The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06

is great deal better and broader than
the internal government and it has
scattered colonies all along the Sibe-
rian railroad. Russia must, therefore,
have Pacific outlet for the products
of these people, as at such a distance
as this territory is from st. Petersburg,
even the lowest American freight rate
would eat up all the profit. Naturally
Russia wanted an outlet in China for
the stuff produced by this population.
First Japan demanded, that Russia
should leave Korea. Then it demanded
the Russians met the issue on that ba-
sis. | heard it more or less Indirectly
that the car was not intending to let
this come to war, and would have done
anything to prevent it. Japan had
been Dragging for years that it would
have q big war with Russia at some
time. The Japanese at the front knew the
car. When they found that Russia
was giving in SO much that they would
not have war, and as they knew they
had the Russians where they could
pound them, they started to war before
the note could reach Toxic. If this
story be true, it was case of very
bad faith. E.-
"Russians, and great many. other
people, believe that the German en-
peror was more instrumental in bring
ing on the war than anyone else. They
are sore at the Germans German i'm
ports are growing, and now is the psy-
Geological moment for Americans to
get mixed up over there while Russia is
down on it's luck. 1t is a better time
for Americans to act now than to wait
until the war is over to give the glad
hand,
"The Russians think now that they
| have a chance. Admiral Rojestvensky
has orders to fight and not run away
this time. The Russian fleet is stronger
in guns thru the Japanese fleet, and if
they can whip Togo they will have cut
the Japanese from their base of sup
plies. The car says the result of the
war depends on this fight. The Rus
slams will either have to sue for peace
if whipped, or will have Japan at their
mercy, may dictate terms to Japan
Russia is more than willing to meet
the Japanese more than half way.
War Doesn't Disturb Them.
"Russia doesn' It feel the war. In St
Petersburg one never hears anything
more about the. war than the daily
rumor concerning the naval battle
Their attitude there is about the SAM
as it was here at the time of tn
Spanish-American war. They don
think it is vital. The war has fine in
fluence on the internal government a
the people expect to get some reforms
The people are so stupid that the slight
est reforms here would mean a goo
deal there. | think there is no doub
, that the government is doing all it ca
to help the peasants all over the coun
7'The high Russian tariff has built u
, business. It is sending sugar, petrole
| UNI, cloth and wooden goods, steel, iro
and miscellaneous merchandise toWar
India and as far as Persia. That is on
Of the things that was hurtings Co
many. Russia was getting a lot of til
= German trade and it is supposed tn
r Germans took this course to head tn
8 thing off. Russia is making a speci;
i endeavor to build up an export bushes
e all over the world.
; Newspaper correspondents in Ru
e STA are looking for sensations all tt
: time. Everything that transpires =
!. taken to the border and cabled to tt
: papers. Little troubles that here wou]
g make two or three lines in the pape
: are. cabled out in half-columns.
J It seems peculiar to leave Russ
g and get into city like Chicago and
d see every express and delivery wage
8 surrounded by police and bodies (
/ negro workmen passing thru the stree
o under guard, and at the same tin
y Americans are filled with 'righteou
r indignation at the internal affairs
d Russia. When conditions in Chica}
n and the negro situation in tn esouth a
J. such as they are, it seems to me lii
"The high class Russians are awful
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