Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-02-07
WAR IN FAR EAST
HAS JUST STARTED
Declares Russian Ambassador,
Count Cassipi.
MUST FIGHT UNTIL VICTORIOUS

says Russia was FoFCeo lnto 6nS
Present Conflct-Dlsorders at Home
Put Down With Only Needed
Severity.
Washington, Feb. 6.-"The war in
Asia is not about to end; it has really
just begun" said Count Cassini, Rus
sian Ambassador to the United States
in response to a request for a state
ment of his views regarding the Rus
sian situation. That struggle can
My country did not seek this conflict
but was forced into it by a treacher
Gus attack upon her unpTepared forces
at a far distant ponit Having en-
gagged in a defensive war, Russia will
continue to fight until peace con-
sistent with her honor and her ] . It'll
mate interests is possible. The ulti.
mate triumph of Russian arms is, to
my mind, an assued outcome of this
unhappy war"
In spite of the abuse to which Rus.
sia is subjected in America, the ven
cradle dean of the diplomatic corps
at Washington is confident that public
sentiment in this country will change
before long.
Il have strong faith in the common
sense and just instincts of the Ameri-
can people," he said. Il do not be-
lieve that they can fail to detect the
propaganda in the elaborate and per
6istent attempts to exaggerate, twist
and peryert events in Russia.
1T is just as absurd to picture the
clash of rioters in st. Petersburg with
the police and troops as a massacre or
a revolution as to treat the fall of Port
Arthur as the virtual end of the war
in which Russia is beginning to be in
a position to deal effectively with her
enemy in the field.
What the Russian government did
in st. Petersburg and what it has
done elsewhere is just what the United
States or any other civilized and re-
spOnsible state would do under the
same circumstances. 1t preserved
public order by force after a fair and
full warning that force would be used.
The fact that innocent persons lost
their lives in no way alters the situa-
ton. Nor is the government respon-
sible for the outrageous exagerations
sent out of Russia by newspaper cor
respondents.
The truth is that the organized
workingmen of st. Petersburg, who
had certain industrial grievances,
were foully deceived and misled by a
few Nihilists and other revolutionaries
who seek the destruction of all estab-
lished government. These advocates
of violence are not numerous, but they
are active and seek every opportunity
to strike at persons in authority They
chose a moment when Russia was en-.
gagged in a difficult war-difficult be-
cause OF great distances-to mislead
thousands of honest workingmen, 10y
al Russians, into a movement by
which they hoped to produce anarchy
The disturbances in Warsaw and
elsewhere in Poland are due to the
restIessness and excitability of the Pc.
lish people, which shows itself in tur-
bulence. That was true of Poland
long before it was Russian territory
The natural disposition of the Poles
is being played upon by revolutionary
agents.
1T is absolutely false to say that
the worklngmen of Russia have no
means of presenting petition to the
emperor. But, as in all other civil
lied countries, there is an orderly pro-
cedure to be followed. The men who
led the workingmen of St. Petersburg
into rioting demanded that the empe-
ror should come to a certain spot and
meet them and accompanied their de-
mands by public threats.
Suppose a body of strikers in
Washington should in terms of inso-
Ience summoned President Roosevelt
to go to public square and parley
Will q lAlOD lOl any pun pO0C' w ndb
would be his answer? Suppose they
should threaten to start a revolution? +?
Would that influence him to give an.
other kind of an answer? Imagine
that the leaders should invite a mob
to march to, the White House with
red flags and revolutionary procIama,
tions, is it conceivable that the gov.
ernment would look on intertly, espe-
cially if it were fully informed of the
violent purposes of the agitators?
when President Cleveland sent ma.
ttonal troops to preserve order in Chi.
cago, and the governor of Illinois pro,
tested, did not the president declare
that all discussion regarding procedure
should be put aside until order was
restored?"
YOUNG GIRL SHOT TO DEATH.