Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-07-29
Rank and File Of Army Loses
Confidence in Government,
Which It Believes Capable
of Any Crime, Ia.
HIGH OFFICERS CORRUPT '
A. BEYOND DESCRIPTION
IoIStOy Announces He Has a
Remedy for All His 'Coun-
try'S WoeS-PeaCefuI and
BIoodIeSS Form of Anarchy
(By Malcolm Clarke.l

Wy MdlCOim ClHfke.l
Berlin, July 2S.--If the kafser's
fourth son, Prince August Wilhelm.
does not visit the United States. It
VIII not be through any fault of his
own, FOR to see that great country IS
MS highest desire, and his father has
promised him that If he passes his
examinations as successfully as a
prince OF the Hohenzollern family
ought to ne shall be allowed to travel
from one end of America to the other.
The prince is at the present time
student at the University of Bonn,
where the kaiser himself studied aud
where he is said to have fallen In
love, for the first time, with the
daughter of one of his teachers
1t is thought that the young prince
Will be the guest Of Baron and Bar
oness Speck Won Sternburg, the Ger
man ambassador at Washington and
that the baron will be asked to ac-
company him on his trip throughout
the United States / am told that the
young prince is also very ambitious
to see real mining camp and. if
possible, to try his luck as a miner
in the Klondike, but he will hardly
succeed in persuading his father to
let him go that far, although he will
probably be given an opportunity 20
Visit mining camps in some of the
western states.
The German military attache In 81
Petersburg has given very dark pic
ture Of military conditions in Russia
Although the aristocracy and the
nigh army officials seem to have for
gotten the disgrace of the last war
with Japan" he says. the privates IT
the army and the masses of the peo-
pie have not and the army has lost
all confidence In the government.
which 1t believes capable OF any
crime, and II will no longer allow it.
self to be used as an instrument 40
suppress those who demand free
constitution"
Even the ultra conservative ''No-
woe Vrema" writes editorially the
other day: I'VE are Informed by A
very high army official who is a 10y
al supporter OF the czar, that IN the
war department 1t IL feared that a
military revolution will break out
within month or two.
All Russia is revolutionary at pres
ent. so why should the army be 9TH
erwise? Even the officers outside of
the guard regiments. belong TO a great
extent to revolutionary associations.
Only one thing can prevent the out
break of a military revolutlon--n
complete army reform and the re-
moval of nearly all of the highest
army officials who are corrupt be
yond all description.
AS long as the soldiers feel that
everything remains unchanged. that
the officials who they believe be-
fra hn fnt. kn be NJ
gain during the recent war. are al
lowed to remain In power, they will
continue TO be dissatisfied for the
time is past when the Russian soldier
is a mere unthlnklng tool.
If the army, and that means II the
Russian empire, Is to be saved, the
czar must begin a radical cleaning mp
of the corrupt war department, and
he must do II without delay or II will
be too late
@ns
Count Leo Tolstoy, like Thomas w.
Lawson. of Boston. has announced
that he has a remedy which will put
an end TO all the present disturbances
In Russia
Interviewed the other day by Ber-
| lin journalist, he said
81 do not think the present situa-
| tion Is as serious as some papers en-
| deavor 20 make the world believe.
| There is a great deal of unrest
throughout the empire, but all that
would readily disappear IL the proper
remedy were used
"The first thing we must do. Is -
| try TO reconclllate the many opposing
factions which are now deadly enc
mics of one another. No one seems
to have taken hold Of this beautiful
| task, but instead of that. everybody =
/ talking politics. I do not object 20
people taking an interest IN politics
! but II is absolutely immoral to make
politics the chief aim of your lire.
The whole world is open to us. the
glorious world OF love. OF truth. "
working, of thinking One must
choose his task In life and Try to
make others do the same thing But
no one will listen to this. no ono
takes any interest In anything but the
newspapers and the dolngs of the
douma.
"The agrarian question will then
! be solved when everybody shalt
have been granted an equal right OF
! the ownership of all land. When I
/ speak of this solution OF the question.
do not do so from a social stand /.
/ point. but from the standpoint OF the
government, as | suppose that Il can
not be solved In a better way, by the
present government
THE old regime Is impossible but
the new one with its douuaa and 9TH
er ridiculous institutions Il stlll more