Despite social-democrats' negative attitude towards the Manifesto, in his verses Tuqay admired with Manifesto, believing in the progressive changes of the Tatar lifestyle. During that period he shared his views with liberals, as the long-standing tradition of the Tatar enlightenment didn't distinguished national-liberation movement from the class struggle and negated the class struggle within Tatar nation. The most prominent writings of that period are "Millätä" ("To the Nation") poem and "Bezneñ millät, ülgänme, ällä yoqlağan ğınamı?" ("Has our nation dead, or just sleeps?") article. Since the satirical magazine "Uqlar" ("The Arrows") appeared in Uralsk, Tuqay renowned himself as satirist. The main target of his jeers was Muslim clergy, who stayed opposed to progress and Europeanization. As for the language of the most of his verses, it still stayed the Old Tatar language and continued the Oriental traditions, such as in "Puşkinä" ("To Pushkin"). However, in some of them, directed to the Tatar peasantry a pure Tatar was used, what was newly for the Tatar poetry.