The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-23
RUSSIA DULLED TO WAR NEWS
BUT TRUSTS IN PROVIDENCE

His courage comes from his Unborn
feeling that there is the closest bond
between the Emperor and his people.
Other peoples cannot grasp this reli-
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 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
ngs. women's forms which wind 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
fashion to, play on this sense of the
curious, slanting eyed, little and grace
less.
Suddenly this little, hard and cruel
spirit, which inclnes in war also to
pedantic toiling and to dragon bites,
which believes only in the material and
never seeks war for great ideas APP
pears on the canvas with European
artillery and European cannon and has
begun to die in masses and cut it's
stomach open And Europe gapes in
admiration of this yellow race.
Il
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 nothngness
have enterminated peoples and have
then vanished like a hurricane. A
hurricane pleases people. OF a hurri-
cane the whole world can speak. of a
fealful earthquake there can never be
enough talk. 1t is terrible and pleas
ufable at once, pleasurable because
oneself is not hit by it. 1t brings one
no personal hurt, and one can read
OF 1t lust as of 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 ii a Napoleon or an Alexander
of Macedon who advances on us? A
kuroki comes and yet another Oki On
the memorable night of Feb. s. they
made great scandal and Europe fell
into ecstasy over them Suddenly in
an hour We We're nearly without a fleet
and only the ineptitude of the Japa-
nese prevented the campaign from be-
ing over in a 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
nights where We have to meet two enc
mics apart from the English and AM
orleans, who busy themselves very sue
cessfully with smuggling on Japans
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
put 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 oblique eye
is the sign of an oblique soul. =.
'ha txrtt
barians does not mean the overthrow.
the end of Russia. Russia lives and be-
gins to develop that strong comprehen-
siVe life in which in course of time the
free and upright Slav peoples will take
their active part; and the Slavonic race
VIII give a message to the whole world,
such as has not been yet heard, whose
strength and meaning the world gets
first hint of while she reioices over
the craftiness of the yellow faces"
This illumination is reprinted and
spread broadcast through the Russian
press, which has not yet, however, I'M
dertaken to explain what it means.
BraSgadocio is by no means a weak
ness of individual Russians, whose in
difference TO the present situation may
be due very largely TO having no SYM
patny with the temper of the exAorta-
lions addressed to them from the or
gans of the Government offices.
Letters from the men fighting in
Manchuria show none of the PAM
phleteer's ferociousness and are much
more living likenesses of the easy CO.
ing people who are having to see the
actual war through. Here is one from
Saratoff volunteer written from Hal
cheng on June II:
Since We marched out from Lao
yam l found that | have too many
things. I've sold the valise for a rubie
and given away the clothes except
two changes of linen, which / keep in