| Show REBELS THROW DOWN THE E GAGE OF 1 LI issues terrible arraign ment of the russian government chang ng that bureaucracy has squandered gov ern mental funds st petersburg the proletariat or through the invisible governa government threw a bombshell ell into he the camp of the official government saturday by issuing a manifesto fol owing the form of a regular imperial document locum ent declaring the bankruptcy ot of the treasury ordering the proletariat army everywhere to refuse to pay taxes ol 01 any description to insist on the payment of wages in gold or sll sil ver and to withdraw all their depo deposits pits from the savings banka banks in gol gold the manifesto Is a terrible indict ment of the manner in which the bu reau cracy has brought the country to financial ruin asserting that the gov eminent has as squandered not only the count country rys s income but the proceeds of the foreign loins loans on railroads the army and the fleet leaving the people without schools is or roads yet it Is de dared there Is no money to teed feed the soldiers and everywhere there are in of the beggared and starved troops and sailors T the h e m manifesto t 0 e even ch charges a r g e s the tho lienthe go government ve r nin with t h us using the d deposits e p 0 s its in the government savings banks to spec on the bourse and wi with th covering up its chronic deficits in the interest of the immense debt by th the proceeds of of f the foreign loans which are at last exhausted the rich it is further declared have already taken warning and are converting their property into securities and gold and are sending them abroad the only salvation tor for the country according to the manifesto Is the overthrow of the autocracy by a con assembly and the sooner the government falls the better there tore fore the last source of the existence of 0 the old regime its financial reve nue must be stopped the document is signed by the mem bers hers of the Work workmen mens s council t the he committee of the pan russian union and the central committees of the so cial democrats social revolutionists and socialists of poland this great step of the revolutionary which throws down the gage of battle to the government was prepared with such secrecy that the authorities were taken off their guard and did not even attempt to prevent its publication in the newspapers the revolutionary I 1 leaders e a d e r s ex expect p e ct i it t w will i li b be e f followed eollo w e d by r reprisals c p ri s a ls a and n d ar arrests r es t s b but u t all t this hi s h ha ao been foreseen |
