Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-01
STRUGGLE FOR PEACE.
Japan Making Desperate Efforts to
Force Russia TO Cry Enough"

Force Russia TO Cry "EuCugh."
a Toxic report declares that the Jap
anese J.. oople are anxiously awaiting the
coming Of - he Baltic feet, so that Togo
may crush it. Confidence of this sort
has its home in JapaI. What Togo did
to the Port Arthur squadron will be re-
peated upon the arrival of the Baltic
fleet, Toxic believes beyond a doubt. Lon
don encourages this belief. Moreover,
the view Is largely held in America that
Japan will preserve her naval supremacy.
The reason that Japan is favOrite does
not lie in the number and superiority of
her ships, but in the excellence of their
manipulation and in the greater effective
ness of japanese gunnery. The world at
large has small opinion of the Rus
slams as sea fighters. The North sea in
cident hurt Russian naval prestige almost
as seriously as the dismal show of the
Port Arthur squadron against Togo and
the Vladivostok feet against Kamimura
Moreover, the Baltic feet will arrive
In Asiatic waters in a fouled and racked
condition, and, from all we know. at
time of year when it will be impossible
to make Vladivostok for cleaning and re-
the Chicago Daily News, Toxic is wrong
to regard the destruction of the Baltic
feet as certain as it's arrival within strik-
ing distance of the capable japanese ad-
miral. Togo himself has been weakened
by the hard service of the year, and his
losses, while small in ratio to the dam
age administered, are at the same time
greater than the world has been given to
understand. He will have to face a pre-
ponderance of battleships and a sea force
that has everything to win and no shores
threatened or armies cut off if it lose-a
force that has the example of its prede-
cessor by which to profit and a prize Of
incalculable value for victory.
With Togo, on the contrary, rests the
life of his nation. "A thousand junks
will rush into Port Arthur if he lift the
blockade. If he is whipped the Jap
anese army is cut off; the shores of the
island are left unprotected and COM
merce, the vitality of japanese finance,
is destroyed. Togo is the pericardium of
Japan.
Toxic believes that the destruction of
the Baltic fleet will put Russia in a
frame of mind in which she will gladly
listen to proposals of peace on terms
satisfactory to Japan. The Jill Shimpo,
highly representative of the japanese
press, urges japanese arms to push the
conflict with such fury that the enemy
will have to sue for peace. Toxic prays
that the continuation of the battle Of
the Shakhe river will result in the COM
plete SCATTERING of Kuropatkin's forces,
SO that Russia will be forced to desist
from hostilities. Japan wants peace bad
ly. She is terrified as the game unfOlds
mile after mile. The monster that she
has driven and pummeled will not stay
whipped, but quietly and without nerves
or noise, augments and returns to the
fight. Japan perceives the unsubstan
TALLY Of England's support; that it is
of the press and not of the treasure
house. English bankers make her pay
exorbitant interest for the money she
borrows. England is not YET In her dot
age: she is for England still.
Japan is fighting for peace, and fight
ing magnifcently; but her enemy, unless
rent by civil war, will not be the one
to cry enough This is not Russia's
way. She knows that years will crush
Japan if her troops cannot. She real
ICES wildly that if she lies down to Japan
now the integrity of her domain will not
long survive China's.