The Detroit times., 1910-01-07

Breshkowskaya. the "well-beloved
grandmother OF the revolutionists.
WIN together face a tribunal which. IL
IL feared. has already judged their
case
The eyes OF all the world will watch
the progress OF this case. and breath
lessiy await the manner of justice that
Russia viii mefe out TO these kindly
Aold champions OF the common people.
The charge Is that they belong TO
revolutionary organizations.
A petition Is on file In Premier
tStolypin's once signed by hundreds OF
prominent Americans. asking that the
two be given a public trial in ac-
cordance with the time-honored prin-
ciples of justice in all nations
Nine Breshkowskaya and Tschai-
k0wsky are both well known in the
United States and England The lat
ter resided I'm each country foI long
periods. He left Russia more than 40
years ago. to escape the prosecutions
Of the government Until 1907 ne re-
mained away. Then the influence Of
an Irresistible longing TO visit his ma
tive home, To touch for perhaps the
last time the hand OF the enslaved
peasantry. for whom he had struggled
so long, drove him To tread once more
on Russian soil After staying but
long enough to rekindle the flames Of
his youths friendships. he prepared
to depart. and was at the railway sta
tion on his way to England when the
clutches OF the czar fastened upon him
once again.
Without explanation as to the cause
FOR bis arrest the aged patriot was
thrown into the fortress OF Sain, Pc
ter and Paul. and there he lay for
over III months. denied legal help, or
communication with his friends Al
last the storm OF protests from Amer
lea and Great Britain overwhelmed the
Russian government and Tschaikow-
sky was released on $4,000 bail de-
posted 10y American and English
friends
A few months later he was again
arrested and confined In the bastile
OF st. Petersburg, where also lay his
fellow patriot Nine. Breshkowskaya
She, the daughter OF a Russian no
blenlan. left home and husband and
friends that she might give her whole
life To her country's poverty-stricken
people. She taught them TO read and
write. she nursed them when they
were i'll. blessed them when they we're
In sorrow. and fed them when they
were starved. Beyond all this she
taught them that they were men and
women, and that they should be free
men and women For this she was
sent TO Siberia.
Fifteen years of bitter cold. and al
- -, IL. 4. -
could otsilence her voice nor bini
her hands when she returned She
Pleaded her countrymens cause In
America aud In England she went
again into the darkest of Russia 10
lead once more the revolutionist party.
Again she was arrested and this time
placed In dungeon of grim old Saint
Peter and Paul where for two wears
che has waited and hoped for a trial
II will DC a public trial. for outside
pressure is too great for the Rus
sian government to resist. The czar
and his advisers may be unscrupu
lous. but they are beginning To- under
stand the meaning of world sentiment
land they fear IL.
There will also be much display a,
10 "fairness~ with which the prisoner,
are being tried But all Russia be
lieves that the sentences OF both have
ybeen settled upon even now, h, IN,
czar and his advisers, as is the case n
= all important trials
ANY other verdict than acauitta
will mean death TO the two grav-hair
sd prisoners--the dungeon I'm Russl,
or the dungeon I'm Siberia will a,
surely eud their frail. weakened livei
a. would the scnffold.