The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-15

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,ininry Testimonials.
rHr sRAeFELp REGULATOR co. RrtlErA,ol.
TOTO sr AT oEues,srs ar s,.so reK 1orrlr.
gan 10 be q nation inter her release from
Tartar thraldom, in the same century
thu, brought the continent OF America
to light: her advancement, since that
tine, In the arts, sciences and ON
mcrce have heen equal TO, and along
the game lines as ours; she has been our
friend, in our days OF need. since the
revolution,
She controls every nation north OF
Chnia. Tibet, Afghanistan, Persia and
Turkey, in Asia and Europe. In this
general absorption she has demonstra-
ping their rulers OF all power, leaving
them only the name and place: she
places their people under her military
laws, and they. soon approaching the
feeling OF security TO life and property
gained by the change, become DESTROYS
OF Joining her military forces; so that,
out OF her 100, 900, 900 or people she could
quickly place In the field an army of
millions for defense or offense; her war
navy ranks third In the world; she has
only two seaports, Cronstadt In the Bal
tic. and vladlvostock on the Pacific
ocean. and they are as impregnable to
assault as Gibraltar. She has Immense
and powerful fortresses. well armed and
manned, along the borders OF Germany
and Austria, from the Baltic TO the
Black seas, In Asia Minor against Tur-
key, In central Asia facing India, and
on the Amoor against China
Financially, she Is stronger to-day
than ever before, to-day She IS using
that great wealth to develope her I'm
mense territory, her magnificent re-
sources In raw materials, by building
thousands Of miles OF railways, ma
chine shops, blast furnaces. steel plants,
cotton factories. ETC., to supply not on
~ he: own needs, but also those OF the
provinces that have fallen TO her. She
has already finished 5000 miles of her
Great Siberian railway, from st. Peters,
burgh on the Baltic sen, 10 91ysoraya
on Lake BaiEal. in Central Siberia.
leaving only seven hundred miles to
be finished next year to the head Of the
Aluoor River a. S~ryetiask, from which
point she has the AMOR river for nayl-
CATION. until the completion of the bal
ance OF the railroad, 10 Grafskaya from
which place the railroad Is completed,
two hundred and fifty miles to Vladi-
Vostock on the Pacific Ocean. She holds
q concession from Turkey for q railroad
from Tif!s in the heart OF the Caucasus
via Kiars, tthis part Is already in
operat!on), Er;van, Mt. Ararat, Diar-
bekr, and the River Euphcates 10 the
gulf of Iskenderin. which will give her
O splendid harbor in the north east cor
ner OF the Mediterranean. She also
holds concessions from Persia for a
railroad from Baku. on the Caspian
sea, via Teheran, Askhabad, a station
on the Caspian Sea and Merv railroad,
in Central Asia, along the western boun-
dairy OF Atehaaistan and B%eluchistan,
to Baadar Abbas, at the entrance to the
Persian Gulf: she is rapidly building.
to-day. a railroad from Merry, in Cen
trail Asia, to Kushis, but q few miles
from Herat in western Afghanistan.
Russia is building military roads from
ChnrjuI, OF the famous Anu Daria. or
Oxus River in Central Asia, to Kunduz,
also military barges and steamers FOR
plying between those places on the Ok
Us river; she is building military roads
over the Pamirs to the. northern borders
OF India; she Is also building military
roads over the mountains from fash
kend in Central Asia, into Chinese Mon
golia. She has obtained concessions
from China to build 4 railroad from
Lake Ba!kal TO Port Arthur direct, with
branches to V~ladivcstock and PekIn,
thus saving over a thousand miles IN
the length OF her Siberian road, with
the privilege of protecting the same,
with military forces. Is It any wonder
that England 1rets and busters, for 1t
really means that Russia will have full
control Of all OF China north Of the
Great Wall (Which is but a few miles
aorth OF Pekin)? Russia vii! virtually
control the commerce OF these millions
Of people, for she never divides. The
earth Whina) and the fulaess thereof
are mine,'' saith Russia.
RUSSIA SHOWS HER HAND.
The treaty OF ~shlmoneseki, 50 inter
fe.ed with Russia's desires that, with
the aid OF France and Germany, she
ousted Japan from tho provinces OF Co.
res and Lao Tung. WITH Port Arthur,
Talien-wan, ETC., leaving her only Wei
llei-wei Bay With an indemnity, this
was England's opportunity, 10 place Ja-
par In as q buffer state In Lilac Tung,
between Russia and China, but she
was between the devil and the deep
blue sen. for she feared Japan, because
OF her cheap labor, and thus vas again
thinking only OF :ier commerce. Russia,
after ousting Japan, ousted EnSland's
financial agent IN Cora, By replacing
him with a Russian, but. on the de-
mand Of England, she consented to d.
vide the honors with England, by plac-
Ing a Russian and all Englisdinan in
Joint control. Russia's military FORCE
OF Tladirostock Is not known, her way
| navy occupies Port Arthur and she re-
fuses to permit Talien-wan to be a free
port, because it destroys the power OF
Port Arthur. by commanding any rail-
road through the Lao Tuns peninsula,
TO that point. She shows her hand very
plainly, and llas the power 70 back 1t
up.
Russia has been preparing for this
| conflict with England for many years;
increasing Der money powers, her navy
and army; she has allied herself with
France, thus a%ugninntinS her 2oWtr,nl-
most equal 10 that OF England; she has.
automatically, allied herself with Ger
manY and Austria as against England.
turkey, MS her friend. keeps England
out OF the Black Sea; she Is, diplomatic
ally, a%ntagonizins England in Persia
| and Afghanistan: by her miiitory and
railroads she is threatening Engian6's
supremacy In India.
Russia has never FORGOTTEN nor for
given the insults and los that have
been passed around the world, by tele-
gram and newspaper, dated London"
against the car, his family, the nobll-
ity, the people, the finances, the mill
lists and the constant daily danger of