Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-04-13
REVOLUTION|STS
PLAN REPUBLIC
Central Committee Of Party
Has Issued State
ment.
IS DISTRIBUTED BROADCAST
Hundreds Of Thousands of Copies
Are Printed-"Public Ownership OF
Public Utilities" and Initiative and
Referendum Are Advocated.

~'Ns'' 49, SN~'O~~N~~'
Moscow, April IA general meet
mg Of representatives of the higher
schools Of Russia here yesterday
adopted a series of strong resolu-
tions not only demanding revision
Of the whole educational system OF
the empire, including freeing the
schools and universities from govern
ment control, but declaring for con-
stitutional regime.
Moscow, April THE last act OF
the congress of doctors from all
parts of Russia in session here was
to dispatch telegram to Maxim
Gorky, addressed to him as "A val
liant defender of the rights of man"
and saying: "Sympathizing with your
misfortunes, the congress wishes you
speedy recovery, a suspension OF
the proceedings against you, and the
restoration of your complete liberty"
Moscow, April THE central COM
mittee of the social revolutionary
party has drawn up document con-
tanning the main points OF its pro-
grammc, and of this hundreds or
thousands of copies are being printed
for circulation in all parts of Euro
pean Russia. The first and main
point of the programme Is the estab-
lishment Of democratic republic on
the ruins Of the autocracy, and be-
sides the usual points of social demo-
cratic doctrine, it includes many ar
guments especially directed to Rus
sian conditions and designed to APP
peal to the self,interest of the Rus
sian proletariat, both agricultural and
industrial. 1t voices phrases familiar
to the American ear, such as "lnitia-
tive and referendum" Public owner
ship of public utilities" etc.
The programme is divided under
| two heads. First, political-legal do.
main, under which it demands the in.
| stitution of democratic republic
with broad autonomy for the prov
inces, municipalities and communes;
the widest application of the fedora
| tive principle of the relations be-
tween the various nationalities; a di-
rect secret universal ballot without
distinction as to sect, nationality or
religion; proportional representation;
direct popular legislation, with the
| initiative and referendum; electibil-
ity, responsibility and removability
of all officials; separation of church
and state; complete freedom of con.
science, speech, the press, assembly
and association; right to strike; com.
pulsory popular and gratuitous eiu-
cation; and abolition of the standing
army and substitution of a national
militia.
Under the second head, national
economy and domain, the party ia
vors the eight hour day reduction for
the most dangerous and unsanitary
occupations% minimum wage scale,
state insurance for all, the forms
regulated by the insured at the ex'
pense of the state and employers;
regulation of factory construction
prohibition of child labor below 49,
and of female labor at certain occu'
pations, and professional organization
of workmen with an increasing share
in the internal management of insti'
buttons. In agrarian policy the party
declares the earth is the common
heritage of all citizens and demands
the specialization of all land or such
approach to abolition of private own
ership as is practicable, including the
sequestration of crown, church and
state lands, turning them over to the
communes, and the limitation and
conversion of rents into an income
tax, payable to the commune. In the
realm of finance the party favors pro
gressive income and inheritance
taxes, inapplicable to small incomes
the abolition of indirect taxes and
the protective system except as to
objects of luxury.
1t also favors the common owner
ship of all utilities, medical assistance
gratis, development of cooperation
on strictly democratic principles, and
measures tending to the independence
of the working classes of government
bureaucracy.
The document closes with warn
ing to industrials against state so
cialism," which it declares to be a
system of half measures, deludine
workers, concentrating industry and
commerce in the hands of the govern
ing bureaucracy, and urging the sum
moning of constituent assembly In
which it proposes to conduct the cam
paign for the dissolution of the auto
cratic regime and the transformation
of the existing order.
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