They had little or no fear of the police for it is public property that the perpetrators of all murders in the last year or so have never been discovered. Thanks to the restric tions placed on the Russian Press the police remain immune from just criticism, which they rightly deserve and which would lead to drastic the moral condemnation of the civilized world, befriended only by Austria and Turkey, two backward-looking and dying nations, des-berately battling against the hosts of three Great Powers to whose help reinforcements from the Btates now neutral will certainly come should the decision be long deferred, she pours out the blood of her heroic subjects and wastes her diminishing substance in a hopeless struggle that postpones but cannot alter the fatal decree."
In these words the "New York Times," whose leading articles have done more to clarify American thought and convictions regarding the war than there of almost any other publication, has addressed to the German people, and especially to German-Americans, a most eloquent and impressive exhortation to recognize the incompetence and failure of the Emperor's advisers and to overthrow him and them.
Speaking with the full weight "jJof_a great national newspaper, the "New York Times," fresh from the perusal of the French Yellow Book, the full text of which it published recently informs the Germans that the world, for its own protection, will not permit hem to be victorious, It says: "The doom of the German Empire may yet become the deliverance of the German people if they will betimes but seize hold of their own, Leipzig began and Waterloo achieved the emancipation of the French people from the bloody, selfish, sterile domination of the Corsican ogre. St. Helena made it secure, Bedan sent the Little Napoleon sprawling, and the Statesmen of France instantly established and proclaimed a Republic.
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