Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . ituted by which official 4i6 TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE aggression may be restrained. The Averbuch Inci-dent gave an opportunity to demonstrate this tothat very body of people who need it most; tothose who have lived in Russia where autocraticofficers represent autocratic power and where gov- ,,„.., ernment is officialism. if/ ,,..in .{ J-t seemed to the resi-?£0n . ? dents in the Settle-ments nearest theRussian-Jewish col-ony that it was anobvious piece of pub-lic spirit to try outall the legal valueinvolved, to insistthat American in-
Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . ituted by which official 4i6 TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE aggression may be restrained. The Averbuch Inci-dent gave an opportunity to demonstrate this tothat very body of people who need it most; tothose who have lived in Russia where autocraticofficers represent autocratic power and where gov- ,,„.., ernment is officialism. if/ ,,..in .{ J-t seemed to the resi-?£0n . ? dents in the Settle-ments nearest theRussian-Jewish col-ony that it was anobvious piece of pub-lic spirit to try outall the legal valueinvolved, to insistthat American in-stitutions were stoutenough not to breakdown in times ofstress and publicpanic. The belief of manyRussians that theAverbuch incident would be made a prelude to theconstant use of the extradition treaty for the sakeof terrorizing revolutionists both at home andabroad, received a certain corroboration when anattempt was made in 1908 to extradite a Russianrevolutionist named Rudovitz who was living inChicago. The first hearing before a United States. ECHOES OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 417 Commissioner gave a verdict favorable to theRussian Government although this was afterwardsreversed by the Department of State in Wash-ington. Partly to educate American sentiment,partly to express sympathy with the Russianrefugees in their dire need, a series of publicmeetings was arranged in which the operationsof the extradition treaty were discussed by manyof us who had spoken at a meeting held in pro-test against its ratification fifteen years is impossible for any one unacquainted withthe Russian colony to realize the consternationproduced by this attempted extradition. I actedas treasurer of the fund collected to defray theexpenses of halls and printing in the campaignagainst the policy of extradition and had manyopportunities to talk with members of the colony,One old man, tearing his hair and beard as he spoke,declared that all his sons and grandsons might thusbe sent back to Russ
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