Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-17
WITTE STANDS
UP FOR THE CzAR
SEVERELY SCORES POLICY OF
GRAND DUKES
Premier Declares Emperor Is just
and Humane, and Calls the Bu-
reauerats Llbertines and
Degenerates
tcontinued from Ps~e oneJ

ment" threw a bombshell into the camp
of the official government during the
night by issuing a manifesto following
the form of a regular imperial docu-
ment, declaring the bankruptcy of the
treasury, ordering the proletarlat army
everywhere to refuse to pay taxes OF
any description to insist upon the
payment of wages in gold or silver
and to withdraw all their deposits
from the savings banks. In gold
The manifesto is q terrible indiot-
ment of the manner in which the
bureaucracy has brought the country
to financial ruin, asserting that the
government has squandered not only
the countrys income, but the pro-
ceeds of the foreign loans on railroads,
the army and fleet. leaving the people
without schools or roads. yet 1t is de-
clared there Is no money to feed the
soldiers and everywhere there are IN
surrections of the beggared and starved
troops and sailors. The manifesto even
charges the government with using the
deposits in the government savings
banks to speculate on the bourse and
with covering up it's chronic deficits IN
the interest OF the immense debt by
the proceeds of the foreign loans, which
are at last exhausted.
The rich, It Is further declared. have
already taken warming and are con-
verting their property into securities
and gold and are sending them abroad.
The only salvation for the country, ac-
Cording to the manifesto, Is the over
throw of the autocracy by a constituent
assembly and the sooner the govern
ments falls the better. Therefore the
last resource of the existence of the
old regiments financial revenue-must
be stopped.
The document is signed by the mem
bers of the Workmen's council, the
committee of the pam Russian union
and the central committees of the So
cial Democrats, Social revolutionists
and Socialists Of Poland.
This great step of the revolution
aries, which throws down the gauge of
battle to the government, was pre-
pared with such secrecy that the au-
thorities were taken off their guard
and did not even attempt to prevent it's
publication in the newspapers. The
revolutionary leaders expect it will be
followed by reprisals and arrests, but
all this has been foreseen. The lead
ers laid their plans deeply before is
suing the manifesto. New committees
of the various organizations have been
elected in the third and fourth degrees.
If one set of committees is put behind
the bars another will take its place
and carry on the work.
The league of leagues was not asked
to join in the manifesto being re-
sarded with some jealousy by the pro-
letariat organizations which claim to
be- bearing the brunt of the revolution
and to be entitled to the fruits there
Of The proletariat leaders claim to
lave absolute knowledge that the gov
ernment has just issued S125000000 in
paper money.
Under the provisions Of the press
law, the editor of every paper which
printed the manifesto has rendered
himself liable to eight months i'm
prisonment and $1,000 fine. Now must
come the test of the governments pow
er. 1t develops that among the papers
of NJ Krustaleff the president of the
executive committee of the workman s
council, seized at the time Of his ar
rest, were documents which furnish
evidence of a well planned conspiracy
to seize and carry off Premier Witte.
The manifesto created a tremendous
sensation on publication and the COVE
ernment accepted the challenge con-
tained in it and confiscated the editions
of all the newspapers printing 1t, in
Guiding the Russ, Syn Ontechestva,
NoVaia Zhizu, Nasha Shisn, Nashalo
and Svo Bodantrog, but only after the
papers had been circulated everywhere.
The government announced that 1t
would proceed legally against the edi-
tors of these papers for violating the
press law and it has begun arrests of
members of the committees of the or
ganizations that signed the manifesto.
The impression prevails that this action
on the part of the government will pre-
cipitate events