Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-01-02

and European press have ceaselessly
given expression Of distrust OF the
Russian government and Its policies
The Russian language is known to a
comparatively few experts, and 1t casts
veil of mystery over the govern
ment and its policies. The Russian
language is known to comparatively
few experts, and 1t casts veil OF
mystery over the government and
people OF Russia, and where there Is
mystery there will be suspicion and
superstition. Russian official life is
a sealed book to the general student
of politics and the general press.
English statesmen and military
men have long been haunted by
strange apprehension of an invasion
OF India by Russia Such an invasion
would require an army Of 100000 men,
and that army must be supplied with
tmrcense stores Of provisions and
clothing, of artillery and cavalry, of
ammunition and hospital appliances.
The nearest base of such supplies
would be Moscow, and then they must
Caspian to the slngle-track railway to
Herat Nor could such an army de-
seend the gorges and passes of the In
lus incumbered with it's impediments.
The haunting apprehension is a
phantom of the brain. No government
known to us by Its diplomatic records
shows such prudence and painstaking
care as Russia does to avoid the least
friction with the European states.
Tho language of Russian diplomacy
is always modest, courteous and civil
II uses no threats or menaces. Rus
ala does not vancouver her armies
along the frontiers of nelghboring
states, nor does she send her battle
ships around the world hunting for
Islands to seize or lands to capture.
No prince has yet appeared In
history like the Gear Nicholas, who
has proclaimed to the nations the ex-
allied ideal OF universal peace and that
the appeal of humanity should be to a
legal international tribunal. The
summons to disarm the nations and
abandon war came from the youngest
child of European civilization.
Russia Is eastern as well as a
western empire. Her march to the
eastward is under the banners of the
European civilization and learning
The vast region of Asia stretching
from Manchuria on the east to the
Caspian on the west. from the southern
slopes of the Altai mountains to the
plains of Turkestan. is inhabited by
the Turanian tribes of Turco Hunlc-
Tartar race who are of the same
blood and the same origin.
They are the most relentless
savage and cruel barbarians known tC
history, Nature has bestowed upon
the Tartar a high order of intellectual
capacity, but has denied him every
trace of moral sense or human sym
pathy. History has always eharacer
lied him rs ''the demon of destruc
ton
The future objective point of Rus
STA is no doubt the conquest and
civilization OF these kindred nations
and as no nation and no other govern
ment can ever hope to reach them
the would should applaud the pur
pose, for 1t is the worlds work tina
Russia Is mapping out As for Man
churia, Il is not proper Chinese ter
ritory at all. and is claimed as sucl
by virtue of the usurping Tarta
dynasty In the Chinese empire.
The Russians and the Turks AT,
hereditary enemies. The Savs. VIII,
are the descendants of the ancien
samaritans have inherited the pas
uonate hate of their ancestors TO
the Turanian race. As the Hun ant
the Samaritan were In bitter war. S
now is the Slav with the Turk an,
the Tartar.
Russia makes no allusion for her
self OF the great power OF the sultan
Her armies on the Turkish frontie
are always in vancouver and maintain
ed in strict drill and always read,
for action.
The government of the Turkish EN-
pire is an absolute despotlsm. Tn
personal will OF sultan and pasha con
stitute the sole machinery OF gov
ernment The finances are always Il
state OF bankruptcy and the system
OF justice, II such II may be called
lie hopelessly and radically corrupt
II is not the criminal Il desires. bu
the criminals money and proper!
FOR the sultan.
The governors OF the provinces ar,
so far removed from the administers
ton OF the sultan that he knows moth
Ing OF their government. even IL b,
had the energy or capacity 10 contro
them. The political bonds which hold
the empire together are ropes OF sand
Slowly but surely the distant pro
vinces ar falling into political chaos
The bond OF the empire which main
tains its unity is the bond of religion
The Mohammedan religion is even vet
q tremendous power The simplicity
OF Its belief. "There is but one God
and Mohammed is His prophet" ap
peals to the Tartar and Turkomar
hmainatiou as no other can and ever