CHAPTER IV

THE FREEDOM OF THE WORD

Effect of the post strike--Volunteer sorters--Epidemic of strikes--Joy in public speaking--The power of speech--Sudden outburst of newspapers--_The Russian Gazette_--_The New Life_--_The Son of the Country_--_The Beginning_--_Our Life_--_Russia_--The Jewish Papers--The Reactionary Press--_Novoe Vremya_--_The Citizen_--_The Word_--The satiric papers and Cartoons--Character of Russian satire--The Social Revolutionists had no paper--Nor had the Radicals--The dangers of division--The split in a Polish restaurant--The joy of life--The assassination of Sakharoff--The protest of the Strike Committee against Government finance--Arrest of Khroustoloff and the Executive 60