Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1905-05-12 | Page 6 | Religious Freedom for Russians

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR RUSSIANS st petersburg after three days holiday the tha newspapers except tho the ex radical organs wh which lob never find anything to commend in the actions tot of the autocracy are filled with praise at the grant ot of freedom of religion generally expressing the opinion uit liberty of conscience must be the pro pre cursor of po political liberty the novels eremya says for decades we have lived under the reign of the tha chancelleries chancell eries and the government covern ment officials generally who had bad the right to close churches and stifle the most sacred ideals of man until april SO 30 the names of men were inscribed in thu official papers as aa orthodox who never pir haps bad been inside an orthodox church let us hope that the old believers who were banished abroad may now return to russia and enjoy here the same liberty they possessed abroad it Is generally believed that the old b hovers believers will signalize their t ion of the emperor a favor by a mu gift to the war chest