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Show THE PITY OF IT ALL Nothing more clearly Indicates the feeling of the Russian soldleis than the result of an examination of li'Oii men iccently sent to the hospitals. Everyone of these l.Mii had hands bad-It bad-It mutilated, this having been done by 1 thei'i wives to keep from fighting Tim nation which has a cause appealing appeal-ing to its soldier no more than that is ' lost. The continued assertions of J loyaltj sent out by tho Russian beau-rcaucracy beau-rcaucracy will not stand In the face of such evidence. The county is practl-1 cally bankrupt, its millions are rebellious, rebell-ious, its navy Is .shattered, Its soldiers will no longer tight. If tlio Cai can not see the writing on tho wall "mono, mene, tekcl upharsin," then ho Is blind, wilfully so, and 'tis said none arc in such darkness. And why this struggle? That the Russians shall be happier, more contented, con-tented, shall have bread, clothing, education? Unfortunately no, but that the Romanoffs, tho titled fools for hundreds of years dictators in Russia Rus-sia shall retain their dignified positions posi-tions before the world and demand tribute of their slaves, the Russian people. Ah, but tls a pity. Thousands dead in foreign lauds, millions at homo half starved, suffering under serfdom all that the Czar the Czar that permits his subjects to be beaten by cruel masters and sent to Siberia there to slave in chains shall wear a crown worth a province, make merry at banquets, and spend In riotous living the substance of his people. If the Russian people do not themselves them-selves finish the Job which the Japs have so well begun, the world is going to sullcr tho keenest disappointment In history. |