The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-09-07

proach Of accepting what he regarded as hui
initiating terms, and has gained by his diplo-
matte skill exceptional conditions of peace
for his country. He goes home with his
reputation as statesman and diplomat
greatly enhanced. Baron Komura has won
for Japan all the objects for which the war
was fought and the approval of the public
st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Everybody will incline to agree that the
Marquis to- the same statesman who
brought the war with China to SO wise a
political conclusion, is the chief of the elder
statesmen by whose advise the Mikado has
brought to an equally wise conclusion the far
greater war with Russia He can well af-
ford to disregard the passing anger of the
Japanese jingoes, being assured of the ap-
prevail OF time and of the world. He may
say OF his action what great western
statesman said of his when it had made
him temporarily unpopular. II was bound
to serve my constituents. To be pleased with
my service was their affair, not mine.-New
York Times
Russia, on the other hand, comes out
of the struggle with great loss Of prestige
and OF property. Her navy is destroyed;
her military, political and commercial estab-
lishment In Manchuria is wiped out, only a
single ice-bound port remaining in her pos
session, and her plans for the rounding out
OF her empire in the orient are forever multi
fed. Estimated in money, the aggregate of
the Russian losses probably reaches IN bill
lions OF dollars. 1t will be seen, then, that
Japan, while abandoning much on which she
might have insisted has actually made very
profitable settlement. There is, therefore,
no just ground for the cry set up by certain
elements among the Japanese that the honor
OF their nation has been sacrificed nor yet
Tor the assumption advanced on the Russian
side that the outcome is a victory for Rus
sian diplomacy. As a matter OF fact. the
outcome demonstrates, above all else the
weight OF the influence which the United
States has come to exercise In international
affairs. 1t was President Roosevelt who pre-
vailed upon the belligerent nations to pro-
vide for the holding of the peace conference
at portsmouth. When apparently insur-
mountable difficulties arose, it was President
Roosevelt stepped into the breach, suggested
means OF compromise and finally persuaded
the Japanese government to adopt the con-
cluslons which rendered peace possible. By
what ne has thus accomplished, our presi-
dent has raised this nation to the dignity Of
being the potential peacemaker OF the world
an achievement the glory of which will out
snlne in history the greatest of triumphs
achleved by force of arms Honor is due
10 Japan Tor her magnanimity exhibited in
an emergency wherein she had the right to
be dlctatorially exacting; honor is due to
the Russian, De White, for his statesman.
like handling OF situation bristling with
difficulties, but, above ALL honor is due to the
sturdy manful, resourceful American. to
whom belongs the credit of securing a sue
cess1ul issue to the peace conference in snite
OF seemingly insuperable obstacles. Theo-
dore Roosevelt is the real hero Of this epoch
making occasion. Pittsburg Leader.