Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-02-17
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THE WAR IN THE EAST.

The editorial page of the Chicago
American contains the following con-
else and instructive article on the
events in the Far East and the history
of Russian diplomacy and greed:
The war between Russia and Japan
has begun.
Men and women in Russia are sing
ing the national anthem, God Save
the Gar"
The Gear is safe in his palace, and
will remain safe. many miles from the
scene of actual fighting.
His subjects are crowded on battle
ships and transport ships carrying
them to the front, where their Threats
will be cut or their bodies blown into
thousand pieces by bursting shells.
The mothers wave their hands to
their sons and husbands marching
off-never to see them again-and all
sing God Save the Car" with genuine
enthusiasm and piety.
d. II is the old story of war-the curl
GUS old story of human nature and
stupidity-the masses of the people
marching to butchery to the tune of a
national air, while the autocrat who
sets them fighting remains safely at
home.
The beginning of this war is the be-
ginning of Russia's serious attempt to
gain control of Asia and make her
Emperor Emperor of Asia-Emperor
of one half Of the world.
The great ambition Of the Russians,
handed drown from one Car to an
other, remaining intact despite indi-
vidual dissipation, frequent sudden
deaths and assassinations, is to make
one more big struggle for its realiza-
ton.
Control of the earth is the modest
ambition of the Russian Gear. Their
natural tendency was westward, and
toward conquest of civilized Europe,
as a preliminary to taking on the rest
of the world
But westward the Russians have
been unable to spread.
The great backbone of the German
people, with a million armed men, Of
ficered by men like Moltke, stands a
solid wall, against which the Russians
might beat in vain.
England holds Gibraltar, and the
powers of Europe unite to close the
Dardanelles to warships. This keeps
the Cars navy from making con.
quests in the Mediterranean. The
European agreement has kept the
Black Sea bottled up
Unable to expand in the direction O
strong western civilization, the Rus
SLAMS have been preparing to spread
out into the East, and their wa
again Japan, carefully thought out ant
prearranged, begins their war for tn,
conquest of Asia.
Give them Japan and China, will
! untold millions of men to count upon
8 and they will be able to use thos'
{ men to take all Of Asia, to conque
q the meek people of India and TAX
that country and the English.
RI This is the third great scheme TO
the conquest of Asia that we read O
in history.
Alexander the Great tried it, and h
4 succeeded. He conquered Asia, usin
Asiatics to fight Asiatics, in addition
Il to his own Macedonians. ..,."
But while he conquered Asia, h
could not conquer Alexander. H
died, after wearing purple cloth for,
short time in Babylon, and the grea
Asiatic empire Of which he ha
dreamed fell to pieces. 4 Z. H.:
Napoleon dreamed also OF Asiati
conquest He even planned the cos
tune which he should wear, ridin
e around on an elephant, and decide
that an Eastern religion would sui
him better than the Christian re1if
ionall religions being alike indiffel
D ent to him. His incursion into EgyI
was q feeble and rather q disastrou
step toward AsIatic conquest. He lei
and he said that Europe was mer
nothing, and that Asia was the res
BE- field TOR 4 conqueror.
His dreams Of Asiatic control ende