The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
PrOletariat Defles the
 Government.
CIVIL WAR WILL FOLLOW
Present Regime Must Back
 Out or Fight.
Paper Which wnl Figurc in History Issued hy Revolutionary Party In Russia--NO More Paper
 Money.

New York. Dec. 1e.--A cable dispatch to The Herald, dated St. Petersburg, December l4, via Eydtkuhnen, Dec. 16. says
 The revolutionary party throws down the gauntlet to the government In the shape of a manifesto which will surely figure as historical document It is stamped with the official seal Of the workmen's alliance and means purely and simply that the government will have to proceed to measures of force or give way entirely. It reads in part thus:
 The government is on the high road to bankruptcy. It has destroyed the fatheriand, sown 1t with corpses. starv- ed the peasants, who are unable to pay another kopeck in taxes.
 Trade Is at a standstill and disor- ganIxed. Factories are closing and no work is forthcoming.
 Those who have grown accustomed to enrich themselves at the expense of the government do not know what to do and are hurryinE to close up the Bankruptcies are falling on top of ankrupteies. Even the banks are tot- terin6, while the trade turnover is re- duced to nothingness.
 ''This struggle between the govern ment and the rerolutionaries Is causing nothing beyond continued agitation and suspense. f-
 "Foreign capital is being rapidly withdrawn. Wealthy people are hur- riedly disposing of their property and are taking refuge abroad
 Robbery is Rampant.
 Robbery is rampant. No mans life and property are safe. The govern ment formerly expended unlimited sums on the army and navy. nothing on edu- lN .kf nC rRF communication, leaving the state in a hopeless condition. 1 Notwithstanding all snis, the treas ury does not possess the means to find 1 the humble fare necessary for the sol- ! dier and sailor. 1 "AIl over the country hungry and disaffected troops are mUtinying. The
 railroads are completely disorganized, ! their money being appropriated by the i government. To place the money on a proper basis requires many hundred l millions.
 ssThe gold reserve in the imperial ! bank is quite insufficient tn meet the ! government obligation and It's general 1 economic position. There will be some thing awful if the government were ' called to meet its obligations in gold Taking advantage of its irrespnn- | sibility. the government has been ac- | customed to obtain loans infinitely above the power of the country to | meet. making new loans for the pur- pose of meeting calls for interest on | old obligations.
 From year to year the government
 is perpetrating shamewul deceptionA. drawing up budgets in which expens"f are shown purposely diminished and income increased.
 gro undo these terrible facts and all this long continued speculation the FA ax aR | assembly,. That body must. as it's firsi task, take in hand a strict investigs- tiop into the finances of the country and show the people an honest pictur" 1 of the position in all it's horrors. The Terrible Enigma. 'erhe terrible enigma before the na. tional assembly is now to straighten ! out the existing financial chaos .'One way out of this is to vanquish the governmsnt and to take from it | the last shred of power; it is necessary ! to knock from under 1t its last support.