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Show , DEMORALIZED RUSSIA. The acquittal of Vice-Admiral Rojestvensky is all right but what Is going to acquit the Russian admiralty that sent that Baltic fleet to Its doom? Ships, many of which were obsolete, and manned by peasants, to go against the perfectly per-fectly equipped fleet of the Japanese that had proved Its prowess and acuracy before the Baltic fleet was srdered to its death. What is going to acquit the men who ordered that fleet to sea, and who must have known what would come of it? It was but another exhibition of the Indifference of the higher classes of the Russians for the poor of their own land, and supplies an excuse for the lawlessness and cruelty cru-elty which are making Russia today the pity and anxiety of the Christian world. We fear that there never will be tranquillity In that distressed land again until there is a final breakup of society so-ciety and a recreation along new lines. The Czar seems utterly Incapable, and the nobility seem like Pharaoh, to harden their hearts after everyiew misfortune. We fear another Red sea awaits them. ' And thus ar no master spirit has appeared to commence com-mence to restore order and to point out a path to tranquillity. tran-quillity. Generally In a crisis like that upon Russia the man appears, but none thus far has been found. We had all hoped that Witte was the man, but his public showing has been that of one who might, be a valuable lieutenant, but never a great captain. The Czar ought either to assert himself or abdicate. It needs some man of the Cromwell or Dias stamp in charge in Russia flow, but it seems there is no one, as though the tyrannies of a thousand years must be atoned for before order and peace can come. |