The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-26
LONDON DEKOUNCES
RUSS MASSACRES
Friends of Liberty Deal Sharp
Rap to Butchers of
People
Special Foreign Service

Special Foreign Service
LONDON, Feb. 25.-A public meet
ing, convened by the Society of Friends
of Russian Freedom and the Social
Democratic Federation, was held in the
queens hall, Langham place, this week.
to protest against -'the butchery of un-
armed workmen in Russia" and to ex-
press sympathy with the victims Mr..
). f. Green, secretary to the Friends of
Russian Freedom, occupied the chair;
ana those on the platform included Mr.
X b. Cunninghame Graham, Mr.. Ber-
nard Shaw, Mr.. Atherley Jones, K. c.,
Nj. p, Mr.. .Adolphe Smith. Mr.. H. M.
Hyndman and Mr.. H. Quelch Letters
or regret were received from many
prominent perSonageS, Mr.. Adolphe
Smith proposed the following resolu-
ton:
This meeting of London citizens eX-
presses its profound adherence of the
wholesale butchery of peaceful demon
strators at st. Petersburg on Sunday.
Jan. % last. and subsequent similar
outrages in other towns, and its de-
testation of the cZardom and bureau
cracy whose only answers to the ap-
peals of the Russian people were rife
bullets and Cossack whips. This meet
ing, remembering how their forefathers
Fought for political freedom, welcomes
the revolutionary movement in Russia.
and, whilst regretting profoundly the
heavy price that the Russian people are
paying in their struggle for liberty,
congratulates them on the greatness of
their mission, and trusts that that mis-
sion will soon be fulfilled, so that Rus
sla shall no longer be a stumbling
block to the progress of humanity"
Mr.. Atherley Jones, in supporting the
resolution, regretted the silence which
was being observed in regard to events
in Russia by the leaders of public
thought and public action, not only in
this country, but in every civilized
country in the world. There was a sign
of deliverance for the Russian people
from the far East and it might be that
the war, the carnage of which they
were all lamenting, would prove to be
the momentum which would secure
them their freedom and liberty. Mr..
Cunnlnghame Graham who also sup
ported the resolution. said the workers
of Russia would answer the czar in the
way that Russian revolutionaries had
answered in the past. They would an
swer him in deeds. and then he would
say, Woe to the smaller number, woe
to those who have fewest heads to
strike at, woe to those who have need
lessly shed blood" If only Lord Roths-
child, If only one of the great Jewish
fnanciers had the pluck to stand out
high priest of old, for their down
trodden people the great Russian bub-
Bile would be pricked within ten days
There. was one ray of hope. even IL
they were unable to stir these men, and
that was in the triumphant advance of
the coDquering Japanese army Mr.
Bernard Shaw said the strikers made a
very great mistake in going unarmed
to oppose the state. If they opposed
the state the state would shoot them
and until all the working class popula-
tions OF the world understood thor
oughly that when they stirred out of
their ordinary round to oppose the
state they must do il with arms in
their hands it would be understood
that none of them really meant busi-
ness. He was not there to make pro-
test against the butchery and to SYM
pathize with the victims. He was there
to sympathize with the revolution.
The resolution was adopted unani-
mOUSly.