The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-05
RADICALS READY TO STRIKE
Russia Is on the Verge Of a General
. Uprising,

st. Petersburg, April 5.-The pros.
poets of general upheaval of the CITY
and country, with the advent of spring,
increase daily.
Evidence accumulates that the radi-
cal forces are acting in unison and
awaiting a signal, which it is generally
believed will be given shortly after the
Russian Easter
The terrorists are showing great ac-
tlvlty, and reports from all over the
country prove that the workmen, who in
many cases have been formulating pet
ty demands which are no sooner grant
ca than they are succeeded by others,
are acting under instructions from the
revolutionary leaders, who are only bid
ing their time.
The employers frankly admit that it
IS impossible to try to continue their
businesses and some of them have al
ready shut down.
The people are plainly becoming pan
flcky,s and the authorities alse cannot
lconceal their alarm.
Cholera Is Feared.
The guard regiments which usually 90
to camp in April will be retained in St.
Petersburg, it is announced, until June,
ostenslbly in order to allow the camps
to be cleared in view Of the danger or
| cholera, which is regarded as being SO
serious, that the sanitary authorities
have ordered the immediate cleaning of
the streets, sewers, cesspools and canals
of the capital, and have issued specific
| instructions to householders, especially
IN the poorer districts, where the people
1 live in cellars. .s..'. IL
| Reform to Be Smothered.
The dilatory tactics of the govern.
ment In celebrating the scheme for
popular representation provided for in
the. imperial rescript Of March tends
to intensity the acuteness Of the COM
ing crisis, as the liberals are firmly con-
WINGED that the real purpose Of the
bureaucracy, if the crisis is safely
| passed, is to smother the whole reform
movement.
The state Of public opinion is ap-
parent from the fact that more than
three hundred municipal councils and
public institutions have already petit
toned for participation in working out
the project.
An intimation' that it is proposed to
send commission abroad to study the
machinery Of foreign parliaments which
would require months has raised an
1 other outcry.
:r.1 Government Is Warned.
The Novoe Vreyma solemnly warns
the government that the situation is
too dangerous for such maneuvers, de-
claring that, unless the government
forms an assembly and the date Of the
elections is Immediately announced, it
will be impossible to restore even a
!, measure of public confidence and the
government will lose all chance Of se-
curing the support and sympathy of the
, liberals who do not believe in violence
, when the disorders predicted for the i'm.
mediate future break out.
s= Gross Corruption Exposed.
J, In the meantime what is now called
! the constitutional press adds fuel to
the flames by entering on campaign
> ity in various branches Of the admin
: istration.
/ Old scandals relative to the transpor-
l tation of merchants freights, especially
t on the Siberian railroad, have been re.
r vived and from documentary evidence
the most rotten state Of affairs is shown
2 to exist.
AS the military authorities control
transportation on the Siberian railroad,
. every car and merchants desiring ia
ship goods to Irkutsk or further east
I are compelled to buy such certificates
l regular traffic in them having been
exposed. Permits bring from $500 to
$500. The authorities under these per.
8 mits, ship goods as munitions of war,
s while the munitions are sidetracked. a
!, case is cited where it cost merchant
t 81, 453 to get single car to Irkutsk
9 and another where car remained on 9
:, sidetrack from May to January because
d the consignee declined to pay any more
It money to the military authorities.
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