The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-24
ADDRESS TO THE
] RUSSIAN PEOPLE
Revolutionary Documen t
Passed by Lower House
Just Before Adjournment.
MASSES URGED TO RESIST
MANY OF THE MEMBERS FEAR
ARREST.

Viborg. Finland. July 23.-The cur
tain dropped this afternoon on the final
act Of the drama of Russia's first par
lament when, under the spur of a
threat of Governor Richanberg to use
military force to end the session, and
with troops already converging on the
Hotel Belyedere, where the meeting was
held, the assembled members Of the
lower house, 1856 In number, hurriedly
adopted a signed address TO the peo-
pie, which is thoroughly revolutionary
IN It's nature, elected a perpetual exec
utive committee headed by Prince Paul
Dolgoroukoff, vice president of the
house, to carry on the work of liberia
ton, and adjourned amid characteristic
Russian embracing and kissing.
few members, including President
Mouromtseff. Ivan Petrunkevich and
Count Heyden, returned to st. Peters
burg by evening trains.
Many Fear Arrest.
The constitutional democratic cohorts
intended 10 go TO st. Petersburg in a
body in the morning, but many of the
radical members, fearing their arrest
On their arrival at the capital, will re-
main for the present In Finland or re-
turn by roundabout routes
The address, which bears a remarkl-
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 the cells of the fortress of ST.
Peter and st. Paul, strikes the govern
.ment in its most vulnerable point by
declaring that the administration and
not parliament is responsible for the de-
lay in the settlement of the agrarian
question, and by proclaiming a cessa-
ton of payment of taxes and of mill
tary service and reputation Of future
loans
The address is as follows:
Address to the People.
ITO the people, from their popular
representatives
'Citizens of All Observation-Disclosures
has been dissolved by ukase of July q.
You elected us as your representatives
and instructed us to fight for our coun-
try and freedom. In execution of your
instruction and our duty we drew up
laws in order to insure freedom to the
people We demanded the removal of
irresponsible ministers who were in
fringing thu laws with impunity and
depressing freedom. First of all, how
ever we wanted TO bring out law re-
specting the distribution of land to
working peasants and involving the as
signment TO this end of crown appan-
ages. monasteries and lands belonging
to the clergy, and compulsory expro-
priation of private estates. The gov
eminent held such a law to be inadmis-
sible. and upon parliament once more
urgently putting forward its resolution
regarding compulsory appropriation
parliament was dissolved.
Autoeraey Rigns.
1.-THE government promises to convene
A new parliament seven months hence.
Russia must remain without popular rep
resentation for seven whole months, at
a time when the people are standing on
the brink of ruin and industry and COM
merce are undermined; when the whole
country is seething with unrest and when
the ministry has definitely shown its in
capacity to do justice to popular needs.
For seven months the government will
act arbitrarily and will fight against the
popular movement in order to obtain
pliable. subservient parliament. Should ii
succeed however, in completely suppress
sing the popular movement the govern
ment will convoke no parliament at all
Resistance Urged.
Citizens. stand up for your trampled-
on rights for popular representation and
for an imperial parliament. Russia must
not remain day without popular repre-
sentation. You possess the means of ac-
curing it. The government has without
the assent of the popular representatives
no right to collect taxes from the people
nor to summon the people to military SER
vice Therefore you are now the gov
eminent They dissolved parliament was
justified in giving neither money nor SOL
diers Should the government. however,
contract loans in order TO procure funds
such loans will be invalid without the
consent of the popular representatives
The Russian people will never acknowl-
edge them and will not be called upon
10 pay them. Accordingly, until popu-
lar representative parliament is sum-
moned do not give a kopec to the throne
or a soldier to the army. Be Steadfast
in your refusal. No power can resist
the united. inflexible will of the people.
Citizens in this obligatory and I'M
avoidable struggle your representatives
will be with you.
Sharp Differences.
Until the last moment it seemed that
the desire for unanimous adoption of the
manifesto would be wrecked. There were
sharp differences between the Constitu
tional Democrats and the revolutionists,
the latter wishing to proclaim the house
in perpetual session and abrogate the al
Democrats favored the declara-
ton OF the pacific general strike without
resort to revolutionary measures as a
protest against the emperor's dissolution
of parliament.
The psychological moment which
changed the minds of the moderates was
the arrivalof Governor Rechenberg with
the curt command to dispense or take the
when even the more con-
sentative of the Constitutional Demo-
Gratis. such as NJ. Petra avitsky and Pro-
fessor HertZenstein, who had made
speeches in favor of moderation struck
hands with the radicals and the whole as
sembly foreswore amendment and debate
and adopted the foregoing address.
All Signed but Three.
The Socialists on their part withdrew
the proviso that the house constitute |
itself a constituent assembly and COM |
promised on the election of a permanent |
executive committee. With the exception |