| Show I THE l f b PROLETARIAT I 1 ISSUES MANifESTO Government is Openly Defied and Wholesale Arrests Are Arc Anticipated DOCUMENT IS REVOLUTIONARY Conditions of the Country Set Forth in Plain Terms and Described as Terrible People Ordered Not Sut to III Pay II Taxes to toO O I AH II 1 nut lint 0 lil or and To Withdraw Sin Ings gt st Petersburg Friday lr 1 I Dec Dee 15 1 via sia In 1 Prussia Iru sla Dec 16 i The j e proletariat organizations united In tn the Issuance today of ot n a manifesto In III u h the thU government Is I openly Tho rho manifesto has created cr a tremendous tr mend ous sensation sen atlon and wholesale arre tK are ure anticipated In the document made mado public the thi government is declared to be he bankrupt i and the people are ore ordered not lIot to 10 pay taxes and to refuse to accept anything I except gold goM In payment of or 0 wages They rhey I are nrc also warned warnell to 10 withdraw all alt their deposits from tram the savings hanks banks TIm THE MANIFESTO New York Dec cable dispatch to the Herald Intel dated St Dec Dee Hi 14 via Dee Iee IG says U s The revolutionary party patty throws down the to the government In the tho shape of ot a n manifesto which will wll appear Friday Frida and will surely Burely figure us as u a his document It Is I stamped d with the seal ceal of o the Workmen H al nl alliance liance Ilance and means purely pure and aul simply that the tile government will wll s have to pro pru proceed cent to measures measure of or force furce or give way entirely ly It 11 reads In part thus thuN The Tho government Is 1 on oa the high road to bankruptcy It 11 has destroyed the fatherland sown It with corpses eil ed the peasants who il ore lire unable to pay another kopek In taxes Trade H I at al a II standstill tan and il disorganized Factories are arc closing mid anti lIlI no work ork U 1 1 forthcoming Those Thoa who have grown accustomed to enrich themselves tit at t the expense of oC o the government do not nol know to do and are aN hurrying to close cIoe up 1111 the government bureaus und work worl workshops shops hops hop Bankruptcies are afe falling atop bankruptcies Bv n the tho banks bunks are ale tot tottering tottering while the tho trade turnover Is re ra reduced to nothingness l Tills struggle between tho the govern government ment and nOlI the tho revolutionaries Is cans caus causing ing nothing beyond continued agitation and suspense su p Q e Foreign capital Is being rapidly withdrawn Wealthy people are hur hurriedly hurriedly disposing or o II their property and andare are taking refuge abroad Is I rampant No 0 mans Inal life and property prop are aO safe sate The govern Jovern government meat ment formerly expended unlimited sums sum en the army arm navy mivy nothing on 1 education or 01 on roads roas and ond other means of communication leaving the tho state In Ina a hopeless condition 1 Notwithstanding nil all this the tho treas treasury ury tiry locH does not possess the mean to tied find tho the humble fame necessary for the tho and sailor All Allover over tho tio country hungry and an disaffected troop mime lire mutinying Tho rho railroads arc are completely their money being appropriated by hy thu To ro place them on a pro ro roer oer er r basis bOBIS requires re many hundred mil mull lon lions The Tho gold reserve resent In the Imperial bank rank la is unite to meet the tho obligations and Its general economic position The rime result would M tie something awful If IC the tho government told cold vere called caled to meet Its Hit Is obligation In Taking of or Us its the tIn government has been beon ocel tomed lomell to obtain loans loam Infinitely above the Ih powers of oC f the country Coult r to meet making new ICI loans loati for or time tho pUrl o A of oC meeting lions cults calls cul a for Interest on old obliga obligations tons From year to year the tue government gov Is perpetrating shameful deceptions drawing up lP budgets In which expenses Ire are re shown purposely diminishing and MIl Increased Increase Til Te o undo these terrible facts and nit all ni this long leng continued speculation the thenh only nh possible medium li 1 on effective assembly That body must ns as Its mirat task ask take In hand a it 1 strict tion lon Into Inlo the finances of oC the country and nilI now the Iho people an Oi honest picture of oC the position i llon In nil Its Il horrors The llie he terrible enigma before the time na national assembly Is In how to 10 straighten out D the existing financial chaos cheoc hao One Om way WO out of oC this thia Is 1 to vanquish we the Ite g RI and to take from front It the kut shred of power It I Is necessary to knock nock nork from under It U its ILs I last support namely melv its income This l I Is t necessary not ot only on account of uC tho the economic position P of the country hut In order to orter enable triable us tin I to hold holl up ull our heads heals before other ot er civilized countries We have havo therefore resolved to refuse to meet nay any an form tor of ot government taxation and de tie y mani nd that the government shall Ihal pay jar for or everything In specie s ell even een for email lal urns mamas instating upon receiving coins not nol moneY to tn withdraw thing rom fern the Imperial Savings s l gs banks only on in i gold Kohl and to demand the a bi atIe of oC the autocracy which n never vr hai the tho authority of ut the to In lu CUr tur such heavy helvy financial commitments At tie te t e present moment tho time govern ment r nt behaves behave to tu Its subjects as os though It la subject L t a 1 conquering power poor Therefore We e have resolved not to allow 0 ow the re to payment of duch samel locus loans us UK the Imperial has contracted while Ihlo car caron SF pIe on open warfare with wih the pee peo pe peeTe Tn Te nt Is S signed by the he Coun ChI k Sf ot of Ile c Alliance tho time was of ot committees of the Peasants 11 I alu the tho th central committee o of ot tho the t M committee party and aqil tho the |
