The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-02-02
MET LITTLE FATHEE
Emperor Talks to Russian
Workmen Face to Face.
RIOTINC TO BE NET WITH BAYONETS
Car VIII Investigate All Wrongs,
and Everything Possible VIII
He Done TO Improve Peo-
pies Condition,

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2.-Person
nj assurances Of his intention TO ameli
crate the conditions and remove the
causes insofar as they are economic,
which led to the recent strike We're
delivered by Emperor Nicholas TO Il
delegation Of worklngmen representing
all the leading factories Of st. Peters
burg, including representatives Of thir-
ty-tw0 of the largest industrial estab-
llshments and the Baltic and Franco
Russian shipyards, the Putlloff Iron
works and the Russo American Rubber
works, who ut his invitation journeyed
TO Tsarskoe Selo and were received in
audience In the hall of the Alexander
palace, where he has his winter resi-
dence
This interview face to face with their
'lttle father" in whom their faith has
not been shaken by the events of the
bloody Sunday of Jan. -, has had II
far greater and more reassurlng effect
than any number of proclamatlons by
ministers and governor generals, and
the workmen of st. Petersburg are
now generally inclined TO accept the
promises of Governor General Trepoff
and Finance Minister Kokovsoff at
their face value.
The emperor entered the hall. accom-
panied by Grand Duke George Mix.
hailovltch. General Hesse, the minister
Of the imperial court and the COM
mandant of the palace.
The workmen bowed deeply to his
majesty, who said:
Good day, my children"
The workmen replied:
1--WE wish your majesty good health"
The emperor then said:
IL have summoned you in order that
you may hear my words from myself
and communicate them to your COM
panions. The recent lamentable events
with such sad but inevitable 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 period
when all Russian workmen should be
laboring increasingly in order that we
might vanquish our obstinate enemy.
Strikes and disgraceful demonstrations
led the crowds to disorders which
obliged and always will oblige the au-
thorities to call out troops. AS re-
suit innocent people were victims.
81 know that the lot Of the workman
is not easy. Many things require i'm
provement, but have patience
You will understand that 1t is neces-
sary to be just toward your employers
and TO consider the condition OF our
| industries But to come to me as re-
| belli0us mob in order to declare your
wants Is a crime
I'm my solicitude for the working
classes will take measures which will
assure that everything possible will be
| done 10 improve their lot and secure an
investigation of their demands through
legal channels. | am convinced of the
honesty of the workmen and their de
votion to myself, and ! pardon their
| trRnsgreSsion
Return to your work with your com
rades and carry out the tasks allotted
| to you.
MAY God assist YOU"
| \ dispatch from Odessa says that
Chief of Police Galovina was shot near
the police station in the center of the
city and was wounded in the right
shoulder The wound is not danger
GUS
! Chief Galovine was in carriage
| when an unknown man. dressed as a
workman, attempted to assassnate
him. The would he murderer fed but
was captured. The bullet has not yet
been extracted from GalOvine's shout
der
NJ Souvorin, editor of the Novoe
Vremya, comes out strongly in favor
of a zemskyzabor Told land parlia-
ment), which he declares will not only
maintain but will strengthen autocra-
cy. 1t would be channel of communi-
cation between the sovereign and the
people, without which it would be i'm
possible to have lasting reforms.
Like wave caused by the falling of
a stone the strike movement, however
is spreading over the great sea of Rus.
sian industrial life, and, while st. Pc.
tersburg and Moscow, where the trou-
bles began, are now placid, the work
men of Poland and other provinces are
not yet calm, and the ripple has
reached to far off Irkutsk and other 81
berian towns.
Emperor Nicholas adopted the tradi
tional farherly tone in his talk with the
workmen. He chided them for allow
ing themselves to be misled into engag
ing in movement imperiling the inter
nal order of Russia and aiding the for
eign foe and for attempting to demand
by force what he otherwise would b,
willing to do voluntarily The work
men received the royal assurances o.
reform with cheers and after luncl
ut the imperial table returned to st. Pc
tersburg in the best of humor to repor
to their fellows, as enioined, the word