The Detroit times., 1911-12-08
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THAT He HOPES WILL HURL
THEClAR FROM HIS THRONE
Demyan L. Orlowsky Will Pub
lsh Revolutionary Newspaper
and Smuggle 1t Into Russia.
ORGANIZE, THEN STRIKE.
Young Man Explains Just How
Big Empire Will Be Con-
verted Into Republic.
ORGANIZE, THEN STRIKE.

NOi SSu lHtO nepuDllC.
Demyan l.. Orlowsky, a quiet. mild
hammered young Russian telegrapher
rooming at No. 258 Fourth-ave., IL
hard at work on the organization OF
what he believes to be the entering
wedge for big revolution In Russia,
and Ia SO optimistic OF success that
he hopes some day. in the near future,
to have the front room in the Fourth
ave. house pointed 70 as the real
cradle OF Russian liberty
No bombs or assassinations figure
In the Orlowsky plan. He shudders
when such thing is mentioned. A
campaign OF education Is his plan. and
the heavy ordnance with which he
plans to lombard the Russian dynas-
", Is a newspaper, printed in both
Russian and English, and called The
Ray" The first issue will appear
Jan. l, 1912. and 1t will be issued
monthly.
1T will contain propaganda along
revolutionary lines, and will aim for
closer and more efficient organization
OF revolutionists here and in Russia"
he explains. ;We shall get the pa
per into Russia, at any cost, though
II will be difficult matter.
The prospect Is good for the over
throw OF the despotic car and the cs-
Enlistment Of a republic.
China Is shaking of the yoke or
centuries by bloody war; Portugal,
by a display Of armed strength, and
a sudden violent action, realized its
dreams Of a republic. II must be by
war and bloodshed that the Russian
despot will be overthrown. though II
seems an awful thing to speak OF. But
no revolution has been successful
without war and bloodshed,
Political action in Russia is i'm
possible. We have had two Dumas,
or congresses of the people, but both
have proven to be farces, and both
have been dissolved. Many of the
leaders are now in Siberia.
But 60 per cent OF the Russian
army Is revolutionary. They are so
oppressed, and there is such a won
derful spy system that they are afraid
to act. knowing the swift and terrible
punishment that would result TO un-
organized individuals. But we shall
pour revolutionary propaganda into
every corner OF Russia. organize all
the revolutionaries. and at the right
moment, which shall be all prear-
ranged. we shall strike, and have a
republic. We shall first get control
OF seaport, and some OF the ships.
which Will be easy, as the crews are
revolutionary. Then will come the
arsenals. quietly turned over to us.
and then war, II there Is resistance.
and there undoubtedly will be great
struggle"
Orlowsky's paper is being supported
by a chain OF revolutionary societies
in every big city of the United States.
They have a society OF 40 active men,
bers In Detroit, who call themselves
the Russian Progressive club, and
meet every Sunday afternoon In the
hall at Madison-ave. and Beaubien-st.
They are now studying the American
constitution. and VOW they will soon
have one like Il In Russia
THE Russian in America Is poor.
saws Orlowsky. land we will not be
able to send our thousands OF dollars
into Russia, as the the Chinese revo-
lutionists in America are doing for
their cause. But we shall circulate
our paper, and other literature, and
create revolutionary sentiment, here
and In Russia. Then what money we
can raise, we will send into Russia TO
help our brothers there
Orlowsky's father is still living in
Russia, a loyal. ignorant follower OF
the car. He was a serf. who was
liberated by Alexander H.. just 90
years ago. The young mans mother
is dead, and IL was her death which
first made him a revolutionist.
1T was the ignorance and the ter
rible conditions prevailing among the
Russian peasants which killed her."
SAYS Orlowsk, with strange light
in his usually mild eyes.
She was a strong, healthy woman,
but when taken iii with some ordinary
sickness which might easily have been
cured, priest, and not doctor. came
10 see her. He offered prayers, for
which he took every cent OF my faith
er's savings, 10 turn into the great
Russian church, which is the car.
And go, without n drop of medicine,
without a physicians care, my mother
died. | felt that II was wrong, and
now know how terribly wrong IL
was. But il is the same all over Rus
STA, among the peasants today"
Orlowsky has had rather sensa-
tional career, in spite Of his youth.
He was a telegrapher near Vladivos-
tok during the Russian-Japanese war,
and was one OF the leaders in the
great strike among government en-
ployes, which amounted to a small
revolution, but which was nipped In
the bud. Oriowsky, sought by Rus
stan officers, escaped to the seaboard,
where he eluded the vigilance OF the
, omnipresent police. by garbing him
self as a marine fireman, and walking
aboard a Russian ship, with a shovel
over his shoulder. Two others OF his
comrades escaped the same way. Once
at sea. they were protected by the
real firemen, all Tevolutionaries, and
hidden until they reached japan. He
STAYED there three months, working
on a Russian revolutionary paper pub
lshed there. and then came TO Amer
lea. He has been working as tele-
graph operator here, and recently quit
his position at Woodville, on the Pere
Marquette, TO take up the work OF
publishing his revolutionary newspn-
per He says his idea Is getting SPLEEN
did support. When the paper Is well