Show RUSSIA the poi tente from alussia are of ahe most sinister description for several days past it lias become increasingly evident that tub middle party the moderates by count are being slowly but surely crushed between the upper and the nether millstones of epou revolution on tho part of the people and met 6 crude the aart of the spurt it was too beadily supposed tha the appointment of witte as the dual word on pait of the autocracy and that the russian statesman was henceforth to be allowed to struggle on to a successful outcome or 0 o an admitted failure unfortunately the czar has still vie power to anake and to unmake to loose and to bind and one stroke of his pen one spasm of indecision in what he is pleased to call his mind would unseat count watte and summon all the forces of reaction aiom tha abyss in which they have momentarily been cast count witte has at no time had a free hand he has never had the confidence of an unyielding imperial support on lie contrary cont iary he lias known from the very beginning that the hungry wolves who for BO long have devoured the substance of the country were still lurking around ho throne and that any moment their counsels of evil might prevail to reestablish a social that could now mean only one thing with so uncertain a tenure it is small wonder that tho moderates as a whole have failed to rally around him and small wonder too that tha extremists should view with hate and contempt everything however seemingly good that depends upon tho throne for its support and endurance count watte stands now between the unappeasable beds on the one side and alis steadily growing influences ot the reactionaries upon the other with nothing more stable than the czar to lean upon with the knowledge that every moment of authority may be his last hated by the aristocracy and ignored by ho people it Is not surprising that ho should now be in so great a of failure and that the fabric of russian society should be so burely crumbling and disintegrating from ono point of law the disaffection of the army may therefore be regarded almost as a favorable eign it the can be brought clearly to realize that the can no longer be relied upon to carry out tho work of forcible suppression it will prove a powerful drag upon mischievous wheels the money market is perhaps the moat unfailing of political it has hitherto remained wonderfully firm but with the undoubted prospect 0 a general cataclysm and tho consequent of all values there Is something anoro than the thweat of a financial panic alili would certainly be tha finishing touch to the bloh of the people A financial panic would involve the middle classes more than any other and would further alienate sympathies from the moderate party ohwn in either toward revolution or toward suppression it is gradually becoming evident thil thero can beno stability in nu esla 60 long as tho ho manolas remain at th helm so hodg aa the czar is the fount ot power and so long aa atie czar Is simply a shaken by the wind there can be no reliance placed either upon his constitutions lipon his appointments his promises |