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Not only so, but at first the authorities prohibited the
giving of relief by private persons, and when that was no
longer possible invariably gave them the cold shoulder, and
even set detectives in large numbers to spy on their
proceedings.
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| GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS IN PATROVKA. |
In Moscow, for example, a certain Madame Marosova, who
offered to support 10,000 famine-stricken people at her own
cost, was forbidden to do it, and one of Colonel Paschkoff’s
large establishments, in which 500 people were fed daily,
was closed by the police in the famine year 1892, in
Petersburg, under the eyes of the Procureur of the Most Holy
Synod and of the “Little Father” of the Russian people.
Even in the destitute villages out on the steppes of Samara
detectives were watching those who were devoting all their
powers to feeding the hungry, while official representatives of
these “powers (of darkness?) that be,” who were doling out
a horrible mixture of chaff, sand, and dirt, instead of the flour
provided by Government, were left unmolested. Of course, I
do not know what these “ministering spirits” reported about
our work, but I am sure that if they told the truth they could
in no way describe the methods of relief as “dangerous.” The
loyalty of the addresses of thanks from the peasants ought to
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