Show RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT IS COMPELLED TO ACT Proletariat Seems Determined to Take Up Arms and the Issue Will Be Accepted Official Statement of Governments Position St Petersburg Tho following statement state-ment of the governments position has been issued and may bo accepted as authoritative The government sincerely desired to Introduce the now regime without having recourse to harsh measures but It received no support from the constitutionalists con-stitutionalists or other moderates while the proletariat organizations under un-der the leadership of the Socialists continued their mad campaign In favor of armed rebellion and openly Incited the army and tho navy to mutiny The climax of this campaign was reached when efforts were made to attack tho credit of the country In the midst of a considerable panic Had the government govern-ment allowed such efforts to go unchallenged un-challenged It would have precipitated complete financial and Industrial ruin After all selfpreservation Is the first law of nature and besides without with-out tho restoration of a semblance of order It would be Impossible to hold the elections for the douma The caso was a desperate one and It demanded a desperate remedy The government believes that tho radical alms of the Socialists have tho sympathy of only a fraction of tho population and that If their leaders should succeed In overthrowing the monarchy and In placing their doctrines doc-trines In practice they would be swept out of existence by a counter revolution revolu-tion Nevertheless the government Is on the horns of a dilemma as no matter bow honest Its motives In the present state of excitement they are bound to be misrepresented while on the otherj band If enough order can bo restored to hold the elections the cry will bej set up that the government has adopted adopt-ed this expedient to control the elections elec-tions and to capture the douma We hare taken the only course left open toUS |