The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-09
A RADICAL RUSSIAN.
Who !. T'e Visit The United states
 With . Message.

Who ln To Visit The United States | With . Message.
 New York Special.
 Professor Paul Milyoukov. leader of the combined radical forces in the Rus sian Duma. is on the high seas bound | for America. A more momentous, or a more dramatically exciting trip has
 rarely been taken. Milyoukov will be
 on American soil for just five days.
 The most eminent historian of Russia, prtsonment and repatriation behind him, he Is boarding the terrors of the
 Black Hundred and of the Russian beaurocracy. and is bringing Demo cratic Russia's message to the New World and the new year. He will ad- dress the Civic Forum In New York on January 14th, will pay a flying visit to Washington. where he will be ban quoted by Congressman and cabinet
 members, but for diplomatic reasons
 will not be received at the White house, and thence back to Russia.
 Three years ago. immediately before the opening of the First Duma, Mill youkov visited America: Then, he was private citizen. Today, he is the selected representative of democratic government in Russia and the leader of as strange and motley an army of politicians as ever threw itself against the blank wall of an autocratic govern ment And like his intimate friend, Professor Hertzenstein, MIIyoukov bids fair to pay for his victory with his life.
 Last summer. shortly after Miiyou- kov's election to the Duma as leader of the combined radicals. KelIog Dur land, the American correspondent, who has since written "The Red Reign in Russia," paid him a visit at St. Peters,
 burg On rising to leave, Durland absent-mindedly picked up Milyou- kov's hat instead of his own. Glanc- ing inside the hat band he noticed two crosses. heavily drawn in black ink.
 Yes" said Milyoukov with a grim smile. T dined at a restaurant the other day. and on going out found those marks in my hat, which had been on rack nearby. It is the sign of the Black Hundred. Two crosses--that Is warning. Some day I may find a third cross beside the other two, and that
 He shrugged his shoulders. Only few months previously Milyoukovs fn- timate friend. Professor Herzenstein a member of the Duma. had been shot through the head by a member of the Black Hundred, and the assassin, was promoted to sinecure under Che government. Professor Hertzenstein was an authority on the AKrarfan 4ANSNACht anu dtOHS Wlln NltyOukON was the most powerful radical in the Duma.
 Official terrorism in watching Mil youkov. embodied in the Black Hun dred, which is patronized by the court and said to be salaried by the Czar,
 and Russian beaurocracy Is watching
 him. The New York audience on the night of January 14th will not listen
 more attentively than Czar Nicholas will listen through the ears of Russian spies And Milyoukov will speak guarderly but not the less significant ly, remembering the invisible sword
 Of Damocles over his head.
 Milyoukov would seem a queer sort of politician. in America. Ten years ago he was professor of Russian hIs- tory at Moscow, that crucible where
 revolution boils while generations of
 students come and go. many of them
 to swift death or lifelong exile. One
 day he was snatched from his class.
 room and after a summary Russian
 trial was exiled to Siberia as guilty of liberal tendencies. Nothing daunt- ca by this, Milyoukov buckled to the harder and during his two years of confinement wrote monumental book,
 The History of Russian Culture" whose practical object Is to justify revolution upon historic grounds.
 Returning to Russia, he was im- mediately seized again and led across the frontier Into Bulgaria. A warrant or repatriation was filed at St. Peters, burg, but after two restless years Milyoukov boldly returned to Russia. He was thrown into prison without trial. and kept there for five months. shortly afterward he came to America. and lectured on Russian questions be- Tore the Lowell Institute at Boston. and before Chicago University. Like RInGcfanu feet English.
 Then in 1905 the revolution reached US crisis in Russia. The first Duma was summoned by the Czar, general amnesty was declared. and Milyoukoy returned. He offered himself as can didate for the Duma from St. Peters, burg, on the Constitutional Democratic platform. and the government discover ca technical grounds for declaring him | ineligible. The following year he entered his candidacy again, and was i again declared ineligible by the government, which feared and bitterly mated him. Last year he ran again. | was elected, overrode the technical | obstructions of the beaurocracy, and | entered the Duma as leader of the com | bined radical forces of Russia. These | forces are the Constitutional Demo- | crats. the Social Democrats or theo- reticaI socialists, and the Social Revo- Il iutionaries. which is the party calIinr Tor swift and thoroughly revolutionary action even for terrorism. Milyoukov IS himself Constitutional Democrat. and a professed opportunist. and de- clares that while Russia Is bound to nave the whole loaf of freedom sooner pr later, he will take even a crumb oI freedom if 1t can be snatched from -he autocraey."
 Simultaneously with Mllyoukov's de- oarture from Russia came thse news ot the latest and heaviest blow struck 1y the Beaurocracy against the present M Mloerai Duma. The entire executive committee of the Social Revolutionary party has been indicted for treason. already 167 of Milyoukov's compatriots 't the First Duma have been deprived 'I CIVIL rights and are on trial for reason. These are the signers of the anous Niborg resolution! which re 'udtated all debts made by Russfa vrhout the consent of the Durna lHyoukov, having been barred from ne First Duma by the government.