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Show When the Czar of Russia proposed to the I world a new departure, that henceforth the na I tions should settle their differences as civilized men do through a court of justice, the world bent in admiration of the man. Had he died next day, by this time his statue in the niche of the ages would have been aureoled with light and more anfl more reverence would have been given B his memory as mankind became more and more Hi rivlllzed and enlightened. But since then here H have been new and merciless edicts against the B Jews; new tyrannies practiced upon the Fins; re- B neated promises broken in further Asia; and now B there comes news that Russia proposes to end B the war and complete her steal by simply, B through the weight of numbers, crushing Japan. B No wonder Russian journals are sensitive about B tho public opinion of the world, no wonder the B Czar weeps when he thinks how much he has B lost in the world's estimation. |