Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-02-09
ADDRESS BY CAR
TALKS TO A DELEGATION OF
WoRKINGMEN.
WILL RELIEVE ALL HE CAN
Delegation Informed That Laborers
Were Deceived by Traitors to Rus
sia--Asserts That Wrongs Will Be
Riehted.

ST. RSBURG-Personal as
rate the conditions and remove the
causes insofar as they are economic
which led to the recent strike were
delivered by Emperor Nicholas to
worliingmen representing all the
leading factories of st. Petersburg,
who, at his Invitation, journeyed to
Tsarkoe Seloe and were received in
audience in the hall of the Alexander
palace, where he has his winter
residence.
This interview. face to face with
their little father" in whom their
faith has not been shaken by the
events of the bloody Sunday Of Janu-
airy %, has had a far greater and
more assuring effect than any num-
Der of proclamations by ministers
and governor generals and the work
men of st. Petersburg are now gen.
orally inclined to accept the prom
Uses of Governor General Trepoff and
Finance Minister Kekovsovoff at their
face value.
The gift of the imperial family Of
$4,000 to aid the families and vic
tins OF the conflict of january 90
also has had an excellent effect and
as the news slowly permeates the la
boring classes of Russia it is expect
ed that it will make them content to
wait for the promised reforms.
Like a wave caused by the falling
Of stone the strike movement, how
ever, is spreading over the great sea
Of Russian industrial life, and while
st. Petersburg and Moscow, where
the troubles began, are now placid,
the workmen of Poland and other
provinces are not yet calm and the
ripple has reached to faroff Irkutsk
and other Siberian towns.
Following is the cars address to
the delegation who represented the
employees of factories and workshops
at st. Petersburg:
81 have Summoned you in order
that you may near my words from
myself and communicate them to
your companions. The recent lament
table results have occurred because
you allowed yourselves to be led
astray by traitors and enemies to our
country. When they induced you to
address a petition to me on your
needs they desired to see you revolt
against me and my government. They
forced you to leave your honest work
at a period when all Russian work
men should be laboring increasingly
in order that we might vanquish oul
obstinate enemy. Strikes and dis
graceful demonstrations led the
crowds to disorders which obliged
| and always will oblige, the authori
| ties to call out troops. AS result
innocent people were victims. know
| that the lot of the workman is MOI
easy. Many things require improve
ment, but have patience. You viii
understand that it is necessary to be
just toward your employers and tc
| consider the conditions of our indus
tries. But to come to me as a re
bellious mob in order to declare you
wants is crime. In my solicitud'
for the working classes l will talk
measures which will assure that ev
erything possible will be done to i'm
prove their lot and secure an investi
CATION of their demands through lega
channels. am convinced of tn
honesty of the workmen and thei
devotion to myself, and / pardon thei
transgression. Return to your worl
with your comrades and carry out tn
tasks allotted to you. May God assis
YOU"