Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-07-04

mentt4COmmerCial and Political, as
Well as Her National Life, Is De-
pendent Upon Defending What
Russin$Is,Bound to Destroy.
There$are some things one can see
to be~tinevitable, though the time and
nature 4of their coming may be alto
gether@Speculatiye. The war between
PrussiaSand France became inevitable
from ithe.moment Austria was expelled
from%thet German confederation. Bis
marcksfofesaMAit on the battlefield of
SadoWa,9and to his prescience it wa
observation-disclosures of peace were made
as little humiliating as possible, and
that once assured Of her position
Prussia+spared no pains to bring Fran
els Jpsephsto the point of letting by
goness be .bygones. No was Bismarck
alone in. his prophecies. Carlyle saw
the significance of the victory over
Austria and the rise Of Prussian as
tendency ina flash. Both Prussia and
Italy Were prepared for Sedan long
before it. came, and even England,
Which?1s5not by any mean so well in
touchsiwith continental politics as one
would orsmight think, had an inkling
of what was to happen the moment
Prussia felt herself safely in the sad
de- So,too, the present Boer wal was |
foretold Hboth in England and South !
Africa. as long ago as Mr.. Gladstone's |
unexampled surrender after Maiuba |
Hill. and it hardly an exaggeration |
to saySthat no Eng1ishman has visited
South Africa any time these last 20
years swithout bringing home the con-
viction that the issue between Kruger
ism and Anglo-Saxondom could only
be decided on the field of battle. An
thony Trollope prophesied the Spanish
American war 40 years before it broke
out and named the cause of 1.-THE
misgoVernment of Cuba. He judged
simply by the general conditions Of
the problem, and without any unnat-
ural insight came to the right solution
along the road Of common sense.
1t is by following this same road and
eschewing the bypaths of mere detail
that a good many observers, both in
Europe and the far east, have reached
the conclusion that on the list of inevt
liabilities should be placed a conflict be-.
tween Russia and Japan, says Sydney
Brooks, b London correspondent Of
the New York Commercial Advertiser.
We are likely to hear more Of this mat
ter before long. In the amazing ium-
bic Of incidents that China has dumped
down upon the world within the past
II months the growing s~tringency in
Russo-Japanese relations has been
overlooked till quite lately.
People have talked of Anglo-G German
agreements, of Russian designs on
Manchuria n wrangled about Ameri-
can policy and what not and quite for |
gotten the n owe which is actually '
on the spot and to which the issue of
the far eastern crisis is a matter not Of 1
more trade or less or Of coaling sta |
and railroad sidings or of terri
tory, but Of life and DEATH. Since the S
relief of the Picking legations, which
they could have accomplished single /
and which, as a matter of fact. /
they Gid more b a any other power to a
Drlng about, the Japanese have beer t
somewhat lost sight of. It is therefore G
IN order, especially after the crystaIi-
zatlon Of Russia's ambitions in Man
chur1a,, to restate the facts of the case
rom the Japanese point Of view. d
one grows rather tired of hearing
spoken of as the rising England
the far east, and yet no other de- n
gives quite III a good idea r
II her commercial position, her inter- II
latlonal prospects and the lines along m
Vhlch her policy runs. Like England. 81
ne IS an island kingdom, dependent a
other countries for her food SUD- g,
like England, it Is her destiny, or O.
L least her ambition, to become q Ii
manufacturing and Industrial ma
lon; ike England, b needs a strong %
LeeC TO protect her commerce., open
aarketS everywhere and-more SO in al
ne future than at present-opportuni- az
les Tor expansion. Her geographical
.tuat1on, d to these circumstances. hs
lakes her foreign policy one of COM Y,
arat1Ve simplicity. China and Korea
re the natural, the obvious markets
Or her goods. They cannot only buv
nat d has to sell, but are able to nj
foduce precisely what she needs in al
ne way Of food and raw material. She NJ
therefore committed by the necessi- th
es OF her position to the maintenance ez
{ an open door in the Celestial King In
DIN ana to b independence of Korea. N,
latter is vital to her very exist tn
ice. A hostile power in possession as
the Korean peninsula would have err
invaluable Jumping off ground from to
h1ch to spring at Japan's throat. pc
ussia in Korea could not only starve tn
1t throttle Japan. It was to assert in
r position in the Hermit Kingdom ha
at b brought on the war with do
nina, and whenever that question IN
up, again Japan must and will 20
sht for her rights to the last. On
Every one remembers how Russia
bbed Japan Of the spoils Of her vic
ryfover China and turned her out of
ort Arthur on the ground that her :