Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-12-21
TO STOP The TAXES
RUSSIAN INVISIBLE government
ISSUES MANIFESTO.
Terrible Indictment OF Bureaucracy
for ITS r1eth0d OF Administer.
ting Finances Declares Bank.
rupfCy Of Treasury and Advises
Non.payment Of Taxes.

st. Petersburg, Dec. IS. via Edyt-
kuhnen. East Prussia. Dec. 1S.-The
proletariat organizations. through the
invisible government. threw a
bombshell into the camp Of the Off
cial government during the night by
issuing manifesto following the
form of regular imperial document,
declaring the bankruptcy of the treas.
ury. ordering the proletariat army ev-
erywhere to refuse to pay taxes of any
description, to insist on the payment
of wages in gold and silver, and to
withdraw all their deposits from the
savings banks in gold.
The manifesto is terrible indict-
ment of the manner in which the bu-
reaucracy has brought the country to
financial ruin, asserting that the gov
eminent has squandered not only the
country's income, but the proceeds of
the foreign loans on railroads. the
army and the fleet, leaving the people
without schools or roads, yet it is de-
clared there is no money to feed the
soldiers, and everywhere there are in
surrections of beggared and starved
troops and sailors.
The manifesto even charges the
government with using the deposits
in the government savings banks to
speculate on the bourse and with COW
ering up its chronic deficits in the in
terest ON the immense debt by the
proceeds of the foreign loans, which
are at last exhausted
:The rich, it is further declared,
ing their property into securities and
gold and are sending them abroad.
The only salvation for the country.
according to the manifesto. is the
overthrow of the autocracy by con-
stituent assembly. and the sooner the
government falls the better. There
fore, the last source of the existence
of the old regiments financial reve-
nue-must be stopped.
The document is signed by the
members of the workmen's council,
the committee of the Pan Russian
Union and the central committees Of
the social democrats, social revolu-
tionists.' and socialists of Poland.
Authorities Off Their Guard.
This great step..o the revolutionary
party. which threw down the gage of
battle to the government, was pre-
pared with such secrecy that the au
thorities were taken off their guarp
and did not even attempt to prevent
its publication in the newspapers. The
revolutionary leaders expect it will
be followed with reprisals and arrests,
but all this has been foreseen. The
leaders laid their plans deeply before
issuing the manifesto. New commit
been elected in the third and fourth
degree. If one set of committees is
put behind the bars another will take
its place and carry on the work.
The proletariat leaders claim to
have absolute knowledge that the
government has just issued 1928, 900,
900 in paper currency.
Under the provisions of the press
law. the editor of every paper which
printed tho manifesto has rendered
himself liable to eight months impris-
Onment and 81, 800 fine. Now must
come the test of the government 5
power.
1t developed that among the papers
of NJ. Krustalef. the president of the
executive committee of the work
mems council, seized at the time OF
his arrest. were documents which fur.
nish evidence of a we'll planned con
spiracy to seize and carry off Premier
White.
The manifesto created tremendous
sensation on publication and the gov
eminent accepted the challenge con
tanned in the newspapers printing il
and confiscated the editions of all the
newspapers printing it, but only after
the papers had been circulated every
where. The government announced
that it would proceed legally against
the editors of these papers for violat
ing the press law. and it has also be-
gun arrests of members of the com
mittees of the organizations that
signed the manifesto. The genera
impression is that this action on the
part of the government will precipi
tate events