The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-15
HELP RUSSIA, CRIES GoRKY
IF WE'RE CIVILIZED WE'VE
 TO DOIT, HE TELLS US.

But Doubts Very Much if We Are Civi-
 lized; We're Just Pretending-sees
 Nothing Ahead for His People but
 Blood and Death and Brutal Out
 rage Without End.
 | Maxim Gorky, from his retreat at Hurricane, N. Y, which is up in the Adirondacks, has issued in Russian an address to the people of America, This is the translation:
 The Czar has dispersed the Duma
 This small man, trembling on his throne for his life and power like an aspen leaf, has with one stroke of the pen, with convulsive movement of his hand, destroyed all semhlance of law in Russia, and called into life a new series of murders, robberies and outrages.
 The Russian Government will now | ''Sa ''A "IO o pollGy ol VI lNSii e"iiu pOS- tial reprisals.
 The hangmen and thieves surround ing the throne and supporting it with bloodstained hands have of late heard many bitter and insulting truths from the lips of courageous and honest men. I They will avenge themselves for it., and their vengeance will be severe. | Tl,ooIN +1 ,oJ and encouraged by the reign of law lessness they will once more appall the world by their deeds.
 They will commence to annlhilate and destroy the leaders of the people, and having destroyed the leaders they will again declare war on the people, the unarmed and defenceless people who are dreaming of peace and civili- zation, and who had been so impatient Ily hoping for the triumph of justice.
 The black, bloodsoaked wings of death will flutter over the country for months. The exhausted earth will swallow thousands of corpses of men whose only crime was the desire to live a human life.
 Many women and children will per- ish from bullets, swords and clubs. j Many crying outrages will be perpe- trated.
 I The world will be seized with horror and indignation
 Here and there public meetings will be held at which the speakers will elo- quently denounce the Czar and his band of savages.
 The speakers will be rewarded by ap- plause and the public will leave the
 meetings in the proud conviction that they have responded to the call of the unfortunate people of a foreign land ar thus discharged their duty to humanity At. the same time the blood of the , Russians will flow in wide streams. Are we civilized people or are wt not?
 l think we are not. We only pretend to love life and mankind, to respec law and to abhor criminals. If my neighbors assault and tortur,
 human beings in theirA house and I heal the groans of the victims, and thougl I pity them do not run to their aid dln l d ClVlll1eu person If I live In a town where countless murders, robberies and outrages occul
 every day, and I am familiar witl those occurances but do nothing to pre- vent the robberies and to stamp ou the crimes-am I a civilized person? If on the the earth on which liv , and rear my children such deeds 0 horror and lawlessness, are enacted a 7, in Russia and Turkey, and, I mysel ' condemning these acts, console mysel
 with the thought that in my countr. 7 life is easier, and safer and better, and : thus consoled, live satisfied In my hol am I truly a civilized person? People whose hearts are devoid o the consciousness of the brotherhoot
 of nations are not civilized-they ar /, still savages.
 u People who live quietly when every v thing around them is soaked in blood ' strangled in violence, are not civillze they are simply satiated animals, . People who have children and alloy l them to grow up amid vile anarch o and lawlessness and to poison thei | hearts with the sight of all the corrup ton which deforms the world-no, suc 5 people are not civilized.
 The world is for all, and everybod - has a right to it's joys. Whoever realizes that will not sui e fer himself to remain passive witnes U to the torture of his fellow men. .t Men are brothers. Whoever feels tha r. will not remain an indifferent spectato - at the murder of his brother be tn n latter Anglo-saxon, Jew or Russian.
 More love and consideration for mar e kind. n That is what makes a person trul e civilized.
 y The endeavor to increase in life tt t number of conscious, wise and hone. u people, people believing in the good { e their. kind, this is the most importar
 feature of true civilization.
 All truly civilized persons must hel
 the suffering, martyred peopled of Ru'
 sia.
 '- This is their duty, this should |
 their pleasure.
 o For to help a human being to live human life, in this help men must fin
 for themselves the consciousness e their own significance in the world, u Il proud justification of their own lives. |. The life of the animal is senseless, u 4 life of the beast is abhorrent-and is
 noble and disgusting Is the life of u e beaver and other animals who live u the warm darkness of their under
 ground holes.
 Men shnIIId lra life in a ruidar an