The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-02
TIME HAS COME
TO STRIKE HOME
Russian People Will No Longer Sub
nit to Bureaucracy.
MUTTERING ON EVERY HAND
REFORM MUST COME, AND COME
QUICKLY.

! at PETERSBURG, June THE i'm
y mediate realization of the imperial
reforms seems the only thing
which can save the government from
/ the wrath Of the popUlace. The truth
/ is now known to the hUmbIest people
/ in the capital and viii soon spread
/ through the empire and the mutterings
! of the people are certain to have an
/ ominoUs effect on the army at the front.
1 It is feared that the revoIutionaries
] and socialists are planning to take ad-
vantage of the governments diseom-
future by exciting demonstrations and
renewals of strikes. As a precautionary
measure, more guard regiments have
been ordered back from camp aud ad-
ditionaI COssack reinforcements have
been brought to st. Petersburg Inc
liberals also consider that the govern
ment is at last in a corner ana that the
time has come to strike Ihef press
TO longer asks-it threatens me SioNo
this morning menaces the government
boldly declaring that if 1t does not give
what the people need, the latter will
People Not to Blame.
..Russia's disgrace the Slovo adds,
us not due to the people, but TO the
/ gentlemen who have been misgoVern-
/ ing them
Continuing. the paper holds Up thu
spectre of another CugacheV, FAMOUS
/ Cossack who for years led the lnsuf-
/ rectiOu against the Empress Gather
inc
The [asha Shisn even more sCathinG-
" denOuuces the bureaucracy from
which It says. there Is no hope OF
peace. and paints a revolving picture OF
the ofFicehoIders last night amusing
themselves instead of mourning
.'Fvervwhere." the Nasha Shisn says
they were hurrying to pleasure resorts
The dance halls were full Even army
and naval officers took part in the gaze
ties. oblivfOus of the frOWnIng attlJuue
of the public Can RUssia's defeat sur
prise anv one when such men keep the
masses in ignorance and thrust the true
patriots of the country into cells ana
underground dungeons
Government Warned.
Even the Novoe Vremya this morning
warns the government that 1t cannot
+ temporize and act the coward. DuC
must come out openly, immediately
/ convene the people and let them de-
{ eide the future
! The industrial members of the lapor
! commission headed by Finance MINIS
{ ter Kokovsoff withdrew in a body at
I todav's sitting on the plea that owing
/ to the national calamity they were
! unable to calmly discuss current al
fairs and considered that the alarm
ing situation required their presence
! in their respective provinces
NJ KokovsOff declined to postpone the
work of the commission. saying that
the interests of the working classes
would thereby be preiudiced. and VdlniN
f appealed to the industrial members 10
. reconsider their decision Finally NJ
f. KokovsofT decided that the government
! members Of the commission should con
tiuue their work
/ BiriIeff Coming Back.
/ The newspapers report that Vice Ad-
/ niraI RiriIaf. who started for NlddlFO-
stok May -. to take command Of the
Baltic station. IS returning to ST Pet
! ersbUrg.
/ The Rourse Gazette says the recent
/ events mean the complete bankruptcy
/ Of the bureaucracy. The paper declares
/ that the government Is shaken 10 It's
I foundations and issues a warning to the
J effect that unless n national assembly
! Is couvaked and other reforms are sin
J oeroIy executed at once il viii be too
Recurrence of Strikes.
/ 4 recurrence Of the strike movement
. is already reported at PavloETad. Eka-
tarinburg. LODI. -NOzeusensk,
Shufa and other places At LODI the
J workmeu are armed with Tevolvers and
/ knives.
/ In st Petersburg the government mas
/ placed a weapon in the hands Of the
( sociaIistic leaders of the Workmen by
/ concediug eight hours work per day
at the admiralty. thus embaTr2 Ssing
private owners who insist that the con
. dftions of Russian labor do not permit
/ them To agree to such hours,
From the Caucasus the news contln-
mes bad. Erfvsu has been placed under
: martial law. but the fear Of Persian
+ Kurds crossing the frontier fortunately
+ have not been realized