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less energy and increasing fanati- born opposition of Ttrotsky, Sr., to a constituent assembly instead of
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cism. The success of the young the match, and it was only thanks the duma; the latter were willing
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rebels, however, aroused the envy to the equal stubborness of Trots- to rest satisfied with electing some
of some Its prosperous rebels in ky, Jr., that all obstacles were fin- of their deputies to the duma.
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the town, a group of anarchists. ally removed and the marriage sol-
On January 3, 1907, 13 months
fa,
Dr. Siv tells what happened:
emnized in the Butyrki prison.
after the arrest of the Soviet, its
The anarchists were very anx-
The boundless energy of Trotsky members, including Trotsky, were
ious to reap where they had not was constantly seeking same wider deported to Sibera. The czar had
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sown. Unwilling to travel the long outlet. Soon after his marriage he won. Trotsky had lost. But he was
and wearisome road of establish- conceived the fantastic but charac- to have the last laugh many years
ing connections of their own with teristic plan of setting up a secret later, as we know. At that time,
In the year 1920 the Jewish pop-
the proletariat, these fellows de- printing press for revolutionary however, Trotsky did not feel like
cided to try a short cut. They spied proclamatioons--actually within the laughing, as Dr. Sin tells us in his ulation of Mt. Clemens had reached
:out our secret meetings and at- malls of the prison itself! The main book, but, on the contrary, was such proportions that it synagogue
tended only for the purpose of point, he believed, was to set it up very much dejected and waiting for seemed both advisable and possible.
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'freaking them up noisily. Their in- safety in some remote (-owner of the a general amnesty which he hoped Actually, of course, there were only
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a few resident Jewish families as
C, W. WALTON, Prop.
trusions became intolerable.
ail where the police would net er the newly elected duma would win
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compare] to the Jewish p iptilatkn
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Phone 246
sky was hurling tore and orunstone dot am lot looking for such equip- for the revolutionists fro in the czar.
of the larger cities, lout these feA ! It
137 Hubbard Ave. Phone 1271
at them. On one occasion besideinent, and the work could go on ! But too amnesty came, and Trotsky
families oorganized, and, in 1920,
himself with fury, he announced uninterrupted. As so often in the resolved to escape. Six weeks later,
erected the Beth Tephila Moshe
Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
his intentiun to report the anarch- course of his later and larger ex- assisted by trit.nds, he cracked a
Synagogue.
ists to the police! periments with world revolution, whip over a Siberian reindeer
The organizers of the synya-
liad Trotsky been permitted by when the parties immediately con- team, traveled with it some -100 gogue were Joseph Stizlitz, L. Co-
his inure careful and cool-headed cern, II, that is, the world violets- miles across the snow, and on hen, the late A. Schanker, and Leo
comrades to carry nut this inten- , riot, failed to respond t•, his !tlrch 2, N07, \ Ve find hint already (Ire •n, now of Cleveland.
tion the tenor of his life would schemes, so in this instance, too, in St. Petersburg: shortly after he
A. the present time there are
have been radically changed. For 'nothing Clinic of the brilliant plan, managed too cross the frontier.
more than t0 members, under the
this would have meant the end of since his fellow-prisoners, primar-
The World war found Trotsky in leadt,Thip of Rabbi Gabriel Zaku-
Franz's "salon"; its meetings Hly interested in olttaining their Austria. Ills subsequent wander- ta. The officers of the congrega-
would have been transferred to the 11,111 freedom rather than that of ings from country to country, in- tion are: President, Meyer Davis;
convict camps of Siberia for a long t her proletariat, showeda woeful voluntarily, because of his pacifist vice-president, I'. Levine; secre- It
period of years, and those anarch- lack of enthusiasm. On May 3, propaganda, are too well known to tory, it Swartz, and treasurer, A. 9kN%Vtslkli%IS%WVWCSIMWWSIS!4SSIS, Vt!(:%%AAIa9.
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ists might have received a medal !Poo, Trotsky and his friends were need recapitulation here. They fin- Zanft.
from the czar's police for denounc- put aboard the convict train and ally brought him to New York,
The synagogue continues to play
ing to them Trotsky's secret 'tact- sent rolling along the long road to where he arrived in 1918, and an increasingly important part in
s•Ilith exile. The guards treated where he became editor of Novy
ings.
the Jewish life of the and Mt.
