The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-02-16
Gershuny Tells Of His
Life And Experiences

further its own selfish and wicked
ends; to live from day to day as best
il can. How it does so is immaterial
to it. And everything it does is done
from that temporary and unstable
point of view. 1t shifts as the wind
blows and as the wind blows it shifts
Without convictions and merely with
cNpedients it catches at every straw.
1t talks of granting a constitution to-
day; tomorrow it is against the pro-
position. 1t agrees to placate the pea
SAINT by giving him more land, then
it decides against the policy. 1t is
for massacre of the Jews, then it
concludes until day more propi-
tious And so it goes.
THE people, of course, know this
government and detest it with a de-
testation you in America cannot UNI
dertsand. They con slider the admin
istration but band of marauders and
thieves bent on loot, on seizinz every
thing in sight and waiting for the
morrow to decide what they shall pur-
loin next and what measures they shall
take to defend their booty. The gov
eminent exists only by physical pow
er and craft. not by moral force, not
by the will and love of its citizens,
as your American government does.
And, strange to say, its greatest
support has come from the outside
world, from the money it has been
able to borrow from abroad. If it's
gold is taken away all it's support is
taken away and it tumbles. But its
borrowing capacity has almost reach
ed its end and its financial plight is
the most wretched imaginable. Those
who are in position to know will
tell you that it is financially bank
rupt, that its treasury is depleted and
that the statements it gives out to
the world of its financial condition
are fabricated.
Nothing could better prove its fin
aneial status than the fact that it has
a secret room where by night and
day are duplicated spurious copies OF
the bond issue of 1898. This, OF
course, is forgery-forgery perpetrat
ed by government"
at is difficult for the American
people to realize" said Gershuny
leader of the Russian terrorists, chow
much we revolutionists of Russi;
hate to commit assasinations. We
hate it with all our hearts; we hate
it with all our souls. As L said t.
you before, the one thing we shall
never forgive the bureaucracy is it.
having forced us by the cruel condi
tons it imposed to resort to the ust
of the pistol, the dagger and tn,
bomb. Consider men and womeI
brought up as we have been, men anC
women of requirement, of education
of culture in the highest sense, man,
II them with wide regulations il
science, letters and arts-consider,
say, how people like these must loath,
this one method of warfare that j!
left open to us to win liberty.
"The government is the worst anC
most fearful terrorist of us all. 1t.
aggressive despotism, it's continued
barbarity, its utter cruelty hav,
brought about a condition where
those who thought a change nigh
be had without the use of force nov
are driven to see that a revolution
by the employment of moral means is
| impossible.
For the constitutional democrat.
the situation is indeed hard, for they
have thought and maintained that
freedom could be won by peaceful
means. Seeing the impossibility Of
this, they now have fallen into a state
of the darkest and deepest pessimism
They hold that all in Russia is lost
that freedom is doomed, and, will
folded arms, they are sinking into
despair, proclaiming the utter useful
ness of doing anything at all.
"But with us revolutionists the sit
uation is quite the reverse. What has
become as the apples of Sodom t.
the constitutional democrats has be
come as live fruit to us. We sale
from the very first that the only
way liberty could be won in Russi'
was by the use of force; we never
devlated from that view and now the
great body of the people has come t.
see by the cruel logic of events tina
no other course is possible. To-day
Russia is practically in a state of civi
war and the revolutionists are thu
only soldiers in the field.
1--WE are struggling, too, for places
in the coming douma. The people
knowing our policy and being at one
with us, will elect us to that body
by the score. But the government
will refuse to sanction the voice o
the people and will not permit us t.
take the seats in the douma whicl
we have fairly won.
every well, then is the answer
that We shall hurl in the teeth of tn,
government. We represent the PEG
pie and, since you refuse to recognize
their voice, you exist only by usurpa
ton. We shall return to the people
by whom we were sent, and shall
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