Arizona republican., 1905-08-19
THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

St. Petersburg, Aug. 19.-EmperoI i Nicholas has today announced the grant to the people of Russia of a national consultative assembly to be formed by elected representatives freR the whole of Russia. The ipl- perial manifesto. which is published simultaneously here and at Moscow, and which was read in all the church, ! es of the empire, is dated at Peterhof today and is in part as follows: ''-fhe emperor of Russia is strength ened by the isldestructable solidarity of the emperor with the people and of the people with the emperor. This concord of the emperor and the peo- pie is the great moral force which has created Russia in the course of cen taries by protecting her from all mis- fortunes and all attacks, has consti- tHted up to the present time. a pledge of unity, independence, integrity. ma terial well being and intellectual de- velepHhent.
 "In oar manifesto of Feb. 24. 1908, we called to a close understanding all the faithful sons of the fatherland in order te protect the organization of the state by establishing on firm basis the domestic life of the empire and then we devoted ourselves to the task of ordinatiag the elective pub lie institutions with the governmental authorities and of removing the disa- gPeemeAtsi existing between them which has reacted so disastrously on the normal course of our national life
 "The autoeratic emperors, ouF an eestoPs, constantly had that object in view and the time has come te follow out their good intentions and to sum- mon elected representatives from the whole of Russia to take a constant and active part in the elaboration of the laws, thereby attaching to the higher state institutions a special consultative body entrusted with the preliminary elaboration and discussion of measures, with the exception of the state budget
 We are convinced that those who shall have been elected by the con- fidence of the whole people and who will thus be called upon to participate in the legislative work of the govern ment will show themselves in the eyes of all Russia to be worthy of the inn perial trust in the virtue of which they have been invited to corporate in this great work, and that in perfect har- mony with other institutions and au- thorities of the state established by us, they will contribute profithbly and
 
 being of our common mother. Russia and for the strengthening of the unity, the security and the greatness of the empire, as well as for the tranquility and prosperity of the people.
 Tn invoking the blessing of the Lord on the l&bors of the institutions estab- lished by us, and with unshakable con- fidence in the grace of God, and in the infallibility of the great historical de- stinies reserved by Divine Providence for our beloved fatherland we firmly hope that, with the help of God AL mighty and with the combined efforts of all her sons, Russia will emerge tri- umphant from the trying ordeals through which she is now passing and will be born again in the strength, the greatness and the glory of her history extending through a thousand years.
 'Given at Peterhof, this nineteenth day of August, in the year of grace 1905, and the eleventh year of our reign.
 (Signed ) NICHOLAS"