The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-05-25

people s'does not covet India, but she |
does intend ITO appropriate and mag
ines that Providence has appointed her
to possess Persia, Turkey, Afghanistan,
Thibet and China" In the light or receh.
events who can gainsay the truth OF inns
observation? Well may we accept the
eloquent statement of Alison: Never
since the god Terminus first receded win
the Roman eagles in the province peyoho
the Euphrates, has so steady ana uhlh-
terrupted advance been made by any
empire toward universal dominion; and
ii Is hard to say whether it has preVaiied
most by the ability of diplomatic address
the vigor of warlike achievement.
Than Napoleon Bonaparte no member OF
the human race has ever been better
htted both by genius and experience TO
estimate the power of Russia. In the
seclusion of his imprisonment at 81.
Helena, with all the experience OF ms
marvellous history, his profound genius
no longer disturbed by the phantoms of
ambition, he exclaimed to his devoted
Las Casas. Russia is like the Antaeus
of the fable which cannot be overcome
but by Selling it by the middle and
sitting 1t in the arms" But where,
said he. is the Hercules to be found
WV VIA f'bttIlpl Sucu dil tiilti pl iSc.
| But the imagination even of Napoleon
could not conceive the evolution of ma
tional power in Russia since these words
We're uttered, and yet he did not over
estimate the heroic, imperturbable cour
age of Russian character. He recalled
! the blood and carnage of Eylau, the
| incarnadined redoubts Of Smolensko and
| Borodino, the flames of Moscow. the
! plteous destruction of his grand army.
| and the terrible passage of the bridge of
the Beresina. In spite Of his military &c
MUS, in spite of the herosm of his gren-
adiers who had borne the French eagles
from the steeples of Notre Dame to the
| towers of every capital in Europe, he
| knew that the Cossacks OF the Don had
! lighted their bivouac fires on the Champs
/ EIysee and tethered their ponies amid
the palms and roses in the gardens of
! the Tuilleries Nor are their soldiers
more heroic than their sailors. Said Lord
! Nelson, the greatest sea captain of the
! English race Lay yourselves along
side Frenchman, but outmaneuvcr
! Russian"
With all the wealth and might OF the
| great American republic, our statesmen
! cannot afford indifference to tho deter
mined aggressions of this gigantic Asatic
| power Yes. Asiatic. "Afrca,' said We
/ tor Hugo begins at the Pyrenees." and
/ we may add that Asia extends to the
/ banks Of the Niemen and to the mouths
| of the Danube Said Napoleon, "Grattez
le Russo. ct trouverez lie Tartare,"
! Scratch a Russian ana you find a Tar
| tar
Men speak Of tho traditional friend
! ship Of Russia with the United States
! 1t is and has ever been, meretrcous
! The cords that bind MS have been ropes
! of sand. Friendship is impossible be-
tween individual liberty and absolutism,
between autocracy and representative
government Even now the most serious
blows to our commerce have of late been
aimed by the Russian ministry and had
the territories of the United states been
accessible to them. our fair land of free
dom would have been harred and raw
aged by Che soldiers Of the car, in
whose hands the machine gun and the
breechloader have been but substituted
for The lance Of the C0ssack and the
sword and bow of the Scythian,
unless indeed the dauntless soul
and strong arm Of the sons of
America hid hurled them back shat
tered and bleeding to their regions of ices
and Of SHOWS. Nor should the states
men of America fail to perceive that II
Russia shall succeed in the domination
o1 emma ana IN the organization and
control Of IT'S tour hundred millions or
people not only must American com
hlerce decay Dut American hDtrty may
pe no longer secure. WIN the great
steam troop shlps ana elsanuc transports
81 modern marine afohltecture' ana trans
Ierrlhg thousands OF troops IN each yes
sell crossing the ocean with the fncred-
ible speed OF steam and electricity, the
Pacific can be as readily crossed by chi
neSe ana RUSSIAN armadas as We're the
waters or inc North sea by the war shIps
OF the NlMhgs or the fQde vessels pear
ing tne "hl'e morse STANDARDS OF henghlst
ana hoIsa
II these be the possibilities OF a re
mote future, the danger to our com
merce is here. Who can doubt that in |
the interest Of her own manufacturers /
and merchants that Russia viii exclude |
from the seventeen millions OF Manchura
the manufactures products OF America I
especially those products OF southern cot /
ton mills which. from that territory alone :
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