Show THE WAR AND THE FUTURE the indications are that the war will continue the deadlock has com e says the denver news as it suggested some time ago that it would come on the question of indemnity A AL pay money to japan the russian ambassadors have consented to strip country of the possessions which it held by force and by lease Manchuria In they abandon the great fortifications of port arthur they surrender the beautiful city of dalny created by the expenditure 0 many million as tha warm water seaport of the bear on the shores of the pacific they are will ing to abandon ifor the present the dream of an all the year round port at the eastern terminus of the siberian railway under russian control they are willing to ave up the extension of the siberian railway which runs southward through manchuria they are willing in a word to part with all that they haye gained by twenty years of steady encroachment upon chentse soil and to lose the immense investment they have put into railways and cities they are willing to allow japan to become the unquestioned suzerain of korea japan on it side is ready to concede to the russians continued possession of vladivostok and the main line of railway reaching the pacific at vladivostok it Is also will ing to waive its demand that the russian paval power on the pacific shall bs restricted to a fixed strength and that the russian navy vessels now interned in neutral ports shall ae surrendered to japan but japan insists that russia shah pay an ot to cover the cost of the war and russia replies that it will not pay a cent the russian Is taken from farsighted far sighted views of policy the jap anase as a people are rich la courage and enterprise but fearfully poor in money there Is little actual money in country there Is little property of great value the wages of artisans and laborers are only a few cents a day and a multitude of tha people ralso from their own patch of soil all that they need to sustain life the expenses of the war nave bur bened japan with a national debt which Is heavier to t than ten times the present debt of the united states would be to this country and necessitates a considerable and general increase of taxation the russians say they desire to save ther prestige by refusing to pay indemnity but the real reason Is not pride but a determination to force the japanese treasury to bleed they believe that japan will be less able to meet another russian advance lea or twenty years from now it it has to carry a heavy debt than it would be it were poured into the country to take up bonds held abroad and to enrich and fructify commerce and build up the industries which create wealth nobody need imagine that russia intends to adept as permanent an unfavorable outcome of this war she will reach again tor warm water on the pacific when she believes the the first time has come to do so and step of preparation tor that time Is to refuse to pay an indemnity all that remains for russia to lose is vladivostok and the railway leading to it and the possession of that port Is a matter ot sentiment than of business the commerce which passes through it is not considerable the utmost power of japan cannot make serious inroads upon the russian possessions in asia the distances are too great and the settlements too few for the game of advance into the heart of the continent to be worth the trouble and cost are broken off it it the negotiations Is likely that the russian forces will be beaten back in another great battle and that vladivostok wall be taken after a siege in many respects a repetition ot the siege of port arthur except that there will bo 20 russian fleet to be considered then will come a deadlock japan will not be able to advance and russia will be equally powerless at least tor a long time and the drain on the japanese treasury will continue her already scanty purse will continue to bleed and her foreign debt to increase it this point in the struggle Is reached the advantage in operations will be as much on the side of russia as it was on the side of japan in the first stages of the war the russians will be closer to their vast reservoirs of supplies while the japanese will have to transport men and material over long distances the war will become a test of the ep durance of the opposing treasuries |