New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-30
RUSSIANS HEAR LEADER
TchaykoUsh'y Tells Of COuntry's
NeedS-T5cain Sends Regrets.

The Grand Central Palace throbbed last night
with the pulse Of thousands Of men and women Of
Russian origin. who had gathered there to hear
Nicholas Tchaykovsky. the Russian revolutonist
who arrived in this city recently Paul kapian
presided.
Among those who sent regrets were Professor a.
Jacob, Corporation Counsel Delauy. william Dean
Howells and Mark Twain.
Mark Twain regretted that he previously
pledged to preside at a meeting in the interests OF
the blind at the WaIdorf-Astoria.
My sympathies are with the Russian revolution,
Of course he wrote 1T goes without saying. /
hope it will succeed. and now that have talked
with you I take heart and believe IT Will Govern
ment by falsihed promises. by lies, by treacheUes
and by butcher knife for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
a single family Of drones and it's idle and vicious
kin, has been borne quite long enough in Russia.
should think and il is to be hoped that the reused
nation. now rising i'm its strength viii presently
put an end to it and up a republic in its place
Some of us. even of the white headed may live to
see the blessed day when cars and grand dukes
viii be as scarce there as trust they are in
heaven"
When Tchaykovsky got TO the platform he was
received with thunders Of applause
He spoke in good English. His manner was
quiet. his voice soft and impressive AL about the
great hall men and women held their hands to their
ears, II they hung on his words. Tchaykovsk ky
said in part:
Comrades and fellow citizens: If you are minded
press that the revolution is over do not believe it,
such a thing is Impossible There has been going
in Russia a deep process OF revolutiOnizing not
only its institutions. but the hearts and the minds
GO goal Inc russian people ana we are reaching me
I come to you as an accredited representative of
the revolutionary party. 1 come to you in a broad
sense. I pleading to you because OF the young.
pearng
The autocracy has Iost-practicaIIy. It has only
To it material power there IS no 0lai power sl
on the bayonets of a few privileged petted regi-
Car; IT Is with US. But, after all: the army IS
natey, had only few of the officers with US.
Let accept the Undoubted fact that the army Is
trained to murder. but how greater crime II Is 70
murder the brain ana the heart of people, s.
call it stealing, but only in the true acceptatlon
Of the word. They were doing what they ought 70
do The Gar promises, but what does he do!
Let me tell you that at the time Of the troubles
in St Petersburg the Council Of Workngrnen
could give permits and did give them which passed
people in absolute safety, while the ukase OF the
We can't help our people withstand the power
OF the machine guns 1t IS not time 1or !4Ie LtlA
them didn't understand until they learned the bitter
lesson in St Petersburg streets. -.
have men and the arms.
TschaykovsIy then rehearsed the story OF the
first general strike. tracing it from its first inceD-
ton IN Moscow. Continuing. he said:
But there came a time when the Russian govern
nent was on the point of concluding a loan with a
Coterie Of huaucers, of which J. PierpOnt Morgan
Petersburg. but they never would have done so II
! 1t hadn't been for the strike
The past is only chid's play to what IS to come.
Just before left England representative Of the
! Social Democratic party came 70 me and said
| Let's work together, let's set arms together and
! give blow to this rotten established order"
This IS time to question methods: We want
to join that part of the army that is with US 70 us
/ by bonds that will last. You cannot get an army
/ in minute. II we get those men, We shall have
a force that IS unCOnQuerable-
/ 1t is my earnest conviction that there are only
two powers in Russia to-day; the autocracy on one
! hand and the democracy on the other. What is be-
| tween them is only academic; 1t is only on paper
/ The OppOrtunists. those who swim between the
| rocks, will return TO the autocracy. Now we must
| project ourselves