The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-29
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UNITED RUSSIA
GIVEN ALLIES
New Legal Order to be Found
ed on Sovereignty Of Peo-
pie, Says Statement.
tBy Associated Press,

PARIS. Jan. pa declaration has
been Issued and delivered TO the allied
governments by what In the document
Is called - conference of Russian am.
basaadors and business men in Paris
The declaration says the object of the
conference was 10 defend the rights
and Interests Of Russia by "solemnly
proclaiming. In the name and by the
order of the United Governments of
Russia, the principles by which the
nations policy will be inspecired."
mo matter when order Is restored
In Russia" the declaration continues.
this order cannot be founded on the
principles which formed the basis of
the ancient regime 1t is hard to for
mulate precisely, for the present what
the actual constitution of Russia will
be. but it Is possible to formulate the
principles which will form the basis
of the democratic organization of Rus
sia. These principles are:
l. The new legal order must be
founded on the sovereignty of the peo-
pie. who will exercise their power
through organizations of their choice,
which will be responsible to the peo-
pie and will guarantee to them the un.
alienability of their sovereignty.
2. No difference is to be made be-
tween the peoples prerogatives and
class privileges. There will be equal.
ity for all In the eyes of the law and
free access to all the degree of the
political and social scale.
"3-The rapid development Of pro-
ducing forces. The encouragement of
all private initiative and all measures
likely to attract capital in the coun-
try At the same time the state must
adopt all measuresto safeguard for the
labOring classes all the. economic and
social experiences accumulated by in
|ternationa1 practice.
THE most important question
must be the settlement Of the agricul-
|tural problem, which. to attain aooaal
FpeatEs must Be solved in the inter.
est OF the large masses.
During the revolution, disor-
derly movement occurred on the part
OF peasants who took possession of
the land. This exceptional situation
demand exceptional means for dealing
with it, but to return to the ancient
state Of affairs is impossible Peas
ants must own more land than hither-
to. but for the present state of an
archy, there must be substituted some
legal basis"
The declaration continues by advo.
eating administrative decentralization
and recalls that after the revolution of
1917. the new Russia proclaimed the
independence of Poland and revised
the ties uniting Russia and Poland. At
that time, 1t is said, the autonomy of
the Baltic peoples was urged.
This work. interrupted by the Boil
shevist movement, must be resumed"
the declaration says New Russia
must destroy at their original the ar
tifical causes of unhealthy separatism.
She must cause the unity OF the state
to become organic by making the In
terests of the state, as a whole, cor
respond to the particular interests Of
each Of the nationalities represented
in the country"
The declaration concludes by say
ing: Russia pledges herself to full
fill all obligations arising from treaties
she concludes but claims the right to
be Unidentified by the enemy for dam
ages sustained during the war, which
caused her heavy sacrifices"