The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-11-03
LIBERTY FOR RUSSIA
CAR NICHOLAS ISSUES IMPERIAL
MANIFESTO TO PEOPLE.
Autocracy of Romanoffs Is at an End
Count Witte is at Head of New
Regme-Russian People Get Con.
cessions They Have Long Sought
Message to American People.

st. Petersburg, Oct 31.-"I 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, Russias 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 our
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 to
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 in
all circles of public life which are es-
sential to the we'll being of our peo-
pie.
I'VE, therefore, direct our govern
ment to carry out our inflexible will
in the following manner:
First, to extend to the population
the immutable right of civic liberty,
based on the real inviolability 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 in
the douma so far as the limited
time before the convocatiOn of
the douma will permit, those classes
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 of
things.
Third, to establish as an unchange-
able rule that no law shall be en-
forcible without the approval of the
state douma, and that it shall be pos
sible for the elected of the people to
exercise participation in the super
vision of the legality of the acts of the
ministers appointed by us.
we appeal to all faithful sons of
Russia to remember their duty to-
ward the fatherland, to aid in ter
these unprecedented trou-
bles and to apply their forces in CO.
operation with us to the restoration
OIL calm and peace upon our natal
soil.
"Given at Peterhof, October 80, in
the 18th year of our reign.
(Signed) NICHOLAS.