Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-13
THE RUSSIAN BEAR.
I.lFERlORlTY OF THE MuScoVTE
AS AN ALLY.

Tho Great Unknown Quantity In Russia.
Defensive Strength of the Country.
RISKS of Franco-Russian Alliance.
Military Point of View.
So much for France and her army; what is
the Russian situation! 1t was not the French,
but our deplorabe military administration
that beat us in the Crimea say the Russian
generals. And the scandals revealed during
the Turco- Russian war of 1ST-S show that
not much improvement in that quarter had
been made in the 81 years which separate
Sebastopol from Plevna. The car is the
sworn enemy Of peculation and corruption,
but, alone at the summit OF the bureau
cratic pyramid, Alexander cannot reach
the legions of Gibusters who swarm
around its base. He may make examples
of colonies and some of generals, but abuses
continue in spite Of imperial efforts at their
suppression Il was ascertained very re-
Gently that in some of the cavalry regiments
neither the men nor the horses received their
proper rations; the guilty parties are medi-
tating in the Oural over their misdemeanors,
but there is no assurance and there can be
none that, with the same maladmnistration,
the imperial troops will not suffer from the
same shortcomings Of quartermasters and
commissioners that disgraced the last cam
paign in Bulgaria. 1t is woful pity, too,
for otherwise Russia would be the first of all
military powers She has numbers and she
has quality: her infantry soldier is I'M
eoualed: to the steadness of the German and
the dash of the Gaul he unites the sobriety of
the Spaniard and the resignation of the
Turk he is enduring and he is ingenious;
and To these splendid footmen Russia can
add an ipdefatirable and innumerable cav
airy nor sotnias of Cossaclls. these centaurs
80 ybo e+a,,,..e which ike the bordes of At
tia car, inundate the territory of her enc
,nies ALTHOUGH the thiekly wooded and
n,arshv frontiers Of European Russia are
lass onnronriate thon is commonly imagined
10 tho movements and deployment of
mounted troops
pr+ssr,,s INrrproptry
- 49,, -, 49,. .,,, ,-o,,,,
DuV hu'slhh senoi ui' my" NY o-lu '' .,
vi 'neli iiiv II ~ VI - An
Practce oI we aiU Vi wa ~ ID ~
ale euuoe'eu 80 ~ - -
oni,ol' az "' ii..i 49,. 49,
ai'u yen IL ii'7U 10 NI''iiil.'I nc
russian seherals, NOR russian o'iioei'' hoi
the hussiih stdll Pooae9o INC same uo"e'ioIi,
the Su'iio eolchoo Vi ',io ''no ga .Iiioo 40
ehose Vi eoi many ON ulto1i"e 'ilonl "
oo Unei - ~ uiitoy
Vi coiiiinaiu' 'neie "ouIu o'iil al" eAi',
uounle Aiiiei ioi ~ 'L"U a i1iis I'm ue
suiiicleiil nie'il' Vi h'ioh us i'9C
point given eeiiei"i i-ul UPo',i wa, - u
capitai init'oi '"loe' '9Pe0i"iJ iOi ''u'0i"
eventual ANTS .....-
III rr'iice anu n uei Cne elIiio
sary ior 'ne hion'liN"uioii VI 100000 VI men
Gun pe estimates W "i'nlii ioui onu I"eiiUy
noun IL h'.S'ia 'nuo U.iiiT 10 uliI
4uuUtS VI 'no r. ~ anu
"iIuou' 't'U .1. ~ 10
cooperation HOW many Guys may oe re-
duheu VI NV 'ii''y "eeh' VI ~, iilol''
.'J -: ~ G. Ia l. -, =:
al,,,H lc,,, ,,,o,, l., ,eo,, ,,tnIoa,,
anS,.ar en. nohoJy knows how to answer
- o,,i o,,o +Ii1t 10 oLsoIu+oI,, o,,toin on5
MI, w. Rnssion noysnonars confage R1s-
CLOS ,,ohiIigo+iop nnst he incornn.rohIy ond
vostI,y elo,yar thon that of either ~ bo,.
,,oighhors Nor could IL ba otheryyisa with
5istonca infnitoIv errootor With roiIp,o,,,
1oss numerous less yyeIl Amounted and man
onod of which the Majority bava only -.
eingle track and very feJv have snacio1 Mat
sn,1,,s rnr Tho COMMUNICATION ond lonlIincr of
to,.sas troars and mo+eriol Tbaso d;sad-
yonta9es cannot Ina contested and they alone
ora sufficient, tn exnlain whv in nroyisior, of
events the immortal government should have
tolon tbosa Dracoutinns along tho frontisrs
which have 50 exercised the suscentibilities
~ Austria HUNGARY
Tbis ,pdaniaIla inferioritv Of Rpssio i,
,,,,aoi,li,, do,.rcro,,s 70 her future allies A.
~, p,I,eio lie sofo. eba NOV, ho inyodod os
So 1,,as NV Chorlos VII and b,, Nanolaor
~ p,ssia,s invodara cyarorolly foro hoCllv
~ 30 Irat ,,,t ~ bo,. ,tost to,i+or, 10 aoSiar
g., - o,o+ intn IL and 1ybot would ba tha
s.S aii, ,,(+ 1',,,,,t -, az
aio,,I ;ta oatior u,til pI,ssio,,(n,oIeiiIiyo
etaa H. o,itiraI1, cnr,nlatada Tue Rnss;a,s
IN s,.,,aIt IIr bor alice TO soIac+
49,, ,,,,,,,,ant
'N'' -, ,,.,,,,e, ,,c,, ,-o,-,
me n i'i9i,' OI,.-"t a.
IN Franco n'lssi''l aiiianco Uue rlshs are
not equaily snaieu ~ oU.h powers, nusst,,
can Due hcf Ciiilc' ouU flal t,t hlusc oear an
the Drunt from the outset Inc gam OF the
isU oas'ie "oli vi,1 oel ii'''is nv Ulio
heart OF Chahlpasne' Nun Seconu victory
they might surge on 10 tariS, whlie the north
ern colossus would scarcely feel the blows
received by her provinces of Lithuania,
Estbonia and Poland Every invasion of
Daaio Ln o1,ro,-s o,,lo5 II, Jisostor % +to
A'u''4' H'S 'i""J' NH'' - =, ti''t'si W 'Ho
enemy every INVASION Oh france mas peen
successful. Perhaps railways may have de-
priyed Russia of that invulnerability which |
WINS secured to her in former DAVIS NV dis
topcas ouI nerhans with a railroad nt bis
- Nanolaon ,,irrI,+ not l,a,,a Roo,
so1 s,ao,,,ta NITsao, ~ IT, =,
AoAe'u W 49, - 80 ~, 40
eohieChihS ""o!' t'"''i' 'h'N'i SaO' 10
seized upon. she Is, as one might say, a |
species of inorganic being without either |
heart or head at which fatal blow could be |
dealt She is NOT uossessad of one coDital Of |
which tho co,,t,,re ,vouId conouer n ,oooo |
- - =" PI"o'
anu " ioh iiei 1l''''a'0 0lii pai6h' cuihioo US