Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — THEY. WANT WAR. [ARTICLE]

THEY. WANT WAR.

Great Discontent in the Russian Army. Times too Peaceful—The Czar Unpopular —Persecution of the Jews Continues. There is much discontent in the Russian army with the prolonged period of peace, and many of the officers think that the Czar is too pacific in his disposition. There is no longer an outlet for these war like-spirits in subduing the tribes of Central Asia. All these have been brought i boroughly under Russian subjection. The Russian Empire was never more peaceable, so far as external enemies are eoucerued, and the murmuring among the itcere ambitious for glory and disappoint cd in their hopes of promotion is correspondingly great. It is no secret that there was bitticr disappointment in military circles seven years ago.when the Czar had to bring hhraptocratlc authority to beau to prevent his generals from plunging into a war with Great Britain and Afghanis,tdn, and the spirit of impatieiico among the Russian.officers and men lias b'on increasing since. Meantime the persecution of the Jews goes on moro earnestly than ever, the leading official prosecutor being Grand Duke Sergius, brother of the Czar and husband of Cuecn Victoria's granddaughter Elizabeth. As Governor ofMos. cow, he soems determined to tarn every Jew out of the city. By a new law,which lias recently been put in force, only ten out of a hundred Jewish lawyers in Moscow and St. Petersburg aro allowed to practice, white in Warsaw and Russian Poland this liberty is wholly denied The severo treatment of tho Jews is having a ruinous offect upon real estate and other interests, at least 30.000 lodgings being empty in Moscow. Their sufferings are viewed with utter indifference by the Russian authorities, and any liou-Jewish resident who displays kindness toward them risks being put under suspicion. The soldiers detailed to assist the police in guarding Jews treat them with tho greatest brutality.