Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-03-19

labor reforms and serious reforms for
, the whole people.
-s- Standing Over Volcano.
with reference to the question of
political revolution. the Russian gov
ernment must be made to understand
that it is standing over a volcano. We
Socialist ieevOintionstS are at present
conducting peaceful propaganda. but
one from which The a,ltocratic regime
OF the empire received a death wound
forty years ago. Its term came to an
end together with the fall OF sarfdom.
which was about equal to the patri-
archial system The people. together
With the delivery from serfdom re-
|celNed the right to have independent
thought and govern its own deStinies
The reforms of the first years Of Alex
ander the Seconds reign showed that
he understood the needs OF the times
and advanced TO meet them. I@mstvo
courts were built UP by him on the ba-
Sis OF national autonomy. but having
taken that step on the road to the log
lcal Development Of the result Of the
fall OF serfdcm. the government plain
~ feared the consequences, stopped
and suddenly turned back. From that
time the Russian people have been
=
tlon must and will come The qiles-
ton is VINO viii introduce it and lead
it. the people themselves or Will it
come from above?
We Social Revolutionists up to the
present have been struggling with the
existing regime in q peaceful manner
Our task is to make plain to the PEG
PIE that the present system is unsatis-
factory. Our task is to organize tho
opinion of the majority in the state.
that is to say, that minority which at
present consists OF the leading forcesiu
the country in moral sense and by its
energy. which is Daratively free
and which has broad views The gov
eminent stands in the way Of the in
telllgent. It will not count any more
with the party of Social Revol,itionists
Which the government accuses Of con
unued encrnachment on its existence
The party is not to blame in this. 1t
is right il 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.
S:The method Of lighting Of the party
| is by means CT word. proof and con
viction, and this is the only means of
agitation which the party has and up
on which the party is conducted
| The sad necessity Of terroristic
ac:s falls Oh the party wholly taken MP
with a peaceful fight Terroristic acts
ARE a necessity which suddenly fall on
/ the party as something irreyelent and
foreign to its original aims The pro-
gram OF the party declares such acts
! detrimental! and we would never have
I resorted to arms but for the unlimited
+, freedom of action allowed to the chin
oYniks, the acts Of whom force us to it.
| Only force is answered by force Only
| inEthose cases when the ministers and
chlnovniks refuse us the right to
j speak verbally do We speak another
! language. Only when all other means
are exhausted we answer by death.
EOnly after insufferabe tortMres, awful
| humiliation OF citizens and revolution
! lists do we so TO extreme measures. a
The activity OF the Fighting On
ganization is only called into play on
Especial occasions. The acts OF Tie
Fighting Organization are OF a retlec.
! tory nature, corresponding To the char
J acter Of the impulse.
Look at what the Fighting Organi
/ zatlon has done up to now. Yos: vii,
4 see that it has never had resource II
arms as a special independent means