New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-21
Victims of Former Dynasty
Rejoice in Garden at
Its Overthrow
"America" Is Sung
Woman Becomes Hysterical
at Speakers Reference
to "Pogrom"

lash, who know Siberia, to whom "pog-
rom" is more than word. came TO
Madison Square Garden last night to
give thanks for the day that doomed
Czarsm in Russia.
At o'clock 10000 persons were oc'
cupying every part of the old building
except the great steel girders in the
roof. Outside 200 policemen were dis"
persing 5000 more who wanted 70
join the celebration. They compro-
missed by taking possession of the
square, where for two hours they
cheered and cried out at the same SEN
timents that moved their friends in
doors.
RUSSIA is free!" That was tho
phrase that echoed and reechoed
through the dozen speeches in Yiddish'
in Russian. in English. And no one
who saw the faces of the great audi
ence, now quiet and attentive, now dis
torted by cheers and tears, could doubt
that the revolution was a wonderful
thing to them.
Dark Powers Destroyed
RUSSIA is free!" shouted Morris
Hillquit from the red-draped speakers
stand, overlooking thousands Of up
turned faces. "All the dark powers OF
tyranny and reaction, of persecution
and oppression, under whose banefuI
rule the Russian people have been SUI
fering for generations have been con-
quered and destroyed.
1.-THE maleyolent dynasty of the
Romanoffs, which for four hundred
years has fastened itself to the Rus
sian body polite like vampire, has
been definitely overthrow. The weak,
cruel features of the Russian autocrat
which until now frowned upon the peo-
pie Of Russia from the walls of the
gorgeous imperial palace and great
public buildings. have been replaced
BY the triumphant red flags Of the
revolution.
Russia is free What a flush Of
happiness it must bring to the veterans
of the Russian revolution-Ca Catherine
Breshkovskaya, Peter Kropotkin, Her
man Lopatin, Vera Figner and their
few surviving comrades, who have
grown old and feeble and broken in tho
jails of Russia, in the cold deserts OF
Russia and in exilel"
Attacks Former Premier
Abraham Cahan, editor Of Forward"
referred to former Premier Stolypin,
the maker of pogroms. A woman
screamed at the reference and was lea
from the meeting, weeping hysterically'
Thousands of feet stamped at the men
ton of Russian heroes-dead and hv,
ing-and thousands of voices joined
loudly in the "Marseillaise." and then
still more loudly in "The Star-Spangied
Banner" and America" -,
The red flag waved triumphantly' IL
peered out of the buttonholes IN mems
coats. blossomed into huge squares
across the white skirts of the women,
hung in great folds from the speakers
stand and got frequent p ace in the
speeches Of Jacob Papken, Joseph Can
non and others who saw an opportu-
nifty to do their bit for socialism.
In the audience were members OF the
Bund. Jewish Socialist Federation, kus-
: sian Social Democrats. United Hebrew
/ Trades. Workmen's Circle and large
representation Of Socialists. snort al
dresses were made by Dr. Max Gold
/ farb. b. Vladek, DR.. D. S. lngerman'
| Mrs .Ingerman and Ludwig Laure, as
sociate editor of the "Volkszeitung.'"
Lore denounced the Kaiser and that
part of the German people when sun
! looked upon him as divine beng,
81 and my fellow German Socialists
hope the time is not far distant when
the working masses of Germany WIZ
free themselves as their neighbors have
! done" he declared. Wild cheering and
stamping greeted his remark.
This message was approved for trans
mission TO Petrc grad:
Twenty thousand working men and
women in mass meeting assembled send
their greeting and every success to our
comrades and brothers in Russia IN the
overthrow Of autocracy. May this be
the commencement OF n new era, IN
accordance with human rights"
/