Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-16

manifesto of Nicholas H., as published
in all the European papers, satisfied
the revolutionary committee, accord
ing to the Petit Parisien, so that they
decided to suspend the political
strike for thirty days, in order to or
ganize an armed rising in case the
government, after the end of that pc
riod, should fail to keep its pledges
including the promise of amnesty to
political prisoners"
The Guardian Oondon) comments
as follows on Russia's great political
labor movement:
ut has really been no more than
strike, but strike which involves
every industry and almost every class
in a country is now seen to be far
more powerful weapon than the ordi-
nary rising against constituted au-
thority. In Russia such a rising would
have been hopeless unless the army
could have been brought over-you
can not fight a military autocracy
without arms and ammunition, and in
the empire of the Gar such commod-
tiles are as hard to come by as per-
sonal freedom. =. Happily, at the
eleventh hour the Emperor Nicholas,
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statesmanlike ideas while he might
have acted with a good grace, has
been compelled, in sheer desperation
and in the hope of saving his throne,
to capitulate, and to grant the most
important and the most elementary
demands of his people"
Another victory won by this new
weapon of popular freedom, to quote
from the German weekly cited above,
has been the emancipation of Finn
land, which is a Russian province, of
which the Car is Grand Duke, and
which groans under the yoke of Rus
STA. According to the Action (Paris)
the strike has been general, and order
has been kept by voluntary militia,
formed of students and workmen At
last capitulation came, as is thus re-
lated by the Partisan journal:
"The governor of Finland, Prince
Obolensky, and the Senate have Off
cially abdicated and surrendered all
power in the presence of the whole
population of Helsingfors in the public
square. The Russian flag has been
superseded by the Finnish national
standard"
Another great strike is at present
prevailing in Poland, but according to
the government documents issued by
Witte with regard to the Polish agita-
ton for universal suffrage and other
political privileges, Poland is not to
be put on the same footing as Finland,
nor for the present to be included in
the last manifesto of the Gar. Po-
lands strike in Warsaw, according to
the Temps (Paris) has been accom-
panied by bomb-throwings and massa-
ores by the soldiery, whom White has
been vainly importuned to withdraw.
In Whites manifesto to the Poles he
says:
Rejecting the idea of cooperation
with WHITE and the Russian people in
the douma, they (the Polish politi-
cians) are demanding in series of
revolutionary meetings complete au-
tonomy for Poland with a special con-
stitutional diet, thereby aiming at the
restoration of the kingdom of Poland.
Two political groups, Socialist and
National, who are opposed to each
!, other, are united in this aspiration,
!, which is supported by many writer's,
; publicists and popular orators, who
!, carry the people with them.
"In different districts of the Wis
tula there have been numerous pro-
cessions with Polish flags singing PO-