The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-27
THE DONNA
DEFIES THE CAR
Appeals to the People To Demand
Their Rights.
NO SOLDIERS and NO TAXES.

clded the Conservatives, Who had Been
Resisting the Radicals, to Join Hands
With Them. and the Vigorous Address
Was Adopted.
Viborg, Finland, (By Cable).-The
curtain dropped Monday afternoon on
the final act of the drama of Russia's
first parliament when, under the spur OF
the threat of Governor Rechanberg to
use military force to end the session,
and with troops already converging on
the Hotel Belvedere, where the meet
ing was held, the assembled members
of the lower house-I86 in number
hurriedly adopted and signed an address
to the people which is thoroughly revo-
lutionary in its nature, elected per-
petual executive committee, headed by
Prince Paul Dolgoroukoff, vice president
of the house, to carry on the work of
liberation, and adjourned amidst charac-
teristic Russian embracing and kissing.
A few members, including President
Mouromtseff, Ivan Petrunkevich and
Count Heyden, returned to St. Peters
burg by evening trains. The Constitu-
tional Democratic cohorts intend to go
to St. Petersburg in a body in the
morning; but many of the radical men,
bers,- fearing arrest on their arrival at
the capital, will remain for the present
in Finland or return by roundabout
routes.
The address, which bears remarka
BILE similarity to the manifesto framed
by the council of workmen last Novem-
Der, which landed its authors and the
editors of eight St. Petersburg newspa-
pers in cells of the fortress of St. Peter
and st. Paul, strikes the government in
its most vulnerable point by declaring that
the administration and not parliament is
responsible for the delay in the settle
ment of the agrarian question, and by
proclaiming cessation Of payment of
taxes and of military service and re-
quotation of future loans.
TEXT OF THE ADDRESS.
The address is as follows:
"To the People from their Popular
Representatives
Citizens of All Russia-Parliament
has been dissolved by ukase of July Fl.
You elected us as your representatives
and instructed us to fight for our country
and freedom. In execution of your in
structions and our duty, we drew up
laws in order to insure freedom to the
people. We demanded the removal of
irresponsible ministers who were infring-
ing the laws with IMMUNITY and op-
pressing freedom. First of all, however,
we wanted to bring out law respecting
the distribution of land to working peas
ants and involving the assignment, to
this end, of crown appanages, monas-
teries and lands belonging to the clergy
and compulsory appropriation of private
estates. The government held such a
law to be inadmissible and upon parlia-
ment once more urgently putting for
ward its resolution regarding compul-
sorry appropriation parliament was dis
solved
The government promises to convoke
new parliament seven months hence.
Russia must remain without popular
representation for seven whole months,
at time when the people are standing
on the brink of ruin, and industry and
commerce are undermined, when the
whole country is seething with unrest
and when the ministry has definitely
shown its incapacity to-do justice to the
popular needs. For seven months the
government will act arbitrarily and will
fight against the popular movement in
order to obtain a pliable, subservient
parliament Should it succeed, however,
In completely suppressing the popular
movement the government will convoke
no parliament at all
Citizens, stand up for your trampled-
on rights, for popular representation and
for an imperial parliament Russia must
not remain day without popular rep
resentation. You possess the means of
acquiring it The government has, with
out the assent of the popular representa-
tives, no right to collect taxes from the
people nor to summon the people to
military service Therefore, you are
now the government. The dissolved
parliament was justified in giving neith-
er money nor soldiers. Should the gov
eminent, however, contract loans in or
der to procure funds, such loans will
be invalid without the consent of the
popular representatives. The Russian
people will never acknowledge them
and will not be called upon to pay them
Accordingly until a popular representa-
tive parliament is summoned do not give
kopec to the throne or a solder to the
army, Be steadfast in your refusal No
power can resist the. united, infexible
will of the people
Citizens, in this obligatory and una
voidable struggle your representatives
will be with you"
Until the last moment is seemed that
the desire for unanimous adoption of
the manifesto would be wrecked There
were sharp differences between the Con-
stitutional Democrats and the Revolu-
tionists, the latter wishing to proclaim
the house in perpetual session and abro-
gate the allegiance of the people. while
the Constitutional Democrats favored the
declaration of pacific general strike
without resort to revolutionary measures
as protest against the Emperor's disso-
luton of parliament