Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-07-25
Autocracy Assumes Old Time
Attitude of Hostility to Prog
ress and Light in Any Form,
StoIypin Follows Example
of His Predecessor PIehve,
GENERAL STRIKE MAY
TIE UP INDUSTRIES
Railway Employees and Social
lists Hold Secret Meeting to
Discuss Plans for Wholesale
WaIkout of Workingmenn

St Petersburg, July 24.--War to the
knife with the revolution and the
knife to the hiIt was proclaimed to-
day by Premier Stolypin in a tele-
gram addressed to the governor gem
erals, governors and prefect through
out Russia and to the viceroy of the
Caucasus, who are ordered to sttike
and spare not in their efforts to pre-
serve order and crush 1.-The enemies
of society"
In this category, as shown by the
events of the day, are not only rev
olutlonists and socialists, but also the
educated liberal and landed classes
represented in the constitutional don6-
ostatic party, whose clubs everywII ,re
have been closed, and all the progress
i've newspapers, which are not per
mltted to lift their voices anywhere
throughout the entire land
Premier Stolypin's telegram is as
follows:
In conformity with instructions re-
ceived from the emperor with the
view to securing full cooperation be-
tween the different local authorities,
hereby inform you that the govern
ment expects you to exercise vigtlant
and untiring supervision over your
subordinates. so that order may ee
promptly and definitely retored. Dis
turbances must be suppressed AMI
revolutionary movements must he put
down by all legal means. The meas
ures you take must be carefully con-
sidered The struggle begun is against
enemies of society, and not against SO
ciety itself.
consequently wholesale repression
cannot be approved of. Imprudent
and Illegal acts are likely to give rise
to discomfort instead of conducting to
calm, and cannot be tolerated. The in
tentlons of the emperor are immuta"
BILE. The government firmly desires
assist In the amendment of the legal
procedure and the laws hitherto en-
forced which no longer serve their
purpose The old regime will be re-
generated, but order must be fully
maintained. You must act on your
own Initiative, as you are invested with
responsibility. Firm and vigorous steps
taken on these lines will doubtless be
upheld by the best part of society"
The manifesto bears remarkable
similarity to the earlier compositions
of Ministers of the Interior Plehve and
BouIigan and Athe reactionary press
has even had slight difficulty In keep
ing 1t down to an appeal to tht
"Leaguefof Russian Men" and Other
old-school Russians to rise and smitC
all the progressive classes.
Even before the declaration of thC
dissolution of the lower house of par
lament the war office had perfected
its plans for handling expected disor
ders, both military and civilian.
General Muller Zakomelsky wh'
suppressed the Sebastopol revolt and
co-operated with General Renne
kampf In the reduction of the Siberial
rebellion last winter, was recalled from
the command of a corps and placed a
the disposition of the war office, L
be used wherever trouble might b'
manifested. Both the government anG
the revolutionists expect this outbreal
in the south, and that 1t will roll norh
ward to the two capitals.
This may induce the proletariat or
ganizatlons to postpone the genera
strike until the contagion Is borne u!
from the south. The railroaders. how
ever, are anxious to have this strik'
declared at once. Members of tn
railway employees union with WHOM
the Associated Press correspondent
have talked declared that they wer
ready to walk out at the first cal
from the League of Leagues, witt
which the union Is federated.
The strictest censorship over new
of military disorders Is maintained
AS an example the mutlny at Brest
Litoysk July 20, when band Of ar
tilerymen from the fortress fired d
the officers club. killing two officers
has been transformed into a fire de
stroying the house Of the officer;
club.
The ministry is obtaining slight al
from the forces of society at large 4
pulling through its policy M. Shi
poff Guchoff and practically all other
who have been approached have re
fused flatly to participate In the en-
larged cabinet proposed. or the mem
bers Of the late parliament only Pr'nc