Show LONG LIVE THE DEAR AND FREE RUSSIAN PEOPLE TO THE PEASANTS declares that the hopes reposed in the lower house of parliament have been f blasted st petersburg july 30 the public prosecutor has started proceedings against the members of the lower house of parliament who signed the alborg manifesto the charge under which the signers of the manifesto will be brought to trial Is violation of article of the criminal code which provides tor a tempts to overthrow the existing government ern ment this is virtually high treason and the maximum penalty Is hard labor in the mines no arrests yet have been reported and the constitutional democrats do not anticipate anything reaching punishment for their representatives it is understood that the arrested will be admitted to bail pending trial the constitutional democrats are chiefly apprehensive that the possibility ot prosecution held over the heads of their leaders will render them ineligible for election reelection re in the same manner that prof malukoff Ml lukoff and M hessel and others were excluded from the last lower house socialist and radical members of the late house may have too ool their heels in cells for a long time and thus be p cd from continuing the full fledged revolutionary agitation upon which athey are now embarked many of the members are now living under cover of houses of friends in st petersburg or have gone in hiding in the province A correspondent of I 1 the associate press met two peasant deputies who had cut off their luxuriant calr and beards and who could scarcely be recognized the motives of the government for abandoning its attitude not to prosecute the signers of the alborg danl tes to as set forth recently by premier pin in an interview is not stated but evidently it wa influenced by the need of doing something to counteract the effect of the eiborg ad dress this has attained an enormous circulation in the provinces in spite of the greatest efforts anthe part of th administration to prevent is pub Ud atlon the seizure of the bessol plant here by armed revola for the purpose of getting ou copies of the address was duplicated today in but it is believed tha the forcible occupation ol 01 printing officer is merely a bit of amateur theatricals arranged between the proprietors of the establishments and th revolutionists to save the former efm responsibility this same method was employed to effect the printing of tn illegal organ of thea work mens codou of st petersburg last winter A manifesto to ehg peasants of rua sa has been issued iri the joint names of all the various labor and revolutionary organizations including he representatives of these kans in the defunct lower house this ariani festo declares that the hopes reused in the lower house of parliament have been blasted by the diabolical designs of the crowd of grand dukes courtiers and wealthy land proprietors assembled around the emperor w hose only purpose can be the maintenance of their power over the people by dispersing the elected representatives of the people and arresting and imprisoning them the government has declared war on the nation and a struggle is beginning in which rivers of blood will flow and for which the criminal government isi responsible the people must not spare the government this manifesto further accuses the government of betraying the fatherland by invoking the aid of german and austrian troops the people are therefore urged to remove the local authority everywhere to replace with the boilers toilers toi lers seize their liberty and to confiscate all stat funds the troops also must conform to the orders of those elected by the people the workmen in the town the peasantry and all must in conjunction with the troops seize the liberty and take the land which the government has dented them the land thus pos hessed must be handed over to the popularly elected local authorities pending the elaboration of a new land law the manifesto calls for elections on the basis of universal suffrage and concludes with the words down with the government and the emperor long live the dear and tree russian people |