The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-20

and might of the Russian Empire.
They prove only in higher degree to the
whole world, the unsuitable strength
of the spirit of the Russian people,
which is specially protected by Divine
Providence"
The SWEET asks foreign critics to pom
der these words. They leave out, it
says, in their sharp Judgment on Rus
sia's conduct of the war. this great
truth that the Marshal expressed:
1.-THE firm basis Tor the Russian tri-
umph lies not in preparedness for war
and experience in war Of Russian
troops. These are necessary; but they
are by no means everything. Our enc
my shows astonishing bravery, persist
ence in pursuing its aim which is al
most incredible; and they. too, depend
on what they believe are the interests
of their homes. But they shape their
valor out of wine, they are doped like
horses for a race. The Russian soldier
likes his glass in free time, but he
needs no stimulant to make him keen.
His courage comes from his Unborn
feeling that there is the closest bond
between the Emperor and his people.
Other peoples cannot grasp this reIi-
gious Russian characteristic"
Another leading exponent of the Rus
sian idea. NJ. Sanvorin, who reviews five
months of the war without finding
much to comfort him in the actual ac-
complishments of his side, delivers
himself of a harangue which is entire
ly to the taste of the very numerous
class of Russian functionary to which
he belongs.
This material age he broods,
seeks the curious-broken lines, twist
ings. women's forms which wirld like
snakes and dragons, pictures without
perspective, bronze and ivory trinkets
which give impression to Japanese ugli-
ness European decadence has worked
from this source, which came into lit
erature and art as something curious
and will so remain. 1t has become a
fashion to play on this sense of the
curious, slanting eyed, little and grace
less.
Suddenly this little, hard and cruel
spirit, which inclines in war also to
pedantic toiling and to dragon bites.
which believes only in the material and
never seeks war for great ideas ap-
pears on the canvas with European
artillery and European. cannon and has
begun to die in masses and cut its
admiration of this yellow race.
why do the European leaders of
civilization thus rejoice? Englishmen
have been beaten by Beers and italians
by Abyssinians, and who knows who
has not been beaten in the last thous-
and years. Huns and Mongols have
brought civilization to nothingness,
have enterminated peoples and have
then vanished like a hurricane. A
hurricane pleases people. OF hurri-
cane the whole, world can speak, of a
fealful earthquake there can never be
enough talk. It is terrible and pleas
urable at once, pleasurahle because
oneself is not hit by it. It brings one
no personal hurt, and one can read
Of it Just az of a scandal in nature;
and scandal is liked as much in life
as in nature. The japanese raise a
little whirlwind, which seems to the
Europeans good material for scandal
talk.
And what have the japanese achiev-
ed? Is it. a Napoleon or an Alexander
of Macedon who advances on US? A
Kurol comes and yet another Oki. On
the memorable night of Feb. 8, they
made great scandal and Europe fell
into ecstasy over them. Suddenly in
an hour We were nearly without fleet.
and only the ineptitude of the Japa-
nese prevented the campaign from be-
! ing over in month.
There has been no SINCE brilliant
| military operation on the side of the
japanese. despite their superiority in
troops and artillery. The Beers excell-
| ed the English by their small numbers
and their skill. The natives of the
! country, from cowardice or from racial
relationship. help the japanese in the
| fights where We have to meet two enc
mics, apart from the English and AM
| orleans, who busy themselves very sue
! cessfully with smuggling on Japan's
side. Both send them constantly ships
| with contraband which are consigned
| to some one or other of the Smith
family in Chinese harbors. Had we
but been prepared we would long ago
have made an end of this war and Civ
| en- one final proof that for Russia no
yellow peril exists, a proof that the
white stands higher than the yellow
man, that their slanting eyes are no
superiority over US. The eye is the
window OF the soul. and an oblfque eye
is the sign of an oblique soul
The war with the yellow-faced bar
barians does not mean the overthrow,