The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-08-02
APPEALTOARMYANDNAN
Full Text Of the Document Adopted
by the 0utlawed Russian
Parliament
STRONG ARUAlGEMeRT OF GOVERNMENT
The Appeal Declares the Country Is d.
vided In two Parts, the People ON One
Side and Their Oppressors on the Other
Soldiers and sailors are Called on to
Defend Their brothers,


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 commit
tees of the proleterait organizations,
Is as follows:
Soldiers and Sailors: The govern
ment has by imperial command dis
solved parliament and troops have
been assembled from all sides TO OPP
press the people by armed force, The
peoples representatives 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 liberty, But the emperor
would not listen to the elected of the
people. He hearkened to his former
councillors, the grand dukes, minis
tiers, generals and the wealthest o.
the land owners, who did not want
10 give up their lands, their proper
ties, their emoluments amounting to
many thousands Of roubles) and their
irresponsible power. Russia is now
divided into two parts One side Is
the vast majority, all the peasants and
workmen, all the poor and oppressed,
the best educated and the most en-
lightened citizens, the soldiers, who
see the most clearly, the best officers
and all the martyrs In the jails In
Guiding many thousands OF soldiers
and sailors. On the other side is
a collection Of oppressors. such as
Trepoff, Pobedonostseff and the Man
churian generals, who ran away from
the Japanese but who fred on the
people at Moscow and Odessa, and To-
hita, the petty government officials.
the police spies and the whole Black
Hundred and these rely on your
strength to beat down the whole Rus
sian people. VIII you shoot the peo-
pie, shed the blood Of the people and
transfix the peoples breasts with bay
onets? 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 vii
lagos where you we're born your own
brothers who are remaining home are
also agitating, are also demanding
land and liberty and that the govern
ment is sending other troops to shoot
and beat them. Why will you defend
the government? Do you yourselves
live 80 we'll? Are not you yourselves
in a state of servitude? You are In
worse state of bondage than all the
others. You are given slavish EN-
ployment as officers servants, you are
| tormented In discipline battalions, for
every free word you are sent to hard
labor or shot We, the representa-
tives Of the people, wished to promul-
gate laws providing for a reduction of
| the term of military service to two
years, the abolition Of soldiers en-
| ployment as servants, for the pay
ment of a monthly wage to soldiers
and the effective prevention Of all in
| suits to the rank and file by those
placed over them We wished to i'm
| prove the lot of the soldiers, but the
| great aim before us was to improve
| the lot of the whole working popula-
ton. To prevent all this the govern
ment fastened to dissolve parliament.
Sailors and Seamen. we, the legally
elected representatives OF the peas
ants and workingmen, declare to yo,
that without parliament the govern.
ment is illegal. Orders which 1t ma,
now issue have no legal force. We
call on you,
Firstly, to cease to obey the illegal
government and to actively oppose il
in conjunction with us and the whole
Of the poor population. You have
taken an oath to defend the father.
land. Stand beside us for land and
liberty.
Secondly, any man who shoots 81
the people Is a criminal, traitor and
the enemy of the people.
1--WE inform all such, in the name
IF 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 peo-
pie. 'F.>
Thirdly, the government entered
into negotiations with the Austrian
and German emperors and German
troops are ready to invade our coun-
try to defend the government which
opposes the people, with the power
II foreign arms.
by such negotiations, we declare
he government has betrayed the
country and Is now outside the limits
If the law.
Soldiers and Sailors, your sacred
iuty is to free the Russian people
rom the treacherous government and
iefend parliament. Every man fall
ling In this holy war will cover him.
self with eternal fame and the Russian
,eople will bless his name. In this
,trugkle your elected representatives
will be with you. Be. brave for tbs
.atherland, for the people and for land
L.. a. 4 n