The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01
WHAT TIE PRESS SAYS
inUesrAN MEwsPArERs COMMENT
 ON END or wAR,
sr5s ~ af .assS<k ffs rsasaG M tA.ff f,zsrss NSfAen Aaa Done Wen' whtie People are UnanA-
 sn0usly Rejoicing.


 st Petersburg. Aug. S1,-Judsihe from the press comment today on peace, 1t would appear that wniie pleased with the prospect of the re- noval of further bloodshed from the Far East, a large portion of the public ,s nnab1e to reconcile itself to the loss op territory, however insignificant The national pride seems to De or tended by the cession of part Of the @ island of Sakhalin. Yesterdsy th. ', people spoke of "todays snane' meaning peace. .1 .,,,- derce of regret that the army hao not heen given another chance to try the fortune of war. though no one questions or undertakes the humanity oS the course followed by President Roosevelt. the plenipotenttaries ana Emperor Nicholas. The tone Of many of the utterances concerning peace lh- duces one to believe that a lurtner sacrifice of human lives would not pc nnaccentabIe if the naSional self-re- snect could be regained thereby. one word of disapproval of the terms from ToLio suggesting that Japan did not desire to be bound by the terms might rssult in a flareup here in defense or war and the national honor.
 Embittered by what they declare 70 be dishonorable peace, the extreme patriots do not always re1raln iLoni critcising President Roosevelt ana the American people, who they declare have offended Russian sentiment oy undertaking the Russian preparations strength and ability to cope with the Japanese.
 ton welcome peace ana express the hope that the shackles which kept American enterprise out or Russia VIII he removed. Preference for American enterprise in Russia as against Ger many is expressed.
 The Russ says: All we could have a~nected was avoidance of diplomatic defeat This seems to have been achieved" .
 The Noyoe vremya says: Japan is dissatisfled with the peace. So are ws President Roosevelt was in favor of Russia ceding the island Of sakna- lin and paying an indemnity. This does not please us. This peace Is onlv one phase in our relations with Japan. which are only beginning. We shall rest and then doubtless so on. As men who have spent eighteen troublous months together, we now shake each other by the hand ana say au revoIr. English and American cap italists should rejoice over the peace" "
 The Slovo says that peace should have been concluded before the battle of the sea of Japan, adding; Then we would have not lost any territory. The present agreement with Japan may result in relations which will re- ward us and heal the wounds inflicted on Russian patriotism by the war"
 The Synotechestva says Whatever we may have paid at Portsmouth 1t was not the price of peace, but of war. We fear that secret articles have been signed which are disadvantag- eous to Russia"
 The Nasnai shisn remarks: we must acknowledge that the peace terms are most disadvantageous. We cannot rejoice over them. We have lost too much"
 The svet says: General Linevitch's army is not destroyed. The present treaty puts on, but does not exclude. war. Only a bucket of cold water has been poured over 1t, out of the fountain of humanity with which President Roosevelt is now irrigating all the world"
 ane Bourse Gazettes says: "The war has forced Russia to open her eyes to her rotten political founda- tions and to her ignorance of the dis order in the army and in fact in all branches of the national administra- tion.1
 The St. Petersburg Gazette remarks: t'We have been overcome, not by Japan' but by our dishonesty and happy go- luckiness. The dreadful lessons ot this war will not be fTuitless and will force us toward better forms of life.