The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-08


public workers and published an act
government communication of Dec Is.
1900 in which IL declared all public
agitation rebslliOus and threatened re-
pTisals- But all these measures proved
pOwerless against the broad and deep
swing of the political agitation. The
movement had caught the masses. IN
the beginning of January this year in
st Petersburg broke out and grew a
general strike Of the mill and factory
wOrkmen. II began on economic
grounds, but soon became inextricably
involved with the popular demands for
political freedom and a constitution.
Again losing its head, the government
answered a peaceful. though fnmpos-
ing demonstration of the workmen by
rife vOlIeys-
Horror Gives Place to Hatred.
"In the blood of thousands. of thsir
| killed and wounded brothers the Rus
sian proletaTiat received its first revo-
lutiOnaTy baptism. The WOTkmen's
movement spread in great waves over
the who'll country. In Warsaw, In
LODI. in Riga and in other cities. by
volleys of musketry the government
! sowed the storm of revolution in the
| fertile soil of the young pTOletaTiat- All
/ life i'm the country stood aghaSt be
: fore the crime Of the government. But
| horror quickly gave way TO redoubled
| hatred of the rotten regime The bloody
/ events make the demand for freedom
/ irrevocable. Even the provincial op-
| position, always before bearing a
/ peaceful character. became sharp and
/ voiced itself in open protest Many
| provincial assemblies stopped their ses-
/ SiOnS in order 10 openly display their
/ Indignation. All kinds of public as
| semblies and corporations condemned
/ the criminal policy of the government
! All the higher educational institutions
! in the country were closed BY the
complete unprecedented accord of
| both teachers and scholars. The tempo
/ of public political life increased in
| spite Of the reactiOnary efforts of the
/ government as indicated bv the re-
1 placement Of the higher leaders of pol
/ itics. In the place of retiring Sviato-
| pOlk-Mirsky. BOuligan was appointed
! minister Of the interior. the nearest
/ collaboration of the Grand Duke Ser
/ gius- who formerly also played a prom
! lnent part OF the governmental reac-
/ ton and had lately been its soul The
] establishment Of d governor general
/ ship in St Petersburg. the reinforce
/ ment of the censorship. tn suspen-
/ sion of radical organs of the press.
/ etc. followed
All Join Demand for Freedom.
! collective constitutional declarations
! of numerous groups Of the population.
| of all classes and professions were pub
! liShed- The representatives of indus
| try and labor, science. art and liter
! allure, Russian women. students-aII
( join in one general declaration. that
/ this sort of life cannot go on, and in
| one general demand for a free state
| regime Even the majority of the no.
| Dles' assemblies Chis year in the ma
/ JoTfty Of the governments the legal
! three years term of mobiles elections. "a
it happened, with which the alternate
/ sessions of the assembly is connected
! EXPIRED, expressed themselves if not
! for constitution, al least for a Zen-
| sky sober tthe popular representation
/ which TO SlavODhile ideas. brings to
/ the emperor all the truth regarding the
/ peoples ueeds). The last great act of
/ the internal political life of the Russian
! public was the asSassiua ton of the
/ Grand Duke SerSiUs. who had already
/ long inspired the emperor i'm reac-
/ tiOndTy spirit and who had exercised a
/ strong influence upon him. In liberal
/ circles. his death was almost approved.
/ The bombs of the revoIutionaries to-
/ Gether with the WOTkmeu'S movement
/ created such conditions as made it i'm
! possible for the government tn return
to the former policy of reaction OF for
! the public to compromise with the ex-
! listing regime
Constitutional System Wanted.
The aim Of the present movement
. for freedom. its significance how
broad II is and how deep are its roots
/ lU the life of the country itself must he
! clear from what 7 have written The
aim Is the abolition Of the aUtoCratic-
{ bureaucratic governmental regime and
Tnnlgrpra7rFtf d
system The significance Of the open
! agitation for freedom Il enormous. II
/ means The people viii no longer hest
tate before All open struggle for free
dom. All classes Of the population
have become possessed by the thirst for
a new free life, the working class. the
| intelligent classes Of all professions and
ages, the zemstvO. the commercial and
I industrial classes. and even to large
extent the nobility Only the peasant
~, perhaps, still sleeps. an unawak-
| ened giant chained with poverty and
ignorance. But this giant too. will
soon be aroused. All its life full of
! trouble and oppression at every step.
and above all, its agrariau needS-form
a too fertile soil for discomfort with the
! existing organization of slavery and
| for the thirst for 4 new, better aud
| freeT one
Enlightenment Is Needed.
| But speaking Of agraTian needs. one
must rot close ones eye to the existing
/ and growing social danger. The exist
! ing organization, founded upon popular
/ ignorance and lawlessness. fatally more
and more deeDens the immemOrial
abyss Of social enmity in the country
{ between the poor starving peaSantry
and the rich laud-owning class Of the
privileged nobility.
And only d free constitutional regi-
me can relieve the country of the men
acing danger. bringing to the peoDIe
/ political and civic competency and
/ broad euliEhtmeut- All the more then.
and with redOUbled vigor. should the
friends of governmental order struc-
gle for the liberation of the nation
I from autOrratiC bureaucratic arbitrar-
mess Even the army, that eternal but
J tTess of our abSolutisn. even il i re-
ceiviug on the fields Of Manchuria and
in the streets Of Petersburg. Warsa "
Riga and other cities d political educa
tiOH. and is learning to appraise at its
true value that order in the name Of
which it is itself obliged to face the
enemy's bullets and fire upon its broth
ers. fathers and children.
Manifestations of Feeling.
How deep and abiding is the move
I meut for freedom. may be Judged by
the determination and the seIf-sacrifice
/ with which thousands OF Uuarmed pro-
/ letariauS faced bullets in the streets OF
+ Petersburg and other cities. by the de-
cisivc protests gainst the regime made
ny hitherto peaceful and timid provin-
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