Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-06

vrlve as many factors.
Two details of current news give
point to these considerations. One is
l'the change of Ministry in Japan. That
| Is significant not Of a change of policy,
but rather of the inviolable continuity
Of japanese policy. There is no ten
able thought that Lord Ito, who eX-
acted the terms of peace from China,
will be less regardful of Japanese in
terests in China and less resistant to
| Russian intrlgues and aggressions
than his militant colleague. Marshal
| Yamagata. who won that war in the
| field We may therefore confidently
expect Japan to remain, as hitherto,
oprosed to the threatened conquest Of
| China. in favor of maintaining the in
| egYity of CHA and the "open door,
and .hus in sympathy with the policies
cf the United States and Great Britain.
re other detail is the official report of
| RI sian progress in the conquest of
| Narchuria. This more than confirms
tho unofficial reports of a few days
rgr. Russia has not merely seized the
| chinese bank of the Amoor and the
- rediately adjacent territories: she
| Is ending a conquering army down
trough the heart of Manchuria to
'rmplete her possession of the whole of
r.t vast country. Already she has
aiken Kirin. great city nearly four
Nundred miles south of the Amoor and
| 'oes than one hundred and fifty miles
| frCm the Corean border, and her army
| has thence proceeded to Moukden, the
| capital of the Province of LiaoTong,
only sixty miles from Corea on the one
hard and from Chilli on the other
Mcukden, moreover, is the religious
~oD.tal. the Sacred City, of the whole
! Chinese Empire, to which the En-
Narcr and his Court are constitutions
ally bound to repair at least once a
wear Now, the shrewdness of Rus
| -ia in seizing this place and making it
| her own is apparent in the fact that
hencefcrth whenever the Emperor of
| China visits the graves of his ances-
tors he will have to do so on Russian
territory, by Russian permission. as a
suppliant and thus practically a vassal
and dependent of Russia.
We can imagine nothing more Of
fensive, and justly so. to Japan than
this II will be remembered that at
the end Of her war with China Japan
proposed with China's consent, as a
part Cf the moderate rewards of vic
tory which she claimed, to retain pos
session of a tiny fraction of Manchu-
ria. merely as a naval station and
point OF observation. To that Russia
s,renuously objected on the ground
1hat the integrity of China must be
maintained. and she got Germany and
France to join her in forcing Japan to
withdraw. Yet now, without even the
DreteXt Of a war or a treaty, Russia
cCclly proceeds toward the conquest
ard annexation of the whole of Man
l'rria, a country as large as France
Spain and Germany united. The reply
If Japan is yet to be learned. 1t is
:; arcely conceivable that she will
tauely submit to such action on Rus
t.''s part at least without substantial
compensation. She may not under
take a war to drive Russia out of Man
''Uria. But she may declare that par
t.'cnlng is game at which two OF
II re can play as well as one, and
Itl2t if Russia is 10 have Manchuria
he will take FuKien, including the
great cities of Foo-Chow and Annoy
If she should do so it is difficult tc
&c on what grounds any other Power
could object, unless it had already OBJ,
-, ed to Russia's conquest of Manchu,
Ir'l. 1t would scarcely be logical to ac,
quiesce in Russia's seizures and to OBJ
iF,. TO Japan's. If China is to be par.
tt,oned Japan certainly has as good {
rEht to a share as any other Power
and better right than Russia if com
mercial interests. liberal designs anC
general standard of civilization are t
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