Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-07-26
REVOLUTIONARY
ADDRESS ISSUED
DOuma DELEGATES In Meeting Adjourn
at the Point Of Cars
BayOnetS.
TROOPS CONYERGING WHEN
The CURTAIN FELL.
Parliamentary Manifesto Addressed to PeO-
pie Tells Them Not to Give q KOpee
to the Throne Nor Soldier 10 Army
and to Be Steadfast in Their
Refusal-The Text

Vieborg, Finland, July 23.-The cur
tain dropped this afternoon on the final
act of the drama of Russia's first parlia-
ment when, under the spur of the threat
of Governor Recpanberg to use military
force to end the session, and with troops
already converging on the Hotel Belve-
dere, where the meeting was held, the
assembled members Of the Lower
House, 1856 in number, hurriedly ad-
dressed ard signed an address to the
people which is thoroughly revolution
ary in it's nature, elected perpetual
executive committee headed by Prince
Paul Dolgorukoff, vice-president of the
House, to carry on the work of liberia
ton and adjourned amid characteristic
Russian embracing and kissing. A few
members, including President Mour-
omtseff, Ivan Petrunkevitch and Count
Heden, returned to St. Petersburg by
evening trains. The Constitutional
Democratic representatives intend to
90 to st. Petersburg in body in the
morning, but many of the radical mem
bers, fearing their arrest on their ar
rival at the capital, will remain for the
present in Finland or return by round
about routes. The address, which bears
a remarkable similarity to the manifesto
framed by the Council of Workmen last
November, which landed its author
and the editors of eight st. Petersburg
newspapers in cells of the Fortress of
St. Peter and St. Paul, strikes the
government in its most vulnerable point,
declaring that the administration and
not Parliament is responsible for the de-
lay in the settlement in the agrarian
question and by proclaiming cessation
of payment of taxes and of military
service and reputation of future loans.
The following is the text of the Par
liamentary manifesto:
''To the people, from their popular
representatives:
"Citizens of all Russia: Parliament
has been dissolved by ukase on July Il.
You elected US as your representatives
and instructed US to fight for our coun-
try and freedom. In execution of your
instructions and our duty we drew up
laws in order to ensure freedom to the
people. We demanded the removal of
irresponsible ministers who were infring
ing the laws with impunity and oppress-
ing freedom. First of all, however, we
wanted to bring out law respecting
the distribution Of land to working
peasants and involving the assignment
to this end of crown appanages, mona
steries and lands belonging to the clergy,
and compulsory appropriation of private
estates. The government held such a
law to be inadmissible, and upon Par
lament once more urgently putting for
ward its resolution regarding compul-
sorry appropriation Parliament was dis
solved.
'The government promises to con-
woke new Parliament seven months
hence. Russia must remain without
popular representation for seven more
months, at time when the people are
standing on the brink of ruin, and in
dustry and commerce are undermined,
when the whole country is seething
with unrest, and when the ministry has
definitely shown its incapacity to do
justice to popular needs. For seven
months the government will act arbi-
trarily and will fight against the popu-
lar movement in order to obtain pill
able, subservient Parliament. Should
it succeed, however, in completely sup
pressing the popular movement the
government will convoke no Parliament
at all.
ACitizens, stand up for your trampled-
on rights, for popular representation
and for an imperial Parliament. Rus
sia must not remain a day without
popular representation. You possess
the means of acquiring it. The govern
ment has, without the assent of the
popular representatives, no right to col
lect taxes from the people, nor sum-
mon the people to do military service.
Therefore, you are not the government.
The dissolved Parliament was justified
in giving neither money nor soldiers.
Should the government, however, con-
tract long loans in order to procure
funds, such loans will be invalid with
out the consent of the popular represen-
tatives. The Russian people will never
acknowledge them and will not be called
upon to pay them. Accordingly, until
a popular representative Parliament is
summoned, do not give a kopec to the
throne or a soldier to the army. Be
steadfast in your refusal. No power
can resist the united, infexible will of
the people.
Citizens, in this obligatory and un-
avoidable struggle, your representatives
will be with you."