The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-28
SERMON FAV0RS
THE JAPANESE
Rev. L. G. Reynolds breaches
on the Current War.
CALLS RUSSIA BACKWARD
DECLARES INTERESTS OF CIVIL
LIzATIoN ARE AGAINST HER.

Rabbi Louis G. Reynolds Of the Jew
ish synagogue will deliver an address at
the Unitarian church this evening on
the Russian-JaPanese war. Rabbi Rey-
nolds spoke on the subject at his own
church last Friday evening, and his re-
marks made such an impression that he
was asked to repeat them. He said in
part.
Only the well informed. educated ma
tive Of Russia can penetrate the very
depths Of the insidious designs which
the government OF that country has
upon the Orient. The entrance Of Rus
STA into the mains contiguous with Chi
ia. Korea and japan and the harbors
which hold the key to the domination OF
the north Pacific. though undertaken
with the ostensible purpose of expand
ing its commerce, has really different
and Interior motives. A country which
has within It's own natural boundaries
millions of acres of unused and virgin
forests untouched by the ak, mountains
OF precious metals undug, need not eX-
pose itself 10 the varying fortunes Of
war in order 10 gain a little more terri
tory. Siberia alone. which is the size
of nearly the whole Of the United States
and Canada, is still a bowling wilder
ness. where hOrdes OF nomaGic tribes
wander. feeding upon its game and veg
citation. Not even the smallest begin
nings OF its vast industrial and agTicui-
tural possibilities have been utilized;
while millions or Russians are living. in
the direst and most miserable destitu-
ton. The capital of the WOrldi which is
seeking entrance into Russia. in order
to open up its vast naturel resources
and to pour wealth upon its snhabit-
ants, is shut out by vicious legislation;
the ambition and enterprise of its own
citizens are paralyzed by the brutal
touch of a corrupt and hostile govern
ment; the peasant is despoiled of the
fruit of his labor and the merchant is
harasse6 by continuous prosecutions.
and yet this country, undeveloped with
in its own borders, is already seeking
room for expansion.
Influence. Not improvement.
The real purpose Of the Russian gov
eminent is not to lind a market for
things she does not produce, but infU-
ence, which might counterfeit and neu-
tralize the civilizing forces which begin
TO penetrate its European dOniniOns.
With hordes Of Asiatics We3 drilled and
disciplined, born to cringe and 10 obey.
the behests of despotism, she need not
fear either the influence of European
neighbors or the possible awakening of
its own people Russia already dOmin-
ates Asia in the west and If, in addi-
ton to this, she IS allowed 10 gain a
foothoId in the east. she Will and must
| become the most serious menace, not
only to the legitimate commerce, but
to the highest interests of the civilized
? r. t. Il. 4
in on all sides and narrowed down in
the most necessary area of its natural
growth, viii have to recede TO bar
barism from which it has so bTavely
and gloriOusly rise9. OF what possible
benefit can it be 10 the world. I ask,
that a liberal, equitable and open couD-
I try should be robbed of It's ennghten-
ing influence upon a valuable portion Of
the Orient. in order TO make way for
a power which viii close everything up
by a system much more formidable
than the Chinese wall
Strict Laws IN Manehuria.
Already now in Manchuria. which is
/ ostensibly held on a lease, the horrible
/ passport laws of Russia are ia force,
and Determinations are made on ques-
lions of religion. All the properties and
characteristics of Russian tyranny are
in fun force there. and territory
whose natural resources could support
a population like that Of Japan IS go
I ing TO be turned into a mere strategic
point TO satisfy the tyrannOus ambi-
tions of an empire which is both an
anomaly and an anachronism.
1t is difficult TO understand why the
sympathy Of any clean minded civil
! lied individual or natiz5n should not be
with little Japan, which, though yellow
and Asiatic. is bravely lighting for the
best and hottest interests of the highest
representative nations of the Caucasian
race We hope and pray that she may
win, not only for her own sake, but fer
/ the sake Of the Russian people as we'll.
/ The defeat Of the Russian government
] will result in the salvation Of the Rus
sian people. The loss of prestige in the
/ Orient will. to the Russian people. be
/ a price only too small to pay for the
attainment of true national liberty
/ within its European borders.
RHETE0R0T OGTCaT. PEp0RT