pon this that those rely who send to death scores of thousands of
Russian men!

It is frankly said that the regrettable reverses of our fleet must be
compensated on the land. In plain language this means that if the
authorities have badly directed things on sea, and by their negligence
have destroyed not only the nation's millions, but thousands of lives, we
can make it up by condemning to death on land several more scores of
thousands!

When crawling locusts cross rivers, it happens that the lower layers are
drowned until from the bodies of the drowned is formed a bridge over
which the upper ranks can pass. In the same way are the Russian people
being disposed of. Thus the first lower layer is already beginning to
drown, indicating the way to other thousands, who will all likewise
perish.

And are the originators, directors, and supporters of this dreadful work
beginning to understand their sin, their crime? Not in the least. They
are quite persuaded that they have fulfilled, and are fulfilling, their
duty, and they are proud of their activity. People speak of the loss of
the brave Makaroff, who, as all agree, was able to kill men very
cleverly; they deplore the loss of a drowned excellent machine of
slaughter which had cost so many millions of roubles; they discuss the
question of how to find another murderer as capable as the poor benighted
Makaroff; they invent new, still more efficacious, tools of slaughter;
and all the guilty men engaged in this dreadful work, from the Tsar to
the humblest journalist, all with one voice call for new insanities, new
cruelties, for the increase of brutality and hatred of one's fellow-men.

"Makaroff is not the only man in Russia, and every admiral placed in his
position will follow in his steps and will continue the plan and the idea
of Makaroff, who has nobly perished in the strife," writes the _Novoe
Vremya_.

"Let us earnestly pray God for those who have laid down their lives for
the sacred Fatherland, without doubting for one moment that the
Fatherland will give us new sons, equally virtuous, for the further
struggle, and will find in them an inexhaustible store of strength for a
worthy completion of the work," writes the St. Petersburg _Viedomosti_.

"A ripe nation will draw no other conclusion from the defeat, however
unprecedented, than that we should continue, develop, and conclude the
strife; therefore let us find in ourselves new strength; new heroes of
the spirit w