The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-02-24
RUsSIA'S SIDE.
Mr. Jas. 3. Randall Talks Interest
ingly Of Eastern Problem.
SPEAKS OF yellow PERIL"
Reviews History and Points Out F'a-
NOUS Lessons OF Past. Difficult
Problems That Have AS
serted Themselves.
serted Themselves.

Jas. r. Randall, the distinguished
poet and writer, Of Augusta, Ga, MIR.
Randall has been visiting friends IN
Birmingham and while there ne was
sought out by newspaper men. In
Producing Mr.. Randall as a prominent
newspaper man and author of the
south, that gentleman is quoted as
follows:
with all due respect to those diff
fering with me, Sympathize with
Russia. The point has been made
that Russia Is an aggressive nation
what is called a robber nation-butso
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-
flct with the advice Of Washington,
after forcing war on the South, as
Thad Stevens confessed, outside the
constitution
but for our furnishing England
remounts of horses and mules, through
a 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-
dence. You know what has happened
in the Philippines. Japan is attempt
ing to rob Corea Of her independence
just as Russia is robbing China in
Manchuria. So honors or dishonorS
are easy on that score.
RUsSIA'S EXPANSION.
''Russia's logical expansion was and
is toward the Black Sea toward Con-
stantinople. But for the interven-
tion of England she would have driven
the Turk back to bis Asiatic lair and
placed the cross on the spire of st.
Sophia, once Christian church and
now, and for ages, Mohammeden
mosque. So the unspeakable Turk
remains in Europe because Russia
was thwarted by so-called Christian
nations who are jealous of her, remem-
bering the famous proverb of Napole-
on that the great power, Chrlstlan
power, dominating Constantinople
would rule the world.
''It was not because Peter the Great
and Catherine II. pointed the road to
Byzantium that the Russians gravj-
tate to the Black Sea, but, because
their commerce is frozen up for half
the year in the Baltic and nation
naturally desires a seaport never
closed to navigation. Besides, when
= northern people become redundant
in population, they are moved almost
mysteriously, or by some subtle natu-
raj law, to find their home or grave
ip the tropic, jusG as the Mississippi
river born in a frozen region makes ltS
way to the warm Mexican gulf-the
trupic. 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
Iul Paganism to Warlilie atheism,
with a veneer Of European INDUSTRIAL
ism or civilization, she sought to be-
come world power and exploit Corea.
THE YELLOW PERIL.
Her secret design, confessed by
some OF her writer's is TO dominate
Asia, by converting China into pug
nacious nation like herself. This is
the real yellow peril Napoleon also
said, What folly in the European ma
tiuns to awaken the Chinese giant
from his slumber and make him u
menace to the west. If that yellow
giant, with 400, 900, 600 Of inhabitants
should become Il gigantic Japan, ii
would he d terrible thing for the
world.
Earl Molseley. the great English
soldier. recently said that properly
led and disciplined, the Chinese made
the best soldiers in the world ana
that. If they became thus manpulat-
ed. a martial nation, they would I'M
peril the whole western region and
like innumerable ants, overWheim and
dcyastate The whole Of Europe. Some
people, less expert than Earl WolSe-
ley, pooh pooh this, but they form
mental processes from vast mlSlnlor-
nation. Before countless little ants
in Africa every living thing, Wild
beasts or man flee or are devOured.
If millions Of warlike AsiaticS de-
SCend upon Europe what a peril that
would be?
FROM REMOTE TIMES.
From remote times the ASiatics
have threatened Europe. They re-
peatedly invaded Greece. They over
turned the Roman empire of the west
and captured ConStantinople, and still
hold the Turkish empire by the jeal-
ousy of Christian nations. They over
ran Russia. They went to the heart
of France, until beaten back by
Charles Martel, en- the plains of Chal.
ons. They would have captured
Vienna but for the heroic King OF
Poland, John Sobieski. They entered
Spain and held their ground there for
centuries.
'Tbe Turkish sultan, Bajazet, at
the head of 100000 men, proclaimed