Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-07-05

thoroughly Asiatic nation, imbued with
the hatred for the white man common
TO all yellow races, but is also pos
sessed by the most aggressive ambi-
| lions only to be satisfied at the ex-
! pense of the western powers. The idea
/ OF Japan is to obtain a preponderan'
.n-.dence in China, to secure differen-
siai duties in her favor in such a way as
to close the Chinese market to all other
foreign nations, and to drill the Chi
nese army so as to become weapon for
The lrtherance of her dreams of gran
deur. In one word, there is no positive
assurance of the facS that if Japan were
10 obtain control of China at the pres
ent moment, she would not use that
control against all western and Chris
tan powers, thus intensifying the So
called yellow peril.
Don't rruSt Russia.
Equally reluctant are the powers to
trust Russia, who has to her record a
terribly long list of broken treaties and
violated engagements. 1t was but the
other day that she obtained from Korea
the harbor of Masampho, the finest on
the entire coast of China, in spite of
her most solemn pledges of England, as
we'll as TO Japan, not to take any such
step. 1t is in keeping with her conduct
in connection with Batoum, in the
Black sea. She bound herself by the
treaty of Berlin that Batoum should be
free port and unfortified, yet DELHI
erately closed it eight years later and
converted it into naval stronghold, on
which occasion Lord Rosebery, rs
English foreign secretary, complained
bitterly in memorable dispatch of
Russia's failure to recognize the bind
ing force and sanctity of international
engagements, adding that it tends to
make future conventions and treaties
difficult, if not impossible, and to cast
doubt at least upon the worth of the
treaties already in existence" This is
only one of scores of other instances
where treaties and conventions signed
by Russia have been violated in the
most impudent manner by that power
either on the strength of some bubble
or else without any pretext at all. The
powers concerned have no guarantee or
assurance that if Russia marches her
troops into China and seizes the CAPITAL
she will consent to march out again,
and If she remains there and obtains
control OF the Chinese government, il
will be equivalent to the closure of the
vast Mongol empire to the trade and
industry of all other nations. Even
France appears to doubt the good faith
of Russia in spite of the much-vaunted
alliance, for the French envoy at Pc
kin, M. Gerard, is giving no support to
NJ. de Giers, the Russian minister. ard
French financiers have repeatedly de-
clined of late to loan the Russian gov
eminent any more money. England
the United States, Germany, France
and to certain degree Italy have in.
terests that are identical in China.
namely, the open-door policy and tn
retention of China as a market to the
trade and industry of all the world.
These interests are certain to be in
danger, and in all likelihood to be de-
stroyed, if the five powers in question
side either with Russia or with japan
in allowing one or the other to inter
vene aloAe.
No Immediate Solution.
Meanwhile the instruction proceeds
apace, missionaries and merchants are
being massacred, and European AMI
American property is being devastated |
Nor does there appear any immediate |
solution of the problem, for it is by no
means certain that either a Russian or
a japanese invasion of China would |
suffice to quell the anti-foreigner move |
ment. The forces that would confront |
an invading army are too great, the
empire is too vast in extent, the popu
lation too colossal. That there may
have been sympathy on the part of the |
dowager empress for Russia in the past |
is quite probable, for she must have ob h. |
served that the Muscovite empire is the |
only foreign power whose policy never |
wavers and always pursues the same |
aim until 1t attains 1t, sometimes only |
after the lapse of many years. But she |
has now, according to all appearances.
cut herself adrift from her Muscovite |
entanglements, realizing that Russia "a
more ravenous than any other foreign |
power for Chinese territory and cons,i- |
tutes more serious peril to the integ- |
rity and independence of the empire |
than any other nation. The empress |
is resolved to rely on the Chinese alone, |
and by cleverly appealing to their love
for their native land. and above all to
their fierce and fanatic adherence of |
the foreigner, may be said to have
welded her 40O,OOO,OOO countrymen into
a colossal force that no longer constl-
tutes the danger, but a support to the |
throne, with the watchword of "China |
for the Chinese"