The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-22

of Australia, they are not to be COM
pared with those of Siberia. Russia
builds towns along the line of her great
railroad and then populates them.
Manchuria is being settled in just this
way now. The other nations are waking
up to the fact that Russia is the most
active power in the world. With the
aid of American methods and imple-
ments, she is completing her road years
ahead of the time estimated by the
imperial engineers. Great are the bat
ties that are fought in time of ueace, y
and Russia is winning great battles
now. She is settling the Chinese CUES
ton in a new and energetic wav She
is civilizing China by industries. Wher-
ever Russia goes, rapid change takes
place. Manchuria is awakening from a
sleep of centuries, and the whistle of
steam engines on railways and in shops
is q, good alarm clock. 1t is plain that
England does not clearly appreciate
how rapidly the Russians are moving.
AS late as August of the present year,
a prominent London Weekly, referring
to Manchuria and the transcontinental
railway, makes this statement:
Those who knew this corner of Man
churia in the sleepy days when the
mandarinS held uncontested sway will
probably be very much astonished
Wien ltitS ldiil. Is INliiS up ny llle
present acting managers, and the world
is invited to send its ships and mer-
chandise into the new Russian ports"
The English evidently believe that
they still have four or five years before
they need to worry about keeping Rus
STA out of Mongolia and Korea. The
United States is not striving for polit-
ical foothold in China, but in mechan-
ical and mercantile affairs our people
-, s.
east. Less than three wears ago not a
single American product was sent direct
into Siberia TODAY American locomo-
tives pull American cars laden with
American machinery over American
rails which American tools have put
into place. The United States has been
far seeing enough, through the energy
of her Industrial forces, to get what
Lord Curzon calls IAN intelligent ap-
probation of events before they occur. "
We have been able to participate in
one of the big battles of peace. What
civilizing force can be compared to the
railroad? And where is civilization
more needed than in the countries now
being opened up?
Russia is working night and day to
complete the link which will place her
Pacific coast within ten iavs nf st.
Petersburg, ami has been pushing the
work with feVefiSh haste ever since
the China-Japan war exposed to the
world the informal weakness of the
Chinese empife. Port Arthur was the
price Of Russian interference then. 1t
was the one point Russia wanted
within three weeks after Port
Arthur was taken b. tne Russians, l
had orders e ship railway construction
material there. said Mr.. FrieGa
1t was an astonishing statement. ana
showed clearly r SIX. s attitude. Fort
Arthur vas 4 point which mad to lie
connected with t'ivilizct. Russia. low,
or when, or where the route should go
through was not thought of. The cir
cumstance recalls the old story of the
first Gar Nicholas. Moscow and ST.
Petersburg he wanted joined by rail.
Engineers went out, and after months
of labor made a careful survey. When
the chief engineer came up before
Nicholas he began to explain from his
diagrams: There is a mountain mere
which we want to go around: here is
river to be bridged, here rights Of
way are in question, etc. Enough
of thisr' cried the car, where is the
map?"
A map was given him and, taking
ruler and a pencil, the car drew a
straight line between the two cities.
There. build it there and there the
road was built.