Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-16

together With other Americans, sent her books, magazines, clothng and food tnally, after spending 26 years in prison and exile, 'Babushka' was freed 1hS was after the attempt revolution of l9O5 when she was permitted to re- turn to European Russia Subse- quently she came to America where she made the acquantanc eof Miss Alice Stone Blackwell of Boston. and others who learned to love her and aid her work.
 Returning to Russia with Nieho- las Tchaykovsky, another revolution ary socialist, both were thrown into cells in the Fortress of St Peter and St. Paul where, for two years, she was immuned as in tomb. Then she was sent to kirinsk, in Eactern Siberia. The charge against her was attempt ing to overthrow the existing govern ment.
 ''She was never terrorist, never sympathised with bomb throwing Nj hihsts. She is an intellectual social ist, made so by her abhorrence of serf- dom and her sympathy for the Russian moujiks or peasants. She desired to amehorate their hard life. That is why she is so uncompromisingly op- posed to the Bolsheviki who she has designated as murderers' of Russian freedom.
 Final Uprising In 1878
 "The real revolutionary movement in Russia began in 1878 and 1879 when 2,000 or more persons like Mme. Breshkovsky, opposed to the autocra- cy of the cZar, were thrown into pris- on. All of them were freed except 193 and the social upheavel started.
 sfrhe story of 'Babushka's repeated efforts co eXcape from capeivity would make most interesting reading. The last dash she made from freedom was five years ago. Imagine a woman 70 years old, still unbroken and heart af- ter so much anguish and torture, still mentally energetic eiough to devise plan to obtain her liberty. I love my people, she has said and this thought doubtless has helped to sustain her.
 When Kerensky came into power and Mime. Breshkousky and other ex- lies were freed in 1917 she came to Petrograd and was received as a great national figure. After the downfall of Kerensky, for whom 'Babushka' had the highest regard being of the same political faith, she started magazine called "The Peoples Wilp and edited it until she was forced to go into hid ing by the criminal clements of the Bolsheviki against whom she hadbeen warning the people and for whom she held feeling of detestation on ac- count of their lawlessness and terrible crimes.
 Mime. Breshkovsky was hidden for months in Petrograd and Moscow, her friends in daily fear for her safety, notwithstanding that her whole life had been devoted to the betterment of the oppressed and impoverished peo- pie of Russia. Now she is in the Unit ed States to raise funds to feed, clothe and educate 4,0O0,000 fatherless and motherless children but fihst, she says, the Bolsheviki must be overthrown' "In Russia today there are 10000 cooperative sicieties with a member ship of 15,000,000 persons, mostly heads of families, and these are all opposed to the Bolsheviki. Mime. Breshkovsky speaks for the people,
 "Only few human beings have in- fluenced my character as has Gather inc Breshkovsky. She never will be broken down until she is dead and put under the sod. 1 don't care how long she lives, she will always be the same unconquerable spirit, ever hopeful of the triumph of truth and justice at last"
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