Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-26
GOVERNMENT MADE
 4 FATAL MISTAKE It Should Have Arrested All the Members of the 0utIaWed
 Parliament THEY ARE NOW PLOTTING
Will Join Revolutionist. if They Think Success. Will Come
 Soldier. For the People.

St Petersburg. Judy 26-The gov.
 ernment is using every means at it's disposal to create the impression both
 at home and abroad that the crisis
 has been successfully passed and that
 the probability of general upheayal
 has disappeared. However, the of-
 ficial reports seek to create the im-
 pression that there has been little re.
 sponse among the masses to the plan for general strike as preliminary to universal uprising. The appli- cation of the old methods, the gov ernment confidently asserts, hds d. ready landed the mos; dangerous of
 the leaders behind the bars and much stress Is laid on the importance of the
 capture of number of revolutionary ringleaders at Moscow, which 1t turns out was the result of informa-
 tion obtained at the time of the cap
 ture of the officers of the Misa here. Among the papers then seized, the
 government says, were the complete
 plans of a revolutionary military or
 ganization, which enabled the author
 ities to close the revolutionary chan
 nels into the army. The govern
 ment's sudden access of optimism,
 however, is in reality traceable to the
 consternation over the disastrous fall
 in Russian securities at home and
 abroad. The one thing which the
 government cannot do without is
 money, and whatever the response to
 the outlawed parliaments ap-
 peal to the people to refuse to any
 longer pay taxes, the whole future
 depends on the ability of the govern
 ment to continue it's foreign loan op-
 erations in the future. The second
 installment of the big loan negotiated
 prior to the assembling of parliament
 is due August 1 and the outlook In
 Russia has frightened the holders in-
 to refusing to pay in any further cash. The situation has evidently
 caused quite as much alarm among
 the f1nanciers who underwrote the
 loan abroad as it has at the treasury
 here. Finance Minister Kokovsoff
 has been bombarded by telegrams
 from French, English and German
 bankers, urging on him the necessity of supporting the market. This ac-
 counts for the activity of the govern
 ment bankers fin bidding up prices on
 the Bourse here and at Moscow yes terday, as we'll as for the rosy view of the future sent abroad by the Of ficial Telegram Agency last night un- der NJ. Kokovsoff's inspiration. As matter of fact the government can hardly be blind to the evidence under
 It's nose that 1t is living over vOlca- no. For the last forty-elght hours the central committees of the social democrats, social revolutionists, Peas ant league, Railroadmen's union and Telegraphers' union and the military committee have been conferring with the parliamentary groups, not only on the question of calling a general strike, but actually on the question of attempting counter Coup D'Etat by setting up provisional govern ment. No final decision has yet been taken, but practically all the proletar- fat organizations including that of the railroadmen, but excepting the tele- graphers, have already pronounced in favor of this step. The members of the Group of Toil and social democrats of the outlawed parlia- ment believe that another course is open, and are irrevocably committed on the surface, with the constitution al democrats, to discountenancing any active revolutionary step, but se- cretly they have agreed to support or join in 1t if 1t can be successfully inaugurated. Over hundred of them met last night in Finland. un- der the presidency of Prof Milukoff. Conferences will be held this after noon and the possible extent of the support which a revolutionary move ment will receive from the army is therefore vital. At Helsingfors. Fin land. Tuesday night. 1.500 soldiers and sailors of the garrison took an oath to fight on the side of the peo- pie.
 It is quite apparent to disinterested observers that the government in on it's present policy made a perhaps fatal blunder in lacking the hardihood to arrest the mem- bers of the outlawed parliament. This left the members free to con- duct a conspiracy against the gov ernment. When the plot is complete arrests will be useless and the gov ernment will again find that it acted too late in closing the political clubs. which has been followed by the clos ing of all the workmenis unions and suspected tea houses. The prefect of police has issued another procla- nation warning the population that persons guilty of armed resistance to the authorities will be given over to the military courts martial. while lesser offenses. like participation in the formation of leagues. indictment of strikes. etc, will be punishable without trial by a fine of s1. 800 and Imprisonment of from three to six months.
 The reports from the provinces in- dicate that the authorities do not fear 10 employ hsrsher measures than used at the capital The editors of confiscsted newspapers are com pelied to give hostages as guarantees against attempts at illegal publica- tions
 Tn the meantime the government, In spite of the rebufs received from M- Shopof and others whom it ap- proorhed. has not abandoned the Idea of inducing men of standing 10 tAo