Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-11-01
liberty FOR RUSSIA
CAR NICHOLAS issues IMPERIAL
MANIFESTO TO People.
Autocracy Of Romanoffs ls at an End
Count Witte 10 at Head Of New
Regime-Russian People Get Con.
cessions They Have Long Sought
Message to American People.

St. Petersburg, Oct. ST. am sure
the American people, who understand
what freedom is. and the American
press, which voices the wishes Of the
people, will rejoice with the friendly
Russian nation at this moment, when
the Russian people have received from
his imperial majesty the promises and
guarantees of freedom, and will join in
the hope that the Russian people will
wisely aid in the realization of these
liberties by cooperation with the gov
eminent for their peaceful introduc-
ton. Only thus will it be possible to
secure the full benefits of the free
dom conferred upon the people"
Count White, Russia's first premier,
tonight sent the above message to
the American people through the AS
ISOLATED Press.
Cars Message.
Following is the text of the imperial
manifesto giving Russia rights of civil
liberty:
I'VE, Nicholas H., by the grace of
God, emperor and autOcrat Of all the
Russians, grand duke of Finland, etc.,
declare to all our faithful subjects
that the troubles and agitation in our
capitals and in numerous other places
fill our heart with excessive pain and
sorrow.
THE happiness of the Russian SOW.
ereign is indissolubly bound up with
the happiness of our people, and the
sorrow of our people is the sorrow
of the sovereign.
From the present disorders may
arise great national disruption. They
menace the integrity and unity of oul
empire.
The supreme duty imposed upon
us by Our sovereign Office requires
us to efface ourself and to use all the
force and reason at our command tt
hasten in securing the unity and CO
ordination of the powers of the cen
trail government and to assure the sue
cess of measures for pacification ir
all circles of public life which are es
sential to the well being of our PEG
pie.
I'VE, therefore, direct our govern
ment to carry out our infexible will
in the following manner:
| First, to extend to the population
the immutable right of civic liberty
based on the real invielability of per
son, freedom of conscience, speech
union and association.
Second, without suspending the al
ready ordered elections to the state
douma, to invite the participation II
the douma so far as the limited
time before the convocation o.
the douma will permit, those classe!
of the population now completely de
prived Of electoral rights, leaving the
ultimate development Of the principle
of electoral rights in general to the
newly established legislative order o.
things.
Third, to establish as an unchange
able rule that no law shall be en-
forcible without the approval of tn,
state douma, and that it shall be pos
sible for the elected Of the people tt
exercise participation in the super
vision of the legality Of the acts of thu
ministers appointed by us.
| I'VE appeal to all faithful sons o.
Russia to remember their duty to
ward the fatherland, to aid in ter
minating these unprecedented trou
bles and to apply their forces in co
Operation with us to the restoration
OF calm and peace upon our nata
soil.
"Given at Peterhof, October 80, il
the 18th year of our reign.
| (Signed) NICHOLAS"