The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-05-18

I east NNH OF AlHElANA AhHA HIS tMA
route to Russia, and. not Of less Inn
portance, he can place troops in Nam
ch1sia at the rate Of 1900 a day. lie
can commissary and coal a feet of
Vladiyostok and Port Arthur; can
snap his fingers at Great Britain and
laugh in the face Of Japan. He can
cross his bayonets over the doors Of
Manchuria. send an army to Tientsin
to Picking and close the north OF China.
But OF what aYail9 Russia is not
mad. She is not a hermit nation. She
has not come into the east to raise
batteries to trade, to dwarf the growth
OF her own civilization, TO stunt her
own progress. She aspires, as the
United States aspired, to carry her flag
and her civilization across the North
American continent. Her world pol
4 icy, from Peter the Great to Nicholas
H., is a history Of expansion, a look
toward seas where her fleets may sail
as free as those of other nations, with
| harbors and ports where her own Tag
bids them welcome
Russia has not put her millions into
steel rails, iron bridges, telegraph
wires, embryonic cities, vast agricuI-
turai stations, to invite destruction and
the enmity Of nations Her ambition
in the east IS no greater than made
England and Germany empires-the
United States a world power.
IL China is to be partihoned, Rus
/ sia's position will demand the share
that by racial and natural homogene-
BUSINESS she is heir to. IL China's in
/ tegrity is to be preserved, Russia will
play her part in its rehabilitation and
vitalization. Her very life and being
depend upon her strength and growth
on the Pacific.
Russia's position in Manchuria Is not
a menace to civilization or trade. 1t
has not been in the past and 1t cannot
be in the future-not until the genius
and industry of America, England and
| Germany bow down before the Slay.
At Newchwang, 100 miles from the
guns of Russia at Port Arthur, Brit
lsh merchants are in the ascendant and
| carry on the bulk Of trade, the China
man himself controlling or playing an
important part in every large mercan-
tile house in the port SO 1t is at shan
haikwan and at Tientsin, while at
VIadivostok German and Japanese
merchants are in the majority. In all
Manchuria, despite the presence OF
| Russian engineers and Cossacks Great
Britain's trade Is over f3,000,000 Rus
sia's is practically nothing, eliminating
her railroad operations. Such evil
dences Of the "open door do not por-
tend, to sane mind, predatory tend
encies on the part Of the ear, even
though war alarms continue to ema-
nate from Picking.
Had Russia spent S100.o00,000 in
| Great Britain Qnstead Of in America
for the purchase Of her thousands Of
miles Of steel. her hundreds Of locomo-
tives, her millions Of ties, her tons Of
telegraph wire, her ice crushing ships,
had she bought her cotton sheetings in
Manchester, her -four in Australia and
her timed goods ii England, and had
she borrowed her money in London
her presence in Manchuria would not
have been heraided as a menace TO the
world, slap at the "open door" 4
step ia the break up of China.
Great Britain Is alarmed and imbit
tered. Her trade is no longer para
mount in Asia. Her fleet In Chimes,
waters is not supreme. The AIusco
yite has out Britoned the Briton In th'
north Of China, and the Briton, dream
ing Of what he has been, now rises
green eyed at the calm, forceful policy
Of Russia and cries, "Wolfg'
we have nothing to fear from Rus
sia's position in the east. TWo-thirds
of the imports into AIanchuria are the
product Of American industry. ON
rails, our engines. our bridges. oul
windmills, our wire, our scales, oul
canned goods, cloth, plows. moving
and reaping and sewing machines
electric lights and a thousand and ont
other products Of our skilled labor art
going to Siberia and Manehuria by ths
shipload. They will continue to 81
while Russia pursues her policy Of ex
pansion il her Asiatic empire. A mil
non Uil0 u HAIL luis VI cASNA e44u4'
will be required to double track he
lTranssiberian railway, and this feat i
Russia's dream. And she viii no
stand by idly while Germany girdle
shangtung with her GOO miles Of track
while the Belgians construct a lin
from Picking to Hankow, the Ameri
cans from Hankow to Canton and TIL
British connect Tientsin with the vas
local mines Of Shensi.
Russia, too, win continue TO exten,
! her activities, but they will not sig
Nifty conquest of territory or sover
eighty to a greater extent than do til
enterprises of other nations in Chin.
In like undertakings. Her conquest
, primarily commercial, strategic AMI
international, in a sense that she ha
! an eye to future expediencies, but sh
: viii take no greater advantage Of he
position In Manehuria than Grea
Britain has In the Yangtse valley AM
|, In the Kwangtung provinces than Gen
many has In Shangtung or Japan ha
. In Korea.
! Yet the black bear Is watehful. II
!. is ready to defend his position, and a
! the first step Briton or Teuton takes t
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