land." This is the man who said at a dinner in
New York:

I come to America expecting to find true and warm
sympathizers among the American people for my suffering
countrymen, who are fighting so hard and bearing so bravely
their martyrdom for freedom. Now is the time for the
revolution. Now is the time for the overthrow of Czardom.
Now! Now! Now! But we need the sinews of war; the blood we
will give ourselves. We need money, money, money. I come to
you as a beggar, that Russia may be free.

By ignoring social conventions Gorky has unwittingly injured his cause. It
may be said of him, however, that he is to-day one of the foremost
literary figures of the world, and is so regarded in Europe. He has
abandoned literary ambition and the easy life of a feted idol to serve an
idea--the idea of full Russian freedom.

With these words of men whose passion is liberty for their country may be
compared the speech of the Czar at the opening of the new Russian Duma.
The occasion and the utterance are already historical.

The Supreme Providence which gave me the care of our
fatherland moved me to call to my assistance in legislative
work elected representatives of the people. In the
expectation of a brilliant future for Russia, I greet in
your persons the best men from the empire, whom I ordered my
beloved subjects to choose from among themselves.

A difficult work lies before you. I trust that love for your
fatherland and your earnest desire to serve it will inspire
and unite you. I shall keep inviolate the institutions which
I have granted, with the firm assurance that you will devote
all your strength to the service of your country, and
especially to the needs of the peasantry, which are so close
to my heart, and to the education of the people and their
economical welfare, remembering that to the dignity and
prosperity of the state not only freedom but order founded
upon justice is necessary.

I desire from my heart to see my people happy, and hand down
to my son an empire secure, well organized, and enlightened.
May God bless the work that lies before me in unity with the
Council of the Empire and the Imperial Duma. May this day be
the day of the moral revival of Russia and the day for the
renewal of its highest forces. Approach with solemnity the
labors for which I call you, and be worthy of the