The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-17
Russian Parliament is
 Up in Arms.
SURRENDER OR DICTATORSHIP
Preach Revelation Is Parallefed Il
 Each Successive Step.
Gravity of the situation Grows Hourly
 --Massacre at Bialystok Direct Iy Traced to the Doors of the Government.

St. Petersburg, June 16.-The gravity of the general situation grows hourly. The bourses of St. Petersburg and Moscow are in a panicky condition and the social democrats and social revo- tutionists. considering parliament to be negligible quantity. are pushing their campaign for an armed uprising with Increased vigor.
 Demonstrations are daily occurring fin the streets of Moscow in favor of a general strike and the proletariat lead CTS are trying to precipitate conflict. The agitation among the workmen here has reached the boiling point and patrols are again in heavy force in the industrial quarters. In the coun- try the rural guards are throwing in their lot with the peasants-refusing to protect the landlords. The progress of the revolutionary propaganda in the army is seriously alarming the gov ernment and to add to the popular ex- citement comes the massacre of Jews at Bialystok.
 While the reports conflict as to the immediate responsibility for the out break, the authorities here cannot es- cape responsibility for the provocative Black Hundred telegrams which they caused to be printed throughout Rus sia, appealing to the worst passions of the mob against the Jews as the ene- mics of the country.
 Government Is Frightened.
 The government Is undoubtedly frightened at what has occurred. Mar tiaI law has been declared at Bialystok and troops are being rushed 10 the scene, but according to the latest re- ports the hunting down of unfortunate hat teA af- ternoon and night. accompanied by in describable horrors.
 The commission dispatched to Blaly- stok by parliament can be relied on to make pitiless exposure to the country of any dereliction of the authorities.
 The leaders in the lower house of parliament are convinced that 1t is the present intention of the govern nent to prevail on the Emperor to order recess of parliament and they have taken the important resolution not to obey the imperial order. This amounts to open defiance and Is a purely revolutionary step. The plans of the leaders were secretly formu- lated but 1t is known that if the gov ernment turns the lower house out of the Tauride palace. the leaders con- template an attempt to continue the sittings independently. In other words they will try to seieze the reins of power.
 Parallels French Revolution. The eternal parallel of the French revolution which keeps recurring is thus again in evidence The members would probably be required to. swear as did those of tba French assembly at the Tennis Court. to meet wherever circumstances require until a consti- tuition is established on a solid founda- ! ton.
 If this stage is reached. a dictator shin or surrender of the government is inevitable The emperor must swear to abide by the constitution as Louis XVI | dfd or proclaim a dictatorship The | latter step is sure to be the precursor | of a bloody revolution which perhaps | the former will only delay.
 The Rech believes that the case of M. IJlianoff, whose expulsion from par nament for a press offence Is demand | ed by the government, Is the first step | in the governments attack on parlia- ment. which the ministry Is trying to persuade the world is a revolutionary body. The paper warns the Rovern- ment that an attempt to dissolve par liament will plunge the country into | horrors of which the government has little dreamed and declares the gov ernment must be blind to imagine that such a step can succeed.