The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-12-19

St Petersburg. Friday, December Is
-(Morning) via Eydtkuhnen, East
Prussia, December 16.-The proletariat
organizations through the invisible
government threw a bomb into the
camp of the official government dur
1g the night, issuing minfesto, fol
wing the form Of a regular imperial
ument, declaring the bankruptcy OF
) treasury, ordering the prolelariai
t-A everywhere to refuse to r y
G of any description, to insist on
yer, and to withdraw all their deposits
from the savings banks in gold.
A manifesto is a terrible indictr.e nj
of the manner which the beaucracy
has brought the country to financial
ruin, asserting that the government
has squandered not only the country 5
income, but the proceeds of the foreign
loans on reserves, the army and the
feet, leaving the people without
schools or railroads. 1t is declared
knffe Is no money to feed the sol
VdfNrs, and everywhere there are insur-
rections of the teggars and starved
troops and the Sailors. The manifesto
even charges the government with Us
ing the deposits in the government
savings banks to speculate on the
bourse, and with covering up its chro1-
ic deficits in the interest on the I'M
mense debt by the proceeds of the for
eign loans, which are at last exhaust
ed. The rich, At is further declared
have already taken warning and are
converting their property into seoul
ties and gold and are sending them
abroad The only salvation for the
country, according to the manifesto, 1s
the overthrow OF the autocracy D: a
constituent assembly and the sooner
the government fails the better. Tn are
fore The last source of existence OF me
old regime, its financial revenue, mus
be stopped.
The documeu. is signed by the mem
bers If the worknen's council commit
tee Of the pan-Russian union and the
central committees of the social demo-
Gratis, social reyoiutionists and the so
cialists of Poland.
This great step of the reVolutlonarles
which throws down the guage OF battle
to the government was prepared WITH
such secrecy that the authorities were
kAken off their guard and did not even
Nattempt to prevent its publlcatlon IN
the newspapers. The revolutlcnaTy
leaders expect it will be followed by re-
prisals and arrests but all this has
been foreseen. The leaders laid th2lr
plans deeply before issuing the mani
nf the various
organizations nave been placed in the
third and fourtl, degree. If one set
of committees il: put behind the oars
another will take it's place and carry
on the work.
The league Of leagues was not asked
to join in the manifesto being regarGed
with some jealousy by the proletarlat
organizations which claim to be bear
ing the brunt Of the revolution and tc
be entitled to the fruits thereof.
The proletarial leaders claim to nave
absolute knowledge that the govern
ment has just issued s125,OOO.0O0 IN
paper money. Under the provisions OF
the press law the editors of every pa
per which printed the manifesto has
rendered himself liable to eight months
Imprisonment and $1,000 fine. NOW
must come the test of the govern
ment's power Il develops that among
the papers of n. Krustaleff, the presl
dent OF the executive committee on the
workmen's counsel. seized at the time
of his arrest were documents which TOT
Dish evidence of a well planned con
spiracy to seize and carry OFF Premier
Witte.