The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-11-16
Russian Government Returns
Its Final Answer to Attempt
to Wrest autonomy.
POLES ARE ExASPERATED.
Declaration of Martial Law on Charge
of Revolt, May Prove Signal
for Renewal of Dis
~turbances.
Odessa, Nov. 13.-The death list
of Jewish victims in the recent
outbreak has been increased by ia
who succumbed to injuries.

SSS v o. uCdlilslISl E-a
of Jewish victims in the recent
outbreak has been increased by ia
who succumbed to injuries.
st. Petersburg, Nov. 15.-The formal
proclamation of martial law through
out Russian Poland and the proinulga-
ton Of the governments intention to
suppress the Polish movement to Sc
cure autonomy almost created a panic
on the bourse today. Imperial As again
fell to Sc cents. Industrials seem to
have no bottom.
The city is full OF rumors to the ef-
feet that the imperial ukase was is
sued over Count Whites head at the
~lnstlgation of the reactionaries, which
is equivalent to the counts retirement;
but 1t can be stated with p~ositiveness
that the action was taken up on the
spremier's advice. Count White favored
and impressed upon his majesty the
accessibility Of restoring Finland's con-
stltution and reversing the policy Of
the justification of the grand duchy,
put to surrender autonomy to Poland
after all the old grievances Of the Poles
mad been redresSed n they had been
placed upon an equality with Russians,
the count considered would only be a
prelude to an attempt to set UP the
ancient kingdom as a separate entity
and Would involve ultimately, either the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF the empire or the
necessity for bloody suppression such
as marked the revolutions of 1881 and
1862.
1t was regarded as wise. therefore.
to take the bull by the horns and let
the Poles understand that the separate
movement would not be tolerated, and
that until they came to their senses
further efforts to place in operation the
reforms of the manifesto would be sus-
pended. 1t is generally believed that
bntb Gnr1nanV and A,,ctr;a 1oI,n o;yyon
Russia assurances of support, but Of
nature cannOt be learned.
Whether or not this is true, Ger
many and Austria naturally are inter-
ested, each of them having a Polish
problem on their hands, and in not
raising the Polish hopes of a restora-
ton of the ancient kingdom of Poland
the present movement in Poland GER
tainly will not receive the sympathy
of the governments beyond the west
ern border.
Warsaw, Nov. 13.-ni O~strowiecka
street at 9 o'clock last evening an in
fantry patrol without provocarion fired
into a crowd of Jews, seriously wound
ing eight.
Relief for Peasants.
London, Nov. 13.-The st. Peters,
burg correspondent Of the Daily Tele-
graph says hat an imperial manifesto
will shortly be issued granting relief
to the peasantry by the cancellation of
some twenty million roubles of arrers
of the land redemption tax which has
been levied since the emancipation of
1861, together with the extension Of
the operations of the peasant banks.
No Liberty for Poland.
ST. Petersburg, Nov. 13.-Poland is
not to be permitted to become a second
Finland. The Russian government, in
a strongly Worded communication pub
lished this morning, serves notice on
the Polish ~nationalists that for good
or i'll the ancient kingdom of Poland
has become an intergral part of the
Russian empire and that while the
government intends to fully observe
the national rights of Poland any at
tempt to wrest Polish autonomy from
S. emperor would be considered an
act of revolt and would lead the Poles
into the paths trodden by them in 1891
and 1863.
The Russian authorities recognize
the gravity of the movement in which
two a~ntagonistic parties, the national
lists and the socialists, under the lead
ership of such Poles as Henrik Sienk-
.iewicz, the novelist, has Joined forces.
and they declare that none of the
benefits of, the emancipation manifesto
can be conferred on % country in re-
volt"
An Ultimatum to Poles.
An official communication issued thf..
morning recalls the fact that the impe-
rial ukase Of December % last estab-
lished bases for the gradual renovation
of the civil life of Russian subjects and
points out that the measures adopted
in pursuance Of that ukase affected
equally the Polish people. The ukase
says:
I'm accordance with the ukase. the
exceptional laws hindering the free de-
~ rF fLn pn3;1, ,,-1,1
and the Poles were given the same
rights as the Russians. Educational.
municipal, and judicial reforms were
introduced, as stipulated by the decis-
ions arrived at by the committee of
ministers on June IS, and by the ukase
of April regarding religious liberty. The
general measures adopted by the gov
eminent were extended to Poland,
which also was given the right of par
~ticipation in the douma and freedom
of meeting.
FINALLY On October 80 the Poles were
fully recognized as free citizens. there
by obtaining full opportunity to prove
their capacity. BY participating in a
great creative work they would conse-
-%quently have gradually attained the ul-
rerior progress of the Polish nation
with the aid of the electoral institu-
tions, which naturally would have SYM
pathiZed with their fate.
F. fol SSllliiS tlic pdIiIul ItSSOilS Oh the
past, the politicians who are directing
the national movement in the kingdom
of Poland are making attempts as IAN
gerous for the Polish population as they
are insolent toward Russia to bring
about the separation from the empire.
Governments Ultimatum.
"The government will not tolerate at
tacks on the integrity of the empire, in
surrectionary plots or acts of violence,
1t declares in q decisive manner that az
long as the troubles in the Vistuia dis
ttricts continue, INC as long as that part
of the population adhering to political
.agitators continues its present sway,
these districts shall receive none of the
benefits resulting from the manifestos
of August 1S and October 30, 1905.
There could obviously be no ques-
ton of realizing pacific principles in q
country in revolt. Therefore,, for the
restoration of order, all the districts of
the Vistula are temporarily declared to
be i'll a state of war.