Arizona republican., 1904-08-08
From 1881 to 1904 and Onward |.

A romantic story comes to the New officer who led the Japanese advance into Manchuria. It appears that ] nephew of General Kuroki named Oshi- ma, who is now a student in the Uni vers.ty of Berlin, has written to the "Tageblatt" of that city that his uncle Is not of French descent on the fathers side, as has been stated, but is the son of a Polish nobleman named Kurowski, Eho fled Russia after the Polish revo- lution of 1881, and went to Japan and marriedia Japanese. The student says &hat General Kurokrs father, when on his deathbed. made the remark that his son might some day be able to tage revenge on Russia for crushing Poland.
 Jihei Hashiguchi says that General ttei Kuroki was born in 1S45, in the province of Satsuma, and that he has always been in the army. In 1871 he Was made captain in the imperial guard division. In the Satsuma re- bsNion of 1877 he fought on the side pf the mikado. He became lieutenant gNneral in 1892, and after the war with China, in which he rendered his most efficient service at the capture of Wei ftaI-Wei. he was made general, to- eether with Oku and NOdzu, at the same time when Generals Yamagata and Oyama were made field marshals. ssOw, after this long training and ser vice. the whrligig of politics has brought him face to face, in the neigh boFhood of the Mo-Tien Pass, with General Kuropatkin, the most capable military man Russia possesses. If in 9see, this is the realization of a dying fathers wish-a father who had felt the ruthless might of Russian adminis- sEation in Poland under Nicholas L. it Is almost poetic justice that more than seventy years later the son. him. self one of the most capable military men in the world, and a thorough Jap anese. should be standing over against the Manchurian army of Nicholas H. in desperate remonstrance against the quality of Russian policy and adminis- tration in the far east.
 This story, if 1t is true and 1t is not improbable-goes to show that it s pretty much the same thing in his tory all along. The men change-the strong men of one generation give way ta the strong men of another genera ton; but an unjust policy and the op- pSaition to that policy are, historically, VsTy nearly immortal. The struggle FIses and falls. now apparently dis aPE%aring, and again coming out in 0Fsrshadowing proportions, but 1t is al. .. ways alive, it is always doing or preparing to do, and, if experience can Ae trusted, it will so continue as long as the unjust policy exists. Assuming that Russian administration at home vetains its present arbitrary qualities for five hundred years longer, that Russia's foreign policy equally persists in it's aggressiveness and indifference to the rights of others, there is no req son to doubt that at the end of that long peried Russia will be opposed, both at home and abroad. very much as she is to-day. Like causes will produce like aascts, In politics, no matter what the age Of the world may be.
 gf. instead of calling a pretentious beacS conference at The Hague, Nich- ssaS II. had set himself intelligently at Nors to establish in Russia little by lit- 1ls . government of law, and had made m end of Sclavic encroachments upon the territories and rights of those who are neighbors to Russia, he would real ly have made beginning with a peace movement of some substance and some