The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-19

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 to the mass of the revolutionary party. was sure that many of us could be | found, sensitive and decided, who would not be afraid to go and protect the lives and honor of citizens.
 1901. I, in March 1902, was again ar rested for a years activity in the soc | iety remained in prison for one and | a half years and was then banished for ! five years to the Yakoutsk govern
 My revolutionary life lasted only three years. half of which l passed In prison.
 Even life in prison did not give me any peace. During the search they broke my arm and stretched my mouth only because I wanted to destroy some papers The search was so disgusting I that my relatives thought l was going | mad and would commit suicide. The gendarmes from personal natred old hot give me peace even in prison; There they daily searched me, a humtliating search from head to foot Complain | ing to the Procureur did not help me was almost driven mad by the daily disgusting behavior or the gendsarm.efs, .f. To my complaints they answered: It | Is not your business.
 interviews with relatives and my mother were made torture, thanks 10 | the gendarmes. My mother was SUD-
  advised not to have anything to do with her "disgraceful son." My complaint | on this occasion was met with com plaint to the Chief or the Gendarmes; "As a protest against this brutality | I lasted seven days. The Governor | who came to me told me that the life of one student was nothing in com parison with the interests of the State He was right. The year did not pass | without seeing the scrifice Of many hundreds of lives for the State. The | result of my fast was that l was sent | to Samara prison. In Samara l had a chance of meeting revolutionists who | were chosen from all parts Of Russia. | From them, as from personal witnesses. | I knew what had happened to me had | happened to others l myself saw peo- pie who were beaten in prison and in police courts, people who were many times compelled to hunger for many days together, people who from want l and prison life went into consumption. Every day I saw parties of political prisoners going to Siberia.
 | While in prison I read revolution ary literature and thinking Of all had | seen and heard I became a social revo- lutionist. I had a heartrend:ng feeling | when I heard of the fights going on in Wilma and Kharkof and especially the
 shooting of the Kharkof wrokmen. I | knew that men were shot as enemies l of the State" They were men who did not even understand the word revolu-
 ton. They were only at fault because they did not want their wages decreas-
 ed, I knew that people of all classes and
 of all ages. were beaten. women and | children also. We took 1t as a signal
 for battle. We thought of the twenty
 eight collins the innumerable wounded, | the two volleys by the 100 soldiers. | Hearing of this I tried to think of a
 battle scene, but this picture was noth- ing in comparison with the dreadful I scene which was being enacted by the | government in the peaceful streets of | small Russian towns. With what help less rage I walked about my prison
 cell. How I knocked my head against
 the walls and broke my hands in try | ing to smash the prison windows, and
 what servile and bitter tears wiped
 from my eyes. l prayed to be able to | revenge it all. An If had freedom
 but when I got to know that the exe-
 cutioner of the inhabitants had perish | ed I breathed freely. God bless the men who had done the deed Bogdano-
 witch had to perish. His existence foul ed the air. Like a storm 1t hung over | us and all held their breath and
 waited. Only Bogdanovitch did not | l.wait. Having obtained PlehYe,a an-