The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-05-18
THE YELLOW PERIL
Is Beginning to Force Itself Upon
the World.


the World.
A dispatch from London to the
| New York Sun says there is disposi
tion among the most competent Euro
paan observers to regard the battle Of
the Yalu as marking an epoch ir
modern history. 1t is not that it
possesses great intrinsic Importance,
nor does it settle in any way the
outcome Of the war. It suh6ces, how.
ever, as the Spectator gravely re.
marks, to modify possibly for all time
the relation Of Europe to Asia.
Until that battle was fought the
white race was still! unconvinced that
the japanese army could rival or de-
feat European force Of anything
like adequate dimensions. The pride
of the white contingent had for three
centuries seemed to be justified by
history. The struggle on the Yalu
provides precisely the concrete evil
deDce needed to dissjpate this conf
dence; hence it may be an event which
future historians will quote as one OF
the marking points Of time.
eERMANYs ATTITUDE.
The German press, on the other
hand, has been as bad as the Russian
in suppressing and minimizing the
news of Japan'S great success. Ger
many'S attitude, in fact, becomes
more and more suspicious. The Spec
tator, discussing the kaiser's recent
speeches, says:
What was the effect be wanted to
produce when last week he suddenly
let himself 60 in regard to France
and said things which kings and EN-.
perors usually studiously avoid? The
simplest explanation, but one to which
we do not desire to give the slightest
Endorsement, is that the kaiser is
threatening France just as B!smark
threatened her in 1873. It is pointed
out that RusSia's entanglements in
the Far East have practically dis
solved the Dual Alliance. We hold
that the idea that Germany is prepar-
ing to attack France must be Danish
ed as entirely out Of the question.
Whatever else the emperor means, he
does not mean to make sudden war
with France.
There are those even in England
who regard Japan's unoroken success
with anxiety. They see great menace
to the rest Of the world in her COM
plete domination Of Asia, which will
be the natural outcome Of Russia's de-
feat. They believe that it will be
impossible to aviod similar military
growth of China under japanese tute-
lage, and this view has been strongly
urged upon the attention Of the Brit
ish public for the past few days.
The correspondent Of The Sun at
at St. Petersburg writes: Following
the Yalu battle the ministry OF the
interior issued instructions to the
Russian newspapers to refrain from
commenting on its effect on the pros
poets of Russia raising a foreign loan.
The council of ministers at a series Of
special sessions during the last few
days decided that the government
must have large supply o: ready
money within the next. three months.
The contractors engaged in public
works, which were countermanded by
the cars recent order, as measure
of internal economy which would en-
able the government to divert the
money to the war chest, have been
asked to prepare to resume operations.
The council has taken the view that
internal economy, which would reduce
the wages paid to the industrial popu-
lation would be dangerous, while keep
ing the working men in employment
under the, government should stihe
disafectioD. Projects have coase
quently been opened for four railways
in S)uth Russia and great extension
of the iron works in the ural province.
THE government has informed a
French agent here regarding the loan
that it is determined to have the
money. The only question is as to
what rate it shall pay.
s'Writers in the Russian press who
are nest directly under control Of NJ.
de Plehve, the minister Of foreign az
fairs, mintained that the operations
hitherto amount only to movements
Of troops and transports aud that the
war has not begun yet. The minis
ters themselves are completely dis
mayed at the evidence Of the japanese
ability to sustain a stubborn attack
over successive days and nights and
press on despite losses. The belief
that the japanese we're only equal to
rush attacks where the probability
that their own losses would be almost
nil was the basis Of the general staff
calculations, which the ministers re-
echoed.
sat present the government is ao-
soIutely at a loss what to do except to
keep the country quiet, in which they
have been outwardly successful. The
slackness Of manufactures increases
the number Of unemployed, whom the
ministry of the interior requires tc
re;urn to their native villages, not
wishing to have crowds in the towns.
The necessity Of fniing employment
for these is an important fact in con-
nection with the loan question.
Will Be Paid.
A dispatch from Spartanburg to
The State says Congressman Jos. T.
Johnson has received from the var
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