The San Francisco call., 1904-04-12

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ly commercial The peninsula had been for ages
under alien masters The Hindoos had paid but lit
tie attention the defensive and
by the stronger races. The Mahometan conquest
made by descendants of Tamerlane established the
Mogul Empire which the English overthrew. Begun by
the East India Company commercial enterprise
rey, since the British Government took administration
away from the company it is believed that the English
have been the best that have ruled India
Anyway there pretense of championship
philanthropy about and England has had to stand crit
csm of her methods from qyte another point of view
The Russian conquests that have at last crossed Asia
equally commercial. They equally sordid in
their motives and have been pushed with equal greater
nhumanity toward the weak peoples that have been
ridden down by the Cossacks There is to be-
eve that humanity has had any part in them than
III the wars of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. But
Russia philanthropc attitude and desires
pose the champion of the white against the yell
low, and makes this appeal prejudice to cover
declaration of upon China To this end the naggng
goes
Our dispatches from Pe<ing and ST Petersburg give in
detail the efrontery of the which Russia pro-
poses preliminary the military annexation OF China
1t is among the worlds moral emergencies. What has
the yellow done that calls for white cham
pion against it? The yellow not threatening
white territory with conquest They not in
against the Western powers They are recognized as
members of the family of nations and represented by
Ministers to all the leading governments They in
treaty relations with the of the world and in Japan
have civilization higher and in all respects better than
that of Russia.
Races, nations and peoples need champion when they
in peril. when their rights in danger and their
liberty threatened None of the white is in this
condition 1t is impossible for the yellow to injure
them. What the white want is that all of the yell
work their civilized salvation the Japan
have done Then their progress will begin, their
will increase they rise in the scale and their
trade will invite only the commercial competition of the
white nations.
Russia conducting in this country hot propaganda
for sympathy The incidents in the history of Civil
War being made much Of One gentleman remem-
bers that the Gar told him that if England had recog
nized the Confederacy he would have instantly declared
war against Great Britain That has all elements of
fairy But taking for the truth what the prece
dent establishes? English recognition of the Confeder
acy would have been a for the dsmemberment of
the United States If the Gar told the truth about the
state policy of Russia Russian declaration of war
against China would be exactly what English recog
milton of the Confederacy would have been in 1862 AS
England is committed to the neutrality aud integrity of
Chinese territory Great Britain would be justified the
grounds, in declaring against Russia
1t may be safely said that the people of this country
dc not want Russia champion in anything Nor do
believe that the Western nations desire that Russia
be promoted the mastery of the world will be the
if she China The Russian system of govern
is less desirable than the Chinese and still less de-
srable than the Japanese If China follow the civilized
lead of Japan her reormers and intelligent statesmen will
take the lead and the people will be trained in the opera
ton of representative and institutions But
if China become Russian the administration will be worse
than Surely there is nothing in the government of
European Russia that the nations with paramens and
systems of Jurisprudence desire to copy.
Russian reform is of the question. The autocracy
under the thumb of the Holy Synod has stubborny with
stood all pressure for reform The brains of Russia rep
resented by Tolsto. under the ban Not content
with political persecution the Holy Synod assumes to
shut Russian intelligence of heaven by the solemn
process of accommodation from the orthodox church
Russia in way represents the civilization the inteli-
gence the civic institutions, the aspirations religious
liberty of the white and Americans will repudiae
any such pretense.