The sun., 1919-01-30
NINE. BRESHKOVSKY
PLEADS FOR RUSSIA.
"Scnd Books and Teachers"
Says Grandmother Of the
Revolution.
PUTS BLAME ON GERMANY
Bolsheviki Corrupted by Teu-
ton Gold and Now POllut-
ing All They Touch.

A train from Chicago brought to New
York Yesterday one of the worlds most
interesting hgures-Catherine Bresh-
koysky, the grandmother OF the Russian
revolution. Thirty-two years In prisons
or Siberian exile have bent her frame
but left her spirit undlnmed. She has
come TO America, as she will go on and
on to the end, TO plead for help Tor her
"children." the people Of Russia she
asks not for military force but for BOOKS,
teachers, material aid for 100000 or
phana She fears that America does
not know tho truth. which is, she says.
that the Bolsheviki have destroyed or
der, industry and education-''have de-
stroyed Russia"
Mime. BreshkovslSy will be IS years
old next Christmas Day. She Is three-
lourths Russian. one-fourth Polish. her
family were landowners In her youth
she forsook everything else TO improve
the lot of the peasants. Away PACK III
1874 her Imprisonment began with four
Years solitary confinement. She was re-
leased in 1896, and in 1904 she visited
America Her part in the revolution
Of 1905 sent her back to Siberia
Freed by Cars Overthrow.
Freed when the Car was ovefthrown
In 1917 her return to Petrograd was the
coca sion Of a scene Of triumphant re-
union with what were left OF her OLD
comrades of the Socialist Revolutionary
party and the Kerenskys OF the new
generation. She went to live at the
Winter Palace as a counsellor the new
Government. Then the counter revolu-
nv
of the Bolsheviki She hid for two
months in Petrograd and eight in Mos
COW. Dispatches reported her shot. but
she was unframed. At the first oppor-
tunity she started for America, and now.
after three months on the way, she Is
here.
Russian and American friends we're
at the Grand Central Station. Ihey
were the nucleus of crowd that swelled
until the Twentieth Century Limited ar
rived. They cheered as she came
through the gate. They saw short.
stout, white haired, blue eyed old woman
with a white knitted cap over her head
and over that a shawl which wae pinned
together at her throat She Is Rabushka,
the beloved little grandmother to the
Russian millions.
Goes 70 Henry Street.
She looks grandmotherly. except that
when she taiks-neSer OF her own BUY
ferings, but of the dream of free
democracy ruined for the time being by
the Bolsheviki--her face Is sterner than
the faces Of most grandmothers ever be-
come. At the Henry Street Settlement,
where she received reporters. she re-
moved her shawl and cap. Then one
observed that her hair is drawn back
tightly from 4 broad forehead and caugh,
at the back with a big brown comb.
She has a good English vocabulary
but her accent. which seems to be French
as we'll as Russian. makes 1t rather
difficult to understand her. She sat al
table with a sheet Of paper at which
she looked constantly az II reading, al
though there was nothing on the pape,
but a few lines Of notes Some one
asked her II she was not tired after al
her trials and revolutionary disappoint
ments.
Tired" she said IT have been fight.
ing for fifty years. Why should l b.
tired now?'
Condemns the BoIsheviIi.
As she talked her steel trimmed spec.
tacles. which she had put on for read
ing-ordinariiy her eyes do not neet
this aid-sllpped half way down hel
nose. contributing to the impression O
domestic placidty which her appearance
but not her history. gives She spok,
first OF the Bolsheviki and of conditions
produced by their rule, which she sale
America did not comprehend. Sh,
wanted It understood that the Bo.she
Wiki and the Socialists were far apar
and that the !Soviets are not free, bu
are the creatures OF the Bolshevists
During the first revolutions the Soyie
was needed. for there was no other pos
sible organization of the people. Blu
II was an organ for the moment only
The thing now should be a democrats
constitutional government.
The Soviets were not elected by tn
people. she said. For the most par
their members were sent from Petrogra,
and Moscow and were Bolsheviki VIII,
acted as dictators whom no one cossJ,
oppose. Working men and peasants ha,
no use for the Sov!ets their only SUD
porters were the armed group consist
Ing Of Bolshevists, made up of me,
without work who became Bolshevist
because only the Bolshev!sts can &c
food.
Million Flee PetroErad.
Since the revolution of 1917, Nine
Breshkovsky said. half of Petrograd'
-'NNN'N'V popuidLlplI Heu TO IN
villages. Millions OF forged and value
less banknotes had been issued. Ry
bread had advanced from TO 100 ruble
pound, and only the Bolsheviki coul
buy 1t.
THE rule OF Lenine and Trotsky ha
been very bad" she said. IF you onl
could see the disaster their policy ha
brought They have destroyed Russia
There are no factories. no schools, n
colleges. We even have no alphabet
tmeaning primers). All culture ha
been swept away. If an editor venture
10 spell Russian word correctly he
fined and imprisoned, on suspicion @
being an intellectual"
Nine. Breshkovsky was asked VIII
supported the Bolshevist rule. She an
swered: AT the beginning II was Ger
man agents. They got the backing q
hundreds Of thousands " not millions q
ignorant Russians because the Bolshe
Wiki said they would divide all the LAM
But the land was not divided, and whe
the Bolsheviki got into power the
turned loose from the prisons all Grim
nails and all the police who had serve
the Car, experts In murder and exto,
ton, provocateurs OF riots.
schools Empty for a Year.
'They are doing most of the murde,
Ing you hear about Teachers are sui
iected to an inquisition. If they do M
swear to the Bolsheviki beliefs they al
thrown out and put In jail or killed. S
Tor more than year our schools ha,
been empty-no teachers. no pupils. an
every day the condition is becomin
worse.
Il wish many Americans could 20
Russia and see for l..