The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-03-27
A LETTER
RUSSIA.
Truths About the M'u use :,'ts
Government From Inside
II Sources.
n --.---.-------
the R % / NO !: s DOOMED
The Gar Much Beloved, Bit '1't; Is
Overridden by His Hated
M Advisors. q
/ ,TAE RoMANoFFs DOOMED j . N E
sr.c,a, "a rho TItnes-Dispatch.)

(special to rho Times-Dispa tch0 a.
YORKTOWN. vA., March a.--Thc fol-5
lowing authentic and Thoroughly felia a-lp'
lEietter from Russia will be found extreme
IL Interesting 10 the great mass Of read
Ara az events connected with the RUSSO
Japanese war. III g5 4 .i 4,
Kronstadt, Feb. 20. 1904.
Dear Sir: Yours to hand. Il mglad 70
know that you are living in n free coun-
try, Enjoying tho liberty Of mankind M
der@the great Stars and Stripes Would
like to SEQ my children under the same
In my own country. y have tho ugllt as
to- the matter Of var with Japan, as the
people here will interest their minds IN
war, and let my children alone yet q Ut
tic while. but find great mist axe !, Ihey
only carried away the best Of our children
and left8th worst home, and don't see
any difference to day in their life.
still$it was al 1t ever was before; I hey
look upon every one as spy OF ia pan. as
tho news didn't reach me for the last
tfay days Just what could see. was the
darkness on each oncs face. and Learned
by that to be right smart. thought
they have right hard times down there.
BY getting two or three letters : ma
out Just what my thoughts IS going TO !. pc.
last than any others. which ] think It comes
direct from the great element: Of news
papers Of your country. i have carried
thatfletter to friend to read and he finds
1T very interesting. Il have learned from
him and he from mo right smart, and
we made onr own map. III Il s55s " n
IOhIT1 MADE MAP.
According to our map, japan will have
the victory on land, Germany won't take
no interest in the war, France Is not
going to K take interest, and the others
don't care much to take Interest. Es-
pecially they can't find out where Sarn'l
goes to. It's more thought here that
sam'l IS connecting with Louis. Even
IL France should take part with Russia
then England Will take Will Japan and
the war will only be on the water. The
best part Of our fleet Is destroyed \ by
Japan the balance left ain't much. AMI
what we got home Is very sorry. Then
France will have to fight England and
Japan on the water and how long Will
that last? They been making now big
preparation for the war, they have called
all the available militia enrolled since
1856. which of course includes some very
old men. but It's a wonder where they
going to getsstuff to feed them. The
business OF our countryaSis rotten; the
farmers can't sell what they got Some
years wi hen dull times used to come and
the growth used to he; small, then the
government held all the grain at home.
then it brought a little something, but
now the government don t take much and
IL they do buy 1t goes on credit. What
good does that do the poor farmer and
laboring class Of people. It looks as a
dark cloud over our head. and we don't
see what benefit will the war be to them
as especlallyfto our poor children. What
I have heard from one man that they
are sorry they started the war, and in
fact they never have thought bout go
ing to war with Japan; They was play
ing poker you Americans call IT, and
they thought who was going to offer the
most would take the hand
DID NOT EXPECT WAR. t.t..
Their object was to scare up Japan and
they never dreamed Japan would fight,
but after Japan declared war, then they
had to save their honor. Now they just
begin to learn what they are against
and have to make big preparations for
war now. They were In mind of tho war
with Napoleon and Turkey, when Nicho-
las and Alexander ruled, but now our
Nicholas don't rule, but Admiral Alexieff
and Vol, Pleory. Our prime minister. They
had one good man. De White, and he lifted
Russia up. but Won Pleory got him out
and everything Is going back. We have
seen by De Witte some light and liberty
and the children was we'll pleased, and
| the country on a. boom. Everybody to-
his work, farmer to farming, and bust
ness people to theirs and SO on, but Won
Pleory has worked right hard to get him
|5out. De Witte was q smart man, good
business man, and made a trip to- Man
fchuria to see Its value, and II he were !
with tho Gear to-day, we wouldn't have
no war, and Russil would have Man
churia by diplomacy. and 1t Is so different
from Won Plory. Don Plory is a religious
hypocrlte and works the Gear under re-
ligious influence. He has ruined the
country and he will finish his business
In g. very short time, Russia can't stand,
And tho time is coming now when tho
young Russians will rise against the
lRomanoffs. They have arrested 1G5 young
students In Odessa ga In MOSCOW, 40
in Kiey. and right smart here. and that
amt the end yet. If the war runs long.
Russia will lose right smart In money, in
people and think the Romanofts will be
gone along with 1t. We have plenty
snow, ice and cold weather. we are look
Ing for a bad crop OF wheat and rye next
year, Too much Ice covers the fields and
freezes the grain. We have some places
s to feet deep snow, wood is very high
and scarce, provisions are scarce and very
high on account the terrible weather.
The people In good health wthno money.
Walt for next letter;I will give you right
smart information, as ! have to look for
1t, Send your mail careful"
THE ISSUES.
A careful perusal Of the foregoing will
readily show the great issues which 1t
carries with It, chief among which is 4
the destiny of the reignlng Gear. His
apparent inconsistency, as the armed
champion Of universal peace at The
Hague conference, and his present con-
quest OF Manchurlh for commercial gain
is readily understood when Nicholas Is
found to rule In peane but to have to
stand aside for q Clique OF his ministers
to do their dastardly crimes when the
war cloud covers the land
lie IS acknowledged to be a great, good
and true man and monarch. but ruled and
domneered over by evil influences, %The
Gear is thus no longer g. despot, and the
present one Is even limited as the last of