Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-22
UPRISING SURE TO
CONE THIS SPRING
so SAYS RUSSIAN REFUGEE IN
NEW YORK
Nicholas Tchalkovsky, Famous In Rev.
dictionary Affairs, Makes State
rnent of Conditions-What
They May Lead To
BY Associated Press.

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NEW YORK, March 81. - Nicholas
Tchaikovsky, associate of Prince
Kropotkin in the first beginnings of the
Russian revolution, and for ten years
an exile in London, is here in the in
terest of the revolution of the present
day.
For a month refugees of pure Rus
sian stock have been drifting into
New York.
Tchaikovsky comes in advance Of
forty Russian "intellectuals," mainly
deserving officers. who have fled the
country. He is here, he says, to raise
the money to buy arms for the up
rising which he confidently expects as
soon as spring breaks in Russia.
Tchaikovsky brings underground
news of the revolution from the stand
point of the social revolutionists. The
social reVolutionists believe in a re-
sort to the sword, but this is not to be
confused with terrorists, which have
been back of the assassinations.
Clicked Roads to Siberia
Tchaikovsky was one of those young
tntellectuals who choked the roads to
Siberia in the early $685.. Sergius Step
max and katherine Breschovsky were
members of the same group with
Tchaikovsky. He himself was arrested
three times and spent three years of
his life in Jail.
After his last Imprisonment he re-
tired to England and has lived since
in that group which has kept up the
revolution at distance. He was born
to wealth, and at one time the firm
with which he was associated controlled
the mineral output of the Caucasus.
Uprising Coming Too Soon
at seems to me that the uprising is
In wa Iecirp - bo
last night. 1.-THE peasants will hardly
be denied. The impression in the
United States that the peasants are
with the conservatives is wrong. Their
condition is desperate. They are not
organizing for the revolution, but they
are ready to break loose on their own
account. They want new allotment
of land; that is the chief of their trou-
bles now.
Before the serfs were liberated the
allotment of land was ten acres to a
peasant After the liberation of the
serfs this fell to seven acres. The
Agrarian population of Russia has
nearly doubled since, but there has
been no increase in the land allotment.
That shortage of land, together with
the increase of taxes, has kept them
nearly bankrupt.
Then Came the War
"Then came the war. OF disease and
wounds there died about 100000 peas
ants.
Their families were thrown on the
hands of the other peasants for sup
port as the government would do moth
ing for them. Then there arrived the
crippled soldiers from Manchuria for a
further burden to their friends and
relatives. The country has been on
the verge of famine.
Now the peasants declare that in
case there is not new allotment of
land in the spring they will pillow over
the public lands and the estates of the
mobiles. That blowing over has a mean
ing in peasant custom.
ut signifies that they have taken pos
session of the land in their own rights.
Then the government will send troops,
the peasants will resist and the fight
will be on.
Trouble will probably occur when
the elections for the douma really
come. The only thing 1 fear is that it
will come before we have our forces
armed and ready"