The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-26
|GORKY SFFRS up A CROWD
THEN IS RESCUED FROM IT'S En-
BRACE BY A FLYING WEDGE.

In Grand Central Palaee-Men and
women Knocked OT Platform IN the
II Rush-Sa, 500 Collected for the Cause.
The Grand Central Palace and the streets
al the immediate Vicinity were swamped
bith various kinds of Socialistio Jew last
night when Maxim Gorky leotured there
Under the auspices Of the Russian Social
Democratic party. The lecture, on Anti
4 a0mitism," was given to raise money TO
push the Russian revolution. More than
5000 tickets were sold and over $4,000 col-
& ieoted.
Two hundred policemen under Capt.
kLantry OF the East Fifty-frst street station
had their bands full trying to explain TO
the late coriers that the building was al
ready jammed. The platform was so
crowded that Gorky, who read his speech
oouIdn't havemadea any horizontal gestures
n he had wished.
The crowd started 10 applaud early, but
Z ware requested to wait until the speaker
had finished. When he sat down, their
axplosiye enthusiasm resulted in a sman
riot from the attempts oil the whole 1900
persons in the building to step upon the al
ready crowded platform and embrace the
\ lecturer. -.
.N8N NOTIFY 3 S9CTSIdIy, pulSihhI oPPSNN >"
those nearest him to make a p~assageway
for the speaker and Nine. Andreieva, who
sat at his elbow. A flying wedge was formed
which resulted in the pushing Of a dozen
women and scores of men from the platform
on to the floor four feet below.
Several women tainted from the shock OF
the fall. Following this wedge, however,
Birenin half dragged and hall carried
Il fsorky. with his companion hanging to Ills
arm, out through a rear entrance, whete
he was hustledihto q carriage TEs fevolu~
tionists then went bacG upon the platform
and contentsd themselyeahg singing reVolu-
4 tionary hymns.
Gorky was to have been introduced by
Ivan, Norodny, the refugee, but Norodpy
was lost in the shuttle somewhere, and jacob
Gordon, the Yiddish playwright, did the
honors. The lecturer wore his blouse
costume and talked calmly and evenly,
with only a few perpendicular gestures
h He said In part:
The Jews are hated among other reasons
4 because they gave Christianity to the world.
+ which restrained the beast in man and fostered
his conscience. 1t gave him g sense OF the
general solidarity Of man, constraining every
one TO think Of the interests Of all. This is
a hateful to the masters OF life, who wish to
see in Christianity only a religion OF suffering,
a voluntary submission OF the many to the
81 few. They succeeded in. making IL religion
"a oil slaves, a YOKE LOT lOp peOplt anu a ohIrih
With which they want to fend themselves
u against the attacks of justice,
In the teachings Of Christ there was an
Immense store of the indestructible realism
OF the Jewish soul, and this ideallsm did not
die out despite the efforts OF the Church and
State to crush it, This realism, mdomitabiy
striving for the reorganization of the world
IN the spirit of truth and Justice, is the chief
cause of the hatred against the Jews, They
brought disquiet to the satiated and con
~ tented: they threw light upon the dark side
Of life: they aroused people, giving them no
respite. Finally. and this is the main thing
out of this idealism of the Semites arose a
terrible monster for the masters OF men.
but a religion for all its workers-Socialism.
In saying that the Jews are disliked be-
f cause they have at all times Showed them
selves to be the most energetic revolutionlsts
IN Ia the world, I do not have in mind the Jewish
bankers. Like mushrooms and other spec les
of fun 81, they have no nationality,
I do not believe in the antag0nism OF race:
n and nations. | see only the antagonism oil
IA aliases. l~cannot admit that there Is a specia
"a psychology which inspires a man of the white
tf race with an aversion for a man OF the olacl
race, OF provokes n the Slav a hatred fol
"a the Anglo-SaXon. or IN the Russian q contemp
for the Jew.
81 The chief enemy Of the Russian jew y
Russian oficialdom, which holds every JeV
~ to be a reyolutionist. This view has its ir
REPUTABLE evidence in the history of the Rus
sian revolutionary movement. They arr
"a revolutionaries because everything is dom
to stihe and kill their bodies and souls, From
the very beginning of the open fght with III,
M Russian Government the Jews persisted by
III the hundreds in the PRISONS OF Siberia and il
fhe of the Russian fortresses
f& plehve, the organizer of the wholesale jew
ish massscres. declared that the revotutionar!
"a movement in Russia WIS inspired and con
Quoted by the Jews. and Durnoyo Is nj
disciple. p,
Sergius White, in his address to the Jewisl
Reputation not long ago, literally said this
IF the Jews should happen TO get into tn
Duma they must not discuss there the genera
politics Of the empire, but only. their Q
Affairs" g.
This utterance is provocative, let alon'
foolish. Naturally, if the Jews were to speaI
"A IA the Duma ,of- their own affairs .7alone,l
would bring down upon them the charge Q
tribal egotism, and would thus help TO N
grease anti-Semltismy which IS deSuei
~ ness OF Serg Jus: Witte,. as we'll as his inso
lence, Is known to every one.
Having its root in the politics OF the Govern
rient. anti-SemittSnl has not penetrated int
Russian society, for these two forces are OF
posed to each other, and that which The on
dement, Of RussR are at present not infe5te
with this poison, because they know very wei
the part which the Jews play In the Russian
revolution, The Intelligent Russian, public
% however, has never. Cond uct ed Itself towar
N',i the Jews as it should have done, although tn
ri merchants and industrial CLASSES OF Russia ar
or have not been unfriendly.
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