The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-01-25
ocratic slho.- party One proclanla
ton, dated Jan. %, reads:
No Hope While Autocracy Exists.

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No Hope. While Autocracy Exists.
Comrades: So long as autoeracy
exists 10 Improvement in our condition
is possible. Therefore we continue to
lnscribe on opt banners the. following
demands:
The immediate cessation Of the.
war.
The sunlmvning Of 8 constitutional
assembly OF representative Of t.le
people elected BY universal and equa
suffrage and direct, secret ballot.
The raSGoFal oi class and race priv
ileges and restrictions
"The III, ,iolability of the person ana
domieile.
Freedom Of conscience, speech, tfe
press, meetings. strikes and political
associations,
a second proclamation, dated Jan
23, says;
The proletariat of all countries are
united
Citizens, you yesterday witnessed
the bestial cruelty Of the autocratie
government. You saw blood flowing
in the streets. You saw hundreds
slaughtered, defenders Of the cause O.
labor. You saw the death and heard
the groans of the wounded women ana
defenseless children. The blood and
brains OF Workinsmen were spattereo
around where their heads had been
laid.
Who directed the soldiers to aim
their riteG and IRE bullets at the
breasts OF the labolers?
1t was The emperor, the grand
dukes, the ministers and generals, ths
mobiles OF the court. They are the mar
derers. Slay them.
TO arms, comrades. Seize the ar
senals and the arms at the t7epots ano
at the gunsr2iths lay low the prison
walls. Libelale the defenders OF free
DOM Demc,ish the police and gen.
darmelle stations and all the govern
ment and state buildings.
we must throw down the emperor
and the government and must have
Cur own government.
Long live the revolution
Father Gopcn Opposes Violence.
Father Gnpons popularity is unim-
paired, but It IS already evident Jha,
the Social Democrats are getting the
upper HAND and tnat tney, are urging
the people to Violence. From a trust
worthy source it IS learned that t'athei
Gopon sent d letter to the Social Dem
ocrats in the following terms:
They have fred upon and nassa
cred US, but wesare not vanquished
and the day of our triumph is nigh.
Do not spoil our triumph by taking up
arms and resorting to violence Con-
tent yourselves with destroying the
portraits Of him who is no longer
worthy to be our emperor"
This pacific admonition irritated the
Social Democrats and does not meet
with response from the workingmen,
who apparently are thirsting for ven
geance and are clamoring for their
leaders to distribute arms.
The revolutionists are also reported
to be actively preparing bombs and
Internal machines to wreck the post
and telegraph Offices and destroy other
government property. The revolution
lists talk wildly of issuing manifesto,
declaring a provisional government
They seem to have broken completely
with the zemstvoists, whom they treat
with contempt on account of what they
call their ''truckling' to autocracy.
Even Prince Trubetzkoi, who led the
reformers of Moscow, is regarded by
them with suspicion and even hatred
because, in an article published by the
Pravo, he described the revolutionists
as Port Arthur inside of Russia
which Russia would have to over.
throw
M. Hessen, editor Of the Pravo,
whose advanced liberal views are well
known, has been arrested
The Workingmen's club has been
closed by order of the prefect of po-
lice.
Cossacks,, while dispensing crowd
OF strikers at 4 p. M, drew their
swords and wounded several men.
Work has been suspended at the
works of the Belgian Electrical COM
pany, which furnished the majority of
the electrical supply of St. Petersburg.
. SPREADS TO OTHER CITIES.
All Work Stopped at kovno and Wilma,
Russia.