Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-30
TO THE ARMY AND NAVY
Strong Appeal Issued by the
viborg Conference.
OUTLAW DONNA MEMBERS
Remarkable Document Sent to Cars
Defenders.
IN BEHALF OF REVOLUTION
A Severe Arrangement of the Nobility
and the Government-The
Country Betrayed.
OUTLAW DONNA MEMBERS
N BEHALF OF REVOLUTION

ST. PETERSBURG. July 30.-The full
text of the appeal to the army and navy
adopted July 81 by the radical groups OF
the outlawed parliament in conjunction
with the central committees of the probe
tariat organizations, is as follows:
Soldiers and sailors-The government has
by imperial command dissolved parliament
and troops have been assembled from all
sjoes to Cypress the people by armed force
The peoples representa- were elected
from among your fathers and brothers in
order to lay before the emperor the needs
of the people and to obtain land and lib
erty. But the emperor would not listen to
the elected OF the people. He hearkened to
his former counselors, the grand dukes,
ministers, generals and the wealthiest of
the land owners, who did not want to give
up their lands. their properties, their
en- oluments amounting to many thousands
OF roubies) and their irresponsible power.
Russia is now divided into two parts On
one side is the vast majority, all the peas
ants and workmen all the poor and OPP
pressed, the best educated and the most en-
Eghtened citizens. the soldiers who see the
most clearly, the best officers and all the
martyrs in the jals including many thou
sands of soldiers and sailors. On the Their
side is collection of oppressors, such as
TTepof, Pobedenostseff and the Manchurian
but who fired on the people at Moscow,
Odessa and Toh5ta, the petty government
officials. the police spies and the whole
black hundred. and these rely on your
strength to beat down the whole Russian
people.
Plea to Save the People.
'Will you shoot the people, shed the blood
of the people and transfix the peoples
breasts with bayonets? Remember that
you are the children of peasants; that you
are the children of the Russian people, and
that at the same time in the villages where
you were born your own brothers, who are
remaining home. are also demanding land
and liberty, and that the government is
sending other troops to shoot and beat
them. Why will you defend the govern
mentG Do you yourselves live so Well?
Are not you yourselves in a state of servi-
tude? You are in a worse state of bondage
than all the others
You are given slavish employment as
of1cerS servants: you are tormented in dis
cipline battalions; for every free word you
are sent to hard labor or shot We, the
representatives of the people, wished to
pronulgate laws providing for a reduction
OF the term of military service to two years,
the abolition of soldiers employment as
servants. for the payment of a monthly
wage to soldiers and the effective preven-
ton of all insults to the rank and file by.
those placed over them We wished to
improve the lot OF the soldiers, but the
great aim before US was to improve the
lot of the whole working population. To
prevent all this the government hastenedst6
dissolve parliament.
Government Is Illegal.
Soldiers and sailors: We, the legally
elected representatives of the peasants
and workingmen. declare to you that
without parliament the government is IL
legal. Orders which it may now issue
have no legal force. We call on you:
"Firstly-To cease to obey the Illegal
government and to actively oppose it in
conjunction with US and the whole of the
poor population. You have taken an oath
to defend the fatharlaEd Stand beside us
for land and liberty;
''Secondly-Any man who shoots at the
people is a criminal, a traitor and the
enemy of the people.
we inform all such. in the name of
their fathers and brothers. that they will
not be allowed to return to their homes
and that over their names will hang the
eternal curse of the people:
Thirdly-The government entered into
negotiations with the Austrian and Ger
man emperors, and German troops are
ready to invade our country to defend the
government which opposes the people,
with the power of foreign arms.
BY such negotiations we declare the
government has betrayed the country and
Is now outside the limits of the law
Soldiers and sailors: Your sacred duty
is to free the Russian people from the
treacherous government and defend par
lament. Every man falling in this holy
war will cover himself with eternal fame.
and the Russian people will bless his
name. In this struggle your elected rep
reSentatives Will be with you. Be brave
for the fatherland, for the people and for
land and liberty against the criminal gov
ernment."