Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-13

gained the attention Of the senate. but
also Ms confidence. UnspOiled by his
success, he went 10 work and he has
since put In more hours than most Of
the senators IN studying the great mat
tiers which come before that body He
has gained the respect and friendship Of
the older members and Is today one Of
the few men who arr doing things IN
our national house Of lords. He Is
becoming noted for his conservatism,
and II, I am told one Of the most con-
scryatiye counselors OF the strenuous
young man In the White House
JAPAN AND RUSSIA,
say this by way Of introduction TO
an Interview on the situation In the far
east which | have had with Senator
BeyerIdge today. The senator has
supplemented his trip TO the Philip
IBERIA and Russia. lie has met the
leading statesmen OF all these countries,
and has actually studied the Man
churian question on the ground, The
interview took place In the senator's
apartments in the Portland fats, on
Thomas circle. My first question was:
what are the Russians and Japan
ese squabbing abouty'
They are not squabbllng,' replied
Senator Beveridge, THE matter Is a
serious one to both parties, and, /
might say, OF almost national life or
denth 10 one Of them We can hardly
appreciate what this struggle means to
the japanese They regard II as the
salvation or ruin of their country The
Russians look upon 1t az the Keystone
of their future. They regard Man
chuna az the door to their vast posses
s!ons in Siberia and to their prospec-
lively greater ones In China as Well
Give me in nutshell the story Of
the trouble, senator" said !.
1T is a matter OF history" was the
reply. Japan fought its war with
China. 1t licked China, and as one OF
the terms Of peace II was granted Port
Arthur, Tallenwan bay and a large
strip of Manchuria. The Ink was hard
~ dry upon that cesSion before the
triple alliance of France, Germany and
Russia sent word to the mikadO that
il would be a standing menace 10 the
leace of the world for Japan TO occupy
that territory, and they asked him to
give Manchurla back to china The
request was made in polite language,
but there were armies behind 1t, and
the mikado dared not refuse, He gave
IL back, although the Japanese people
stormed, denouncng Russia as the
cause of the trouble
HOW RUSSIA TOOK MANCHuRlA.
"Wcll a few months after that the
Germans demanded Of China the ces-
sion OF Kiachow bay ana q railroad and
other rights I'm the province OF shan
tung. Their request was granted and
Russia thereupon demanded the cession
Of Port Arthur for the term OF twenty
five years and the right to extend her
railroad thrcSgh Manchuria 10 the yell
low sea. This was also granted and
Japan saw the territory she had ( ught
SO hard for, and which she had been
compelled to give up, handed over to
the Russians, who had beeh the chief
actors in the compulslon,
The japanese were angry and al
most ready to fight then, but the Rus.
sians said they only wanted a place
for their railroad and they promised to
eyacuate Manchuria within certain
time
1.-THE japanese assented to this and
waited, The time came and went and
the Russians remained, They gave ex-
cuses for remaining, but they are there
today
THEY are not only there. but have
been pushing their outposts farther
and farther down toward Korea, and
Japan is afraid that they will cross
the Yalu aud go down the Corean PEN
lnsula to the bottom, where their guns
might be mounted within cannon shot
of the Japanese empire.
THE RUSSIANS AND KOREA.
Does that mean that the Russians
want Korea?"
so the japanese think replied Sem
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