The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-15
HUMAN SYMPATHY
THIS IS ALL RUSSIAN PROFESSOR
 WANTS FROM AMERICA.
Paul MuIoyOukoy Travelled More Than Five Thousand Miles to Present Cause of Ills
 People At Home.

New York, Jan, 14-Having traVeled more than 1000 miles to present In single address, the cause Of popular government in Russia, Prof. Paul Mllo- youkov, concluded his remarks at Car negic Hall tonight with the declaration that all that he sought on this side or the ocean was human sympathy.
 Judging by the applause which greeted these words. the mission or the distinguished legislator was full filled so far at least as the Civic Forum was concerned. Professor M1loyoukoV is member of the third douma at St. Petersburg and leader of the constitu- tional Democrats and at the solicita- tion of the Civic Forum. came from his home to address 1t tonight on the topic, Civic government for Russia
 Sketching the progress of the Ike publican government as embodied in the successive doumas Professor Mtio- youkov reached the conclusion that a state of political equilibrium had been attained. He questioned however. whether the equilibrium could be con sidered stable and found as the con soling feature that the immediate danger that the national representa- ton was tS be abolished entirely, was now avoided, For to 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 character" he said. fit is not because the movement has been obliterated but because it. now strikes much deeper root in the lower social strata The real and the terrible dramatic sense of the events which may still unroll before your eyes ladies and gentle men, does not confine itself to the rise and fall of certain heroes or per sonages whose fate you may follow with interest. And it is not exhausted by some appalling statistics of people shot or hanged, houses burned. ser wants of the Czar blown up or as- sassinated, conspiracies discovered and the like. The interest of the struggle lies more deeply. The social compost tion of the future 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 selfish defense cannot ob- struct the royal, historical road the nation is following. The childish eX- planation of the movement as initiated and fostered by a foreign or anti-Rus- sian intrigue 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 pTOpfleLOTS can only cause new Ier- ment in our villages. honeycombed with poverty and famine as they are. In short. wherever we turn. or look, we only meet with new trouble to come, nowhere with any hope, of conciliation and social peace.
 That. am afraid, is not the mes sage you expected from me. I am here to tell you the truth.
 What do I want? e
 lxy NxToF F1f from something very precious and of very great moment for my country: I want for her your human sympathy; sym pathy with all the enormous pain and suffering of the poor and downtrod- den in my country; sympathy with ev- cry noble exertion which seeks to put an end to all this pain and suffering. And what can I give you back for itT Nothing, ladies and gentlemen, nothing at all except this very feeling of the heart which ennobles every one who is capable of being affected by it.