The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-24
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whom the Russians hanged for an at
tempt to dynamite a bridge No one
, knows how many others are now
playing some hazardous part IN
der the Russian flag. The most
romantic and human chapters
Of the war which are daily
being enacted are a sealed book to
everybody except four or five response
| bic men.
| Political speculation is common TO all
Capitals. ana we have our share Of il
/ in Toxic. After the foreign Office phase
and the naval phase. we come TO The
/ political phase in Japan's attitude 10
/ Korea The censOr does not allow the
use Of that naughty word protector
ate" If no japanese WIN Say thct the
arrangement is q pTotecto~ajc meme
! Will say Jhat il is not. The complete
occupation &C a country by foreign
/ soldiers, its transformation from indie
: pendence to suzerainty, have Eeen ac-
! complished with a Geftness peculiarly
| japanese. Yesterday Korea. was Ko-
rean; today il is japanese. The change
| seems only a set part of the pro-
| gr3mme. You may read the japanese
/ papers in vain for any elation over
! this masterful piece of polity.
From MesampO TO Ping-yang there
| is absolute peace. The japanese SOL
/ diers have stepped into their places as
/ guardians as softly as a butler into d
! dining room The Koreans accept them
I as matter of course rather than as
! the inevitable. Stripped of all nicely
worded foreign office statements, the
attitude of Japan toward Korea. is
I clear. She means TO be the same kind
\ of a friend to Korea that England has
! been to Egypt AS one Of the negoti-
ants in a good bargain. she expects
both sides to profit by it. Both viii.
Korea is redeemed to order: she is set
On the pathway to progress. She will
have railroads and factories and
| schools, just as Japan herself has.
I Within a month her place has been
/ made secure. In the defense of the
! present regime all the strength Of ia
! pan viii be sacrificed.
The Emperor's Golden Tooth.
! The Korean emperor becomes what
] the khedive is in Egypt-the figure
head OF a definite, progressive policy.
Is this right? In that connection one
! may only relate the principal subject
which occupied the emperor and his
court during this present winter, when
his country was in danger. A great
/ scandal was aroused by the fact that.
/ yielding to the fascination OF the
| process and of the prospective yellow
| CLEAN in his mouth, the emperor had
j had an American dentist make him a
l gold tooth. The geomancers, upon
/ whose geometrical wisdom the ruler
| depends for advice, said that the i'm
perial mouth had been pFofaned. There
was only one way to restore the dignity
/ Of the royal house and OF the empire,
and that was 10 have the tooth re-
moved. The geomancers had their
! way. Meanwhile. the emperor of ia
pan. while considering the advisability
of war. war measures, and the raising
of a loan. was planning how Korea
should be brought into the field Of &C
tive civilization. This contrast of men
! and OF peoples needs no comment to a
people who are educating Filipinos Or
building schools in KhaTtOum.
What are Japan's intentions after
| she has taken Port Arthur? In moth
] ing does she show her hand before the
card is called "ScrupulOusly, amaz-
ingly. exasperatingly correct" was the
description OF her whole attitude in
q this war by a none too friendly foreign
= diplomat What II she should say 10
/ the other nations. after she had driven
! Russia out of Manchuria: We have
| enforced the pledge of an integral Chi
ma. Now, will you maintain it?" Every
+ item that comes from North China is
d read here with the intenSeSt interest
At the outset of the war it did not
suit Japan's policy to have China en-
/ gagged, lest Russia might seize naval
. bases on Chinese territory. With the
Russian navy off the seas, what would
he the result if the soldiers Of Viceroy
Yuan Shih-Kai should dispute the re-
occupation by Russian troops of the
territory south of the Lao river which
Russia had already evacuated? How
many more tTumps has Japan up her
Sleeve2 We who wait in Toxic have
! learned to be surprised at nothing.
Copyright, 1904, by Golfers Weekly.