The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
JAPAN SHOULD FIGHT.
No Reasons Why She Should Bow to
Russia.

London, May 4.-There seems TO be
little doubt here that China and Japan
have both ratified the treaty of Shin
oneski, which complexities the position
of the European protesting powers. AT
the reqeust of the Associated Press,
Mr.. Pultney Bigelow, who has eXcep-
tional means of obtaining political in
formation especially in Germany, has
written the following:
Russia is the power that today
calls upon Japan to drop the fruits
of her victory and take orders from
st. Petersburg. Russia orders Japan
to give up her foothold on China be-
cause, forsooth. she may disturb that
mystical humble called balance OF
power. This order is backed up by
the voices of France and Germany.
The voice of France is weak; not be-
cause she does not love Russia; but
because she also loves Japan and be-
cause she hates Germany more than
she loves any country. Germany is
sacrificing the friendship of Japan for
reasons strictly political. The en-
peror of Germany desires to show good
wool for his eastern neigihbor, partlcu-
laly at the outset of the present Cars
reign For the past ten years these
relations have been very much
STRAINED, even " l4iC PO4i4I VI
nent war in 1891.
Germany's Experiment.
Germany is now experimenting
with a platonic alliance between the
car and the emperor. 1t cannot last
long, but it is profoundly conceived.
1t tends to weaken French hatred of
Germany and to wean that republic
from lavish obedience to Russian die
tation. and to isolate her still further
"a large party in Germany hates
England cordially and IS ready to
make any sacrifice for the qualification
of this feeling This hatred springs
largely from commercial relations. but
still more from the feeling that Ger
man expansion in Africa has been
hampered by John Bull. Germany
hopes, in vague way, that England
may purchase her good will by large
concessions in the Dark Continent, and
at present, therefore, the emperor's
government is taking great pains to
array itself with the enemies of Eng
land and the South Africa and Alsace-
Lorraine difficulties are to be settled
on the banks of the Fei Ho and Yang
Use Kiang. But Japan has her Alsace-
Lorraine.
Stolen BY Russia.
There is an island within sight of
Japan Called anu llcIS 10
no japanese who would not gladly en-
list in war to recover this island, for
it was stolen by Russians in 1875.
Il was at Toxic the year after this
extraordinary land grab and can we'll
recall the fury of the then impotent
japanese. If the Russians give but
half an opportunity the army that has
just thrashed China will turn against
Russia with infinitely finer gusto. That
was a land grab that we could only
appreciate if a foreign power should
occupy Long Island or the eastern
shore of Maryland. Russia has kept
all that she has stolen and wants
more. She wants Corea, and above all
she wants the very Port Arthur which
Japan proposes to keep. Japan may be
bluffed into surrendering some of her
claims, but her true interests lie in
fighting Russia at once while her
army and navy are in good condition,
and she can do so with the greatest or
ease.
From a source which has never de-
ceived me ! am able to say Russia has
in eastern Siberia. and nominally fit to
take the field, twenty battalions of in
fantry, tw& squadrons of cavalry; ten
squadrons Sf Cossacks; six field bat
teries euual\ to forty-eight guns, two
half-mountaA in batteries equal to eight
guns, two Cdssack horse artillery bat