This purely bourgeois impulse of us well," says Dr. Si', "and the Mir, a Russian Socialist newspaper. Clemens Jewry is well able to speak
PHONE 1844
non,
ney Was made quite pleas- The news of the Russian revolution
, appealing to the police was. hoot-
with pride of the work and activi-
: ever, the at tactical error of which !antly." in March, 1917, was hailed in the ties of the members of the congre-
the future dictator of the proleta-
While a prisoner of the czar in Russian colony in New York with gation.
riat seems to have been guilty. a remote Siberian village he found delight, and innumerable meetings
Shortly afterward he was arrested,
MT. CLEMENS, MICH.
olostueles in his way when he and relebruti"1.5 wereheld,
DENVER BUILDING
HE GAVE TWENTY YEARS!
together with most of his comrades docided to contribute articles to a which Trotsky became the chief at-
of the "salon and he learned the , ery progressive, almost radical, traction among the orators. Ile
When the doctors had given up
inevitable lesson—that it would newspaper published at Irkutsk, made it plain that he was desper- all hope for the recovery of the
never do for a Russian revolution- the Eastern Review.
govern- ately needed in Russia, to make venerable and beloved rabbi of the
ist to appeal to the police to •jeet , merit at that thmt. was czarist and history there, and not in New York. town, the Jews of the community
obstreperous anarchists from a therefore not sufficiently "ad- And so, the very first group of Rus- resolved to resort to an old rem-
well-regulated meeting at which the Veneer to hatiorathZe and mom}, shill emigrants to return from the edy, according to which each Jew
overthrow of the government was ohm. every printing press in tho. hilted States included Leon Trot- gives a part of his life for the dy-
being discussed. Ile learned to hate country. And S11 Trotsky, under the . sky. After being taken off the ing man in order to secure the pro-
and fear the guardians of the law, pen name of "Antid-Ott" (which steamer at Halifax by the Cana- longation of his life. Thus one
PHONE 217
Roseville, Mich. 'i;
and the light was on in earnest.
he adopted by the rather curious dian ituthorittes, as a pItt. thst agi- Jew gave the rabbi an hour of his
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Trotsky was arrested in January, process of choosing a Ward at ran- tator, he was permitted to go on to life. another gave hue a day and
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1898, and lodged in the prison at dom in an Italian olietioonary), be- Russia, thanks to the intercession. some gave his as much as a week. nuoutu:scusooauas
Odessa, where he as well as his came a steady and interesting con- of Nliliukov, foreign minister of the
A young man suddenly rushed
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provisional government. Miliukov
comrades were held incommunicado tributor to that publication.
into the synagogue and announced
pending trial. At last, almost two
Trotsky's Siberian experiences is Row in Paris, and to go back to at the top of his voice that he of-
years later, the verdict was ren- and their effect on his career are Soviet spells far greater danger to fered therabbi 20 years. This was
dered, and Trotsky was sentenced described by his hiograjoher as tot- him than that which threatened
SO surprising to those present that
Trotsky at Ilalifax.
to Siberia for four year and Dr. lows:
they thought surely the young
Siv, his fellow-prisoner, received a
In September, 1917, Trotsky was man had gone out of his mind.
Il
is
literary
fine
was
growing
Phone
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Foot of Park Avenue
three-year term. When the party rapidly and soon reached the ears elected president of the Petrograd
"Bethink yourself, young man,"
reached Moscow the exiles were of Russian revolutitonary groups in Soviet. Thus he held the )tame poo- some counselled hlm, "it is noble
confined in the famous Butyrk 1 foreign countries. At that time the sitian which he had occupied in the of yuh, bht it is foolish to give
, prison to await the formation of a Railing publication of the Russian first Soviet in the same city 12
away shch a large part of yohr
''arge convict transport for Siberian Social-Democrats was the Iskra years earlier; but while the rzar's
life."
exile, and it was while in thi • (Spark), appearing in Geneva, government found
difficulties in
"Don't worry about that," the
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Switzerland, and smuggled into applying methods to get the best of young man replied with a smile.
I marry! Let as give im credit fu
Russia for distribution through un- his party, the Kerensky government "Do you think I am giving 20
! pluck and courage. llis choice fel clerground channels. The Iskra which Trotsky found in power this
years of my own life? Oh, no! I
C on A. Sokolovskaia, a woman who • could not afford to neglect such a time had to reckon with the "revo- am giving 20 years of my wife's
77 N. Gratiot Ave., Mt. Clemens—Phone 114
had often attended the meetings it ' rising star as Trotsky, and he re- lutionary Democracy" behind Trot-
life. She has made my life miser-
-1Franz's "salon" and N•ho admired ...ic ed an invitation to take an ac- sky and his partisans. The result able and she is a worthless hussy
Gratiot Ave., Roseville—Telephone 244
-eon's oratory. The path of thi • it , part in that paper. Trotsky was that Trotsky won and Karen-
anyway, so the community will
d • love was made thorny by the stub - lidII t let them unit long for his sky lost. A month later Trotsky lose nothing if she lives 20 years
arrival. He deserted his wife and was able to make good his threat of less."
