THE TRUGULENT TSAR.

NZ Truth, Issue 68, 6 October 1906, Page 7

THE TRUGULENT TSAR.

CRITICISED, CAUTERIZED, ' CATALOGUED. 1 Crapulous, Craven, Gruel Criminal. THE STORY OF THE IRON CAGE. How the Cowardly Tzar "Hunts." A "60,00 FELLOW'S" 6HASUY, GHOULISH GAMBOLS. ? But for the fact that the Russian man of i.ehitis, Maxim Gorky, was accompanied on lis visit to the United States by a woman l whom the Russian authorities had refused % to unite to him m accordance with Russian Slaw, he would have succeeded m getting im#mense financial assistance for the Russian JF Revolutionists. The "yellow press" of the ' .United States, however, discovered thai 1 . Gorky was not married to his female companion, and at once raised a hue and cry on alleged "moral grounds" against Gorky and his consort, Madam© Andreieva, and launched at them what" H. G. .- .Wells has called, m his "The Future Sn America," a. "brazen and abundant torrent of lies." "On one ,day," says Wells, "Gorky was at the zenith, on the next he had been swept from the world. To me it ,was astounding— it was terrifying." Wells Ikgoes on to say :— ' ' mi Amidst the riot of personalities Russia S-Jjiwas; forgotten. .•^he''m^aCTe%'^^-^-ftoi ti of criielty aid blundering, the tyralimji -the <^Udrenytort9]pd and .slain ;'jift that ---was fbrgottent^ -h^&toh, m "Chicago,- it was the same.' At the bare suggestion of , Gorky's corning, the same Outbreak occurred, the same display of imbecile gross' lying, the same absolute disregard of the tragic cause he had come to plead. There is,"no dotibt, much truth m what .Wells says, but it was not quite so bad as be represents it to have been. Gorky did lecture, and to large and appreciative audiences. In one of these lectures, he : scathingly analysed the character of the cruel, Craven, crapulous Tsar of Russia, and his lecture is thus reported m the New York ".Worker":- : -' Maxim Gorky, the great Russian author, now 'in this country on behalf of' the movement for Russian freedom, addressed ah appreciative' audience in' Carnegie Hall last Saturday evening, oh the subject^ "The Tgar, the Duma, and the People:" He spoke m the Russian language, and an accurate translation of bis lecture w-as read m English, of which we here' present a small part: '\ "When the Tsar was HEIR TO THE THRONE, it was said by pseudo-Liberals that he sincerely desired the good of Russia, and as soon as he should become Tsar he would give a constitution to the people. But, from the first days of his reign, on receiving the deputations, of the Liberal nobles, he called the hopes of the country for freedom a 'ridiculous dream.'. This direct insult the nobles explained away as due to the inexperience of a young Tsar. •He ■".*•-■ HAS BAD ADVISERS/ they said, _ut he himself is a good fellow. You will see.' "Slowly the years passed. SergiusWitte ruined his country by his financial policy; the peasants of the Tsar were starving. The so-called Liberals hoped. Rapidly the revolutionary movement among the workmen developed, and nothing was heard about the good heart of the Tsar. "Suddenly he announced^ himself an adherent of the great cause of universal peace". *_^ow you see/ eixclaimed" the jubilant Liberals, 'we told you he was a good fellow and loved mankind.' Precisely at" that moment he, through the hands of his faithful servants, crept into* th© pocket of China and stole Manchuria. In these same days General Gribsky DROWNED IN THE RIVER 'Amour more than 3000 peaceful Chinese, and the Tsar, praised by thje entire world for his humanity and love), of peace, left unpunished the crime of ['this ferocious official. \ ''The Governor-General s-bf St. Petersburg makes a report to the Tsar that the soldiers of tha Fatf&gsorijsky regi 7 ment, during the Lriots '" m one of the' factories, killed and vfoumded several working people. 'Bra-re fellows/ the Fanagorijsky,' wrote the: Tsar on this report, with an expression oi: pleasure on the facia of this 'good fellow." "During 1905 m thei stijuggle of the Tsar to retain his power against the' pepple^^who wished toi circumscribe this power, o ~ ■■' '•■ ■*'• ' --- '"- TKERE WERE KIDLED 14.554 .'persons and wounded; 18,053. Not a small! number for 'a goodj fellow."During his reign there' have been hanged and shot. by. milifcarjf courts more persons than during tbe /reign of the three preceding Tsars. 'Nicholas 11. mounted his throne stepping on the bodies of the masses Crushed to death at Moscow, and every day of his reign he has trod upon the corpses of the Russian people. If one conld collect m one place ALL THB BLOOD -SHED - . : , during the reign of this. _aan, we should see before us a large and deep lake of Russian blood. - "The Tsar is -a poltroom This is shown m the way hp hunts. When he arrives m the forest he lias himself shut up' in an iron cagte, and the beasts are driven from every side towards the place where he is. From his «age, guarded by \thick bars from every danger, risking nettling, HE CALMLY KILLS the passing animals. This is called a Voyal hunt. I scarcely think suci* a hunter would be welcome m any American Club. "The Russian people _aye cried for BO years with all their 1 hearts to tha Tsar: Get out/ And the 'good fellow' translates the people's wail into the lan- '' guage of his desires: r ßease stay. Shoot us by thousands. Our happiness is m that. ■-•■-. WHIP US WITH KNOUTS; We have no greater de%ht than that- We love to be thrown illegally into prison! < ,We are enchanted when we are robbed! .Our delight is to die of hunger.' "After Red Sunday the peasants, the workers, threw themselves eagerly upon books. In 1905 there wese printed and cold several dozen millions of pamphlets on questions of politics and justice. Books upon representative govei-nment, upon constitutions, studies of European revolutions, all these fell upon the country like flakes of snow—but their effect was of sparks, setting oai fire far aitd wide tbe political consciousness of the people. "In the country, m the cities, meetings Were held, and thousands of peorple listened to speeches on the political and economic situation of Rusftia. Ihia autocracy was . SO MUCH ASTOUNDED by the energy which bursji from the people that it did not even attempt ta check .1, It listened m silence to the words of agitators, not daring to lay a finger on tiwm. ' During the spring, the aurnmer, £nd part of the autumn there was accomplished m Russia the most important and fruitful of revolutions— the revolution m the brain. The people drank m the words of justice and reason as tbe f parched earth drinks m the rain. . . ."