New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-25
THE FAR EAST STRUGGLE.
American Sympathies Should BE
nth YeHo-o Sea for YeIlOSo Men.

Ard the position that Americans should hoa
during DE present struggle IN the Far last
The keen instincts of both combatauts as 10
our real sy-mpathies have not widely erred
There is among ms a general feeling that japan ;
ruccpss 81 Manchuria VIII be better Tor lhe
world as a whole and hence for us. Yet mere
a., .t,,,.ssr- reason fer FUN sympathy, also' Win
Russia's craving Tor al outlet on lhe Ioe'eSS
secs she may yet deserve and win win o1i
bo,-tieef CONGRATULATIONS much more than an
Offset for Port Arthur.
The nineteenth century has seen great strloes
toward consolidation 81 peoples ana lh'eIeS'S
naturally akin A. our own railroads OF eve"
,,i,-e~sitiee have learned 10 unite for common
,.,~se+e 90 ire North German States, the irac-
tio-s OF distracted ITALY have al least iouho IN
,rIor comparative strength and peace
such processes being eminently natural mus
70 much further yet. The general paTIis-illel''
= -, ,rseea despite the Hague Tribunal
s,o-,s almost as remote es when the first
81 .oc,rrlev Hall" appeared But pan-AnglicisIn
,,s,-slayig-n pan-.fonrolianism, are mental con-
cents much less unwieldy than the words them
selves
BY her marvellous progress IN the last nan
century Japan has demonstrated her fitness 10
no The chief missionary OF modern Ideas IN
china Corea and Eastern Asia generally IN
decd the hostility OF France. Tor instance -
rlairly caused by her fear that the yello" races
,,ri.a8 and strong viii no longer lie helpless, TO
10 exhibited and feeced by white men, II Eng
land hesitates Il IS largely because she knows
,pst the onilm trade ought 10 be suppressed
md rather thinks free China would Try 10
,pesr q We Americans need share no such
motives Of shortsiEhted greed
TY- the Russian also. is a missionary
Rough and elemental though his methods are
.ba Kalrucls. or the Siberian tribes are at
least the better for his instruction ana control
The Firms may have substantial wrongs 10 DC
yirbted but would the Armenians' i free 70
,boose prefer devastation and swift massacre
from the Efussulman or union. political as Wen
as religious. with the largest body Of the East
ern church?
Mood y-e desire renewed Crimean alliances TO
,-o,-ar. The Black Sea from becoming a Russian
Ike Access 10 the midland waterway may
not make the Russian az once fully clFlllzed
man To recall Ruskn's famous trio OF mari
slime empires. the murderous bigotry or lhe
vr,--iar idolater. the merciless oligarchy and
uoluscsl inquisition Of Venice, even the
rpercenary greed Of England, teach him VINO
runs nbundantly the truism that even the lords
OF the salt waters may need many bitter
less0n still
But that international trade must mean freeF
import as well as export. that enriching others
s. by no means imToverishing ourselves no race
so dull but il can promptly learn. The Philip
pines are aiding in teaching us rapidly s&ne
such lessons. I Tor would apply without
hesitation as 70 the Golden Horn and the Bos-
porus the dilemma just suggested for Armenia
England and Southern Europe have twice
united 10 check the Russian advance southwark.
But neither united nor singly can England, Ger
many. Austria and italy hold the narrow straits.
They have agreed only TO proong the weakest
,-T.v. ffrrrr1
The oncoming Of the Siav is as inevitable. be-
cause as natural. as the tdes Of ocean. against
switch Canute's royal mandate and Mrs. Par
tinRton's mop shall fOregather IN vain. Some
natural jealousy OF their colossal Arctic brother
the princeiings of the Danube may well indulge.
Yet IL the BulEariaus shall I'm the coming sum-
mer overrun Macedonia. it win prove but one
step more toward a far seen goal-the Russian
conquest Of the Balkan peninsula.
The writer once sat I'm a poor village OF north
ern Turkey. explaining to a group OF Greek
Christians the location and political Importance
OF his fara way homeland. At some zoo elemen-
tary details. such as the glcbular shape Of our
earth. the younger part 81 the circle made re
FeutfuI protest. But when all said, and
even roughly sketcled the grizzled senior broke
OUT With I'll your talk, YOU don't tel us
Which you belong O.. Turkey or Russia 50
entirely filed WAS his world with Oromasdes and
Ahrlnan. The TWO supreme contending spirits OF
evil and OF good. Even the Greek Rayah VIII
not long hesitate 81 ever the southwark crusade
under his own cross is uUhindered by Western
Chrlstcndom, and he can actually exchange the
oetested MUssulman overload for the sacred
White Gar.
win the West always forbid? England could
Etiu hold Gibraltar, Malta. Cyprus Suez and
the sea paths that join them. Greece, Italy,
Spain, Portugal Belgium, Holland. the Scandi-
naYian powers can never fear for their own
And Germany? The Austrians seem far more
firmly bound 10 their nOrthward brethren than
before Sadoyra That union and even the 10y
g. % n herr
may long outlast the passing OF that most pa
thetic among royal figures, the lonely Old Franz
Josef II So the ludicrous failure Of Greece has
ieft comparatively open the great highway 10
SaloulCa and the .H-ceau. Dominance in a broad
central zone through Asia Minor. even the
Younger Milhelu's dream ~ German railway
down the Mesopotamian Valley. might possibly
be attained in some magnificent final partition.
with without war. Still. IL appears hardly
credible that the Teutouic folk have any such
enlarged southwark career before them.
What does seem a5undantly clear is that upon
the Bosporus Southern Europe can only delay
the avalanche ri fate, that every new Danuban
or Rumelian principally IS but Russian out
post. after an. The fall of Constantinople
Nhetner as quleflE as "A ripe apple or amid
general upheaval into the strong. patient hands
extended Tor centuries 70 grasp g. will bring its
own adequate compensation, perhaps. even. that
lasting peace which can only come after natural
forces have been allowed TO produce their large
results
After All. she who holds the wheat fields Of
Europe may safely control the outlet and share
the c>~-ylng trade. Even y all this brings at
last Ire economic or political predominance Of
the Siav. what DO we know Of him that Il should
cause US terror EnEiand's natural dread and
hatred. at any rate need not infect US our
promptest ally in our darkest days can never
n 10 us "the beast that looks like a man. even
on the rash word of the beloved but stu boyish
poet who once dared call our national bird a
foul. ignoble yulture. That Quatrain he has al
ready cancelled. as Wei as vet more audacous
verse hurled AZ Nictoria's grandson. the war
lord" and his well beloved people. no Goths nor
shameless Huns
We have. neither dread nor dislike FOR Adam
Zad. but this tine hope the gallant little