Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . ren whose parentshave been massacred at Kishinev are received andsupported by their relatives in our Chicago neigh-borhood ; or a Russian woman, her face streamingwith tears of indignation and pity, asks you tolook at the scarred back of her sister, a ^ younggirl, who has escaped with her life from the whipsof the Cossack soldiers; or a studious youngwoman suddenly disappears from the Hull-Houseclasses because she has returned to Kiev to benear her brother while he is in prison, that shemay earn money for the nourishing food whichalone
Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . ren whose parentshave been massacred at Kishinev are received andsupported by their relatives in our Chicago neigh-borhood ; or a Russian woman, her face streamingwith tears of indignation and pity, asks you tolook at the scarred back of her sister, a ^ younggirl, who has escaped with her life from the whipsof the Cossack soldiers; or a studious youngwoman suddenly disappears from the Hull-Houseclasses because she has returned to Kiev to benear her brother while he is in prison, that shemay earn money for the nourishing food whichalone will keep him from contracting tuberculosis;or we attend a protest meeting against the newestoutrages of the Russian government in which thespeeches are interrupted by the groans of thosewhose sons have been sacrified and by the hissesof others who cannot repress their such moments an American is acutelv con-scious of our ignorance of this greatest tragedy ofmodern times, and at our indifference to the 400 ECHOES OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 401. 2D 402 TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE waste of perhaps the noblest human materialamong our contemporaries. Certain it is, as thedistinguished Russian revolutionists have come toChicago, they have impressed me, as no one elseever has done, as belonging to that noble com-pany of martyrs who have ever and again pouredforth blood that human progress might be ad-vanced. Sometimes these men and women haveaddressed audiences gathered quite outside theRussian colony and have filled to overflowingChicagos largest halls with American citizensdeeply touched by this message of significant meeting was addressed by a mem-ber of the Russian Duma and by one. of Russiasoldest and sanest revolutionists; another byMadame Breshkovsky, who later languished aprisoner in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. In this wonderful procession of Kropotkin, or, as he prefers to be called,Peter Kropotkin, was doubtless the m
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