The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08
CLERGY IN REVOLT
IHRUOUT RUSSIA
They Raise a General Protest
Against Tyranny of Church
Administration.

St. Petersburg, April s.-The revolt
against the tyranny of the church ad-
ministration. is absorbing attention
here.
The clergy are now speaking their
sentiments on religion quiate as openly
as are liberals their political views.
The Intimate connection between the
movement for the regeneration of the
church and the reorganization of the
state is set forth in strong letter
printed this morning and ascribed, to
IA High Ecclesiastic, in which the
writer says:
1.-The church as living idea is mex
tricably bound up with Russian life,
and when the Russian public realized
that they could not any longer exist
without breaking the shackles of the
bureaucracy, the church awoke from it's
it was the universal right Of every
thinking Russian to do his task with
freedom o.. 49,
Waking of the Clergy.
The letter further declares that for
years the clergy. We're held so closely in
the wise of obedience, not to an idea but
to the dictates of one man. who vir-
tually said, 81 am the church. % that
they had become automatons to regis,
ter his decrees.. Now with the prospect
of liberty before them they are hardly
capable of raising their voices.
In the cities, it is added, there have
been many instances where the church
has, been used as a political machine to
stir up hatred and strife between the
various classes of the population, re
ments of the ignorant against the intel
ligent. . 20
The writer halls the day when the
church, freed from state control, will
devote itself to religion and not to poll
ties. ~
Vodka Is Boycotted.
The Polish workmen and revolution
lists have found a new way Of trying
to embarrass the government by or
ganizing boycott of vodka al. 4 tobacco
for the double purpose of saving the
money Of the people who are poor, an6
reducing the revenue of the state.
1.-THE Gear, the Assassin
The workmen Of the village Of Smo
| lensk made a demonstration yesterday
the occasion being the burial of an EN-
ployee of the PAIL factory, who was
killed by policemen few days ago
Six thousand persons assembled. There
| "SaS iSO LaSs CfSiy "NCiS, oho WASoti
deposited by socialists on the coffin wa!
inscribed, "Died an innocent victim il
the struggle for victory
| After the interment revolutionar,
proclamations were scattered among tn!
people and procession was formed
headed by socialist carrying q banner
inscribed Death to the Gear, the AS
sassin.'
| At this juncture large force of mill
tary and police dispersed the mob ant
seized the wreaths and banners. Thu
workmen did not attempt serious oppo
sition and none was seriously injured.
| The Sviet today made vicious assault
on the Jews, whom the paper charges
with being at the bottom of the revolu
tionary ropaganda in Russia. The lib
eral newspapers. the Sviet declared, ar
either in the hands of Jews or are Sc
cretly owned or subsidized by them.
-Four members of the nobility. M. Ia
gorski. Bachtiaroff, Baikoff and Korni
loft. who We're arrested on the charg,
of belonging to the fighting organiza
ton of the revolntionists, will be tried
May 8 on the charge of treason.
| The Finnish diet has unanimousl,
decided to petition the emperor to pro
rogue it until autumn. -. =
I Several members of the medical con
gress at Moscow have been arrested.