Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-06
|CR|ME MUST CEASE,
WARNS RUSS RULER
Reform Cannot Be Deferred Nor
Suspended.
BOOM IN BANKING SHARES
Official Communication Has Effect on
the Bourse.
NOTE Is THE ABSORBING TOPIC
Course Of the Premier is Condemned
in Some Quarters - Works of
Ministry Considered Evil.
BOOM IN BANKING SHARES
Official Communication Has Effect on
the Bourse.
NOTE IS THE ABSORBING TOPIC

The warning to terrorists which
is sounded like an alarum in the
official communication of the gov
ernment is the all-absorbing topic
all over Russia today. The note
stopped the rapid decline in securi-
ties. The cars ultimatum is that
crime must cease and that reforms
can no longer be deferred or sus-
pended.
ST. PETERSBURG, September 6-The
firm note struck by Premier stolypin in
the omcial communication embodying the
whole government program, published last
night, with its warning to terrorists and
revolutionists, on the one hand, that the
cirme must and will be suppressed at once.
and to the reactionists especially the court
camarilla. on the other hand that reforms
can neither be suspended nor deferred, met
with response on the bourse today. where
prices were not merely firm, but were very
strong, without any symptoms of artificial
support. The premiers note not only
stopped the steady decline in government
securities. imperial As rising a full point
to 1OA and 5's ~ points to SoN. but II
started boom in bank shares and in in
dustrial securities generally, some of them
gaining as much as five points owing to
the belief that the announcement made by
M Stolypin is prelude to better times.
Attitude Not Developed.
The official note appeared today in the
omcial Gazette and the semi-offic.al Rus
sian press, but the attitude of the public
has not yet developed, though the note is
the ail-absorbing topic of discussion
throughout the city. While the course of
the premier Is pre-condemned by the par
ties In pronounced opposition to the pov
ernment, In whose sight all works of the
ministry are evil, business and financial
circles. as indicated by the tone on the
bourse, regard M. Stolypins communica-
, .,oh win approval, and their attitude will
propdpiy De shared by the Octoberists
peaceful regenerationists and other mar
t1sans of the policy of peacefully working
out the problems before the country But
the imperial decree authorizing the institn
ton of field courts-martial througbont the
larger part of the empire is regarded with
disquietude in most circles
May Abuse Power.
1t is practically the same measure that
the emperor rejected during Count Whites 5
administration after approval of the coun-
Gil OF the empire had been secured. and,
while 1t is realized that it is a justifiable
and indeed necessary measure in dealing
with mutinies. armed uprisings and condi-
ions of terrorism and anarchy, such as
prevail in Poland, the Baltic provirces and
the caucasus, 1t is claimed that arbitrary
and INSCRIPTIONS officials are likely to
abuse the powers conferred upon them II
Is pointed out that the ukase excludes the
services OF the ordinary judicial officers of
the army and navy and that II covers no.
ntical crimes of any nature. II nas al
ready thrown panic into .he ranks Of
the contributors to the revolutionary press
and the drafters of incendiary proclaua-
tons to the army navy, peasants, etc,
who hitherto have had no worsa punish
ment to fear than Imprisonment or depol ta-
ton.