Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-05
UNCLE SAM WINS OUT
Russia Will Restore Manchuria
to China Without Reserve.
SOLVES FAR EASTERN PROBLEM.

Result Is a Triumph For American
Diplomacy and .Open Door, Pol
fcy-By Terms of New Treaty Rus
! STA Will Territory With
I'm a Year and TREND Exclusive
Privileges.
international new of the highest i'm
portance reached diplomatic Washing
ton the other day. 1t indicates that the
far eastern problem has been solved
and that the menace to the worlds
peace which has so long held tx d
cloud on the Asiatic horizon has at last
been removed. If this shall prove to be
the case, and there seems little reason
to doub it, American diplomacy must
be given credit for the great work.
The news relates to the terms of the
new treaty between Russia and China.
Various reports concerning this impor-
tant compact have been in circulation
both in the United States and Europe.
but Walter Wellman, the Washington
correspondent Of the Chicago Record
Herald, is now ableSto give the salient
" AGl oOSOAAN4Is u IN ACItr
of which is expected at Washington in
a short time:
First.-Russia agrees to restore the civil
administrator of Manchuria without re-
serve to the Chinese empire.
Second.-Russia agrees to e%vacuate
Manchuria completely, so far as military
or civil control is concerned, within one
year from the date of the treaty.
Third.-Russia agrees to remove her
army, Wits a reservation of a small force
for guarding the Russian railway, Within
one year, withdrawing a part of the
troops in four months, another part in
eight months and the final quota in twelve
months.
Fourth.-Russia surrenders all claim to
exclusive railway and mining privileges in
Manchuria and pledges herself and China
to the "open door" principle in that prov
ince.
The meaning of this is that Russia
~surrenders Manchuria and turns the
whole province back to China. Ii has
no other meaning in the eyes of the
foreign Office. This also is the view eX-
pressed by the Russian government
and by Russian ambassadors in various
capitals. The honor of the Russian
government is pledged to this vacua
ton. And when the evacuation is ac-
complished and Manchuria has been
turned over to the full sovereignty of
the Chinese empire, as every one has a
right to expect it will be according to
the terms Of tie solemn agreement. the
far eastern problem may be regarded
as we'll nigh solved.
1t was RuSsia'S persistent occupation
of Manchuria that threatened the peace
of the world. for Manchuria was the
key to the whole Chinese situation. AS
1or~ oc DI,erio hold 4l1+ n,o-;,oo ~
the grip of 10000 soldiers, as long as
Russia held not only military sway,
but administered the civil government.
the integrity of the Chinese empire was
threatened. If Russia could thus seize
and hold Manchuria, Korea was not
safe from a similar acquisition nor
north China itself. Hence the agree
ment of Russia to surrender the prov
ince and withdraw her troops is taken
throughout the world as a sign of
peace, as an earnest that Muscovite
ambition to overrun the most of east
ern Asia and master the Chinese en-
pire has at last been abandoned, tenn
porarily if not permanently.
"You should be very proud of your for
eign office" said Count Cassini, the Rus
sian ambassador to Washington. a few
days ago, speaking to an American gen
tleman who called at the embassy. "Sec-
rotary Hay has done more than any other
living man to solve the eastern problem.
All the powers nave now adopted his plat
form for the integrity of the Chinese en-
pire and the open door,"
Praise from Count Cassini is praise
indeed. But other dipIomatists che it.
They point out hat it was Secretary
Hay who injected into the controversy
over China'S future the moral idea
which has proved to be the key to the
whole complicated problem. This he
did in October, 1899, when the world
first learned that the principle of the
open door had been proclaimed by the
American government. That principle
the United States has stuck to through
all the changes and complications Of
the ensuing years.
Since then China has passed through
the throes of a revolution which for a
time threatened the success of the
American policy. Now and then ap-
pearances Indicated that the cause was
lost and that greed and spoliation
would supplant the doctrine Of equal
rights for the nations in the Chinese
empire. Germany has played a fast
and loose game, and France a con-
sistently supported Russia. Great Brit
ain seemed hopelessly involved else
where. Japan was not big enough to
| stem the tide alone. Ridicule was heap
ed upon the open door programme. 1t
was everywhere predicted that in Chi
! mas revolutionary turmoil Russia
would find the opportunity not only to
hold Manchuria, but to advance, step
by step, to greater conquests.
J But there is tremendous power in q
moral principle when it is constantly
pushed to the front by an able states
man speaking for a nation k the
+, United States. This is what Mr.. Hay
lie He did it not Electrically. not
with buster, but with tact n eau