The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-19

| newspapers are blackened out by the
 ss% hsy wsn n. sy ars so and finally suppressed. The Russian social opinion objects when the Presi- dents of the Zemstvo towns at the vital questions in accordance with their views and opinions. Russian so@ ciaI opiAion Is only eree when 1t 10 Mhsn # sen Ms sian Socialists and rcvolutionists count ourselves in the moral right to assert that In Russia the Government does to speak freely. that 1t does not repre- sent their opinion and acts against the wishes and the wants of the majority ts that does n1t rold ts IT 3s spread the idea of changing the exist ing order of things in Russia. We the right freely to air their needs through the press and meetings; the right to discuss and make laws. the to sonsrOi the state this and consequently preach a to- tally different condition than that ex- sisting at present in Russia But at Weapons are the printing press and word of mouth. Where is the forcible doing away with the existing regime? Who Is 1t that uses force We or
 we have not time to make ourselves heard before our mouths are shut, and for a word we are sent to prison or Siberia. The simple reading of our criminal
 we are persecuted as government criminals and subject to punishment where we discuss our tasks. We are subjected to humiliating corporal pun ishment. beaten with knouts, tyampled l. ~xt.A decide to come out into the air to de- clare publicly our views and express our demands
 Debarred' Laws Protection. | We are debarred the protection of the law. We are declared interior ene- mics of the people and political crim- inals. although this is not one and the
 "Yes there is much force used, far too much, but which side uses 1t?
 Therefore let them not say that the lparty of Social Revolutionists is try ing to obtain something by means of force. Neither in the aim of the party nor in the means of attaining its ends. is there anything like force. Perhaps force" refers to that moment nome t,,y when sa near attainment, when the social con- ditions will be replanned on the ruins jof the present government and Rus but citizens of their country. Perhaps the accusation means that the party will first attempt political change in Russia and then social one. To this I reply that the party does not decide the question as to how the present leonditions will be changed to those wished for. Of the establishment of the social conditions to which our talk even seriously. The organization lof the social conditions of the Em- pire on the basis of socialis mwould be an impossibility even for the powerful Il are sometimes understood, but for understanding them you are sent to leonstruction possibly when the name lof Russia will not exist longer on ne learth. So far as the final triumph of Jour ideals Is concerned, this triumph lsia, but over the whole world. But it will undoubtedly not take place any, where while the Russian autocratic Empire exists. because up to now the Informed people have broken to pieces against this strength" In the mean time we are fighting in other states under the banner, of socialism and have advanced further than any bourgeoise Iparty, and we Russian Socialists are ldoing the same. We demand serious labor reforms and serious reforms for the whole people.
 with reference to the question of political revolution, the Russian Gov Iernment must be made to understand a Socialist Revolutfonists are at present lconducting a peaceful propaganda, but lone from which the autocratic regime lof the Empire received a death wound lend together with the fall of serfdom, which was about equal to the pat riarchial system: The people, to- gether with the delivery from serfdom. received the right to have independent thought and govern its own destinies. The reforms of tn efirst years of All Iexander the Seconds reign showed
 he and the of lzemstvo Courts were built up by him but having taken that step on. the road to the logical development of the Government plainly feared the con lseQuences, stopped and suddenly turn led back. From that time the Russian people have been awaiting continua- tion. The continuation must and will Icome. The question is who will in- troduce 1t and lead 1t. the people themselves or will 1t come from labove?
 Struggling Peacefully.
 We Social Revolutionists up to the Ipresent have been struggling with the lexisting regime in peaceful manner. pie that the present system Is unsat- Iisfactory. Our task is to organize the lopinion of the majority in the State, eoS:sts say sa' of tha e%aiSa %hlSa force in the country in a moral sense land by its energy, which is compara- Lively free and which has broad views. The Government stands in the way of the intelligent. Revolutionists which the Government accuses of continued encroachment on its existence. The party is not to blame in this. It Is fright if behind the party are the ma jority of the people. The duty of the Government Is to meet the wishes of the people.
 "The method of fighting of the party is by means of word, proof and conviction. and this is the only means of agitation which the party has and upon which the party is conducted.
 The sad necessity of terroristic acts falls on the party wholly taken up with peaceful fight: Terroristic acts are a necessity which suddenly | fall on the party as something irrele- want and foreign to its original aims | The programme of the party declares such acts detrimental. and we would never have to resort to arms but for the unlimited freedom of action allow ed to the chinovniks, the acts of whom force us to 1t. Only force Is answered