ty assures them the country's confidence.

The new Cabinet will base its policy upon the following
principles: _First_.--An immediate and general amnesty for all
political and religious offenses, including terrorist acts and
military and agrarian offenses.

_Second_.--Liberty of speech and of the press; freedom for
alliances, unions, and strikes, with the extension of these
liberties to military officials, within the limits admitted by
military requirements.

_Third_.--Abolition of all social, religious, and national
restrictions.

_Fourth_.--To proceed forthwith to the preparation and convocation
of a Constituent Assembly, based on universal suffrage. This
Assembly will establish a stable universal regime.

_Fifth_.--The substitution of the police by a national militia,
with chiefs to be elected and responsible to the municipalities.

_Sixth_.--Communal elections to be based on universal, direct,
equal, and secret suffrage.

_Seventh_.--The troops which participated in the revolutionary
movement will not be disarmed, but will remain in Petrograd.

_Eighth_.--While maintaining strict military discipline for troops
in active service, it is desirable to abrogate for soldiers all
restrictions in the enjoyment of civil rights accorded other
citizens.

The Provisional Government desires to add that it has no intention
of taking advantage of war conditions to delay the realization of
the measures of reform above mentioned.

This address is worthy of especial attention. The generous liberalism of
the program it outlines cannot be denied, but it is political liberalism
only. It is not directly and definitely concerned with the great
fundamental economic issues which so profoundly affect the life and
well-being of the working class, peasants, and factory-workers alike. It is
the program of men who saw in the Revolution only a great epochal political
advance. In this it reflects its bourgeois origin. With the exception of
the right to organize unions and strikes--which is a political measure--not
one of the important economic demands peculiar to the working class is met
in the program. The land question, which was the economic basis of the
Revolution, and without which there could have been no Revolution, was not
even mentioned. And the Manifesto which the Provisional Government
addressed to the nation on March 20th