Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-24
MUST RESORT TO FORCE.
The Bureaucracy Knows Of No Other
Method.

ST PETERSBURG. July 24-It Is al
ready certain that some CONSERVATION Is
apparent In the upper spheres over the
magnitude of the task they have as
sumed Events are marching with star
Ting rapidly. Having taken a decision
to sit on the safety valve, the govern
nlent knows of no method except force,
and all the old bureaucratic machinery
of suppression has been placed In oper-
atioE to prevent an explosion.
Domiciliary searches continue In all
quarters of the capital. the prisons are
already filling, and the old, blind system
what is happening has been adopted
The censorship of the press has been re-
established with ,igor unknown since
the days of the late Interior Minister
sale confscation OF newspapers.
No word of the proceedings OF the
members of parliament at Viborg or 0,
the address adopted has been permitted
to be published. kilograms from the
provinces telling OF the universal indig-
nation aroused by the dissolution ana
even those from abroad outlining pupiic
opinion in foreign countries have oeen
emasculated or suppressed. Not Woro
Of the speech of Premier Campbeil-Ban-
herman before the lnterparllamenea,y
Cnion In London yesterday has been al
lowed to be printed
Editions of Papers 0ontiscateo.
The editions Of the Rech the Strana ana
the Twentieth Century were confscated as
they left the press this morning AT two
meetings last night, Zone near the NarVa
gate and the other In the Viborgski dis
trict. across the Neva the Cossacks sent to
disperse them refused openly to do so and
fraternized with the workmen This is par,
TALLY confrmative of the revolutionfsts'
boasts that the troops will not hre again
on the people.
The most serious immediate problem con-
fronting the government Is what to do with
the members of the outlawed parliament
Isolated arrests of members have occurred
in various parts of the country, ana II Is
difficult to see how the government logical
ly can avoid arresting all who participated
In the Viborg meeting. The members fuliy
expect to be lodged in prison, and the great
bulk of them. about 100 in all, delayed their
departure until today in order to give the
tunity to scatter.
1t was decided to return here this after
noon. the members preferring to be ar
rested in body than be hunted down sing
ly. representative of the Associated
Press who went to the Finnish railroad
station at noon, when 1t was reported the
members were due TO arrive, saw, half
regiment of cavalry qusrtered In a court
yard opposite the station, which was
swarming with gendarmes.
Committee Plans Secret.
The membership of the permanent execu-
tive committee, which is headed by Prince
Paul Olgoroukoff. together with its future
plans, are kept secret. but it Is virtually
prepared to assume the role of directory
or provisional government should develop
ments make such a course advisable. Such
an intention, however, is not publicly ac-
knowledged, but all the groups participat-
ing in the address to the country realize the
gravity of the stand they have taken.
I'VE carefully avoided summoning an ac-
tive revolution said one ..2f Of the leaders to
mitted before the country and the world to
the limits of assive resistance. Further
than this we did not go''
The members of the group of toll and
their allies, the proletariat organization of
st. Petersburg, were in active consultation
last night and this morning. While they
fully indorsed the parliamentary address to
the country, so far as 1t goes, they con-
slider 1t a halfway measure and hold that
1t should be followed up by an appeal to
the army, preparatory to an uprising, which
they consider inevitable in the cities and
country. Such an appeal will probably be
issued Immediately
Odessa Uprising the Starter.
The Polish members of parliament have
issued a formal statement expressing full
sympathy with the struggle for a constiru-
tional regime on a democratic basis, but
adding that they prefer to consult their
constituents before committing Poland.
1t is said that the uprising at Odessa is
but the first of series of anti-Jewlsh out
breaks throughout the country. as the re-
dictionary local authorities. who up to the
present time have been held In leash with
the greatest difficulty. consider the dissolu-
ton of parliament a repressve measure and
the signal for the loosing of the mob on the
liberals and revolutionists
The peasant and workman members of
parliament expect the revolutionary up
heaval to first begin in the country. Revolu-
tionary emisSar:es are scattering among the
peasants and expect to induce them to rise
in a body