The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-24
DUMA ISSUES ADDRESS
 TO THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE
ADOPTED AND SIGNED IN HASTE TO AVOID MILITARY INTE-
 FERENEE.

Governor of Finland Had Threatened
 to Use Military Force to End Session Address Strikes the Government in
 Its Most Vulnerable Point--Admin-
 istratiOn and Not Parliament RespOn-
 sible for Delay i'm Settlement of the
 Agrarian QuestiOn-Advises Refusal
 to Pay Taxes and to Give Military
 Service.
 viborg, Finland, July 23.-The cur tain dropped this afternoon on the final act of the drama of Russias first par liament when under the spur of the threat of Governor Rechanberg to use military force to end the session and with troops already converging on the Hotel Belvedere, where the meeting was held the assembled members of the lower house, 1S6 in number hur- riedly adopted and signed an address to the people which Is thoroughly revolu- tionary in it's nature, elected perpet- ual executive committee headed by Prince Paul Dolgoroukoff, vice presi- dent of the house, to carry on the work of liberation, and adjourned amidst characteristic Russian embracing and kissing. A few members, including President Mouromtseff Ivan Petrunke- vich and Count Heyden, returned to St. Petersburg by evening trains. The con- stitutional democratic cohorts intend to go to St. Petersburg in a body in the morning; but many of the radical members, fearing arrest on their arriv- al at the capital, will remain for the present in Finland or return by round- about routes.
 The address, which bears remark able similarity to the manifesto framed by the council of worknlen last Novem- ber which landed it's authors and the editors of eight St. Petersburg newspa- pers in cells of the Fortress of St. Pet CT and St. Paul, strikes the government in it's most vulnerable point by declar- ing that the administration and not parliament is responsible for the delay in the settlement of the agrarian ques- tion and by proclaiming a cessation of payment of taxes and of military ser- vice and repudiation of future loans. The address follows:
 s'To the people from their popular rep
 resentatives:
 "Citizens of all Russia: Parliament has been dissolved by ukase of July 21. You elected us as your representatives and instructed us to fight for our country and freedom. In execution of your instructions and our duty we drew up laws in order to ensure free dom to our people. We demanded the removal of irresponsible ministers who were infringing the laws with impunity and expressing freedom. First of all, however, we wanted to bring out a law respecting the distribution of land to working peasants and involving the as- signment, to this end, of crown append ages, nlonasteries and lands belonging to the clergy, and compulsory expro- priation of private estates The gov- ernment held such law to be inadmis- sible, and upon parliament once more urgently putting forward it's reso- lption regarding compulsory expro- priation parliament was dissolved.
 ttThe government promises to convoke a new parliament seven months hence. Russia must remain without popular representation for seven whole months, at a time when the people are standing oh the brink of ruin and industry and commerce are undermined, when the whole country is seething with unrest and when the ministry has definitely shown it's incapacity to do justice to popular needs. For seven months the government will act arbitrarily and will fight against the popular movement in order to obtain a pliable1 subservient parliament. Should it succeed, however, in completely suppressing the popular movement the government will convoke mo parliament at all
 "Citizens, stand up for your trampled on rights, for popular representation and for an imperial parliament. Russia must not remain day without popular representation. You possess a means bf acquiring 1t. The government has without the assent of the popular rep resentatives, no right to collect taxes from the people nor to summon the people to military service. Therefore you are now the govern roent. The dis solved parliament was justified in giv' ing neither money nor soldiers. Should the government, however, contrac loans in order to procure funds, suct loans will be invalid without the con sent of the popular representatives The Russian people will never acknowl edge them and will not be called upo1 to pay them. Accordingly, until pop ular representative parliament is sum- moned do not give @ kopec to tht throne or a soldier to the army. BC steadfast in your refusal No power can resist the united, inflexible will O the people.
 ''Citizens, in this obligatory and un avoidable struggle your representative! will be with you"