The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-15
PAUL MIL.YOUKOV
 MAKES ADDRESS
Russian Comes 5000 Miles to
 Make One Speech
WANTS HUMAN SYMPATHY
Advocating Constitutional Liberty In Russia, MilyoukoV Tells of the Struggles of His People
 Against Oppression.

New York January 14-Having trav- elled more than 5000 miles to present in a single address the cause of popular gov ernment in. Russia. Prof. Paul Milyoukov concluded his remarks at a Carnegie hall tonight with the declaration that all he sought on this side of the ocean was hu- man sympathy. Judging by the applause which greeted these words, the mission of the distinguished legislator was full filled so far at least as the Civic Forum was concerned.
 Prof. Milyodkov is a member of the third douma for St Petersburg. and lead CT of the constitutional demands of Rus sia and at the solicitation of the Civic Forum, came from his home to address it tonight upon the topic of "Constitu- tional Government for Russia.
 Prof. Milyoukov arrived on the Car mania yesterday, and intended to sail on his return to St Petersburg tomorrow. He has delayed his departure one day in order that he may accept the invitation of Hon. Herbert Parsons, congressman from New York to a dinner given in his honor in Washington tomorrow night
 s1etching the progress of the republican government as embodied in the success sve doumas Prof. Milyoukov reached the conclusion that sort of political equili- brium had attained. He questioned, how ever, how the equilibrium could be con sidered stable and found as the consoling failure of the situation that the mediate danger that the national representation was to be abolished entirely, was now avoided. For the future, he saw new troubles with little hope of early social peace
 If the revolution in Russia has lost something of it's external dramatic char aeter' he said, it is not because the movement has been obligatory, but be- cause they strike much deeper in the roots of the lower social strata. The real and the terrible dramatic sense of the events which may still unroll before your eyes, ladies and gentlemen, does not con- fine itself to the rise and fall of certain heroes or personages, whose fate you may follow with interest. And it is not ex- hausted by some appalling statistics of people shot or hung, houses burned, ser wants of the Czar blown up or assassina- ton conspiracies discovered and the like. The interest of the struggle lies more deeply, The social composition of the fu- ture Russia is now at stake.
 And what are the forces that try to hold it in check? The alliance of the two decaying political powers for their own self-defense cannot obstruct the royal, historical road the nation is following, The childish explanation of the movement and by a foreign or anti-Russian in- trigue cannot do away with it's deeper causes. And the foolish idea that the peasants of our communities can be changed at once into private proprietors can only cause new ferment in our vil- lages honeycombed with poverty and famine as they are. In short, wherever we turn or look we only meet with new trouble to come nowhere a hope of con- ciiation and social peace
 That, 1 am afraid, is not the message you expected from me. l am here to tell you the truth.
 What do I want?"
 Well, then, 1 really want from you something very precious, and of very great moment for my country. l want for her your human sympathy; sympathy with all the enormous pain and suffering of the poor and downtrodden in my coun- try; sympathy with every noble exertion which seeks to put an end to all this pain and suffering. And what can I give you back for it? Nothing, ladies and gen tlemen; nothing at all except this very feeling of the heart which ennobles every one who is capable of being affected by it."