Republican farmer., 1919-04-11

The text of the document reads: The decision arrived at for Bavaria. ] is the formation of a council of the republic of revolutionary workers and, peasants of Bavaria, including all our brothers, now united, separated by no party laws From now on no ex-, ploitation or opposition will be toIer- ated. The dictatorship of the prole- 1 tariat has now become a fact. The legalization of a genuine socialtstic community rnNw is achieved, in which every working man may participate in
 public life and in a just soc1aIistic
 age.
 The Landtag has been dissolved and the old ministry retired. Peo- ples' commissaries, responsible to the people and chosen by a council of the ] working people, will receive extraor-. l dinary powers to be employed in cer- tain labor fields. Their assistants will be intelligent men from all parts I of the revolutionary and socialisti9 1 community. Countless valuable forces of officialdom, especially from 1 the lower middle official class, will I be asked to cooperate in the new work. The bureaucratic system will 1 be absolutely eliminated and the press will be socialized.
 "As a protection for the Bavarian council of the republic against revo- | Iutionary attacks from without and | within, a Red army will be created imme ediately and q revolutionary 1 court will pursue ruthlessly every at- | tempt upon the council
 "The government of the Bavaria.n l council republic follows the example of the Hungarian and Russian peo- l ples. It will resume immediately a 1 brother connection with these peo-, l pies but it declines any connection ] with the contemptuous Ebert-Scheide- mann government because that gov | ernment is continuing under the flag l of a socialistic republic the imperial l istic, capitalistic and military business 1 of the disgracefu1, broken down Ger ! man empire. It calls upon all Ger i man brothers to take the same view. i It greets all proletarians wherever | revolutionary socialism is fighting-in
 Wurttem berg, in the Ruhr district, in i the whole world.
 AS a sign of joyous hope for a. fortunate future for all humanity 1t i established April a holiday for all humanity a sign of the begin ming of the departure. the flight of the age of capitalism, all work is 1 stopped. Bavaria ceases on April 2, insofar as it is not necessary for the
 welfare of the working people to do labor.
 Long live free Bavaria! Long live the council government! Long live
 the world revolution!"
 1 Copenhagen, April 8-Protests against the formation of the Soviet government, voiced at a political meeting in Bamberg northern Ba-
 varta, are reported in despatches from that city. Deputies of all the bourgeois parties of the three Fran
 conian government, upper, lower and
 middle Franconia, met in Bamberg and registered a unanimous protest
 against the proclamation of the new regime at Munich.
 A Berlin despatch says that Erich Muehsam a prominent communist
 who is included in the Bavarian Sow i jet government, has been given un- limited poweS's by the Bavarian Cen
 traI Council, according to the Ach- tuhrblatt, and thus exercises an un-
 restricted dictatorship.
 Muehsam and Landauer, the min ister of popular enlignment' are to-
 day the rulers who dominate Munich, with the support of the garrison this newspaper declares. It expresses the opinion that the Soviet government, however, will not last as the people are opposed to the dictatorship and | hope that the counter measures taken by Premier Hoffman of the old gov ! erument, will be effective.