The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-12
SAY WITTE is TOO
FRIENDLY TO JEWS
Inhammatory Proclamation is
Spread Broadcast
PUBLIC MEETINGS HELD
Extremists Openly Summon Their Fol-
lowers, the Black Hundred, TO
"kill the Jews and Hang
Count Witte.9

| St. Petersburg, March 11.-Some OF the
reactionary organizations are pushing the
agitation against the radical elements to
a dangerous point Today League OF
the Russian People held services in the
Alexandrovsky monastery to celebrate the
manifesto of March as a victory for the
old regime.
| Later at the horse guard menage the
| fighting society of the same organization
held a public meeting listening to infam-
n.atory speeches by Or. DoubroYin ana
Prof Nickolsky. two extremist leaders
at which the orators openly summoned
their followers the black hundred, to XIII
the Jews and hang Count Witte
Prince Mestchersky, editor of the Graz
DAMN, who supported the Witte section
| charged the bureaucracy with having
sympathy with the court clique which Is
| opposing the plans of the cabinet within
while melting class hatred and strikes
with the purpose of making the national
assembly failure. He quotes Prof. Nix
olsky as declaring that friends of the
autocrady should see that number o.
| revolutionaries are elected in order to fur
nish an excuse for dispensing the ma
tional assembly with bayonets. As proof
| of the completely of the bureaucracy,
| Prince Mestchersky prints proclamation
against the Jews, which he asserts was
printed in the Typography of the police
with the approval of the censor and wide
| ~ distributed.
Proclamation Against Jews.
The proclamation, which is addressed to
| workmen and peasants. declares that the
authors of Russian misfortunes are the
Jews who throughout the world hate
| Russia and want to rob the peasants Of
| their land and make them their slaves.
! "tntroclS the priests and turn churches
into Jewish stables and pig styes" The
proclamation also asserts that the Ar
menians, English and Germans want 10
destroy Russia and divide the country
| among its enemies. The proclamation
| calls Count Witta u supporter of the Jews
| and the chief enemy OF the country and
summons the faithful wherever they find
| the Jews to tear tho Christ sellers to
| pieces"
Prince Mestchersky calls attention to
| the unrest among the peasants and warns
the bureaucracy that 1t is playing a des-
perate game In arrayinE class against
class. "if today the peasants are melted
| to slaughter millions of Jews the Ar
menians tomorrow may be seized with
the mania of murder and massacres may
occur everywhere without regard to race
| Or class
Fight Against Liberals.
Another important development in the
political situation, though moderate In
character, was the success of what Is
called the reactonary elements In wrest-
ing the control of the zeiistvos from the
hands of the liberals. Although the zem-
stvolsts are not elected and are demo
cratic in their views, they heretofore
have been in the forefront of the fight
against the old regime. The issue was
raised by the zemstvos on the demand OF
the moderate administration in the prov
inces to discharge doctors, teachers ag-
riculture experts and other employees OF
| zemstvos suspected of revolutionary ten
denotes or activity At Moscow the lib
erals made hard fight to protect the
employees, but the reactionaries under the
leadership of nj. Guchoff, were victorious
whereupon thirty liberals resigned. At the
| Oula the struggle was so bitter that two
| challenges to duels were exchanged. one
of them between Prince Dolgoroukoff and
Prince Ourussoff the latter heading the
reactonaries. Neither of the dues wa.
| fought. but the reactonaries went
The entire staff of the sanitary depart.
! ment of zemstvos was DISCHARGED and
| the depar tment closed A resolution was
adopted to the effect that the revolution.
airy propaganda must be stopped. A sim.
liar contest is being wased in the st
| Petersburg DONNA and has already re.
suited in the resignation of NJ. Petrunke
Vieh, president of the medical commits
sion