Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-01-25
RUSSIAN STRIKERS
ISSUE MANIfESTOS
Clamor For Free Government
and Dethronement of Gar.
STRIKE SPREADS IN THE EMPIRE
Ancient Nation Throbs with Excite.
ment and Fear of Bloody ReVoIu,
ton-AlI Business Practically Sus
pended in ST. Petersburg.

St. Petersburg, Jan. 24.-2:25 p. N
st. Petersburg wears a martial as
pect today. Everywhere troops have
been drawn into court yards. Only
pickets are left outside, and small
squads of Cossacks are patrolling tht
streets. The stores along the princi
pal thoroughfares are mostly CLOSED
and barricaded.
The correspondent of the Associat
ed Press noticed several men distrib
uting proclamations The people for
merly were shy of accepting such doc
uments; now they are eagerly accept
ing them and have nick-named them
'lastotchke" (swallows), an allusion
to the spring which has become a syn
onym of evolution. The. correspon
dent secured number of copies. They
are all signed by 'th eRussian So
cial-Democratic Labor Party"
The proclamation dated Jan. %,
reads:
Comrades! So long as autocracy
exists no improvement in our condi
tion is possible. Therefore we con
tinue to inscribe on our banners the
following demands:
The cessation of the war
The summOning of a constitutional
assembly of Representatives of the peo
pie, universal suffrage and direct, Sc
oret ballot.
THE removal of class and race
privileges and restrictions
THE inviolability of the person and
docile.
Freedom Of conscience, speech and
the press; meetings, strikes and polit
ical associations.
A second proclamation, dated Jan
%, says:
THE protelariat of all countries are
united.
Citizens, you have witnessed the
bestial cruelty of the autocratic gov.
ernment You saw blood flowing in
the streets. You saw hundreds slaugh.
tered defendants of the cause of la.
bor You saw death and heard groans
of the wounded women and defense.
less children! The blood and brains
Of workingmen were spattered around
where their heads had been laid. Who
directed the soldiers to aim their rifles
and fire bullets at the breasts Of the
laborer? 1t was the emperor, or the
grand dukes, the ministers, the gen.
erals, the mobiles of the court!
They are the murderers! Slay
them.
ITO arms, comrades! Seize the ar.
senals and the arms at the depots,
and at the gunsmiths. Lay low the
prison walls. Liberate the defen-
ders of freedom; demolish the police
and gendarmes' stations, and the gov.
ernment and state buildings! We
must throw down the emperor and
the government, and must have our
own government!
Long live the revolution!
Long live the constituent assem-.
bly, OF the representatives of the peo.
ple!"
A third proclamation appeals to the
people not to attempt to injure privae
property.
The widest rumors are in circula.
ton. A mob is reported to be march.
ing on the Tsarskoe-Selo to see the
emperor as the multitude marched to
Versailles to ask King Louis XVI OF
France, for bread in 1899, but Id
story is utterly without foundation. In
certain quarters, where the woes OF
Russia are always laid to the door OF
Great Britain, the feeling aainst the
British had become intense, it being
charged that the British are furnish.
ing money to bring about a revolu.
ton.