The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-26
'AxANCHURIA PIONEERS VIEW
JEALOUS LITTLE JAPAN" FOR
TROUBLE, Mr.. FRIEDE SAYS.


Russia Has Spent Millions - Develop
Country and Cannot he Expected
TO withdraw = CROWNS American
Trade Under Present Conditions.
NJ. sergey Friede OF So West Ninety
sixth street. the American pioneer In Man.
churia, who was the first American to cross
that country over the route Of what Is now
the Chinese Eastern Railroad, and who
thereby secured contracts for the greater
part OF the material used In the construction
Of Russia's railways in the Far East, has
recently returned from the other side, where
no has been engaged for years opening up
new markets In Manchuria for American
commerce.
Mr.. Friede said yesterday:
Il look upon this matter purely from
an American point Of view. not through the
eyes Of British correspondents at Shanghai
and Hong Kong. Russia has poured hun
dreds of millions into Manchuria: In six
years she has built thousands OF miles Of
railway through country into which
nothing larger than a small native cart
had ever before penetrated. She has done
what no other country OF the world has ever
been spent within couple Of years In the
building Of a single city, now ready for oc-
cupancy and an open port TO tho world.
Nor Ia Dalny the only city Russia has
built In Manchuria: Hardin on the Sungar
River. where the railroads meet, was
founded in 1899, and is now a city Of finely
paved streets, electric lights. business
houses and machine shops that employ
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Everywhere along the line Of railway new
towns and cities are springing up, rushing
civilization forward in Asia with the speed
OF lightning express train.
NO other Country has done, no other
country can do for China what Russia can
and Is doing. Why. after she has spent
her treasures creating a new market for
the worlds products, should we insist
that she get out and leave her vast in
terests unprotected What has any other
nation done in China comparable to Russia's
.The whole world is benefited. We ask
for open doors; yet, without them, Americas
exports to Manchuria via Japan and Hong
Kong exceed In value our total commerce
with China under British influence. and
our commerce with Manchuris was nil
before Russia touched the land with her
Now American rails from .Piitsburg. laid
on ties from Oregon. carry Amt rican leco->
| motives SNcIyWncIo uoACnu id Atoli-
way stations are equipped with Anne rican
electric-ligh Citing plants, and rivers cre ~ d
by American eel bridges. hCssis's
agreement with China wss 10 complete the
railway within a given time, aid, despite
Boxer troubles and every conceive bic
Hundreds of thousands OF Chinese were
employed In the construction OF the railwsy.
Chinese merchants pourtd into the lsLd,
Il -
inisrule, and a land of 10000 900 was sud-
denly opened az a market TO the world.
for Russia buys In the cheapest, or when
in hurry. secures the materials she needs
from the nearest market, and America "a
both. :
Russia understands how to treat China.
] know the Manchurin railways from end
to end and life Is not yet safe on the rail-
way, even between Port Arthur and Hardin.
Bands of Manchurins still attack end some
and Russia could not be expected to with
draw her troops from Manchuria when the
whole world fesrs another Boxer uprising.
1T will be many years before Russia can
hope to even dra " interest on the hundreds
her work is only half completed; other
n ilroe DIS 6 10 TO be built, new colonies
pl nted and other cities will rise up.
mo other country has spent dollar TO
develop MI nchuria, end now why should
ha Is completed her work; for every bit OF
M terisl needed for the development Of
this new country must come from the out
side, nd Moukden being an inland city on
the line OF the Russian rauws y. which we
spproa chs BILE by the money Russia has
spent and the lives she has sacrificed In
, building her rs ilway.
@W ges are consti ntly rising. 30 thst the
: natives are now able to buy necessities
q AA.a Ii I'd
, American -four pours In In enormous and
ever incree sing que ntities. British cottons,
that once monopolized the NJ nchurian
ms rket have given place TO America n;
10 much 80 this I in our Southern States
mills g re built solely to meet this demand,
, while almost every ms tive Ia equipped
with our Connecticut dolli We tch.
Chinese merchants flock into the country
| to escape being robbed by their own man
darins Commercial men Of every Euro
| pean nation maintain Offices In the new
Manchurian cities, while Russia pours a
, white population into the country that
| fraternfzes with and understands the
| Chinese "a do no other Europeans.
Until jealous. little Japan urged other
nations to interfere with Russia's treaties
with China Russia and China, thoroughly
understood one another and were friendly.
Leave them alone and the whole Man.
churian matter will be Strengthened out.
II not to the satisfaction Of Japan. GER
tdtIuy 70 luc Nort iuiRtONCticut Vi tiiC VII
dition Of the Chinese fortunate enough to
live in Manchuria, and to the commerce
Of Manchuria with the world at large.
Il feel that this matter should be dealt
with commercially. not automatically.
Every one is free to do business in any
part Of Manchuria at present. which would
not be SO II II were controlled from Pekin.
sRussia has not built her great railway
| to stife trade. Naturally. however, she
| objects to having England or any other
country given concessions. coal-mining
concessions, for instance. along the line Of
her railway she has spent 10 much to COM
plete.
Russian enterprise and Russian money
have bought Russia q right to gather some
| Of the fruits Of the Development Of Man
| churia. America II nearer than any Euro
pean country, and will always oontinuc
| 10 be the chief source Of Russian supple
/, in the Far East, 40 that II h to our interest
,, TO let her spend In Manchuria all the money
she will, building with American material
new railroads, cities, and machine shope.
without encouraging any diplomat to
make of himself cat s-paw to draw our
own chestnuts out Of the IRE for the manu-
facturers OF other nations to enjoy
SUICIDE OF. JOHN p. LLOYD.
eign Painter Takes Poison IN the BAck
Noon Of o 0alOOO.