Workmen's advocate., 1889-11-16
TCHERNYSHEWS SKY
THOUSANDS ASSEMBLE TO
 HONOR HIS MEMORY.

Author and Martyr" It is the
 Same Fight on the Banks of the
 Neva and on those of the Hud-
 son" Hugh 0. PentecOst Tells
 How He Found His Mistake
 Tchernyshewsky His First
 Teacher.
 On Friday evening last the large hall of Cooper Union was filled to overflow ing with an enthusiastic audience con- sisting for the greater part of Russians, men and women, who had come to honor the memory of the dead Russian author Tchernyshewsky, the father of the socialistic movement in the dominion of the Czar. The banners of the Rus sian Progressive Union of Newark, the Shirt Makers Union of New York and the Socialist Labor Party of New York were displayed from the platform. N. Stoleshnikoff and B. Gretch presided Speeches were made by s. E. Shevitch, Hugh o. Pentecost and John Most.
 Shevitch began "The man whose memory we honor to day was buried in the icy prison of Siberia for nearly human age. Certainly, he was tried and found guilty. But is every one guilty who is found guilty by court3 Cries: NoD
 "Men are imprisoned, sent to Siberia, even hung, but does this prove their guilt? (NoD
 :"If man is hung in Russia, does this prove that he was guilty? (NoD
 "If a man, or number of men, are hung in America, do.s this show that tlssy were guilty? (NoD
 "Was John Brown guilty, when he was executed by the authorities of the State? Enthusiastic cries: NoD "Were those five men, whose memory we will honor in this hall on the eleventh of November, and who were hung in Chicago two years ago, were these five men guilty? Loud and enthusiastic cries: NoD
 Institutions such as those under which Tchernyshewsky was buried alive in thGicy prison of Siberia, the speaker proceeded, "do not exist in Russia alone. al, ,rs f;t,,ftnn. do oltar f,,r stances, when exploiter and exploited are placed face to face with each other. The fight is the same on the banks of the Neva and on those of the Hudson. Those who produce and do not possess are the natural enemies of those who possess and do not produce. The latter are always ready to let loose the police and the courts against the former. This country, free and independent by the grace of Silver Dollar Smith, is in this respect in no way superior to the countries of Europe"
 The speaker then went on to tell the audience how Tchernyshewsky was found guilty for publishing his works, without regard to the fact that the Censors of the government, through whose hands the emanuscripts had passed had approved of them. To-day" he continued, "his name is honored ever by the governing powers, and still he was bearer of the red flag!
 Intelligence is no more with the specu lators of Wall street. no more with tht sickly race of the British lords, no more with tie rubbish called politicians il this country, but with the masses! We have no love for the country that allows itself to be ruled by thieves and rascals Our patriotism is to emancipate thu country from those leeches.
 "Everywhere, in all countries, we ar' opposed by brutal force. Be it so! Bu may the rulers of this world remembe that he who raises the knife will fall b. the knife! The thinkers show the worlC that certain changes must come. Th changes are not the work of the thinkers We tell the judges, hangmen, Czars an' policemen: Beacdre!
 What had you thought of numbe of men, who at the recent flood in tn Conemaugh Valley had tried to oppos the flood by pressing their bodies agains it? You would have considered then fools!
 Well, no more can any body of mer however powerful they may be, oppos the social flood which will overcom them. The masses will march over ther without regard to the miserable rubbis at their feet. We know that the futur is ours!"
 Hugh o. Pentecost followed. and in very powerful speech declared how h had come to believe that Socialists, Al ] archists and Nihilists drank blood thre times day. T was minister of th church," he began, about as far froi the working people as it is possible for man to get! 1 was brought up in tf