The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-14
TCHAYKOWSfY LECTURE.
FATHER OF RUSSIAN REVoLU-
 TIoN ADDRESSES STUDENTS.

Kellogg Dnrland Precedes Him With
 Account of Recent Journey to Russia
 Conditions Are Very Harsh--Nine-
 tenths of People Ready to Join in
 RevOIution--Freedom VIII Come.
 Two interesting lectures on Russian conditions were delivered in Lamp son hall last night. Kellogg Durland of New York, who recently made trip to Russia to study the conditions gave an account of his experiences. His lecture was illustrated with numerous lantern slides.
 He depicted the conditions of the peasants as deplorable ard said that the revolutionists were reduced to such straits at times that they stole the gov ernment money as it was being convey ed from one place to another, He told of insults and maltreatment to women.
 The people are so poor and so much of the government money is used to maintain the large army of Cossacks that there is no money for roads. In some districts the people are famine stricken but the government only furn- ishes them one meal in forty -elght hours. So poor are they that in some cases the peasants have had to take the straw that they had used in thatch- ing their houses to feed their cattle and thus keep them alive for a time.
 Ill Siberia some of the most atrocious things prevail The ordinary peasant Is paid $15O month for his work, an ex- | lied nobleman get $3. Out of this the person has to buy his own foods and clothes. The natives of the region are affected with the most loathsonle dis eases and no efforts are made to check the epidemics.
 The government does not even allow foreigners the right to travel in the country with any degree of freedom. MT. Durland an dhis companion were arrested and delayed for several days on the most trivial charges
 Following MT. Durland Tchaykovsky, the father of the Russian revolution, who spoke in this city with Gregory Gershni, was next introduced by T. C.. Wright 'O7, who presided He said that nine-tenths of the people of Russia were now. ready to join in the tght against the autocratic government This was clearly shown by the elections to the duma. The two classes who have been instrumental in educating the Russian people to understand their natural rights are the literary classes and the students. The students of fifty years ago used to form themselves into clubs where they read works on oolit- ical and social life. These were discuss ed and the students arrived at their convictions. In the summer time they
 used to go into the country and dis
 seminate the doctrines among the Deo-
 pie and teach them. The authorities
 soon came to consider these practices as dangerous and schools and printing
 presses were put under the ban. , The students began to see that the way to spread their doctrines was by widespread agitation and as they went
 among the people the latter began to | realize that the things that they taught were for the common good and they are determined to make strong stand l against the government.
 He said that the government was ! grinding the people by the heavy taxes ! During ten years $1,5oO 100000 was col
 lected from among these poverty strick- : en people The people were unable tc 3 make both ends meet and conditions : became unbearable. Then they began
 to demand representation in a represen- . tative assembly. {. From this state of affairs came the
 outbreak of october 8, 1905, and the one
 which occurred nine months earlier, Al
 these times the government dealt mos 3 harshly with the people. While pre- t tending to grant the means to gratif1 e the wishes of the people they prepared 1 themselves for the disgraceful massa e cres of October 19.
 Il He said that the movement Of th' : students would continue until Russi; I was free from governmental oppression e The address was applauded by thu 5 good sized audience which was present