The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-13
GORKY CALLS GAPON "FAKER."
SAYS RUSSIAN LEADER SOLD HIM.
SELF TO THE GOVERNMENT
Letter From Titled English Woman Depiores
the Lack Of Rich Socialists There
-!The Visiting ReNOlutioniSt Issues
an Address 10 the jews OF THIS city.

Letter From Titled English Woman Deplores
the Lack or Rich Socialists There
The Visiting RevOiutioniSt Issues
an Address 10 the Jews ~ THIS city.
Father Gapon, the Russian priest who
made an effort to organize the w~orkingmen
into revolutionists. was declared yesterday
by Gorky, the Russian novelist and radical,
tobe a faker. Hesaid "Gapon ifhehadbeen
killed on the day OF the massacres in Moscow
might have died a hero. Unfortunately
he livedto be bribed and to betray the cause
OF Russian liberty. The Socialist Demo-
crat Bund after he fed from Russia. made
an Investigation Of his conduct and FOUND
that he had accepted through a Secret
Service officer Of the Government one
hundred thousand Tubles, from Witte
himself sixty thousand more. and from
other sources ffty-nine thousand more
Gorky has the impression that the result
of the election to the Duma OF Il majority
Of Liberal deputies would be eventually q
revolution similar to the French. He be-
lieves that it ia likely that the Car will
dissolve the Duma when 1t insists upon
standing on it's rights, and that will he the
signal for the revolt.
Among Gorky's visitors at the Hotel
Relleclaire was Gaylord Wiltshire, who gave
to Gorky a letter that he had received
recently from Frances Evelyn, Countess
Of Warwick. Gorky read a translation OF
the letter, and Immediately wrote to the
Countess. The letter Of the Countess.
which has not been heretofore published, is
dated at Warwick House, London, March 10,
and in part reads as follows
In this country the socialistic movement Is
almost entirely confined 70 the working
Glasses, with the exception of Hyndman.
a few dilettante middle class n dozen at
most. Fabians. Bernard Shaw. &c. and a
few advanced clerics and myself. lhere IS
no real movement except with the workers
in factories. mills. workshops in the great
industrial centre where the trade unions are
strongest.
In other European countries men OF all
classes. professors, aristocrats. writer's. are
TO be found in the ranks of soo!alism. whlie
here the word socialism cannot be spoken
within our universities or In our drawing
rooms. Even the millionaires, with yourself
are won 10 socialism in America. Here we
are entirely dependent on the workers pence
not one single moneyed person in TINS
country does anything for socialism. II
you want philanthropy o. charity IL abounds
here-the rich mems checks are their in-
surance against revolution.
II is ~egotIstic to mention myself, but IL
comes into the argument. ! have a fair. Inc
dependent income; | give all can spare from
the home. ! sold every jewel | possessed
before the elections so az to get our candl-
dates to the FOIL. The sum is. of course. as
a drop in the ocean: bur gold was poured ont
like water by Liberal and Tory candidates
and the workers had only their own resources.
But next time We shall double, even treble,
our party. We want a daily paper and we
want a good meeting place in London. where
Socialists from all over the country can meet
and those from other countries can ma us
and interchange ideas.
Gorky issued yesterday an address to
the Jewish population Of this city, in which
he said the future historian OF Russia would
devote some of his most thrilling pages to
the Jews. He said that they had evinced
superhuman courag e in the Russian strug-
gle for liberty, and that there was little
anti Semitic sentiment in Russia. All that
existed had been spread and encouraged
by the Government itself.
Some OF his pleasant memories. he de-
clared were connected with the Jews,
Fourteen years ago he was a farmland
in one of the southern provinces, and MS
his employer was a Jew who treated him
with great consideration. The Jewish
population of Russia was the most power
full source OF activity in the revolutionary
movement.
Gorky spent most Of his time in the apart
ments in the Hotel Belleclaire, turned over
to him by Mr.. Wiltshire, receiving men and
women interested in his work. In the
A., afternoon he took a drive with his wife
up to Grants Tomb, with which, he said,
he was tremendously impressed. In the
evening he and Mrs. Gorky and a number
of friends vent to the Hippodrome, which
astonished him, ne said, more than any
thing that he had ever seen on any stage
or of.
TODAY Mrs. Gorky and Gorky will receive
a delegation OF women in sympathy with
the Russian movement for freedom, in
Guiding Mrs. Giddings. Miss Castlehum,
president OF the Women's University Club,
the mother Of Mr., Wiltshire, Miss Walling
and Mrs. Markham, wife of the poet.