Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-16
government Is Openly Defled and
Wholesale Arrests Are
Anticipated.
nocUMENT IS REVOLUTIONARY
Conditions Of the Country Set
Forth in Plain Terms and
Described as Terrible.
People ordered Not to Pay Taxes to
Refuse All But Gold for Wages ana
To Withdraw Savings.

81 Petersburg, Friday, Dec TO- via
rvdtkuhnen, East Prussia, Dec. To-
The proletariat organizations united in
ne issuance today OF manifesto In
which the government Is openly deied'
The manifesto has created a tremend-
ous sensation and wholesale arrests are
anticipated.
In the document made public the
government is declared TO be bankrupt
and the people are ordered not to pay
taxes and to refuse to accept anything
except gold in payment of wages. They
are also warned to withdraw all their
deposits from the savings banks.
THE MANIFESTO.
New York, Dec. ia cable dispatch
to the Herald, dated st. PETERSBURG
Dec "A. via Eydtkuhnen, Dec 10. says:
The revolutionary party throws down
The gauntlet to the government in the
shane OF a manifesto which will appear
Friday and will surely figure as a his
torcal document 1t Is stamped with
The official seal OF the Workmens al
lance and means purely and simply
that the government Will have TO pro-
coed to measures OF force or give way
entirely. II reads in part thus:
"The government Is on the high road
10 bankruptcy. II has destroyed the
fatherland, sown 1t with corpses, starry
ed the peasants, who are unable 10 pay
another kopek In taxes
Trade Is at standstill and dlsor-
ganized. Factories are closing and nc
work is forthcoming.
Those who have grown accustomed
to enrich themselves at the expense
Of the government do not know Wha'
to DO and are hurrylng TO close w
the government bureaus and work.
shops. Bankruptcies are falling ator
bankruptcies. Even the banks are tot
terlng, while the trade turnover Is re-
duced to nothingness.
This struggle between the govern
ment and the revolutionaries is caus'
ing nothing beyond continued agitation
and suspense.
Foreign capital Is being rapidly
withdrawn. Wealthy people are hur-
riedly disposing OF their property anc
are taking refuge abroad
Robbery Is rampant. No mans lifC
and property are safe. The govern.
ment formerly expended unlimited sums
en- the army and navy, nothing or
education or on roads and other means
OF communication leaving the state IL
hopeless condition.
Notwithstanding all this. the treas
ury does not possess the means &c
find the humble fare necessary for tht
soldier and sailor
"All over the country hungry anC
disaftected troops are mutinying. Tn,
railroads are completely disorangized
their money being appropriated by tn,
government TO place them on a pro
per basis requires many hundred mil
lions.
THE gold reserve in the Imperia
bank Is quite insufficient to meet thu
government obligations and It's genera
economic position. The result woulC
be something awful II the government
We're called TO meet its obligations II
gold.
Taking advantage of its irresponsi
putty, the government has been accus
toned TO obtain loans infinitely abov,
'he powers OF the country to meet
making new loans for the purpose o.
meeting calls for interest on old obliga
tons
is penetrating shameful receptions
craving up budgets in which expenses
are shown purposely diminishing an(
income Increased.
TO undo these terrible facts and al
thls long continued speculation, th'
only possible medium IL on effectiy,
assembly. That body must, as its frs
TASK, take in hand strict investiga
tlon into the finances of the country an,
snow the people an honest picture o
me position In all its horrors.
The terrible enigma before the ma
uonal assembly Is how to straightel
Out the existing financial chaos.
one way out Of this Is 20 vanquisl
he government and to take from II III,
ast shred of power It is necessary I,
KNOCK from under Il It's last support
namely, Its income. This Is necessar!
hot only on account of the economi
position OF the country, but In order L
unable us TO hold up our heads befor
oLheF civilized countries. We hav,
therefore resolved to refuse to meet an,
lorm OF government taxation, and de
alahd that the government shall pa,
LOT everything In specie, even for small
sums insisting upon receiving coins
roy paper money. 20 withdraw every
ming from the Imperial Savings bank
on,y IN gold, and to demand the abne
ss.on OF the autocracy, which neve
aad inc authority Of the people TO in
'uI such heavy financial commitments
AZ the present moment the govern
mem behaves TO It's subjects as though
were a conquering power. Therefore
we nave resolved not to allow the re
payment OF such loans as the lmperia
government has contracted while car
,ylng on open warfare with the PEG
al me document Is signed by the Coun
~ VI me Workmen's Alliance, tn
iLls OK committees Of the Peasants
nsue' the central committee Of tn
e cr,noeFatic Workmen's party, and tn
central committee.