"Revolutions are not
made by plotting or bomb-throwing. They must take the form of
an uprising by the masses."
"As if the Russian terrorists did not have the masses back of them!
The peasantry and the educated classes are with them."
"How do you know they are?" Moissey asked, with a good-natured,
but patronizing, smile
He spoke of the Russian working class as the great element that
was destined to work out the political and economic salvation of
the country, and at this he tactlessly dwelt on the Russian
trade-unions, on what he termed their revolutionary strikes, and
upon the aid Russian capitalists gave the Government in its
crusade upon the struggle for liberty
I felt quite awkward. I wondered whether he was not saying these
things designedly to punish me for the check I had given Anna for
the terrorists.
He had always seemed to hold aloof from me, as if he were
opposed to the visits of the "money-bag" that I was at his father's
house. At this minute I felt as though his eyes said, "The idea of
this fleecer of labor contributing to the struggle for liberty!"
I was burning to tell him that he lacked manners, and to assail
trade-unionism, but I restrained myself, of course
Sometimes the girls and I would discuss the social question or
literature, subjects upon which they assured me that I held
"na?ve" views.
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