Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-13
With Sword in One Hand and
Sugar in the Other.
TERRIBLE MASSACRES
WHEN WAR Is OVER BRoTHERLY
LOVE RETURNS.
Russian Methods Compared With
Those Of England and Other
Powers. 49,.

Written for The Evening Star by William Thorp.
1.-THE Russians" said a man who has
travelled widely in Manchuria, hold the
sword in the right hand and a bit of
sugar in the left, and when they have
done with the one they begin with the
other
Thu has always been the policy Of Rus
STA in Asia, and 1t explains why she holds
her vast oriental conquests with such APP
parent ease and is less troubled by rebel
lions than any other great power holding
sway over multitude Of subject races.
When the Russians gripped Manchuria
nearly 5000 Cinnamon persisted in the ter
rible massacre at Blagovestchensk. In the
grim euphemism Of one of the cars gem
erals, They went away" But SO indulgent
were the authorities after the massacre
that in few months all the Chinese ner-
chants who had fed from the town, never
expecting to return, were back doing BUSH
ness at their old stands, and many more
had focked in to compete with them under
the protection Of the just laws and paternal
government Of the Russians.
The atrocities committed by the Russian
troops during the Picking campaign, and
after shocked the civilized world, but they
did not shock the Chinese or antagoniZe the
Chinese government. The Chinese do not
resent the brutality of the Russ as they
Of other nations. In that respect they re-
semble other Asiatics who have felt the
scourge of the cars legions.
War is war to the Russian, and he takes
care to make 1t hell while it lasts; but
when 1t is over he is hall fellow well met
with his conquered foe, and treats him
with a rough kindness and genuine COM
radeship which wipe out from the Asiati
mind even the memory of ruthless mas
sacres.
Put in Practice.
You Anglo-Saxons are fond Of talking
about benevolent assimilation said a
former captain in the Russian army who
is now living in New York, but if you
want to see it really put into practice you
ought to travel through Russian Asia.
Wherever you went from the Caucasus to
Vladisvostok, you could find the natives
living happily under our rule and becoming
thoroughly Russianized, if they had not
already become so.
LAS soon as we have taught them to fear
and respect we mix with them freely.
We do not hold ourselves aloof as If we
were made of different kind of clay and
were altogether superior beings other
foreigners do We are half orientals our
selves, of course, and naturally do not
share the color prejudices of the ATneri-
can, the Englisman and the German We
freely intermarry with the Asiatics among
whom it may be our destiny to live. and
we encourage them to rise-~to the highest
civil and military positions in the cars
service, il they are worthy to fill them.
THUS 1t is that our Asiatic subjects grow
to like our rule, and in time become more
Russian than the Russians. They are fond
OF giving Russian twist to their names
soon as they enter the cZar's service
1.-TWO Asiatics-GeneralS Tergouka son
and Lazareff-commanded Russian troops
In the war with Turkey in 1S77-78. The
name of the former was Tergou before he
left his home in the Caucasus, that of the
latter Lazar Melik. an Armenian, became
the greatest man in Russia under a former
czar, and called himself Loris Melikoff
General Alkhanoff, who made the famous
raid in Merry. and became governor of the
province of Merv after it's conquest, was
Daghestani, born at Baku. His name was
Ali Khan. He simply added Off to it when
he became a Russian officer.
No Barrier Today.
More than once the supreme active COM
by an Asiatic, and there is absolutely no
barrier to it's being SO held today. Ter
fioukashof commanded the forces in
Central Asia-an Asiatie commanding
Asiatics. Can you imagine England i'm
trusting the command of either the Indian
or the English armies to a Sikh or Ghur-
ka, however fine a soldier he might be?
Why. he could not even command a COM
pany! He might become officer in name
but practically he would be subordinate to
the rawest English subaltern. although he
were the gray-bearded veteran of dozen
wars.
.sriie English gain the hatred of Asiatics