The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-02-24
RUSSIA'S SIDE.
Mr. Jas. &. Randall Talks Interest.
ingly Of Eastern Problem.
SPEAKS OF YELLOW PERIL.

SPEAKS OF yellow PERIL.
Reviews History and Points Out F'a
nous Lessons OF Past. Difficult
Problems That Have As
serted Themselves.
We clip from the Birmingham, Ala,
Age Herald very interesting review
on the Eastern situation with Dir.
Jas. r. Randall, the distinguished
poet and writer, Of Augusta, Ca, Mr..
Randall has been visiting friends in
Birmingham and while there ne was
sought out by newspaper men. In
PRODUCING Mr.. Randall as prominent
newspaper man and author Of the
south, that gentleman is quoted as
follows:
with all due respect to those diff
fering with me, I Sympathize with
Russia. The point has been made
that Russia is an aggressive nation
what is called q robber nation-but so
are Japan, England, France, Germany
and the United States. Since the Re-
publican regime at Washington, this
republic has joined the band of rob-
bers. We are getting to be a world
power'-an imperialism, in direct con-
fict with the advice Of Washington,
after forcing war on the South, as
Thad Stevens confessed, outside the
constitution.
but for our furnishing England
renounts Of horses and mules, through
British camp, on the plans Of Chal-
mette and the greater British camp
in John Hays state department, the
South African republics would proba-
bly, have maintained their indepen-
6ence. You know what las happened
in the Philippines. japan is attempt
ing to rob Corea Of her independence
just as Russia is robbilg China IN
Manchuria. So honorS or dishonorS
are easy on that score.
RUssIA's E1PANs ION.
''Russia's logical expar sion was and
is toward the Black Sea toward Con-
stantinople. But for the interven-
tion Of England she woulc have driven
the Turk back to his AsiItic lair and
placed the cross on the Spire OF st.
Sophia, once a Christian church and
now, and for ages, a N;ohamneoen
mosque. So the unspeekable Turk
remains in Europe because Russia
was thwarted by so-called Christian
nations who are jealous Of her, remem-
bering the famous provero Of Napole-
on that the great power, Christian
power, dominating ConStantinople
would-rule the world.
'sIt was not because Peter the Great
and Catherine II. pointed the road to
Byzantium that the Russians gravl-
tate to the Black Sea, but, because
their commerce is frozen up for half
the year in the Baltic and a nation
naturally desires seaport never
closed to navigation. Besides, when
a northern people become redundant
In population, they are moved almost
nysteriously, or by some subtle natu-
ral law, to find their hone or grave
in the tropic, jusG as the Mississippi
river born in frozen region makes It's
way to the warm Mexican gulf-the
tropic. Frustrated at the south and
diverted from kind Of manifest des-
tiny in that direction, RuSsia, taking
the only alternative, built the trans
Siberian railway and favored by
events in China, sought an open port
in the Orient. This alarmed Japan
and having been tunrned from peace
ful Paganism to warlike atheism,
with veneer Of European industrial
ism or civilization, she sought to be-
come world power and exploit Corea.
TIE YELLOW PERIL.
Her secret design, confessed by
some Of her writers is 20 dominate
Asia, by converting China into pug
nacious nation ike herself. Tbs is
the real yellow pe-il.' Napoleon also
said, What folly in the European ma
tions to awaken the Chinese giant
from his slumber and make him a
menace to the west. If that yellow
giant, with 400, 900, 900 o, inhabitants
should become a gigantic Japan, it
would be a terrible thing for the
world.
earl Wolseley, the great English
soldier, recently said that properly
led and disciplined, the Chinese made
the best soldiers in the world and
that, if they became thus manipulat-
ed, martial nation, they would i'm
peril the whole western region and
like innumerable ants, overwhelm and
devastate the whole Of Elrope. Some
people, less expert than Earl Wolse-
lev, pooh pooh this, but they form
mental processes from vast misinfor-
nation. Before countless little ants
in Africa every living thing, wild
beasts or man fee or are deVoured.
il millions Of warlike AsiaticS de-
scend upon Europe what. a peril that
would be?
FROM REMOTE TINES.
s'From remote times the Asiatics
have threatened Europe. They re-
peatedly invaded Greece. They over
turned the Roman empire Of the west
and captured Constantine ople, and still