Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1906 — FRENCH AND RUSSIAN UPHEAVALS PARALLELED. [ARTICLE]

FRENCH AND RUSSIAN UPHEAVALS PARALLELED.

French Revolutions Pauses, poverty of the people; high taxes; no voice in the government; preSsion by the nobitity and church. Third estate, representing the lower (lasses, organized under royal edict, but the rights were curtailed. Necker, minister of finance, looked upon to regenerate-" France, dismissed 6y the king. I-on is XVI. retires with royal family to VersaUJes, just outside of Paris. - Masses call on Louis XVI. to save them from rapacity of the nobility, promising him safety. gg - Ruslan Revolution. (Poverty of the workingmen; excessive •taxation; little voice in the government; oppression by the grand dukes, bureaucracy and holy synod. Douma, representing the peasants and workingmen, demands more liberty. Prince Mirsky, former minister of interior, who suggested many reforms, discredited. M.' Witte resigns. .■ Nicholas 11. retires with the royal family to Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof, a few miles from St. Petersburg.' People appeal to Czar to redress thelT wrongs.