Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — Russia Versus New York. [ARTICLE]

Russia Versus New York.

The other day the New York papers carried a rather remarkable “story ” A Russian named Mark Selboff, wbo escaped from the convict mines In Siberia, announced that ho waa tired ot trying to gain a livelihood In Now York; that the competition was so great and the strain so hard that the mines of Siberia were preferable He had saved up bis scant savings until b# bad enough to got a ticket back to Russia, and ho was leaving to re-enter the mines. This Is certainly not a glowing tribute to the land of great freedom from a man wbo baa com* out of that which la pictured as the one ot deep gloom sad greet tribulation. > V