would forever bar another
officer of American courts from ever
hinting at the substitution of foreign
law for our own.
When L uis Kossuth, Hungar
ian revolutionist, patriot,condemn
ed by his native land for treason—
for rebellion against tyranny, fled
to America for an asylum, in 1851,
would his mother country have
dared demand that he be returned
to certain and drastic punishment?
Indeed no.
Would Austria-Hungarian law
have been invoke^ by an American
court to return Kossuth to the
monster from whom he fled." God
President Fillmore welcomed the
Hungarian fugitive as "The distin
guished Hungarian patriot," and
the American congress joined with
the American people in rendering
to him the homage due an apostle
of liberty. Kossuth found in
America the safety he sought. In
America he was secure from the
clutch of despotism.
Then liberty had not been for
gotten. Then the spirit of interna
tional capitalism, international
greed, had not yet throttled the
spirit of liberty.
Christian Rudowitz and' Jan
Pouern, offenders against Russia
just as Kossuth was an offender
against Hungaria, criminals just
as Jefferson, Franklin, Patrick
Henry and Nathan Hale were crim
inals, and seeking just as those
patriots sought, a safe refuge from
the brutality of tyranny have
come to America. Have come to
America to be free, to live. And
from America are about to be re
turned by an American court act
ing under the Russian law, to the
grasp of despotism. Are about to
be returned to a fate more horrible
than the mind of American can
conceive. To a fate that only Rus
sian cossack or devil in hell could
plan.
Shall the hands of bloody, mer
ciless Russia be allowed to reach
into the sanctuary of American jus
tice and from the very feet of the
blind goddess drag their human
prey? Shall the people of America
boasting as they do of their love of
liberty allow these two patriots to
be torn from the shores of the na
tion that has from its birth been
dedicated to th« cause of freedom?
May God prevent such disgrace.
From every school house, from
every home, from every spot shel
tered by the stars and stripes let
such a protest come that never
again shall American courts be i
suited by the sleuth houndsof mur
derous, blood-lusting Russian des
potism, baying at their bar for hu
man quarry.
If Russia is allowed to take unto
her deadly embrace Rudowitz and
Pouren then Thomas Paine lied
when in his stirring speech and ap
peal to the colonists of 1776he"aid,
"This new world hath been the asy- j
forbid.
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ASHER A. GETCHELL
Drugs, Medicines, Stationery
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DrugSundries, Perfumes, Cut Glass,
China, Tobaccos, Confectionery, etc.
News Stand in Connection.
Post Office.
Drug Store.
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Silver City,
Idaho
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lum for the persecuted lovers of
civil and religious liberty from
every part of Europe Hither they
have fled—not from the tender em
llgss a:
braces of the mother, but from the
If these
cruelty of the monster.'
Russian patriots, seeking in Amer
ica a safe haven from the persecu
tion of tyranny, are to be returned
to "the cruelty of the monster,"
from which they fled, then the sta
tue of Liberty Enlightening the
World should be torn down and
cast into the sea for her promise
of liberty for the oppressed is a
lie. If these two Russian polit
ical refugees are to be returned
to the merciless tortures of the
czar, by an American court act
ing under the Russian law, then
the bloody footprints at Valley
Forge, the crimson stream that
flowed down Bunker Hill, the
heroism of Lexington, were all
in vain, were all in vain, for the
Spirit of Liberty is dead. The
light of the world has been buried
beneath the sordid commercial
ism, the greed, the avarice of
these latter days.
The Model Dairy
flgdgl*» Pure Milk and
Cream delivered in
Silver City and other
mining camps, every
morning, jn quantity
to suit customers.
Y our 'patronage solicited. W*
Gunrantee sa tisfaction.
The Model Dairy
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lias opened a shop in Silver City
with an entirely new stock of
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and Cuffs, Plumes and Artificial
Flowers, Ribbons, Children's Wear
etc. She invites all ladies visiting
town to call at her show-rooms in
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