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DUMA URGES REVOLT
AS It IS DISPERSED
Moderates Join Radicals When
Menaced by Bayonets.
MANIFESTO TO THE RUSSIANS

Calls on People to Refuse to Pay
Taxes, Be Soldiers, or Recognize
Future Loans - Revolution is
Threatened.
Viborg, Finland.-In the dining
room Of the Hotel Belvedere 200
members of the dissolved Duma took
the first actual step in a revolution
for the overthrow of the Government
and the triumph of constitutional
rule. When troops were marching
in the streets, under orders to dis
perse the assemblage, the members,
without regard for party, passed with
tremendous cheering manifesto to
the nation. All Russia was directed
mot to give kopec to the throne
or soldier to the army" The mani
festo breathed revolution in every
line. It took issue direct with the
Gear and his Ministers, declaring that
the only government in the nation
was that of the people themselves.
1t remained for this quiet Finnish
city to see the most thrilling of all
the sessions Of Russias brief Parlia-
ment.
st. Petersburg.-T following is
the text of the Parliamentary mani
festo sent broadcast:
Citizens Of All Russia-Parliamen
has been dissolved by ukase of July
81. You elected us your representa-
tives and instructed us to fight for
our country and freedom. In exc
cution Of your instructions and our
duty we drew up laws in order to
insure freedom to the people. We
demanded the removal Of irresponsi-
BILE Ministers who were infringing the
laws with impunity and depressing
freedom. First, of all, however, we
wanted to bring out law respecting
the distribution Of land to working
peasants and involving the assign
ment, to this end, of Crown appan-
ages, monasteries and lands belong
ing to the clergy, and compulsory eX-
preparation Of private estates. Tne
Government held such a law to be In
admissible, and upon Parliament once
more urgently putting forward its
resolution regarding compulsory eX-
propriation Parliament was dissolved.
The Government promises to con-
woke a new Parliament seven months
hence. Russia must remain without
popular representation for seven
whole months, at a time when the
people are standing on the brink OF
ruin, and industry and commerce are
undermined; when the whole coun-
try is seething with unrest and when
the Ministry has definitely shown its
incapacity to do justice to popular
needs. For seven months the gov
ernment will act arbitrarily and Will
fight against the popular movement
in order to obtain pliable, subser-
Went Parliament. Should it succeed,
however, in completely suppressing
the popular movement the Govern
ment will convoke no Parliament at
all.
Citizens, stand up for your tram
pled-on rights, for popular represen-
tation and for an Imperial Parlla-
ment. Russia must not remain day
without popular representation. you
nossess the means Of acquiring IL.
The Government has, without the as
sent of the popular representatives,
no right to collect taxes from tne
people nor to summon the people TO
military service. Therefore, you are
now the Government. The dissolved
Parliament was justified in giving
neither money nor soldiers. Should
the Government, however, contract
loans in order to procure funds, such
loans will be invalid without the con-
sent of the popular representatives.
The Russian people will never ac-
knowledge them and will not be
called upon to pay them. Acsora1ng- ,; na
", until a popular representative Par
liament is summoned do not give a
kopec to the throne or soldier to
the army. Be steadfast in your re-
fusal. No power can resist the
united, inflexible will of the people.
Citizens, in this obligatory and un-
ayoidable struggle your representa-
tives will be with you.