Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-15
PRESS VIEW OF THE BATTLE.

10 anticipate peace negotiations at
once may be premature, although there
IS not neutral statesman in the world
who would not advise the Gar to bring
the war promptly to close.-Spring
field Mass. )Republican.
Japan's latest victory settles in full,
with heavy interest, the old score she
owed Russia for the part played by the
latter in 1894, when she robbed Japan
OF the fruits of victory in the Chinese
war.-Washington Post.
Not quantity but quality tells in the
naval warfare of to-day. Every drink
ing man in the Russian navy meant an
unsteady aim. The abstemious japanese,
sober, highly educated and self-contain-
ed, shot traisht.-Philadeph Press
The japanese are not the only victors.
From end to end of the huge Russian
empire, ill-cemented by broken pledges
and ancient liberties trampled down,
millions will privately rejoice in the con-
founding of their oppressors.-New York
| World.
The condition in which Russia Is
| placed renders it difficult to see how she
can further prosecute war in which she
mas ma. N ne. 4IS.sses at every turn and which
| Seems to p0rtend a continuance Of the
same e1perience.-Louisyille Courier
Journal.
The time has come for peace Civil
| izatiOn demands it. Not the civilization
of japanese or Muscovite, but the great
err and higher civilization toward which
the benighted Of all lands occasionally
lit their eyes when they have nothing
| more profitable to think about Enough
blood has been spilt.-Indianapolis Sen
tinel.
Togo has put the finishing touches upon
Oyamas work. In order to make the
case complete, Japan must have VIadi-
vostok. With that port secured Japan
Will have her Gibraltar at Port Arthur,
and her Malta at Saghalin. She will
dominate the whole coast from the Aleu-
tians to the hilippines.-Minneapol
Journal.
We must conclude that Togo knows
the Russians better than anyone else.
Without Understanding their strength
to his own detriment he nevertheless
yielded the opportunity that was offered
to strike the squadrons of Rojestvensky
and Nebogatoff separately. He gave
them every chance. He made all conces-
sIOns of time. numbers, preparation and
met the enemy when the enemy was
ready to be met. He declined to make
two bites Of cherry.-Detroit Free
Press. ..,
This naval engagement in the Korean
strait marks 4 radical change in the dis
trlbutIon Of the military strength and the
military possibilities of the world. The
complete victory of Japan in the war
with Russia which it foreshadows will
put Japan far up toward the head of the
military powers, and before this century
ends it Will hold the first place beyond
peradventure. If its development shall
continue in anything like the ratio of the
progress which it has made since it's vic
tory over China ten years ago.-New
York Sun.
The result of the battle makes it GER
tain that during the twentieth century,
unless things happen which cast no
warning shadow. Japan will be the DOM
inant power in the far East; that Rus
sia. either slowly or speedily, is to nm
derso an internal revolution which will
make her real and not merely a nomi-
nal member of the company of western
nations; that the menace which for half
century has troubled the dreams of
every British prime minister of a possi-
bic assault on British dominion in south.
ern Asia is permanently r<aoved.-Nev
York Globe.