Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-27
GREATEST DANGER
is FROM WITHIN
Premier Tells Moscow Meeting Moment
Has Come To Overthrow Revolution
ary Movement and Fully Establish
Complete Power in Provisional Gov
ernment-onIy Hope Of Saving Ma
ton.

mler herenSky told the national con-
! ference which assembled in Moscow
Saturday to consider the present situ-
alton Of the country and plans for a
new national government. He de-
clared that any attempt to take ad-
vantage of the conference for an at
tack on the national power, as em-
bodied in the provisional government,
would be repressed pitiIessly by blood
and iron"
The conference was opened at 8
O'Clock with the premier's speech. Rep
resentatives Of lsnportant political.
economical, commercial, and Scientific
organizations and persons prominent
in public life are in attendance.
Those who think the moment mas
come to overthrow the revolutionary
power with bayonets are making q
mistake" NJ. Kerensky said. Let them
take care, for our authority Is support
ed by the boundless confidence OF the
people and by millions Of soldiers who
are defending us against the German
invasion.
To Tell the Truth.
THE provisional government ls con
yinced that all of ygu who have come
here will forget every thing except your
duty toward your country and the
The government DeileVes
it can tell the truth, not only to our
friends but also to our enemies-those
who are destroying our troops ana
those among US who are waiting 1or
the moment when they may be apie U
raise their heads and pounce upon the
free Russian people.
"Citizens, the state is passing tnru .
period of mortal danger. 90 noLl say
more. for you all understand. You see
it, for each Of you experiences It, In e e
different way.
Demands Great Sacrifice.
you all know the task incumbent
,,non YOU, for the struggle against
powerful implacable. and orsanazeo
enemy demands great sacrifices sell
denial. deep love for our country, ana
the forgetting OF domestic Quarreis.
Irnfortunately not all who are able are
wiling TO offer all this on the ,ltar
Of their country, ruined by war, ana
they thus render the critical s'tuatlon
Of our country more serious every oas:
ain our political life this process ct
a,.oreanizatton is worse, even causing
certain nationalities living III RI ss,a 70
aeek their salvation not IN close union
WITH the mother country, ut IN ssp-
aratist aspirations On top OF all TINS
20 me the shameful events at the 'front.'
when Russian troops, forgetting thclr
duty to their country, gave WY w.
out resistance to pressure OF the eneny
and thus forged for .neir peopie i
chains Of despotism.
"Those who once trembled before the
government Of autocrats now poidiy
march against the government W1n
arms in hand But let them remember
+hat ou- patience has its limits and
that those who go, beyond them Will
have to settle with government wnicn
viii make them remember the time OF
czarfsm.
1--WE shall be tmplacable. because we
arc convinced that supreme power
albne can assure the salvation OF the
country. That is why I shall oppose
energetically all attempts to take ad.
vantage Of Russia's national misfor-
tunes, and whatever ultimatum Is pre-
sented. I shall subject 1t to the su-
prene power and to myself, Its head"
The premier declared that the de-
structive period OF the revolution bad
passed and that the time had come to
Fconsolidate the conquests OF the revo-
luton.
"A little time ago We indignantly
replied to proposal to conclude q
separate peace. A few days ago we
witnessed another attempt, equally
base. directed against our allies. The
latter rejected It with equal indfsna-
ton. and In the name Of the great
Russian people 7 say to our allies that
It was tho only reply we expected Of
them"
At this point the delegates arose and
cheered loudly the diplomatic repre-
sentatives OF tho entente allied powers.
The premier then paid q tribute to
the Roumanians, saying that II they
were forced temporarily to abandon
their country they would find hospital
ity In Russia.
Notwithstanding the none too friend
ly attitude toward the mother country
OF certain nationalities OF the Russian
state, M. Kerensky continued, the Rus
sian democracy would give them all II
promised thru the provisional govern,
ment and all that the constituent A.
aembly might yet decide to grant but
when the limit OF tolerance Va: passed