The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-18
BY Invisible Government De-
claring Empire Bankrupt.
DOCUMENT WIDELY ISSUED
Fall of Old Regime Called For--Manifes-
to Following the Form ola Regular
Imperial Document Escapes
Press Censorship.

st. Petersburg, Dec. 1.-THE proletar-
lat organizations through the Invisible
government" threw bombshell into the
camp Of the official government Thurs
day night By issuing a manifesto, fol-
lowing the form Of a regular imperial
document, declaring the bankruptcy Of
the treasury, ordering the proletariat
everywhere to refuse to pay taxes of
any description, to insist on the pay
ment Of wages in gold or silver, and to
withdraw all their deposits from the saw
ings banks in gold. Tie manifesto is a
terrible indictment Of tne manner in
which the bureaucracy has brought the
country TO financial ruin, asserting that
the government has sqnandered not only
the eountry's income, but the proceeds Of
the foreign loans on railroads, the army
and the fleet leaving the people without
schools OF roads; yet, it is declared,
there is no money to feed the soldiers
and everywhere there are instructions OF
The beggared and starved troops and
sailors.
The manifesto even charges the COW
ef1lment with using the deposits in the
government savings banks to speculate
on the bollrse and with covering up its
chronic deficits in the interest on the
immense debt BY the proceeds OF the
foreign loans which are at last exhaust
ed. The rich, it is further declared,
have already taken warning and are
converting their property into securities
md gold and are sending them abroad.
tbs only salvation for the country, ae-
cording to the manifesto, il the over
throw Of the autocracy by constituent
assembly, and the sooner the govern
nlent falls, the better. Therefore the
last source Of the existence Of the old
regime--its financial revenue must be
stopped The document is signed by
the members OF the work mems council,
the committee of the Pan-Russian un-
ion and the central committees Of the
social democrats, social reyolutionists
and socialists of Poland.
This great step OF the revolutionists,
which has thrown down the gage Of battle
10 tsse government, was prepared with
such secrecy that the authorities were
taken off their guard, and did not even
attempt To prevent it, publication In the
nes papars. The revolutionary leaders
EXPECT ii viii BIZ followed BY repIisals
aud arrests, latt all this has been fore
sa@n 'lle leaders laid their plans deeply
Eessife issuing the manifesto. New COM
1aitfees III the various organizations
haFe Bean elected in the third and
falrth deqfee Ii one set Of committees
Is nut behind the bars another will take
ia nlaee and carry on the work. The
leaasge Of leagues was not asked to join
in the manifesto, being REGARDED with
some jealousy BY the proletariat organi-
zations, which claim to be bearing the
brunt Of the revolution and to be entitled
To the frnits thereof The proletariat
lenders claim to have absolute knowledge
that the government has Just issued
$125,000,000 IN paper money Under
the provisions Of The press law, the edi-
tor of every paper which printed the
manifesto, has rendered himself liable to
eight-months' Imprisonment ana ST 800
fine. Now must come the test OF the
governments power.
The manifesto created tremendous
Hensation on publication and the govern
ment accepted the challenge contained in
II and coniiseated the editions of all
the newspapers printing 1t, including the
Russ, SYN 0ntechestva, NOvaia Zhizn,
Nasha Shisn, Nashalo and Svo Bodan.
a1og, but only after the papers had been
circulated everywhere. The government
announced that it would proceed Legally
against the editors Of those papers for
violating the press law. and 1t has also
begun arrests Of members Of the COM
nlittees Of the organizations that signed
the manifesto. The general impression