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Show I) FINAL APPEAL TO Tl PEOPLE i The Emperor of Russia Has Decided to Dissolve the Present Parliament, i Imperial Ukaso Issued Dissolving lh I Present Parliament and Providing j For the Convocation of IU Successor March 5, 1907. Bt. Petersburg. Russia's first experiment ex-periment In parliamentary govern; inont cume to nn Ignominious end Saturday Sat-urday night with the promulgation ol two Imporlul uknseH, tho llrst dlssolV' log tho present parliament und provld-Ing provld-Ing for the convocation of Its success; I or on March r, 1907, more than six I months hence, and tho second pro claiming tho capital of KiisjhIu und tho urroiiudlng province to bo In n state of extraordinary security, which Is only lnflnltrslinully different from full mar- ' tlal law. This measure of safoty is to provide for tho outbursts which undoubtedly will bo provolcod by this dnrlug measure. It Is now but a step to dictatorship. Hmperor Nicholas by a stroko ot tho pen set Russia back to where Bhe stood two years ago, In the full grip of the autocracy and Irresponsible government, wiping out for six , months ut least the whole structure of parliament, erected tit much cost. ' There In little doubt that tho ordor I for convocation of tho new assembly - will still further postpone tho time, unless tho new parliament promises to be more amenable than the present. I Tho delay In fixing tho tlino for tho 1 new elections scorns to Indicate a do- i 1 clslon to elm n go the present bails of ' eiiffrago to perhaps a basis of unlvor- 1 nal suffrage with which tho advisers ' of tho emperor hopo to swamp the . educated liberals, the socialists and ( i the workmen with the vastness of fj peasantry. The only uncertainty Is M tho coming storm when and whom It will break. Tho advocates of tho "mulled" flBt bellovo that by dlssolv- i Ing parliament and provoking a ool- ' Union now they will find tho revolu tionary leaders not prepared for nr uprising ns at Moscow, whoroas fur ther delay would moroly give tuo rev Uutlonlsts tho tlmo needed to orgon-lio orgon-lio and to contluuo corruption ot the army. |