Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-17
GOVERNMENT SPENT
COUNTRY'S INCOME
Also Proceeds of Foreign Loans
on Railroads,
sAlD PRoLETARlAr MANIFESTO
Document Declared Bankruptcy of the
Treasury and Ordered Workmen to
Payment of Wages in Gold.

st. Petersburg, Friday Dec. 15.-
morning via Eydlkuhnen, East Prussia,
through the invisible government" !"
threw a bomb shell into the camp of
the official government during the
night issuing a manifesto, following
the form of regular imperial docu-
menI, declaring the bankruptcy of tae
treasury, ordering the proletariat army
everywhere to refuse to pay taxes of
any description, to insist on the pay
ment of wages in gold or silver, and TO
Withdraw all their deposits from the
savings banks in gold.
The manifesto Is a terrible indict-
ment of the manner in which the bu-
reaucracy has brought the country to
financial ruin, asserting that the gov
ernment has squandered not only the
country's income, but the proceeds of
the foreign loans on railroads, the
army and the feet, leaving the people
without schools or roads. it is declared
there is no money to feed t1e sol
diers, and everywhere there are insur
rections Of the beggar, and starved
troops and sailors.
The manifesto even charges tnat
the government Is using the deposits
In tne government savings banks to
speculate on the bourse and with COW
ering up its chronic deficits in the in
terext on the immense debt by the pro-
ceeds of the foreign loans which are
at last exhausted.
The rich, it is fruther declared, have
already taken warning and are convert
ing their property into securities and
they are sending these abroad The
only salvation for the country, accord
ing to the manifesto, is the overthrow
of the autocracy by constituent as
sembly and "the sooner the govern
ment falls, the better Therefore, tle
gime-its financial revenue-must be
stopped"
The document is signed by the mem
bers of the workmen's council the com
mittee of the Pan-Russian Union, and
the central committees of the Social
Democrats, Social-R and
Socialists Of Poland
This great step of the revolution
aries which throws down the gauge OF
battle to the government was prepared
with such secrecy that the authorities
We're taken off their guard and did not
even attempt to prevent its publica-
ton in the newspapers.
The revolutionary leaders expect 1t
will be followed by reprisals and ar
rests, but all this has been foreseen.
The leaders laid their plans deeply be-
fore issuing the manifesto. New CON-
mittees of various organizations have
been elected in the third and fourth de-
gree. If one set of committees is put
behind the bars, another will take its
place and carry on the work.
The League of Leagues was not ask
ed to poin in the manifesto, being re-
garded with some jealousy by t1e pro-
letariat organizations, which claim to
be bearing the brunt of the revolution
and to be entitled to the fruits thereof
The proleariat leaders claim to have
absolute knowledge that the govern
ment has just issued $125 100000 in
paper money. Under the provisions of
the press law the editor of every pa
per which printed the manifesto has
rendered himself liable to eight months
in prison and. $1,000 fine. Now must
come to the test the governments
power.
1t develops that among the papers of
NJ. Kruskleff, the president of tne ex
ecutive committee of the workmen's
council, seized at the time of mis- arrest
were documents which furnish evi-
dence of a well-planned conspiracy to
seize any carry off Premier Witte.