Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-23
An APPEAL FOR FUNDS.
Socialists Express Sympathy
With. Russian Uprising.
CALL 1T A REVOLUTION
Mass Meeting at Pythian Temple Pre-
coded by a Parade.
RED FLAG MADE PROMINENT
Temperate Addresses by Prominent
Leaders in Observation-Disclosures
grafton Of Bloody Sunday.
RED FLAG MADE PROMINENT

The singing of the "Marseillaise" opened
the mass meeting that was held last night in
Pythian Temple under the auspices of the
socialists and several labor organizations.
AT the close of the meeting three cheers
were given for the Russian rebellion and
the socialist rebellion as it was termed, in
the United States was similarly applauded.
The meeting held. 1t was stated, in
order that Russian sympathizers might
have an opportunity to commemorate
Bloody Sunday"-the day when so many
Russians were slaughtered in the streets of
ST. Petersburg while under the leadership
of Father Gapon. The effort Of the march
was to get an audience with the car.
The 200 men who formed the parade en-
tered the hall following the band and two
flags. One was the banner of the United
States and the other was a red fiag-that
Of the socialist organization. The latter
flag was waived by the chairman of the
meeting, w. ]. Lightboun, and was loudly
cheered. In the audience were many
women and children, who We're there to
hear something of the conditions In Russia.
and who wanted to know what Is being
done to assist them.
After the singing OF the "Marselllaise Lne
audience listened attentively to DR.. Morris
Korshet, who had addressed similar
meeting in Baltimore last night.
The Principal Address.
Dr. Morris Korshet made the principal
address of the evening. The speaker re-
ferred briefly to the frightful examples
which ancient history reveals of the slaugh-
ter of innocent people, and declared that 1t
remained for the Russian government to be
pointed out in these modern times as the
instigator Of crimes unmentfonable.
THE most lamentable curse to visit
people," he declared with much emphasis.
.srxros no n
and children in the streets of st. Peters
burg Sunday, January %, 1905 He said 1t
was not a massacre of people because or
their religious tendencies, but the butchery
Of a peaceful deputation Of workingmen
seeking better conditions and more reward
for their toll.
Bloody Sunday" he continued. was the
spark which exploded the magazine of rev.
olution throughout the entire world. The
shots that carried death to those people
were heard by the whole world. We do
not shed tears of sorrow for our slaugh-
tered brethren in Russia. but tears of Joy
that they were the first to die for the cause
of universal brotherhood"
The speaker declared that the struggle
now being carried on is a struggle against
barbaric oppression and eternal slavery for
ciyihza ton and for peace. This blessing
will inevitably be the workingmaRs re-
ward. by endeavoring to check the Rus
sian revolution, the bureaucracy" he said,
lis only sitting on the crater of a seething
volcano, ana Wnen IL DurSlS II VIII mean
destruction for the oppressors." He bade
his hearers not to lose hope because there
Is now and then luH in the struggle. The
great giant of the revolution is only girding
up his loins. We must not become impa-
tent because things do not move fast
enough in Russia. There is at present one
great world struggle-that is the struggle
OF the working people of the world"
Plea for Money.
At the conclusion of his remarks Dr. Kor-
shet asked the audience to make up purse
to be used in assisting their friends in Rus
$40. Mr. Harry Niematz, writer for Jew
ish paper assisted DR.. Korshet in making
a plea for funds. Mr.. B. Rassas Of the
Workingmen's Circle followed with short
address in the Jewish language
Then~L H. Hourwich, the writer and
speaker on the Russian revolution, was in
troduced- He was sorry, he said, that he
did not have the enthusiasm of youth, such
as was possessed by some of the other
speakers, saying he had been laboring in
the Russian cause for more than thirty
iasm had cooled off. He scored the press
associations for some of the reports that
had been sent out from Russia. and said
that the people had been but poorly in
formed OF the real conditions there.
The speaker said that what Is going on
in Russia at this time is a revolution and
not merely a succession of riots. The Rus
sian revolution, he said. was started over
eighty years ago, when the grandfather of
the present Russian ambassador was one
of the participants and he was sent off TO
Siberia. More than forty years ago, said
the speaker, a partial reform was granted
because it was thought that freedom grant