Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-26
RUSSIA PREI[NDS
CRISIS Is PASSED
Government Seeks to Give I'm
preston That Danger Of
Upheayal Is Over
lsADERs BEHIND THE BARS
Old Policy OH Imprisonment and Harsh
Methods OF Repression Are Resorted
To-ouestion of Finance is One
Which is Giving the Gar and His
Advisers Much Concern Now.

st. Petersburg. July 26.-The gov
disposal to create the impression, both
at home and abroad, that the crisis has
been successfully passed and that the
probability of a general upheaval has
disappeared. The semi official press is
filled with comforting assurances that
the government now has a firm hold
on the situation and that the confu-
sion and demcralization in the counsels
of the opposition political organiZa-
tions produced by the coup d. etat
render united action impossible. More-
over the official reports seek to Gre
ate the impression that there has been
little response among tia masses to
the plan for a general strike as pre-
hminary to universal uprising. APP
plication of old methods of govern
ment. it is confidently asserted, has
already landed most OF the dangerous
leaders behind the bars. Much stress
is laid on the Importance of the cap
ture of NUMBER of revolutionary
ring leaders at Moscow, which it turns
out. was the result of information OBJ
tanned at the time of the capture of
the offices OF Misla here. Among the
papers then seized the government
claims We're complete plans of revolu-
tionary military organization, which en-
abled the authorities to close the rev.
olutionary channels into the army. The
governments sudden excess of op-
timis1n, however. is in reality traceable
TO CONSERVATION over the disastrous
fall in Russian securities at home
and abroad. One thing which the
government can not do without is
the outlawed Iarliamerat's appeal to
the people to refuse any longer to pay
taxes, the whole future depends upon
the ability of the government to con-
tinue it's foreign loan operations in the
future. The second installment OF the
big loan negotiated prior to the as
sembling of parliament is due August
/, and the outlook in Russia has
frightened the holders into refusing
to pay in any further cash.
The situation there has evident
ly caused quite as much alarm
among financiers who underwrite the
loan abroad as it has at the treasury
here. Finance Minister Kokovsoff has
been bombarded by telegrams from
France, English and German bankers,
urging on him the necessity of sup
porting the market This accounts for
the activity of the government bank
er in bidding UP prices on the bourse
here and at Moscow yesterday as wei!
as for the rosy view of the future sent
abroad by an official telegraph agency
last night under M. Kokovsoff's in
spiration AS matter of fact the gov
0rnment can hardly be blind to the ev-
idence under its nose, that it is living
over volcano and that the danger of
eruption is far from ended. For the
last forty-eight hours central commit
tees, social democrats, social revolu-
tionists, a peasant league, railroad mems
union, telegrapher's union, military
committee have been comforting both
separately and Jointly with parlia-
mentary groups, not only on the ques-
tion of calling a general strike, but ac-
tually on the question of attempting
to counter coup d'etat by setting up
provisional government. No final de-
cision has yet been taken, but practi-
cally all proletariat organizations, in
cluding that of railroad men but except
ing telegraphers, have already pro-
nounced in favor of this step.