The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1904-11-24

Japan Naklng Desperate Efforts %
Force Rmssia 90 cry "Enouxh."
A Toxic report declares that the Jap.
sness people are arxiously awaiting the
coming Of the Baltic ficct. 80 that Togo
may crush Il. Confidence Of this sort
has lie home In Japan. What Togo did
10 the Port Arthur squadron win be re-
peated upon the arrival Of the Baltic
feet. Toxic believes beyond n doubt. Lon.
don encourages this belief. Moreover.
the view 10 largely held In America that
Japan win preserve her naval supremacy.
The reason that Japan Is n favorite does
not lie In the number and superiority Of
her shipe. but In the excellence Of their
manipulation and In the greater effective
ness Of japanese gunnery. The world M
large has a small opinion Of the Rus
sisns as sea fighters. The North sen In.
cidcnt hurt Russian naval prestige almos,
as seriously an the dismal show Of the
Port Arthur squadron against Togo and
the vladivostok feet against Kamimura.
Moreover, the Baltic feet win arrive
In Asiatic waters In q fouled and racked
condition. and. from all we know, at a
time Of year when II win be impossible
60 make viadivostok for cleaning and re-
pairs. And yet. says n correspondent Of
the Chicago Daily News, Toxic Is wrong
20 regard the destruction Of the Baltic
feet AZ certain ns It's arrival within strik-
Ing distance Of the capable japanese adj
miral. Togo himself has been weakened
by the hard service Of the year. and his
losses, while small In ratio TO the dam
age administered, are at the same time
greater than the world has been given 20
understand. He viii have to face a pre-
ponderance Of battleships and n sen force
that has everything 10 win and no shores
threatened or armies cut of II Il losc-a
force that has the example Of Its prede-
cessor by which 20 profit aud a prize of
incalculable value for victory.
With Togo. on the contrary. rests the
life Of his nation. A thousand junks
viii rush into Port Arthur II he lift the
blockade. II he IL whipped the Jap
anesc army In cut OF: the shores Of the
island are left unprotected and com.
merce. the vitality Of Japanese finance,
10 destroyed. Togo In the pe~ricardium Of
Japan.
Toxic believes that the destruction Of
Me Baltic feet viii put Russia In a
frame Of mind In which she Will gladly
listen 10 proposals Of peace on terms
satisfactory 60 Japan. The Jill shimpo,
highly representative Of the japanese
press, urges japanese arms to push the
conflict with such fury that the enemy
viii have to sue for peace. Toxic prays
that the continuation of the hattie OF
the Shakhe river will result In the rom
plete shattering Of Kuropatkin's forces
90 that Russia will be forced 20 desisi
from hostilities. Japan wants peace bad
~. She In terrified a. the game unfolds
mile after mile. The monster that She
has driven and pummeled will not stay
whipped, but quietly and without nerves
or noise. augments and returns 20 the
fight. Japan pcrceives the ~unsubstan'
TALLY Of England's support: that II Il
Of the press and not Of the trcasur,
house. English bankers make her pas
exorbitant interest for the money she
borrows. England In not yet In her dot
age: she Is for England still.
japan Ii fighting for peace. and fight
ing magnificcntly: but her enemy. unles,
rent by civil war, will not be the one
90 cry enough This In not Russia's
way. She knows that years will crush
japan IL her troops cannot. She real
iEes wildly that IL she lies down 10 Japan
now the integrity Of her domain will not
long survive ChinH's.