The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
FLASH IN TIE PAN
THE GENERAL RUSSIAN STRIKE FAILED TO 60 OFF" WITH
 A BANG.
The Government Has Upper Hand, cat Revolution May Be Only
 Slumbsring.

St. Petersburg the light of de- veiopments the general strike is al- most regarded as q fiasco. The sum- mons to go out have met some re- sponse in Moscow. where the printers and the street car men and part of the employees of the gas. water and electric light plants quit work. but these arc more than offset by the de fections in St. Petersburg. An enthus- iastic acceptance of the order to strike is not here recorded. Even in the Donetz mining district, where practically all the miners already were out, the factory hands. according to staff correspondent of the Associated Press. declined to strike.
 The reT0lutioniSts may possibly yet be saved by the railroad men. How ever. the central committees of the railroad men have not yet reached a final decision, and up to the present time. in spite of the frantic efforts Of the agitators. not an important line of the empire is affected.
 Fifteen thousand employees of the
 
 this was e3unterbalaneed by the re- turn of tue men of the Westinghouse and other factories. who have notified their saperintendents that they would s>egin work today
 The printers of St Petersburg. in- stead of abandoning the strike en- tiFely, have decided to print only one ihoraT Tp7,rrpoDor 1,ov- ever. really plays into the hands of the government, as the NovOe Eremya and the Syet the two Conservative Journals. are wealthy enough to defy the union and resume publication in unabridged form. The compositors on the Official Messenger joined the strikers, but they were at once re. placed b5 military printers. The or sanizers Of the strike are in despair over the prospect. Some already counsel calling the strike off in an effort to save prestige, but the ma iority are waiting in the last hope for some action on the part of the rail- road men.
 The prefect of police has issued long proclamation. which was circu- lated among the lower classes. ex- blaming the governments reasons for the dispersal of the lower house. This act. it is declared, does not signify the suppression of representa- tive institutions. but is intended to give the people an opportunity con- scientiously to choose deputies to the new parliament. who will cooperate with the government in solving the problems upon which the welfare of the country depends.
 fn view of the various statements which have appeared in foreign news papers regarding the intention of sev- -aral prominent persons to enter the Stolypin cabinet the following semi official announcement has been made public.
 After the dissolution of the lower house Of Parliament and the issuance If the imperial manifesto announcing the desire of the emperor to effect reforms, the government thought it natural to offer the vacant minister ial posts to politicians who had placed the accomplishment of legal reforms upon their programs. and the govern snent once more regarded an effec- siYe cabinet and the execution of the political program it had undertaken as assured.
 This combination, however, en- countefed obstacles beyond the con troi of either the government or the politicians The latter wished to form a group which would be entitled to enter the cabinet. but they were not able to succeed. Prince Nicholas Lyoff and Alexander J. Guchkoff had a long audience with the emperor, but it was annoulced that from the viewpoint of the peaceful relation of the reforms. they were of greater ser vice in their usual sphere of activity, which required the mobilization of all sober social forces.
 Regarding the intentions of the government these remain unchanged and include the restoration of order with firmness and energy.
 The government will immediately effect, within the limits of law, those prudent reforms which must lead Russian life into lawful paths.
 Root at San PauIo.
 San Paulo, Brazil.-Secretary Root