Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-23
RUss|A'S NEXT EFFORT
Win Endeavor to Regain Her
Lost Naval Prestige.
TO ExPEND 100000, 900
None of the Ships to Be Built in
America.
INFLUENCE OF MILITARY PARTY
Alleged Resentment Against Country
New Trouble Threatened
for the Empire.
INFLUENCE OF MILITARY PART

RUSSIA is trying to bring herself once
more into the ranks of the great powers, so
far as the navy is concerned She held TINT
position, in point of tonnage IL not in eff.
clency before the Russo-Japanese war:
"hlle now she has been relegated to an OBJ
scure place. Dispatches received In Wash
ihgton assert that Russia's naval program
Involves an expenditure Of over s10O 600. ooU
IN the next two years, of which amount
ofilish shlpbuilders will secure good
snare. 1t Is limited by several officials that
the United States will be sighted as no
American firm will be given an order in
spite or MI. Charles Schwabs visit to Et.
petersburg not long ago and the business
trip OF Mr.. Lewis Nixon some weeks later
why this Slight? 1t is not known. because
the car IS cordial friend of this country
put II is believed that powerful Influences
especially that of the military party Is
directed against America because of her
a. part III terminating the war This.
II Is wen known. was wanted by the marty
20 continue indefinitely. possibly untiI con.
oiions We're such that they would have been
lustiIled IN grasping the power to rule.
we all know Russia's ambitions said
d ulpiomat1st. in discussing the subject
She wants to lead, to rule to dominate
an0 so long as there will be a car SO long
Will the ambition continue She has dectde5
20 eNpend $23oo0c00 for four battleships
similar to those building in the i-nited
states and England.
Not justified by Conditions.
mat step would be permissible. If Rus
sia national conditions justified It, But
tneS uoii l. Ihey are absolutely against it.
russia could not build for s1OO,OOO,O 600 a
navy worthy the steel of her friends or
enemies; and even If 1t could. she would
ayC
accord, to make the navy a INIT
Today Russia needs the immense sum Of
S5oo,oooooo to liquidate the war and revolu
n Ipn expenses that still remain unpaid.
1hat sum is beyond great country like
Great Britain or the United States TO nut
together, and Russia, with a few rubles In
her treasury, believes that it can have IT in
Two years NJ. Dayidoff the chief of tho
department of credit, stated that only
mind you, only-the sum of 500 900 900 is
needed this year, and that the balance can
go over until 1907.
That is truly impossIble The cornfrD
is shaky the government unbalanced and
the people aggressive. The social demo-
Gratis, reVoiutionists and other radical ele-
ments nave carried out plans whereby the
Workmens organizations, which are grow
ing daily more and more powerful VIII
send secretly elected delegates to a meeting
to be called in Finland next month There
is loud talk for provisional government
and the opponents gamble their necks. be-
cause the government may arrest and exc
cute them at any time on the charge of
treason. However, something Ia In the air
and the purpose of the forthcoming strike
which Is to force the lower house of par
lament to demand the immediate conyoca-
ton of a constituent assembly on the basis
of universal suffrage, is worth studying.
The Antagonist of Glasses.
Then there are about 100000 peasants
and other workingmen, whose only ambi-
ton Is to have house to live In and
decent mouthful to keep them well and
strong, who are forever antagonized by the
mobiles, the military and the police They
are never left in peace. and are usually
made to pay for crimes committed by those
higher up. Russia bows to the power of
gold, but 1t is done in two ways: The
mobiles, because it permits them to live and
act recklessly; the poor. because it feeds
them. The worship OF gold OF the latter is
natural, because II is not subservient And
although both NJ. Witte and NJ. Kokovtsoff
have succeeded in floating loans of gener-
Gus amount for municipal expenditures
there would be no gold forthcoming to feed
the Russian vanity to the extent OF d mod
ern navy