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Show DISTRAUGHT RUSSIA. After all, judging by the performances of the Black sea fleet, it is not wonderful that Togo did up the Russian "fleet in the Korean straits, and as fleets are generally under better discipline than armies, we can begin to understand why all the Russian armies that the Japanese have met have been overthrown or rolled back. A political geological period seems to have come upon Russia, and nothing seems to be left except to begin a new creation of the nation. Lost in poverty and drunkenness the peasantry of Russia Rus-sia seem to be hopeless material on which to begin to work, while the thought that those poor creatures crea-tures should be free and have a voice in the direction di-rection of affairs has never yet penetrated the minds of Russia's ruling classes. It seems that a poor sailor asked for better soup and was shot down by an officer, whereupon the savage crew killed and threw overboard the officers in command. com-mand. It is a terrible story, but when the Black Sea fleet arrived, the admiral in command did not dare attempt by force to bring that crew to obedience, obed-ience, lest the whole fleet mutiny. It is evidently a case where cruelty has culminated in pure savagery. sav-agery. What hope is there for progress and enlightenment en-lightenment in such a land? Even if a settlement is made with Japan, with the material on hand what hope is there for Russia? She seems to be a stranded whale. But strange as it may seem, the events that have transpired in the Black Sea and in the port of Odessa of late, have given us hope, not of Rusait., but hope for our own country; that hope is in the lessening of respect for Japanese prowess prow-ess and science. They would not have swept an American navy from the sea; they would not have taken Port Arthur from Americans; they would not have been victorious at Liao Yang or Mukden. And the Japanese know it, and whatever bluff they may attempt with the outside world after they have received their indemnity from Russia, they will never undertake a war with the United States except as a last resort. The Russians Rus-sians were no better fitted for a desperate war than were the Spaniards when they blew up the Maine, and with hereditary insolence said in effect: ef-fect: "What are you going to do about it?" The idea that the Japanese are a new race of Romans come to the world to reconquer it, is all dissipated dissi-pated when we know the real condition of the Russian army and navy, and the brown race suddenly sud-denly ceases to be an apprehension of disasters to come. But there are duties for our country to perform. per-form. One is to see to it that there shall never be a great inflow of Mongolians, another is that the coming of the hordes from southern Europe must be restricted. The best way to deal with the hordes from both the east and the west is to turn tJ em aside to new fields. Great Britain should nelp us with' the Europeans. Those hosts should be turned to Africa. They are wanted in the Rand minea, and between the Rand mines and the sources of the Nile there is room for all; we HBBE9HHENHHHHHHHHE 1 t Bl ought to make a diversion, in South America by ; i . flfl building a railroad from the Caribbean sea to i j 1 jfl Rio and Buenos Ayrcs. j , J j BH Then we need in every state to see that Ameri- ' canism is exalted. Soiled hands now taint the j jfl American ballot; unworthy men who care nothing for our flag are given honors and emoluments. We ! n ; jH can easily stand off the sinister threatenings from ' : j without, if we determine that America shall be ' jfl ruled by real Americans, and that none others j jj shall be placed on guard. I B The coming here of the hordes that fester in 1 , i , WM our cities and become tramps and gypsies in the , ;l jfl country do not constitute the great danger. The i j iVi ,H accute danger comes from another source. Up ! ! j jfl to date the laboring men of the United States j ,fl have been free men, men with dreams of making ; ( i jH homes and fortunes and attaining honors. But the I , j money of the land is drifting into combines and ' ! !(J IB these combines like servile, or semi-servile, labor- ; ' ; , '( IB ers. That is the danger, for it is a forecast of ' 1 ' ! ' i IB trouble. The true men will not give up their , , ; ' wM places as free and self-respecting laborers and seu j ' J their places supplied with semi-slaves. This is 1 .H something for the men in whose hands the guid- . , j. ing of this republic is entrusted to think about. ' And they cannot think too fast or act with too ' ' jH much promptness. While our land is free it is in- , i vincible it must be kept free.( |