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two children (the second of whom 12 years before and engrave the
had just been horn) and made his m anifesto of the Bolsheviki on the
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escape from Sitter., having spent walls of the winter palace with the
LEO N. BRAUN
point of the bayonet. Only, instead
about one year there.
The congress of the Russian Si- of the czar, he and his brother revo-
eial-Deniocratic Labor party, which lutionists found in the winter pal-
had to be held outside of Russia, ace the liberal but weak govern-
in London, in 1903, was attended ment of Kerensky.
also by Lenin and Trotsky, mem-
Such, in broad outline, is the
bers of that party. The congress amazing career of Loon Bronstein,
Mt. Clemens, Mich.
48 Cau Avenue
split over the question of tactics, or Braunstein, alias Trotsky. From
and Lenin, who favored revolution the peaceful fields of his father's
met in ti.;
ami
us against evolution, found him- little farm in South Russia to the
ustit
Under Ulrich Savings Bank.
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self leader of the majoority of the palace of the czars in the Moscow
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delegates, who thus became the kremlin, commander and organizer
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"majority-men." or, in Russian, of the red army of Soviet Russia,
"Bolsheviki." Trotsky, on the other and then in disfavor with his own
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hand, favored the evolutionary comrades, his career shows a truly
wing, and thus became a "minority- amazing series of ups and downs,
Phone 147
man," or "Menshevik." And since even for a Russian revolutionist!
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control of the !Ara was retained
But what kind of a human being,
by this faction, he contributed to after all, is this stormy petrel? The
udessuusassusersedwasinssouwasossoulsiimmosuusursossuasel.c
Its columns numerous polemical world knows Trotsky, the Soviet
ff
• articles denouncing the Lenin wing war commissar, but it seems stilt to
and advocating evolutionary meth- know but little of the man himself.
ads rather than revolution. QuitelDoctor II. A. Siv, the fellow-revo-
a change since his early years injlutionist and fellow-exile of Trot-
Russia! But not the last yet. There' sky in Siberia, who is now peace-
were to be few more somersaults, fully practicing medicine in New
in his political convictions before York, presents a view of his erst-
Phone 243
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he heeame eventually Lenin's right- while comrade by no means flatter-
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ing. He asserts as Trotsky's pre-
Fixtures
years more passed, and dominant features a combination of
Tat
there was revolution in Russia. In inordinate ambition and inhuman-
Physician and Surgeon
October, 1905, we find Trotsky ity.
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back in Russia and taking the lend-
In Trotsky's physical make-up
ing part in the. newly formed Soviet we find no trace of those elements
Telephone 335.
of Workingmen's Delegates at St. which might answer to the concep-
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name of Yanovski. Witte himself its place there is only a void, a
had to negotiate with Trotsky for vacuum. Sympathy for men and
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the terms of a truce between the women as the agents of individual
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revolutionists and the czarist goo- emotions and desires of their own,
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eminent. He then decided that this and not as tools of Trotsky's ambi-
Russian revolt would be only the Dons and gratifications, is totally
beginniffg of a world-widerevolu- lacking in this man. To hint, hu-
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when the czar issued his famous units, or hundreds, thousands, or
October manifesto, in 1905, Trotsky millions of units, with whose aid he
refused to be placated by this con- may best serve his own ambition
cession offered by the czarist gov- for power. As to how this is to be
ernment to the revolutionists, and realized, that is not important and
declared in one of his speeches: is not to be dictated by sympathy
"The working class will engrave nor antipathy, but exclusively by
34 Years Experience.
with the point of its bayonet a the exigencies of the moment. Trot-
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manifesto of its own upon the sky was morally blind, deaf and
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lobsody, crimson walls of the winter dumb.
palace!"
This is the verdict of one who
In December, 1905, when the rev- knew him most intimately, shared
olutionary hom.ymoon was over, with him prison and Siberian exile,
1 , the. Soviet of St. l'etersburg, includ- and was reared in the same revo-
ing Leon Trotsky, was arrested by lutionary gospel of Earl Marx.—
of Mt. Clemens
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..iki and Mensheviki came ts grips
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once more; the former advocated a all my life than he wicked for one
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