The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-03
Shhs ssid thsre would 10 . private meeting
IL the plenipotentiaries Tomorrow or Mon
day to approve the texts.
ikUssIAN ARMY REsnNTs PEACE.
Dmcers Of tho Imperial Guard Handing In
Their designations.

Special Cable Despateh 10 TIE SON.
| ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 2.--Of the three
great elements In Russias political life,
The autocraoy, bureaucracy and the reform
party, there Is even yet only one which
Is fully convinced how peace will afeot
its fortunes.
/, Throughout the vast ranks Of the bureau-
cracy there In a feeling OF unbounded de-
Light that peace without payment las boon
attained. The failures Of the war were such
powerful weapons In the hands OF the re-
Formers that the bureaucracy was prepared
Tor any pc ace, even though the payment Of
Indemnity would have limited their oppor-
tunities, for enriching themselves from
domestic taxation. Their present elAtion
ls based upon the belief that these oppor-
4unities will soon be theirs again. In
deed, expressions OF thankfulness In Govern
mont departments here at the escape from
the payment OF indemnity are loudest In
khose quarters whose record for population
IA most notorious
! With the Gear himself 1t Ia case OF in
creasing bewilderment, since the news OF
The conclusion OF peace arrived. His
manifesto convoking national duma
was launched in the hope that 1t would
support him In prosecuting national
war. He rejected such seemingly impera-
hive necessities to Japan that he never
Hreamed that she would quietly omit
them and make q settlement practi cally
upon the basis Of her antebellum claims.
The attitude of the army toward him In
the present situation places the court IN the
most delicate position. Already officers
,of the Imperial Guard Regiment are re-
Esigning their commissions.
The reform party is scarcely less adrift
lin its course than the Gar himself. Its
electoral campaign was to be based on at
tacks on the Government for contin uing
the war or for paying millions abroad
which were needed for the development Of
the country at home. The Government.
which has escaped both horns Of this d.
'lemma, is already showing the temper OF
one who for the time at least, Ia reseated in
the saddle. Its censure department has
threatened with suppression the liberal
newspaper Syn Otechestrd, whose comment
on the restoration Of peace 70 worth quoting
las showing what the reactionary bureau
lcrats consider intolerable license. 1t says:
If after the lesson We have received
1.-THE reactionaries still hope to keep their
position untouched, they forget that the
RUSSIAN nation, thanks to the war, has
;fhoroughiy understood that its well being
land value in the public life Of the world
depend absolutely upon the satisfaction
ton wide scale Of It's demands. The nation
lis standing on crossway. Before 1t there
are two roads-the old one, where 1t re-
/ NAMED In ignorance, famine and finally
defeat, and . new road which promises
Feducation and freedom and the esteem OF
I: civilized lands. Tho reactionaries wish
: to keep us on the oil road. They ascribe
our failure not to backwardness in civiliza-
| ton, but to the temporary and unmerited
, success of the Japanese, whom we should
/ with luck conquer with our fists without
recourse to the evil weapons Of progress