The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-22
ST. Petersburg the authority of the
car himself and Of daring the cars

horts of worlSmen with banners parade
the streets. These worI<men are bold
enough to declare that they will not
now be content with representative
government and freedom of the press;
that tomorrow they will demand from
the car and his government equal po-
IiticaI rights fer all classes, from the
highest TO othe lowest; liberty of speech
and religion and freedom from search
of domiciies by the police.
Sacred Duty to Gar
The labors of these orderly thou
sands, Gopon's Iieutenants, are like
those of men possessed and they will
dare everything. They are convinced,
on Gopon's solemn assurance, that if
the czar were free agent all their
demands would be conceded instantly.
This belief lends additional danger to
tho situation. Gopon's followers are
beginning to talk Of their sacred duty
to rescue the czar from the evil coun-
sellors who hold him in duress.
The resemblance of the crisis is COM
pIete to that at the outbreak of the
French revolution when the Parisians
appealed to Louis XVI. in person at the
Tuileries.
Storm Palace and Fire City
BERLIN, Jan. 22.-The TagebIatt's
st. Petersburg correspondent says he
learns from the strikers committee
that 140, 900 men will march to the win
ter palace today and demand to hand
petition to the emperor alone.
Otherwise, he says, they will storm
the palace and fire the city. Four reg
ments are deciared to be in readiness,
but they will not fire on the strikers.
TrembIes With Apprehension
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. %, 1:05 a.
m.-Despite official assurances at mid
night that the situation was well in
hand and that ample steps had been
taken to protect the vast industrial sec
tion of ST. Petersburg and insure the
safety of the city, the greatest uneasi-
ness for today pervades the entire
population.
Picked troops are stationed at va
rious points in the city and each house
contains miniature garrison, with
gendarmes in the court yards and ma
chine guns ready for the first erller-
gency The winter palace is strongly
command. Final instructions were is
sued last night.
The plan of the government is to
prevent the workmen from coming to
the center of the city today by guard
ing gates and bridges. A collision,
therefore, is believed to be more likely
to occur in the outskirts of st. Peters,
burg
All Shops Closed
Meanwhile the strikers are carrying
out their original programme. The few
mills and factories remaining active in
the city were closed during the day,
one of the last of them being the gov
ernment powder mill. Strike leaders
visited every shop in the city and all
of them, even those of butchers and
bakers and laundries were closed.
Traffic was stopped on the street car
lines, the men having joined the strik-
erS
Preparations for a big demonstration
at the winter palace square at o'clock
today have not been suspended, al
though the leaders have been warned
that it cannot take place and that the
emperor will not be there The work
will appear and listen to the grievances
set forth in the petition.
The deputation which on Friday took
the invitation to Emperor Nicholas to
attend the meeting having failed to
gain access to his majesty, Father
Gopen today sent it by his secretary to-
Interior Minister Sviatopolk Mirsky.-
During the day Antonius, metropolitan
i<1f q n
municated Father Gopon on the ground
that he was causing the people to rise
against the emperor, the head of the
church.
Troops May Waiver
Rumors that the troops have plainly
indicated their sympathy with the
| strikers and that if it comes to coll
| lision they will refuse to fire upon them
are everywhere rife and the workmen
themselves are thoroughly convinced
that such is the case. But the author
| tiles maintain that the loyalty of the
| troops is beyond question, pointing out
| that the only time Russian regiments
| showed treachery was in the Decem-
| brest revolution, Of 1921. when the
guard regiments participated; but they
say that the troops then were prac-
| tically soldiers of fortune returning to
Russia after the Napoleonic wars, i'm
bued with the revolutionary ideas Of
France. 1t is more fully realized, how
ever, that if the troops mutiny OF
actually join the workmen the govern
ment will be faced not with riot, but
with revolution.
Father Gopon InflexibIe
Father Gopon, at the request of Min
lister, of Justice Muravieff, went to the
ministry of justice-yesterday and had
long interview with NJ. Muravieff, at
which the minister tried to dissuade
him from his programme for Sunday.
Father Gopon. however, could not be
budged and at the end of the interview
left, saying:
I'VE must each do our duty accord
| ing to the light given us.
The plan of the workmen is to as
/ sennble at three points, the Putiloff and
Oubokoffsworks and the island of Vas
| sill Ostroy, and march to the palace
square They are fully convinced that
the emperor will be there to receive
| their petition.
The writer went among many groups
! of the workmen, but found no one who
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