The San Francisco call., 1904-03-26
NAGGING CHINA.


for violating neutrality Chinese civil administration
and sovereignty are over Manchuria AS we have
shown last treaty with China recognizes this The
administrative entity insisted upon by Secretary Hay
extends the province that Russia has been trying
grab. Probably had Japan not opened this grab
would be complete by this time and China have been
crowded OF Manchuria
Intent upon that policy, which she has pursued in
violation of her promises to all the Western nations
Russia now demands that all the civil and military
officials of China i'll Manchuria be withdrawn on
the ground that it is necessary order that Russia
may prosecute the property The Gar exactly
the right to demand that Chinese civil and mill
tary officials be suspended the ground through
out the empire 1t claim that Russia has the right
neutral territory for purposes in a cam
paign of conquest and aggression. If she
one province of China she make the same use of
the whole empire.
The case is analogous the presence of Japan
III Korea. That is in pursuance of treaty and by
the of Korea. If Russia had made her secret
treaty with China she could make the use of Man
churia which she is now claiming But in the absence
of such treaty the demand is equivalent to a declara-
ton of against China and violation of Chinese
neutrality.
What view the rest of Europe will take in the matter
is impossible to foretel Russia has gone courting
in every capital the Continent and has sought to
sugar herself everywhere, except in Washington and
London If continental Europe assent to all her de-
mands and result she succeeds in efectuating her
policy Eastern ASIA the continental statesmen of the
generation will have occasion regret the supine-
of those of to-day, All of Russa's for
her aggrandzement. They treat Russia if that
empire were the whole world, and the scruples and
objections OF others to be considered all,
except by alayng them with diplomatic lies,
bearing them with force.
The attempt to raise the fears of the world by
chatering about the yellow peril makes impression
upon thoughtful people The world has fear of Asia
1t has in Japan what be accomplished by the
assimilation of Western civilization. There nation
has been regenerated in the brief space of thirty years
The art and science of the world been received
and applied and Japanese scholars and scientific
have shown themselves the equal OF any. 1t is sufi-
cient that Japan has made progress i'll civilization
in thirty years than Russia has in thousand If civ
ilzation progress, and strict regard for
the rights OF Others absention from until forced
it by self-defense, and its prosecution without
brutality non-combatants, japan is the superior OF
Russia
The Gar has no civilization impart o Eastern
Asia Japan has Which influence would the world
prefer, that of Russia Japan? The question
itself England holds peculiar position in the struggle
by of her treaty with Japan 1t evident that
she prefers the position of umpire, rather than that
of combatant, and will long possible hold her
self ready tender good Offices between the parties.
or 10 render them if asked
The United States will remain neutral far the
Government is concerned. Our moral power is great,
and will be supplemented by physical power.
But while this is the attitude of the Government the
sympathy OF all real Americans with the representa-
tive institutions of Japan and not with the bloody and
cruel autecracy of Russia. They impressed by the
spectacle of the Mkado assembling the Parliament
that he may have the advice of the immediate repre-
sentatives of the people, while in Russia there is no
Parliament the people have voice, and what is there
called patriotism exists only among the ruling class
with whom it is not love of country in the sense of
making sacrifice for it, but of country because
can be made to sacrifice for them and pander to their
power and sehshness.
The Russia that would deserve the patriotic devotion
of the would be the country for the small
number who now control the empire and sap its re-
for their benefit To them the conquest of
Eastern Asia the adding of hundreds of millions
dams of aggrandzement for the small number of ars-
tocrats who rule Russia
With such programme Americans can have no
sympathy, matter what appeals made in the
name of apocrypha services which Russia is said to
have been ready to render during civil war The
real force that held England back in those days was
exerted by the famine srnen spinners of an
cashire, who in the midst of hunger and privat;on
caused by embargo cotton, refused to consent
that the Ministry should side with the Confederacv
They turned the scale and if we are looking for those
who deserve gratitude it belongs to the starving men
of Manchester, who stood for human liberty in davs
that darker for them than for We owe debt
to the representative Government of England which
enabled the voice of her people be heard in our behalf
and the absoutism of Russia the vast majority
of whose people stepped in ignorance that thew
did not know that had civil war and that freedom
at stake.