Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-25
RUSSIANS RUFFLED
Political Situation Is Again
Threatening.
OVER FUNDAMENTAL LAW
General Distrust Of Governments In
tentions.
STIMULUS TO THE OPPOSITION
Sharp Criticism From a Newspaper
Cars Document Denounced as
Mockery-Fear UpheavaL
STIMULUS TO THE OPPOSITION

ST. PETERSBURG, April 26.-The polit-
ical situation has suddenly grown threaten
ing. The publication yesterday Of the draft
Of the new fundamental law or "consti-
tuition" of Russia has aroused a storm Of
Indignation, and amid the present general
distrust Of the governments motives has
furnished just the stimulus needed to solid
ify the entire opposition in parliament
For some time the social democrats ana
other proletariat Organizations have been
trying to arrange. general uprising to CO.
incide with the convocation Of parliament,
but apparently they were making no head
way. Now, however, a great movement
among the idle workmen of the capital,
who number $4,000, has come to the sur
face, and there Is more than a suspicion
that this movement is simply cover for
real uprising which Is being organized
behind 1t.
Big meetings of men out of work held
in the suburbs during the last few nights
were attended by orators Of the social
democratic party.
A council Of men out of work has also
sprung into existence like the famous
workmens council which directed the big
strike of last fall. Proclamations have
been issued calling upon all workmen to
support the men out of work, who de-
mand that the city within week shall
put them to work upon the construction
OF new street railroads and bridges, for
which 100000 has been appropriated
The men out OF work also announce that
they will send a delegation Of eightyseven
representatives to the city council tonight
to receive the final answer of the munich
pality.
a Striking Analogy.
There is a striking analogy between the
methods now adopted by the workmen and
those preceding red Sunday" January 22.
1905, and many people believe that they
see In the new Organization the hand of
Gapon. All trace of the former priest has
been lost. The holy synod officially de-
nfes that he is sequestered in a monastery,
and he may be the directing mind behind
the scenes Of the drama which Is being un-
folded.
It is significant that the headkeeper of
the local prison has received a letter signed
by the Workmen's League warning him
that the prisoners will be liberated May
TO- but saying that his life Will be spared
II he does not interfere
The Rech insists that with the realization
of the new Russian loan and under false
conviction that the revolution is suppressed
the government has not hesitated to again
show the cloven hoof not even masking its
intention to dissolve parliament If it is
found to be troublesome"
M. BrianchaninoH. in the Slovo today
calls the draft Of the fundamental law" a
"mockery that will be resented by every
honest man. be he a member of the Black
Hundred or a social revolutionist," adding:
such mixture of lies and false logic on
the eve OF the assembling of the real mas
tiers OF the country can only tend to push
the people to a fresh revolution, with It's at
tending conflicts and anarchy. The exist
ing regime seems fated to go Down in
blood"
A Dangerous Element.
A real dangerous element in the situation,
however, is not in the attitude of the lib
erals. but in the possibility of another up
heaval from below at the very moment
when the intellectual forces Of the country
had been united.