Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-13
JAPAN VERSUS RUSSIA
Senator Beveridge on the
Fight for Manchuria.
UNCLE SANS DUTY
HOW THE RUSSIAN MONEY BAGS
ARE KEPT FULL.
The Greatest Asiatic and the Greatest
Slav-National Life or
Death
UNCLE SANS DUTY
Copyright. 1904. by Frank G. carpenter)

Copyright. 1904. by Frank G. Carpenter)
Written for The Evening Star
Tie successful man of this new century is
he who has not only the ability to DO things
but the foresight 20 prepare for them; to
know a great opportunity and seize It, to
fight his battles with his eyes to the front
looking far into the future. That is the
kind of a man Senator Beveridge of In
diana is Endowed with the genius of sue
cess he has acquired the capacity for hard
work and his tussle with fortune has made
him conserva tive At the same time he is
enthusiastic. His veins are full of young
blood and he is wide awake. How much
avail Ike you will see when you consider who
he is and what he has done since 1890.
The Making of a Statesman.
Senator Beveridge was born on a farm.
and he had to hustle for his existence. At
twelve he was pillow boy, at fourteen he
worked on a railroad, at fifteen he was a
logger and teamster and at the same time
he went to school He managed somehow
to get an education, graduated at the lead
ing college of Indiana, and then studied
law under dear old Joe Mcdonald the ia
nous Indiana United States senator and
politician. He had been admitted to the
bar. and had made a local reputation as
lawyer and orator at the age of thirty SIX,
when he was elected to the United states
Senate.
Beveridge's Opportunity.
All this was good, but not extraordinary
So far, many other poor boys had done as
well. Beverages opportunity came at the
time of his election. AT that same time
there were eighty-nne other men members
of the United States Senate Every one of
them painted for national reputation more
no hort aft ba
brooks; but only this baby senator, this
farm boy, railroad worker, logging camp
laborer in the wilds of Indiana, saw the
opportunity and seized it.
We had just taken possession of the Phil
ippInes, and it was evident that they were
the question of the future. Henry Cabot
Lodge sat down and studied international
law on the subject; George FTiSbie Hoar
waddled over to the Congressional Library
and investigated the ethnology Of the
Malay races and their ability for self
government; dear old Senator Allison
kneeled down on the top rail of the fence
and prayed the Lord to let him know how
to jump, and John c. Spooner looked up
constitutional arguments for his great
speeches of the future.
And what did Beverage do?
He alone of all the senators that the
best way to handle a great problem is to
first learn what the problem is. He realized
that knowledge is power and took the first
steamboat for Manila He went out with
our army and conditions as they Were
Then he crossed to China and learned some
thing of that country stopped a while in
JaIan, and came home better posted on
eastern matters than almost any other
public man of the United States.
AS he landed he was met by newspaper
reporters, and other reporters asked for
his opinions in city after city as he cross
ed the continent He treated all politely
but like Brer Rabbit laid low and said
nothing. Then he came to Washington
and, not needing the advice of the old TO-
gies who oounseled him as a young senator
to utter no words in the chamber for the
first two years, he arose, and his great
speech on the Philippines went ringing
around the country.
A National Character.
That speech gave Beveridge a national
reputation and put him at the front as one
of the leading thinkers on international
policies Since then no one has attempted
TO keep him quiet. He does not speak
often, but when he opens his mouth the
Senate and the nation prick up their ears
Senator Beveridge has not only gained
the attention of the Senate, but also its
confidence. Unspoiled by his success he
went to work, and ne has since put in more
hours than most of the senators in study
Ing the great matters 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 are doing
things in our national house of lords. He
is becoming noted for his conserva tism. and
is, 1 am tOiu, one or tIe most conservative
coInselors 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 I have had with Senator Beveridge
today. The senator has supplemented his
trip to the Philippines by others to China
Japan, Siberia and Russia. He has met
the leading statesmen of all these coun-
tres. and has actually studied the Man.
churian question on the ground. The in
terview took place in the senator's apart
ments in the Portland flats, on Thomas
circle. My first question was:
What are the Russians and Japanese
souabbling abOut?'
They not squabbling" replied Sem
ator Beveridge. The matter is a serious
oIe to both parties. and. l might say, Of