The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-16

Lie liOud&Cu TAKE IuoL III Lu6 ueaHLS OF
his subjects. Only a ministry enjoying
the confidence of parliament can
strengthen confidence in the govern
ment, and the extension of such care
can make tranquil the regular labors of
parliament possible. Above all, it is
first necessary in Russia to repeal the
exceptional laws, the laws Of increased
protection and the stage of siege. under
cover Of which the arbitrariness and
Irresponsible yof the officials appear
and develop.
AT the same time the principles of
the responsibility of the administration
to the representatives of the nation
must be adopted.
Further, for fruitful labor on the
part of parliament, there must be in
troduced the principle of true popular
representation, which consists in the
recognition that the union of the mon
arch and the people is ths only source
Of legislative power. Every barrier be-
tween the emperor and the people must
be removed. Further, there must be no
domain of legislation whuch would al
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lresentatives Of the people in conjunc-
ton with the monarch.
Parliament holds that it is its duty
to declareto your majesty in the name
of the people that the whole nation will
carry out the creative work of renew
ing its life with all its power and en-
ergy, with firm belief in the immin-
emit elevation of the fatherland If be-
tween it and the throne there does not
stand an imperial council composed of
appointed dignitaries and persons elect
ed by the highest classes of the popu-
lation, and if the legislative powers Of
the peoples representatives are not
limited by special laws.
"In the domain of the legislative
work before it parliament regards as an
absolute necessity for the country a
precise law assuring inviolability of the
person, liberty of conscience, speech and
the press, association, gathering and
strikes. Without these fundamental
principles, which are laid down by the
imeprial manifesto of October 30, no
reform Of the social condition is mag
Unable.
parliament is actuated by the I'M
shakable conviction that neither liberty
nor order can be assured without the
equality Of all citizens being establish
ed before the law Therefore parlia-
ment is preparing bin establishing the
equality of all citizens, and simultane-
ously by removing all class or national,
or religious privileges, an effort will be
made to freethe country from admins
| trative tutelage.
while leaving the limitation of civic
rights to the law courts, parliament
considers that the death sentence is not
admissible as basis for judicial SEN
| tence.
Parliament feels justified in declar-
ing that 1t will be the interpreter of
unanimous views of the whole nation
on the day Of the restoration Of the
law abolishing the death penalty.
| Careful examination Of the needs of
the peasantry, and the measures call
ed for by them, will form parliament's
next task. The rural population is i'm
patiently awaiting the satisfaction OF
| agraian needs Parliament would not
be doing its duty If it did not make a
law for the satisfaction of these needs
by the aid Of the crown domains, mon
astio lands and the compulsory expro-
priation of land belonging to the own
ers Of estates.
Parliament also holds that It is nee
essary to pass law confirming the
peasants in their enjoyment Of equal
rights, and freeing them from oppres-
sion by arbitrary authority and from
tutelage
PARLIAMENT holds that satisfaction Of
| the needs Of the working classes Is
equally incapable Of being deferred.
The first step In this direction must be
recognition of freedom of organization
for workmen, and their right to take in
dependent action for the alienation of
their material welfare,
Popular education Is another task
| that lies before parliament.
PARLIAMENT frther holds that 1t Is
necessary to include among the tasks,
the fulfiulment Of which cannot be de-
| ferred, the question Of the satisfaction
Of the long matured demands of the
various nationalities of the empire.
| Russia affords an example of q state
peopled by many races and nationali-
ties. Union in spirit of all Of these is
only possible through the satisfaction
of the needs Of each, whereby the indi-
vidualIty of the divers sides of their
lives will be preserved and developed.
Parliament will give careful heed to the
task of giving wide satisfaction to these
Just demands
"Your majesty: On the threshold OF
our labors one question agitates the
soul" etc, as already sent