Hutchinson gazette., 1900-03-29
JAPAN PLANNING TO
HIT RUSSIA FIRST
Swerve Of Events in the North Pacific Which
Means War-Insular Ideas and
Ambitions.

spending as they never did before. Prevl-
Gus to tho war with China one seldom
saw jewels on q Japanese woman's hands
Now the sight Ii common enough.
Kimono are more costly, beef Is In more
general use, every one wishes to have a
watch to-day whereas formerly few Jap
anese knew there was such a thing as
time. Prices Of all sorts OF articles have
gone up and In the theaters one spends
81 now where thirty cents would suliioe
not long ago.
Wars often stimulate trade for a few
years Immediately following, but crash
comes finally, Perhaps the leaders in
Japan know this and are looking for
trouble, perferrng to have It outside
rather than In, They are not afraid Of
invasion, Never did an army invade
Japan, In ancient times armies have
tried, but they never got far enough to
shake themselves on the beach. Not one
foreign warrior ever got both feet on tho
shore OF the land when the sun rises.
Nor is II likely he ever will, All Japan
would die first, and gladly, to prevent
such desecratlon, on tho other hand,
Japan has invaded China and Corea.
One of her queens once brought
back from Chosen 10000 noses and pairs
OF ears. They are buried on Kloyto. Her
majesty usually brought heads, but on
this occasion there were too many, What
Japan has done she can do the people
say, and 80 parliament is preparing,
Russia is preparing, too, for she has
been In no great favor for many years
with Mutsu Hito the Mikado She stole
Saghalien from him and turned II into q
colony Of murderers, That was bad
enough, but more grievous stlll-the worst
almost that could be done In japanese
eyes-she built Greek church temple on
surgadai In Toxic, on an elevation act
ually overlooking the imperial palaces,
80 that Father Nlcolai could look down
on the heaven descended, and see what
the maids hung out In the back yard,
To look down on the Mlkado Is bias
phemy, and deserves death-a lingering
death OF torture.
Russia knows that Japan does not love
her, and she Is hurrylng her railroad on
to the Pacific, and planning to secure a
naval station farther south than Vladivo-
stock. That is good harbor eight
months In the year, but Is full of Ice the
other four. There are about $1,000 troops
there with their supplies but no great
amount of coal and no docks for repair
ing men-of-war, II is purely military
station without other inhabitants or busl-
ness. So in reality Russia would be
fighting far from home and at a dlsad-
vantage were she to attack Japan now.
Japan thinks Russia would like to revenge
herself for the attack crazy policeman
made on the present ozar when he was
czarewltch, but such a feeling does not
influence Russia. She would like to con-
troll Japan because It is the key OF the
Pacific, the route between North America
and Asia, Japan has many naval sta
tlons or excellent harbors that would hold
the fleets OF the world. Russlas railway
finished, she will be In better shape to
look to Japan, and so Japan Is the moro
willing to fight first, Russia in the Pa
cific is not equal to Japan. Japan would.
therefore, be aggressive and fight in Corea
or In Siberia. She has ordered many
thousand winter uniforms recently for a
climate colder than anything south OF the
Kurile islands, That looks as though
there would be n raid before long across
the Japan sea toward the west. To that
seaport st. Petersburg is 0,OOO miles, and
before Russia can complete that length OF
railroad she must eXpend fully S215 000,-
OOO Russias credit Is none too good
Japan is bound to make trouble for her.
Then will the seals misfortune be the
poacher's opportunity.