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Show UTTERING PROTESTS. Russians Indignant That Lives of Peaceable Citizens Are Unsafe. ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 25. Tho coun-ell coun-ell of the Polytechnic institute today adopted tho following: "One of tho members of the family of tho Polytechnic institute of St. Peters-burg, Peters-burg, tho student Savlnkln, died a violent death, shot on January 22, lti the Alex- IH nndcr gardens. Savlnkln was ono of the victims of the butchery against a peace.- ful. unarmed crowd. : "The council of tho Institute, 'being re- 'M voltcd and depressed by the acts of Janu- J ary 22, which proves that In Russia the , "M very lives of peaceable citizens aro tin-safe, tin-safe, expresses profound indignation on ' account of the gonoml tiring, one of the victims of which was the student Savin- jl kin. "Tho council finds that peaco under the prcsont conditions existing is absolutely Impossible and resolves (first to Inform the Minister of Finance of tho opinions of tho council regarding the events of January 22; (.second) to suspend lectures in the Institute, nnd (third) to dofrny the c.oat of tho funeral of Savlnkln." Agreed With the Declaration. H Tho students of the Instltuto sent a 1 declaration to the director, declaring their ngroemont with the resolutions. . Fourteen members of the zemstvo of Slmblrk (on tho Volga, 105 mllos south, southwest of Kazan) havo adopted tho following resolutions: IH "During our whole lives we havo been forced to observe silence In all our new aiI Ideas. Tho authorities sco spectres threat- ll enlng to destroy tho foundations of state. Il For forty years we have said 'AH Is well.' IH IVe had been so accustomed to this courso IH that to say .otherwise would have been lH a political crime. This attltudo of the IH present people debased to slavery, has led liH Russia to a crisis, through which she can- ffl not safely bo brought by pallatlvcs or half Il measure). . . Ml "Russia Is on tho road to completo ruin JM and tho fatherland Is threatened with ter- IH rlblo danger, not alone by tho foreign IH enemy with whom sho is now struggling. IB but by an lntornal foe. against whom the IH bureaucracy has so long boen lighting, with 'disastrous results. Industrial Prostration. "Tho danger lies In the prostration of tho general development of tho country, H brought about by tho bureaucracy. The IB development of Russia has been arti- IB flolally arrested and all other Institutions stricken unto death, and cannot bo , brought back to llfo. Tho very depressed condition of tho country also constitutes a danger from which thero Is no es-cape. es-cape. ... "Tho zcmBtvo representatives had no opportunltv oX frocly and honestly epeak-Ing epeak-Ing their minds on tho subjects of abusM, i but tho bureaucrats took measures to pre-vent pre-vent them. Tho president of the zomstv proposed an amendment to this resolu- tlon but our dutv to the fatherland and j tho throne obliged us to rcfuso to vote i the address in tho form he suggested. ; "It to a crlmo to shut our eyes to the condition of the country. Freely elected 1 representatives alone "can liberate Russia These representatives would point to Rus- sla and tho Emperor a new path to peace and glory." j JM |