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Show Ill I SPECULATIONS. , ;i $ n The Chronicle of San Francisco has a special ; ' 1 J Ij dispatch in which Dr. Seaman, the specialist (fjjl I Ii predicts that the peace of Portsmouth will never '.lilt f be anything more than a truce; that Russia and ; 1 Japan will be bound to clash again in a fiercer , f ! P m war than ever. That is quite possible. Russia is W 'Ull m accustomed to that. She clashed with France in m'flj P II 4 1812 and again in 1853. She was an ally of Great f P I Britain in 1812, and Great Britain joined with flg ' " '1 j'jf France and Turkey in war against her in 1853. She has had repeated scraps with the Turks, but the business is not yet settled between them. France, Grea't Britain and Germany combined to rob her of the just fruits of victory after she had whipped the Turks to a finish in 1870. No treaties are inviolable. But Dr. Seaman thinks Russia must have ocean outlets for her commerce ,and that if necessary she will seek one through the Bosphorus, or by the Persian gulf, or, if necessary, she will fight her way back over the bloody road to Port Arthur. That may be true, but we believe a gentler code is soon to rule the nations, a code founded on justice and which will recognize that an inland nation has a right to an open way to the sea. At this writing the terms of the Portsmouth treaty are not definitely known, nor are the terms of the treaty between Great Britain and Japan. If by the latter any more restrictions, expressed or implied, are put upon Russia, we can well believe be-lieve that so soon as Russia becomes a little rested and reorganized there will be some more clashing, and it will not be strange if she strikes for outlets both through the Bosphorus and the Persian gulf. She is badly whipped now, but she is a giant nevertheless. |