The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-02-26
RUSSIA'S SIDE.
.Er Jas R. Randall Talks Interest
ingly of Eastern P.:oblem..
SPEAKS OF yellow PERIL
Reviewa History snd Points Out Fa-
nous Lessons OF PaAt. Dimcult
Problems That Have AS
serteo Tt eInsclvcs.

We clip from the Birmingham, Ala,
Age Herald q very interesting review
son the, Eastern situation with Mr..
Jas. r.. Randall. the distinguished
5 poet and writer, of Augusta, Ga, Mr..
Randall has been visiting friends in
Birmingham and while there lie was
sought out by newspaper men. In
Producing Mr.. Randall as prominent
newspaper man and author Of the
south, that gentleman iB quoted as
follows:
s With all due respect TO these diff
fering with me, l sympathize With
Russia. The point has been made
that Russia is an aggressive nation
what is called robber ma tion--out so
are Japan, England, France, Germany
and the United States. Since the Re-
publican regime ali Washington, this
republic has joined the band Of rob-
bers:saeWe are getting to be world
Power'Ian imperialism, in direct con-
nlCt with the advice of Washington,
eIter Forcing war on the South, as
Thad stevens confessed, outside the
constitution
But for our furnishing England
remounts of horses and mules, through
q British camp, on the plans Of Chal-
mette and the greater British camp
III John Hays state department, the
South African republics ,uld proba-
bly, have maintained their indepen-
dence. You know what has happened
in the Philippines. Japan is attempt
ing to rob Corea Of her independence
just as Russia is robbing China In
Manchuria. So hnnors ar dishcnors
are easy OH that score
RUssIAs EXPANSION.
Russla's logical expansion was and
is toward the Black Sea toward Con-
Btantinople. But for the interven-
tion Of England she would have driven
the Turk back to his Asi;.tic lair and
placed the cross on the spire of St.
Sophia, once a Christian church and
now, and for ages, a Mohammeden
mosque. So the unspea kable Turk
remains In Europe because Russia
was thwarted by so-callcd Christian
nations who are jealous OF her, remem-
bering the famous proverb Of Napole-
on that the great power, Christian
power, dominating Constantinople
would rule the world.
1t was not because Pet er the Great
and Catherine II. pointed the road to
i By2antium5 that the Russians gravi-
tate to the Black Sea, but, because
their commerce is frozen up for half
tne year In the Baltic and a nation
naturally desires seaport never
closed to navigation. Besides, when
northern people become redundant
IN population, they are moved almost
mysteriously, or by some subtle natu-
raj law, to find their horie or grave
IN the tropic, jusS us the Mississippi
river born In frozen region makes its
way to the warm Mexican gulf-the
Groplc. Frustrated at the south and
diverted from kind of manifest des-
thy In that direction, Russia, taking
the only alternative, built the trans.
Siberian railway and favored by
events In China sought al open port
In the Orient. This alarmed japan
and having been tunrned from neace-
ful PaRanism tC warlike atheism,
with a veneer Of European Industrial
ism cr CIVILIZATION, she sought to be-
coni9R &orld power and exploit Corea
EfiE YELLOW PERIL.
Her secret design, confessed by
some Of her writer's is II dominate
Asia, by converting China into pug
nacious nj ton like herself. This is
the real yellow peril Napoleon also
said, What folly in the European ma
tions to awaken the Chinese giant
from his Hlumbcr and make him a
n CHn 1,,& III.
giant, with 400, 900 600 of inhab gants
bnohid become gigantic Japan, 1t
would be terrible thing for the
world.
Earl Wolseley, the great English
soldier, recently said that properly
led and disciplined, the Chinese made
the best soldiers in the world and
that, If they became thus manipulat-
ed, martial nation, they would i'm
peril the whole western region and
like innumerable ants, owe verwhelm and
devastate the whole Of Europe Some
people, less expert than Earl Wolse-
Icy, pooh pooh this, but they form
mental processes from vast miSinfor-
nation. Before countless little ants
In Africa every living ching, wild
beasts or man flee or are dcvOured.
II millions Of warlike AsiaticS de-
scend upon Europe what Il peril that
would be?
FROM REMOTE TINES.
From remote times the Asiatics
have threatened Europe. They re-
peatedly invade2sGreece. They over
turned the Roman empire Of the west
and captured Constantlnople, and still
hold the Turkish empire by the jeal-
ousy Of Christian nations. They over
ran Russia. They went to the heart
OF France, until beaten back by
Charles Martel, on the plains Of Chal.
ons. They would have captured
Vienna but for the heroic King OF
Poland, John Sobieski. They entered
Spain and held their ground there for
centuries.
1.-THE Turkish sultan, Bajazet, at
the head OF 100000 men, proclaimed
that he would march on Rome and
feed his horse at the high altar OF ST.
Peters church or on the tomb of the
Apostles Peter and Paul. There was
no organized force then in Europe
capable OF resisting the infdcl. BY
prayer and the Intervention Of Provi-
dence hiS nllrDOSo wca dnfnofod