The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-07
WILL CAtsE snNsATIoN.
St. Petersburg Has Not Yet Heard of AssasmEnada0R.

Sts PetersDur9 Has Not Het Heard of AsaassGnataon.
 St. Petersburg, Feb. 7.--(1:50 a. m.)--
 The news of the assassination of Sois-
 alon Soininen, Procurator General of
 Finland, though occurring before noon
 on Monday. was not generally known in St. Petersburg last night, but may
 be expected to produce an immense
 sensation when 1t beromes public, as it will be regarded as the precursor of an era of terrorism for which the events
 of January in St. Petersburg and
 throughout Russia gave the signal. Until the identity of the assassin is
 definitely known 1t will be impossible. of course to establish the motive for , the attempt, but the present circum- stances in Finland render 1t almost cer- tain that the crime is of purely polit- ical character and of the same nature as the assassination of Count Bobrikoff,
 the Governor General of Finland, in
 June last.
 | The classification of the province of Finland has been meeting with great opposition and creating much bitter ness. It was especial so since the form ation of the party of active resistance which was recruiting from the bolder
 spirits of the original party of passive resistance and to which the perpetra-
 
 Ionged.
 Al the conference of revolutionary parties of Russia, comprising repre- sentatives of the Finnish active resist ance party, the Polish National League, the Russian Emancipationists and oth- CT revolutionary organs in Berlin last November. a program for general con- certed action was drawn up and the
 assassination of Soininen undoubtedly
 was in touch with the dissatisfied ele- ment through Russia. As a matter of fact never before in the history of the Enpire have events Of an anti-govern- | mental nature been in closer connec-
 tion, as has been shown by the univer-
 sal spread of the strike movement, and
 the assassination of SoIninen though principally inspired by the grievances l of the Finnish nationalists undoubted- l ly was also spurred on by the use of 1 troops against the strikers in St. Pe- tersburg and elsewhere.
 Little is known here regarding the
 murdered official; but as Procurator- l General he was adviser of the Finnish 1 Senate. which incurred the enmity of the anti-Russian parties on account of
 it's alleged subseFviency to the process | of Russifcation and Soininen undoubt' | edIy was selected as the representative and responsible victim.
 | Laws in Finland have no validity
 without the assent of the Senate; and l that body, when 1t was ratified by the manifesto of the Emperor in 1899. and 1 bv aubseduent edicts applying to Fln- | land. took the position on legal grounds | that 1t was bound to assent to what | ever was promulgated by the Emperor uttering at the same time protests against the measures. This was felt bv Finnish Mathematics to be Q subter- | fuRe and the subsequent reorganization | of the Senate, making 1t even more pro- Russian increases its unpopularity. The
 present Finnish Diet, on the other hand, which was summoned by Emperor Nich- olas after the death of Governor-Gen
 eral Bobrikoff and upon his advice, i stood firmly In opposition to the posi- | tion of the Senate. Its first step was | to adopt by the unanimous voice of all | the four estates a petition asking the l Emperor to restore the liberties and | constitution of Finland.
 1 Where the next terrorism will be att
 tempted 1t is impossible to predict; but
 1t may be anticipated in any one. of the l several quarters of the cast Russian Empire Thinking men of all parties | have expected a manifestation of this nature ever since the eventful Sunday. | January 22, terrorism being the obvious nasaAnra for the revengeful to adopt.