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

US
rpto er AT oauesisTo Ar e,.eo Fra uorrtr.
gan 10 be a nation nster her release from,
Tartar t~brRldo,n, In the same century
that brought the Continent OF America
10 light: her advancement, since that
tine. In the arts, sclencc9 and COM
merce have been 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, Thtbet, Afghsnistnn. Persia and
Turkey. In Asia and Europe. in this
general absorption she has demonstra.
ted her capacity a. n c~olonizer, BY "trip
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 desirous
OF Joining her military forces; so that.
out OF her 100. 900. 900 OF people she could
quickly place In the field an army Of
millions for defense or otfense: her war
navy ranks, third in the world; she has
only two seaports. Cronstadt In the Bal
tic, and Vladlvostock on the Pacidc
ocean, and they are as i~mpregnable to
assault as Gibraltar. She has immense
and powerful ~fortresses, well armed and
manned. along the borders OF Germany
and Austria, from the Baltic 10 the
Black seas, In Asia Minor against Tnr-
key, In central Asia facing India, and
on the Ainoor against China.
Financially, she is stronger to-day
than yer 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 chops, blast furnaces, steel plants,
cotton factories. etc, to supply not on
,ly 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 ~aIysoraya
on Lake Baikal. IN Central Siberia,
leaving only seven hundred miles 10
be finished next year to the head OF the
Anoor Eiver, At Sryetiask, from which
point she has the AMOR river fcr nayi-
cation, until the completion Of the bal
ance OF the railroad, 10 Grafskaya,f from
which place the railroad is completed.
two hundred and fifty miles to VladI-
vostock on the Pacific Ocean. She holds
O. concession from Turkey for q railroad
from Tih!s in The heart OF the Caucasus
via Kiars, tthis part is already In
operat!on), Erivau, Mt. Ararat, D!ar-
bekr, and the River Euph:ates TO the
gull, OF ~Iskenderun, which will give her
q splendid harbor in the north east cor
e Of The Mediterranean. She also
holds concessions from Persia for a
railroad from Baku. on the Caspian
sea, via Tehesan, Askhabad, a station
on the Caspian Sea. and Merv railroad,
In Central Asia, along the western boun.
dairy OF Atahanist1n and Beluchistan,
to Baldar Abbas, at the entrance to the
Persian Gulf; she Is rapidly building,
to-day. q railroad from Merry, in Cen
trail Asia, to Kushk, but q few miles
from Herat in western Afshanistan.
Russia Is building military roads from
Chnrjui, OF the famous Anu Daria. or
OEus River in Central Asia, TO kunduZ,
also military barses 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
lSend in Central Asia, into Chinese Mon
golia. She has obtained concessions
from China to build q railroad from
Lake Baikal to Port Arthur direct, with
branches 10 Vladivostock and Pekin,
thus saving over q thousand miles In
the length OF her Siberian road, with
the privilege OF protecting the same
with military forces. Is 1t any wonder
that England 1rets and busters, for It
really means that Russia will have full
control OF all OF China north OF the
Great Wall (Which is but a few miles
uorth OF Pekin)? Russia will virtually
control the m OF these millions
OF people, for she never divides. The
earth (Chinal and the fulless thereof
are NINE" saith Russia.
RUSSIA SHOWS her HAND.
The treaty CT S~hlmonesek!, so inter
feccd with Rpssia's desires that, with
the aid OF france and Germany, she
ousted Japan from the provinces Of Co.
rca and Lao Tung. with Port Arthur,
Talien-wan, ETC., leaving her only Wei
hei-wei Bay with an indemnity, this
was England's opportunity, TO place ia
pan In as q buffer state in Lao Tung.
between Russia and China, but she
was between the deY!! and the deep
blue sea, for she feared Japan, because
OF her cheap labor. and thus vas asain
thinking only OF :ier commerce. Russia,
after busting Japan, Custed Ensland's
financial agen. in Cora, BY replacing
him with a Russian, hut, on the de-
o,nrl ~ T-,,1ta nd Hsi,n rrNENnInl In III.
vide the honors with England. by plac-
Ing q Russian and an Ensiislm.n in
joint control. Russia's military Force
of F~ladivostock Is not known, her war
navy occupies Port Arthur and she re-
fuses to permit Talicn-wan to be a free
port, because 1t 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 has the power 10 bach: II
up.
Russia has been preparing for this
conflict with England for many years;
increasing aer money powers, her navy
and army; she has allied herself with
France, thus augmentinG her power,al-
most equal 10 that Of England; she has,
automatically, allied herself with Ger
manT and Austria as against England.
Turkey. as her friend, Keeps England
out OF the Black Sea; she Is, diplomatic
ally, a%ntagon!zins England In Persia
and ~Afghanistan: by her military and
railroads she Is threatening Ensland's
supremacy In India.
Russia has never forgotten nor for
given the insults and lies that have
been passed around the world. by tele-
gram and newspaper, dated "Iondon"
against the car, his family, the nob!l-
ity, the people, the finances, the mill
ists and the constant daily danger Of
the 2 from their wicked threats. etcs,
etc.. oil Intended to create II bad i'm
preston against the Russians: the
score Is very full and Is being nursed.
She has never forgotten the Cri.nean
war! Nor England's interference. with
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