| Show ROOSEVELT AND PEACE president roosevelt has been upon to endeavor to secure an agree anent between the peace envoys without his aid it Is evident that there be no treaty of washington with his advice it ie possible both will concede much and reach terms that japan and russia can sign the presidents greatest labor be with the Japanese i their demands for an indemnity of one billion dollars and the ceding of sakhalin Sak halin are unwise in that even if peace were secured on those terror the aftermath would be uncertain the penalty would develop a such as france had tor germany and the end might be another war in which russia being fully prepared would overwhelm the japanese A wiser course would be a peace commanding the admiration of the russian people and out of it might grow a friendship highly advantageous to the material welfare of tho two nations russia can better afford to fight on than submit to onerous terms of peace the safety of the empire is not in the least endangered by a var miles from the boundaries of russia proper but a protracted struggle might prove more distressing to the island kingdom than to the russians abeso are points to be considered by the japanese in their irreducible minimum |
