The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-19

if on purpose. reversed my fdeas saw how the police were nleddliu9 f6 the the affairs and were plying spys ha9 the local court where they tried 5< give me the idea that the dovernrne nes5 could not stoop to the stduente Sn woul dnot do so. was In the 1(o1~ COW manege where was sent Vifh many other students. There we sx< three days guarded by Cossaclxa nii6 soldiers. There heard how outSi69 the wofkmen and other people tried f6 break the doors in order to release ui. but we saw that against our deliver ance there was a row of soldiers ready to shoot our rescuers down. After that we were sent to Butirshoe prison and { for the first time became acquainfo6
 with books on revolution. For tho first time I heard the brave word cow there happened S s demonstrsf;on e M RS of the workmen who were helping fh6 students on the great battle fie1d of political reform. At this time the brated writer Toistoy. knew Toisfox only as a bailadist and did not know his religious opinions. and now feared that this favored writer was cursed Tae 1 Priests S cursed s Toistoy Fol ny'o openly.
 speech in Russia. At this time ret~
 ersburg students were beaten unmerci< demonstration on Kazan Square e0
 after being involved in these aff2ir9
 came out man with revoiutfon4rX
 inclinations. My destiny was decided
 active revoiutionists was only mat-
 ter of time. Only a month or two had passed when was arrested agains
 A W sympathy Acquired.
 T was accused of being in posses sion of illegal literature. Yes after my exclusion from the University l sradu< ally began reading the books of soc~ tions, becoming more acquaintad with the tasks of the revolutionists, with their ways of agitating and began to feel myself @ in sy,2 sym2a,ns w'n .oon onS afses my banishment from Moscow had no time, in spite of my good wishes and convictions, to show any activity. for % my ideas and on account of this could not take an active part In the movement. After banishment on ac. count of my convictions. could not help being a revolutionist.
 ''The government made me reyolu~ tionist. It declared me to be outside the law. It forced me to the revoiu~ tionist ranks. The government wea not the cause of my becoming Q sociaz~ ist. I became a socialist by learning of the evils in society and by learn~ ing the means of healing them be- came a sOciaiiGG aILer nAu bS&U revolutionist, and when I became q socialist my revolutionary ideas became stronger because when fighting for sociaiistic ideas by force of circuu~ stances was obliged to come Into cons tact with the resistance of the Eov~ ernmenti I was a member Of the party of Social Democrats and Social Revolutionists. I was not Q terrorist and only the actions of Messrs. SipiaE- nine and Plehve gradually persuaded me of the necessity for armed reply to the violence shown by these Ministers What pains 1t cost the revolutionfsts to decide nthis sad necessity iA shown by the program of the eociefys Although the necessity of terroristtc acts hung in the air--although at the time blood flowed and other violenes was used nearly daily, the society could not decide to introduce terror a1 one of its means. The program of fh4 society reads as follows 'Without in~ troducing terroristic acts into our pro~ gram. we the society. leave them to the personal risk of the members of the society" was unsettled. admitted that iz1 some cases terror was indispensabl2s but on account of the peaceful and pros ductiye labor of the working classes I did not feel justified in proposing ie U
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