The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-01
Russian Autocrat at Last Appears to Have Realized That It is About Time for
 Peace to Ensue

notification that he could not receive them.
 The Associated Press was informed that all the ministers with the excep- tion of the ministers of war and marine unanimously favor the conclusion or peace.
 No trouble Is anticipated in meeting the payment of an indemnity as finan- ciers who were not willing to lend the money for a continuation of the war are ready to accommodate Russia II money Is needed to conclude peace.
 The seriousness of the situation created by the complete destruction of the Russian fleet seems to be 1uiiy realized at Tsarka-Selo, where the em- peror has assembled practically all the members of the imperial family to de- eide on the course to pursue. A series of conferences are proceeding which will determine not only the question of peace, but whether 1t is advisable to yield to the popular demand for the immediate convocation of national assembly. Some of the members or the imperial family are understood to be urging the emperor to retrieve the slt- uation by making common cause with the people against the bureauracy. The emperor has decided to send his broth CT. Grand Duke Michael to attend the marriage of Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany instead of his un- cle, Grand Duke Vladimer, whose more mature judgment and advice the Elm peror regards as very important in the present crisis.
 Declares for Peace. Prince Ouktomsky in the Rasviet this afternoon declares for peace in a half distracted editorial in which he takes the whole world to task for shutting it's eyes to the impending peril.
 Although blind to the future" says l the prince, nations are fawning upon victorious Japan. Great Britain re- joicing In Russia's fall utters her sar- castle condolences and America sends Secretary Taft and a party of eccentric | ladies to visit the land of the Mikado, France in fear of Indo-Chtna allows Japan to boss her about while the | crowned Hohenzollern, who few | years ago sounded & solemn warning | to the Asian races. rushes to the sta ton at Berlin to greet the little yellow Prince Arisugawa and showers him with attentions"
 The catastrophe which has over | taken the Russian fleet has given tre' uoendous Impetus to the demand upof | Emperor Nicholas for the immediate | convocation of national assempS | without awaiting action upon the re- | port of the Bouligin rescript commls' , sion. With the single exception of the I reactionary Sviet the press pours ou | indignation and wrath upon the bu reaucracy which is held responsible l for All the misfortunes of the war. only | the Novosti and the Bourse Gazette however, declare that peace should bt concluded. The Russ. now the wides' read paper in Russia, says: l OiItltU of RugSiag diS2ract should be overwhelmed with shame | ''The death of half a million Of men, 1 19!e Russ continues, and the loss ol 1 billions of money is the price of the re | lection of progress and western civil | ization. Sebastopol struck the shackle! | from the serfs and Port Arthur, Muk | den and Tsu Island should free Russia from the slavery of the bureaucracy.
 The Solvo, a popular paper. is ever more bitter. It says:
 Enough.
 No Longer Blind.
 "Blindfolded for 200 years the Rus sian people have been marching to thu brink of destruction, but the bandage are now torn from the eyes of 13o,000. 900 Russians and they will neither b' | led nor driven over the precipice. Le l the people speak. The bureaucrac, | has had its say and has crowned It. | work of national shame and humilia tion. Let 1t now listen to what thos' who have suffered in silence and whc have supported 1t in luxury have tt say. From this moment convocatior of the people has become. as necessar! | as the air we breathe. If the bu | reaucracy this time stands between th' | emperor and the nation. let 1t be war 1 let it remember the lessons of Russian 1 history-the history of the zemsk! zabor of 1649. The Japanese are no | fighting the Russian people. but thu | Russian bureaucracy which has reject
 ed with energy the talent Of the ma
 ton for a host of sycophants and time | serving courtiers. Our only consola
 ton in this bitter hour is the con
 sciousness that 1t Is not the people
 but the Government which has suffered
 defeat.
 Enough"
 The Syn otetchestav and Nash;
 Shisn, two excellent papers, are equall! | bitter.
 The Novoe Vremya. while milder. de | lending the Russian nation against thu
 charge of rottennAss and insisting tha
 there is plenty of patriotism as evi
 denced by the fact that more young of
 ficers volunteered to go out with Ad
 miral Rojestvensky than were needed
 nevertheless joins in tho cry for ar
 immediate summonlng of the people.
 Delay will be fatal" the paper adds
 "All Russids intelligence and all hei
 ability are needed to meet the advanc l ing crisis"
 The Listoku says:
 The war has taught the lesson tha 1 education, good government ard free
 dom are always victorious over fCnor
 ance, misrule and despotism."