The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-02-19
THE DARK WAR CLOUDS.
Angry Storms Of Battle in The Awful
Future of Carnage-The Cos
sacks Of the Gar.
Greenwood News and Views.

we'll shrink from encountering. 1t
is not a hasty quarrel, nor are the
causes bringing it about OF recent
date, for centuries has Russia schem-
ed, planned and toiled, and always
with one end in view, viz: the build
ing of an empire, whose boundaries
would be world wide. and whose linn
its would be marked by the waves
of the great salt sea. This one great
ambition has completely filled the
mind and heart of every Russian, from
the prince on the throne down even
to the peasant who tolls IN the held,
it has entered into the warp, or woot'
of their state policy, and has beer
zealously handed down from one gen
Grafton to another, and nothing has
been allowed to come between this
steadfast, fixed purpose, and their
earnest efforts to accomplish this
cherished aim.
Indeed so insistent has been this re-
solve, that nothing has been OF SUIT
ficient force to deter them, much less
to turn them from the great end they
have in view. To build an empire the
like of which the world has never
seen, and to sway sceptre whose
power none will dare to question, IS
the dream the Muscovite has hugged
to his heart, and it has grown with his
growth, and entered into all the CAL
culations he has made, so that now
when the peasant sows his wheat
field, if some handfuls fall across the
border, strip of his neighbors land
must be gathered in when the gram
is ripe for the harvest.
Again and again has this towering
ambition been curbed; and on many
bloody plain has the Russian Bear
been compelled to limp away in pain
and defeat, yet always would the
dauntless legions of the Gar come
back and the laundering tramp OF the
Cossack cavalry rouse the sleepy
vidette as he stands surrounded by
the r1ists OF early dawn on the far
frontier. With ever increasing inter-
est and alarm have the nations watch
ed this giant empire. 1t has grown
from a small kingdom till now for
nearly FIVE thousand miles it stretches
its power, and its arms, and with an
audacity no other power can assume,
marches its wild, desperate soldlery
even up to the back yard fence OF
every people who for any cause seem
20 stand in the way of Muscovite ag-
gression.
With the cunning OF the lynx, and
the deliberate, stealthy step OF the
cat of the jungle, the Russian lays his
plans, and then with unparalleled
courage he attempts its execution.
The present outbreak between ia
pan and the soldiers of the Gar is
only elimination OF a deep and long
laid plan, it is but the part OF long
cherished aim-tlrat aim a struggle
fer commercial and political supre:1'-
a..y in the far east. Russia has toll
ed long, and we'll for this, and Il!
truth, it is stake we'll worthy OF her
a1abition-n1illions of people live III
that distant land, and to rule them. TO
dictate their policy as nations, and
above all to control their vast trade,
and in doing it; to shut an open door
III the face of all the rest OF an eager
world. This is the task to which the
Muscovite has set himself, and to Its
accomplishment will he bring to bear
all that laten force and stubborn
strength for which the subjects OF
Peter the Great have made them
selves world renowned. Let none be
deceived, thinking the struggle will
soon be over, that few sharp victor
les and consequent defeats will quick
ly end a hasty gotten up rupture of
the peace of nations. The struggle
will be fierce and bitter, and the wine
press will be trod with heavy, and de-
termined steps. The Japanese are
fighting for their life and nati~nal ex-
istence, with them it is a DIRE struggle,