Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-13
IN THE FAR EAST.

| Great Britain. where the cabinet crisis
necessarily IL unfavorable 10 firm
foreign policy, and she Is correspond
| ingly aggressive. Japan is jealousy
watching her progress, but II Korea Is
not interfered with, peace may be MAIN
tanned. The danger is that popular
| pressure In Japan may at any time
force the government TO hostllitles.
Japan needs room TO expand. She has
selected Corea for her sphere Of In
nuence.' She is invading that country
by means Of railroads. and she Is deter
mined 20 protect her interests there
The statesmen Of Japan have very
wisely been bending all their energy
toward the formation Of treaty, by
which the rights Of the two countries
would be clearly defined. They certainly
know that treaties are Of no value, with
a power that is accustomed TO interpret
them as II suits its own purposes, but
the adoption OF such a treaty would
nevertheless have been Of some use.
II would have delayed hostilitles until
q more opportune time. And the breach
Of faith would have furnished Justiflca-
ton for n declaration Of war. Should
the efforts at treaty-makng have fall
ed, through Russla's greedy demands,
war Is the only alternative, Both pow
ers have been preparing for war, or at
least for a grand display, For three
years Russia has been increasing her
fleet In Asiatic waters until II Is now
stronger than the combined naval
forces OF any two European powers
The Russian naval force is said to be
complete in every detail. II includes
transports, which could be used In an
from one OF the terminals Of the Trans
Siberian railroad. Russia, II Is further
said. has demanded protection OF the
Corean government for her lumber in
terests, and to have threatened to send
troops over the border. until this re-
quest Is granted. This Is, perhaps, the
most fateful step 30 far taken, for
Japan will hardly tolerate Russian in
vasion Of the hermit kingdom
The interests OF the United States
In the far eastern situation Is yarlousy
estimated, A war between Russia and
Japan would, In all probability, in
crease the demand for many articles OF
export from this country Il would
be an aid to our manufacturers and
shippers The complete Russlanlzation
Of Manchuria and Corea, should that be
the outcome Of the war, Is also regard
ed as favorable to American interests,
Mr. sergus Friede, some time ago in
an interview in New York, discussed
the Manchurian question, as far as this
country Is interested In t. from a some
what new point OF view, and what he
said Of Manchuria is applicable to Co.
rea, whenever that peninsula shall be
aroused from its lcthargy, to activity.
He said.
Knowing Manchurla as do, from
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alone at the peril Of my life, in tiny
native wagons along trails that could
never be called roads, until | saw the
country transformed by the expendi-
ture of Russias millions, cities SPRING.
ing up In waste places railways racing
across mountains and plains more rap
IDLY than had ever railways been built
before and the whole land brought UNI
der the civllizing influences of the
American locomotive and the Yankee
electric light | cannot but feel that the
Time has come for Americans TO look
at Manchurla with our own eyes and
not MS we have always done-through
British glasses. Russia, with Americas
aid, has made II what It u.s. We are
the nearest to Russia's possessions I'm
the Far East, and we always will be the
ones to receive the greatest benefit by
Russla's prodlgal expenditures She
has built her railroads to develop trade,
not stihe II; she gladly buys our -four
mills to grind wheat grown in Man
churia; pays hundreds of thousands of
Manchurians wages that enabled them
to buy our cottons. In our first flush
OF excitement we must not forget that
II we urge her TO withdraw, under Chi
nese rule our merchants would not be
permitted to remain for n moment, ex-
oept IN the open ports Of which we ask
for two, one OF which, Moukden. the
capital Is struggling city OF twenty
thousand persons, hundreds OF miles
away from the sea coast and reached
only by the Russian railway, Americans
are welcomed In Manchuria, the Rus
SANS taking up eagerly our new in
ventions In lahor-saving devices; I'm
Of, go
the American steam rock drill, that
brought about the first strike known in
Russian Asia, | had induced the en-
gineers to order sample lot, and on
their arrival we started them TO work,
The Manchurlans, who had been accus-
toned to chipping away the rocks and
boulders by hand, sullenly watched the
Yankee machines humping away ,guid-
ed by invisible hands and then at the
touch OF button the charge Of dyna-
mite sent the boulders flying In every
direction IL was more than they could
80 they threw dom their
Tools, refusing To work with the white
mans spirit devils, The engineers were
but, thoroughly convinced that
they could complete the railway per-
haps years in advance OF the time
hoped for by use OF the American steam
rock drill, they refused 10 give way:
the ManchurIans returned sullenly to
work, and from that day to this Russia.
In the Far East has looked 10 us to help
her out of many difficulties. She has
raised the commerce Of Manchuria from
nothing TO millions"
What is true Of Russian occupation
of that part Of Asia, il also true Of
Japanese occupation, Either country
would need the assistance of the Unit
ed States in the work OF redemption.
No matter then how the war turns
out, for years to come the results
would benefit the great manufacturing
nations. But FOR all that, 1t is hoped
that war may be averted. For the
results ought to be gained by peaceful
means, A war between Japan and Rus
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