The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-20
DANGER SIGNS IN RUSSIA.
Opposition to Loan-Radlcal Division
New Rebellion.


St. Petersburg, April 2O.-An article
.assailing the new national loan is
published here today. 1t emanates
from NJ. Petrunkevitch. who is regard
ed as the probable leader of the ma
jority in the national parliament NJ
Petrunkevitch says that the conclu-
sion of a loan which means the yearly
addition of $1.25 to the tax burden of
each family at time of such stress
and on the eve of the convocation of
the national parliament can be regard
ed only as new attempt on the part
of the dying bureaucratic regime to
strengthen itself for the struggle with
The people. The article closes with
Ibis warning:
I'VE are not enemies of the father
land. seeking to destroy its credit, but
we wish the government to under
stand the danger of the path on which
it has entered. Submit the loan to the
approval of the parliament. Only
then can the terms, hard as they may
be, be accepted and discharged by the
people,"
The seats in parliament of NJ.
yaieff, the three most prominent lead
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endangered by protest which has
been filed by the mayor of Rzhev, seek
ing to set aside the elections in the
province of Tver.
Inspired by the strength shown by
the Radical movement, the Octobrists
at Moscow have decided to rename
their party the Russian Liberal
party" and to include in it's program
more liberal planks ON the labor and
aSrarian questions and the autonomy
OF nationalities.
A caucus of Constitutional demo-
Gratis elected to parliament has been
called for May to formulate line
OF action for the party. Discussions,
however, have appeared already. The
most radical members advise Il re-
fusal to take the prescribed oath until
the emperor has sworn fidelity to the
constitution. NJ. Kedrine believes that
the annulment of the imperial mani
festo of March 5, which gave the gov
ernment control of the proceedings of
parliament as being inconsistent with
the previous imperial manifesto of
October 30, 1905. The more practical
members believe that the first duty
is to strengthen the party's position
by a coalition with the peasants, on
the basis OF an equitable settlement of
the agrarian questions.
The Social Democrats and the Social
RevOlutiOnists and other proletariat
organizations are secretly selecting
delegates to the big congress which it
has been planned to hold in Finland
some time this month, when an until
mate plan of action will be decided.
The government is seeking to prevent
the meeting by all possible means.
The delegates are being hunted down
and arrested by the police, who last
night arrested sixty representatives of
the workmen at Narva.
The council of the empire has pass
ed a law providing pensions for the
widows and the children of gendarmes
aad policemen who have been killed
by the revolutionists. They will re-
ceive the same pension rates as the
widows and children of soldiers who
were killed during the war with Japan.
Three hundred and twenty-five gen.
darmes or policemen were killed from
September. 1905. to January, 1906.
Election disorders have occurred at
Astrakhan, where great mob of rev.
olutionists formed on the outskirts of
the city and swept down on the polls
in an attempt to prevent voting.
Though the authorities, anticipating
trouble, had concentrated the police
reserves of the whole province at
.Astrakhan, the gendarmes were de-
feated by the mob, which was dis
persed only by the free use of large
force of Cossacks. Later the crowd
reformed and made a demonstration in
front of the governors palace, but
was again dispersed. The election
was then completed.
The revolutionists, not only of AS
trakhan but of the whole southeastern
part OF the empire. are in an ugly
mood. The government for some time
has been quietly preparing to put down
an armed outbreak, which was ex-
pected to occur after Easter, and has
been moving troops thither All the
railroads have been placed under
martial law, bridges and stations have
been strongly garrisoned and arms
have been served out to railroad EN-
ployes