Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-05
AN UPHEAVAL FEARED
Activity of Terrorists Has
Alarmed st. Petersburg.
AGITATION IS KEPT Up
PROSPECTS OF UPRISING WITH
SPRINGS ADVENT INCREASE.
Employers Admit Inability to Deal
With Workmen-People Are Be-
coming Panicky-Troops.
AGITATION IS KEPT Up

ST. PETERSBURG, April 5.-The pros
bects of a general upheaval of the city and
country with the advent of spring increase
daily Evidence accumulates that the
radical forces are acting in unison and
awaiting a signal, which it is generally be-
lieved will be given shortly after the Rus
sian Easter. The terrorists are showing
great activity and reports from all over the
country prove that the workmen, who in
many cases have been formulating petty
demands which are no sooner granted than
they are succeeded by others, are acting
under instructions from the revolutionary
leaders, who are only biding their time.
The employers frankly admit that it is
impossible to try to continue their businesses
and some of them have already shut down.
The people are plainly becoming panicky
and the authorities also cannot conceal
their alarm.
The guard regiments which usually go to
camp in April will be retained in ST. Peters
burg 1t is announced. until June, osten-
sibly in order to allow the camps to be
cleaned in view of the danger of cholera,
which is regarded as being so serious that
the sanitary authorities have ordered the
immediate cleaning of the streets, sewers,
cesspools and canals of the capital, and have
issued specific instructions TO householders,
especially in the poorer districts where the
people live in cellars.
Restive Over Delay.
The dilatory tactics of the government in
celebrating the scheme for popular repre-
sentation provided for in the imperial re-
script of March 3 tends to intensity the
acuteness of the coming crisis, as the lib
erals are firmly convinced that the real pur-
pose of the bureaucracy, if the crisis is
safely passed. is to smother the whole re-
form movement.
The state of public opinion on this sub
3ect is apparent from the fact that over
three hundred municipal councils and pub
lie institutions have already petitioned for
participation in the task of working out
the project. An intimation that it is pro-
posed TO send a commission abroad to study
the machinery of foreign parliaments
which would require months, has raised
another outcry.
The Novoe Vremya solemnly warns the
government that the situation is too dan
gerous for such maneuvers, declaring that
unless the government forms an assembly
and the date of the elections is Immediately
announced it will be impossible to restore
even a measure of public confidence and
the government will lose all chance of
curing the support and sympathy of the
liberals, who do not believe in violence
when the disorders which are predicted for
the immediate future break out.
The Constitutional Press.
In the meantime what is now called the
constitutional press adds fuel to the flames
by entering on campaign for exposing
the corruption and venality in various
branches of the administration. Old scan
dlls relative to the transportation of mer-
chant freights, especially on the Siberian
railroad, have been revived, and from docu-
mentary evidence the most rotten state of
affairs is shown to exist
As the military authorities control trans
portation on the Siberian railroad, the gem
eral staff is issuing permits for every car,
and merchants desiring to ship goods to
lrkutsk or further east are compelled to
buy Such certificates, regular traffic in
them having been exposed, permits bring
ing from 500 10 $500; the authorities then
shipping the goods as munitions of war,
while the latter are sidetracked
case is cited where il cost merchant
81 43 10 get a single car to Irkutsk and
another where car remained on a side
track from May to January because the
consignee declined to pay any more money
TO the military authorities