The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-07-10
q THREAT WILL suFFicE
5el'eyed Powers Are Preparing Plan q
Check the Bear in China.

check the Bear in China.
Iiuon, July 8.-The London CORE
spondent of the New York sun has sent
sne ioitoWlng to that newspaper.
~ moment Is approaching when some
soWer or combination OF powers must can.
? na!t TO Russian aggression. The con-
Vlction is rapidly growing that noth,np
az sterh certainty of war will check
ene pol,cy OF Muscovite ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
- other words. the Russian bluff
must De called. The question most dis
cusseu the last few days is whether the
neeulessly provocative course pursued by
nusslan diplomacy against the United
SG.a.es, Great Britain. and Japan is q bluff
Sr a,Velled challenge. which domestically
q distracted the administration
commentators confess themselves
much puzzled. They cannot conceive the
nolve OF shrewd diplomatists-and the
russians always have been the past mas
.efs IN this llne-in deliberately and IN.
necessarily forcing such a triumyirate as
america, Great Britain. and Japan into e.
conplhation against them.
Cassini's Strange Action.
" hat european observers find the
1865. 70 understand is Count Cassini's
strange manner in dealing with American
poplc opinion. That he should i in the
anse piace nave relied upon the non-exist-
I. fAiiellcan ignorance may be accounted
Aoi as the mistake of a man who knows
nothlte or his audience. His Ignorance
peeanle mere stupidity, however, when he
asiea upon a tn quoque as a conciliatory
tisulaeht, and assumed that official de-
0aal dlsposes Of a statement.
Gassln1 S reputation in the Diplomatic
"oiiu is so good that Europe Is Ioath TO
l re va n has t. -
osuse ne mas been guilty Of a. series of
eBFeglous plumbers in the present case
aoW. then, is one to account for = nolicv
which, 70 connection with Russian nrn-
}eIts IN Manchuria and the incident at
INisHlilef, has weakened American
iisehashlp! Reckiessness and almost
olehse seem to be the characteristic Of
sucl, olpiomacy, yet such qualities are OPP
posed 10 those which always have marked
russian politics.
II Is impossible seriously to believe that
asussia IS prepared to push her plans In the
tar east against the armed opnosition of
the three powers mentioned. Her indiffer-
eHce 10 the consequences in her recent
ueclaratlon Is a part of the game in the
OPINION OF best observers on this side If
the water.
II is true the domestic condition of
Russia Is desperate. She is giving the I'M
preston that she will welcome war as a
III SSlI CllSlS, Ut III Is
quite true. But it is also true that Rus
STA cannot be launched into a war of con-
quest without the cars consent. TT
would be necessary to repeat the tragedy
ol belgrade In st. Petersburg before Rus
STA could enter upon the campaign which
her present policy threatens.
When Russia Will Stop.
'Russia's treaty-breaking designs in the
sar east VIII stop when some power lays
the sword across her path. Then, and not
TIL then. There is still strong confidence
In St. Petersburg that nobody will dare
to take this decisive move. The Russian
government expects to continue to hector
and menace with impunity, born Of sue
cess, until not only Manchuria but Pekin
itself, Is gained. There are indications
char the time is not far off when the cars
ministers will be undeceived. Japan al
eady is with difficulty held in check.
mere is no appetite for war in England.
but already there is strong evaporation at
what Is denounced as the pusillanimity CT
the British foreign office. This Is so ex-
IRENE that one Of the loyalist conservative
journals exclaims today:
Our foreign office has, wherever Rus
Ma is concerned. lost the confidence of the
British people, and we almost wiring the
respect Of Europe
Comment like that In the house Of its
Irienos Is Akeiy to spur the government to
action similar to that described in yester-
days dispatch giving the terms Of a re-
ported Anglo-Japanese ultimatum directed
to China but aimed at Russia.
I'm the meantime 1t is fully recognized
that Europe and the United States rave a
direct and unequivocal right to checkmate
Russta's gam in Manchuria. Some, in
deed, argue that the duty of the initia-
tive belongs more to America than either
to Great Britain or Japan, hence 1t is that
what is regarded as the mere by-play Of
the American Kishinef petition Is watched
here with interest. There is a feeling,
however, that the occasion Is one more
fitting for a display of the direct. straight
forward methods Of American diplomacy
dealing with the real issue involved