The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-13
HAS A FIGHTING CHANCE
Count Wltte May Yet Be Able to Res
! cue Russia.

st. Peters burg, Tuesday, Dec. IL
(Morning), via Eydtkuhnen, East Prus-
STA, Dec. 13.-The restoration Of cable
communication with points abroad yes
terday lasted only few hours. Before
midnight it was reported that the cable
vas cut and that dispatches must again
be forwarded by courier via the Ger
man frontier. Nevertheless the outlook
is clearing.
The government is breathing freer,
with fighting chance that Premier
Witte will yet be able to steer his way
thru the rocks which beset his path.
immediate future has disappeared and
the telegraph strike, not being sup
ported, is going to pieces in spite Of
he wild appeals of the union to stand
complete, but at many other places COM
nunication has been reopened, altho in
! precarious fashion, as the employees
II both the telegraph and postal SER
7ices,. who were discharged by whole
ale for refusing to work, are cutting
5he wires wherever it is possible to
; 10 so. r'@
Real Leaders Win. ~
The real leaders of the workmen and
,ther proletariat organizations, realiz-
ng fully their weakness and lack Of
preparation for decisive struggle,
ave carried the day over the hot head
he majority that it would be an ire
] ;rlevable blunder. to prostitute what
i hey regard as the supreme instrument
or forging a free nation by using it
4 or a minor issue like redressing the
y grievances of private individuals.
In registering this decision they
placed themselves on record "to con-
niue the organization and equipment
resident, Krustaleff, began,'' thus vir-
-ually furnishing the government with
violence confirming its charges that
rticles 102 and 126 Of the criminal
ode, prohibiting participation in as
ociations the object of which is armed
evolt and the punishment for which
death, have been violated by the
trikers' head organization.
' Krustaleff No Martyr.
r. It is likely, however, that the gov
| rnment, in order to discount attempts
. heroize M. Krustaleff, will simply
barge him with the misrepresentation
the funds of the workmen in using
hem in founding socialist paper,
disseminated.
The workmen's council yesterday
emit demand to Count Witte for the
4 Nelease Of NJ; Krustaleh. Later the
ator .Kumishansky and demanded his
eelease, but the procurator refused
,luntly, saying that the case must be
4 ried in court. To this the spokesman
# the delegation replied:
mTh e we will declare general
~ will not release him if the whole
ri Of
ator.
/ M. Krustaleff is understood to be i'm.
Irisoned in the st. Peter and st. Paul
1 ortress in order, it is explained, to pre-
.ent any possible attempt at rescue
which would only lead to bloodshed.
1 81 No General Strike.
The disappearance of the danger OF
general strike seems to insure the
/ government a certain period in which
4 vindicate itself and demonstrate
i hat it is striving to establish the new
rider of things and if, as its friends
1 ope, it will be able to show this by
/ eedss, it will cut away, public sympa
by from the proletariat and place thu
i ime comes for strike, in the atti
4 eude Of deliberately provoking strug
i lie to overthrow the government ant
4 tablish democratic republic.
4 The members of Count Witte g cabi
4 ct distinctly deny that the government
4 as entered ON the path Of reaction
4 ut they say that the present state O
4 narchy cannot go on. People amend
H BILE to the laws will be arrested ant
i ried by the courts.
4 No Dictatorship.
eff the government really enters Of
i he path of reaction,'' said one of tn
minister's today, cit must end in a die
atorship, and you may be sure that a
rst evidence Of this Witte will ste
own and out.
Count Witte takes the ground tina
he ministry is only a stopgap to trans
er the power into the hands of the ma
s ional assembly and therefore he vii
OF undertake to bind the country b,
4 emporary laws or a policy which reI
4 esentatives of the nation should de
ide for themselves. This is the theor,
4 n which complete universal suffrag
Il ill be refused.
Civil War in Baltic.
The situation in the Baltic province
q = now the most grave Of the empire
onditions. 1t approaches civil wal
a nd the government has been forced t
ppoint a governor general with swee1
lg administrative powers to try to re
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