New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28

remark slipped from his lips; '"rhe defence is
proving mean, trying TO prove--that there is
no such thing public justice or a public in
leilectual life in Russia
Under these circumstances the whole trial
must be called iasco. Russia cannot have
Deen pleased with the result of it, for all over
Germany the newspapers printed extracts from
the court proceedings, and if these showed any
thing they showed that II. Plehve himself pro-
voked his awful fate. and that conditions in
RUSSIA are even far worse than one had mag
ined them
One of the most influential Journals In Ger
many, the "Kreuzzeitung." organ OF the Con-
servatives and of the Court Party and consid-
cred always best informed about Russia re-
Gently printed correspondence from St Peters
DufS which has made a sensation here The
correspondent predicts this fall and winter an
other famine in Russia as horrible and wide
spread as that of 1881. He says the number OF
persons out of employment is rapidly increas-
ing, both in the rural and town districts. and
mat this time the dissatisfaction is not con-
fined to the lower orders" the students and
artisans, but has penetrated 10 the upper
classes In fact, he asserts the whole nation is
auected. Not even the army is exception.
The officers, he continues. Judge of the situa-
tlon very pessimistcally.' The Is "un-
shouting of the subsidized press, he says there
is distinct recognition of the fact that Rus
Slas prestige abroad has greatly suffered"
IhlS, II must be remembered, is in the "KreuZ-
zeitung," the chief champion of Russia in Ger
many. Evidently its editor wishes to prepare
his readers for evil news in the near future and
as matter Of fact, it only a couple of days
later that the wire flashed the awful tidings of
NJ. Plehve's assassination
however, with all that. the Kaiser and his
government Will continue to court the favor and
friendship of the Russia of to-day, official Rus
STA. from the Car down. and this for the simple
reason. as has been shown, that Germany, in
her growing political isolation, in the steady
loosening of the ties that bind the Dreibund to-
gether. and which. loosenng, has even to-day
proceeded far enough to make of that political
confguration scarecrow rather than a living
fact, needs a new political friend, with an army
Ter her
own. with monarch whose word may be
trusted and who has all along personally ad-
mlred William II. and preferred his alliance to
any other, with a system of government not
subject TO revisements of public opinion or sub
ject TO the whims of a national parliament or
the outcome Of party electons-in short, just
such country and government as the Russian.
Much may be forgiven on the score of political
necessity. France pleaded that on less reason
than obtains in this country at present for an
alliance with Russia. Still there are millions of
Germans who deplore what is known the
present Russian course OF the Kaiser and
Count Bulow, and who believe that If the people
Of Britain possessed in 1904 only one 1.-THE of
that political sagacity which their forebears
showed in 1856 and again in 1915. they would
make II their business not to force Germany
Into a Muscovite alliance.