Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1906 — FATHER GAPON IS UNMASKED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FATHER GAPON IS UNMASKED.

-Repealed as Tool of Gorern ment Asainat It Ci volution lata. St. Petersburg dispatches say that through the disappearance of the journalist, Matushensky. the press agent mid .of Xbft,J'atbm- Gapon movement, the disclosure has been made that the moderate labor organisation, which Gapon established in St. Petersburg after the publication of the imperial manifsto of Oct. 30, 1905, was subsidized by the government*. Russian supplied the funds for the rent of its clubhouse and literature. Radical circles are elated" over the revelation, which was made in an open fetter by the president of the Putiloff section of the organization, complaining that $l2,Gt:O of the funds furnished through M. Tiiniriazeff, until recently minister of commerce, had not reached the treasury. The socialists claim that this sjiells the downfall of the conservative opposition to the. full revoiutlonary "pfograirramong the workmen. It is now shown that Gapon really played a minor role in the formidable movement of January, 1905, and that Mhtushensky was the director of the campaign which mystified both the police and the old-time - revolutionists Matushensky was the author of the great petition with which the worklngmon were marching to the winter palace on Red Sunday, Jan. 22. 1905, to present to tho emperor when.the troops fired on them. A curious commentary on the conditions prevailing is the cabinet’s action in opening clubhouses, for which the government furnished the money, When up to the present Interior Minister

Durnovo has not permitted assemblies of conservative workmen, which .„arft dispersed as rigorously as those of the socialists.

FATHER GAPON.