The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-09-13
WILL WAR AGAIN.
DR.. Seaman Thinks the Peace
Treaty is But a Truce.
CHINA TO TAKE PART

SAG.AAS - - " = -~AAA - AAAS =
The Wonderful Awakening of the A1cien
Empire. Great Armies Being Raised
and Drilled by European In.
structors. Power of the
Japanese Surgeon.
There has been added to Marx
Twain another disordant note in the
chorus Of praise Of the peace OF Ports.
mouth, says The New York Sun. 1t
has been sounded by DR.. Louis L.
Seaman, who has just got home from
a visit TO Manchuria, where he saw
both the japanese AID Russian armies
at tie front. He had something to
say "Wednesday at his home, Twenty
eighth street and Fifth avenue, not
only acout peace, bat OF the awaken
ing and moiernizing Of the Chinese
empire.
''The so called peace OF Ports
mouth" said DR.. Seaman, will, in
my opinion, come to be regarded as
one Of the great mistakes Of the cen
tury. That which is called peace will
be, in my opinion, only prolonged
armiStice. l have been fairly ne.r
the firing line Ct both the japanese
and Russian armies and l believe l
know something Of the temper Of the
men who have fought this war. I
know something Of the spirit Of the
house Of Romanoff, OF is mobiles and
the Russian people. I have more
intimate acquaintance with the tenn
per Of the people OF Japan, and I tell
you that the 50 called peace Of Ports
mouth is welcomed neither in St.
Petersburg nor Toxic.
There are several good reasons
why the peace treaty which isDoW be-
irg written can only be prolonged
armistice. II TIE first place, Russia
she Is still one Of the great nations
Of the earth-W;n never consent to be
bottled up and will never be satisfied
until she has regained the prestige
and the territory which she has lost
in this war.
Furthermore, and I fear it is not
generally known to my country men,
Russia is a most fertile territory.
Acre on acre and nile on mile Of the
soil OF the empire needs only to bs
tica.ed in ordsr to bring firth rich
harvests. With the Black sea CLOSED
and an uncertain way through the
Da-dane:les to the sea and wlth only
a poor water way to tie Baltic, Russia
must have an outlet for her commerce
Of the future. She will g. where she
can or where she may. She will ind
her way to the Persian gulf and Il
necessary, through Chioa, and over the
bsstlafslds which she has so recently
lost and upon which sae has LETT her
dead. The great empire By the frozen
sea will not stand still.
And while the Russians are get
5iog ready the japanese will grow
more cnd more restive. Do you sup
pose Negs'S veterans, tie men vino
followed wherever OGu led or the SOL
die1s OF the splendid army OF the mas
terful Kuroki can forget, Tor instance,
that they Won by their Valor all of
Sakhalin Island only to have their
Emperor, the elder statesmen and the
plenipotentiaries OF pace give half OF
1t back to the Russians whom they
thrashed? Do you suppose that the
men who fought with Togo will fer
get that the battlesLipS which only
escaped the me:cijess fire Of their
guns in a fog ard found shelter IN the
hartor Of Manila flave bsen given back
under the terms OF psace to the Rus
slams? The big white soldiers OF Rus
sia and tie little brown men OF Japan
will come together again and the roll
OF the var drums will 10 heard in the
East. Then will be fought to ha1sh
that last final battle for supremacy,
Which, for tie good OF mankind and
the welfare Of Russia and Japan,
should have been fought now by the
armies Of Ojana and LineVitch in
Northern Manchuria.
but however that may be, both
the belligerents and the world in gen
e1al are reckoning today in the East
without China. Some day, and it is
not lar distant, China, with Its mill
:aut millions, will BE- the power in the
Orient. We can no longer speak OF
the rousing from the sleep Of ages OF
China. Size has already aWakened,
and yet the world knows little o: it.
Oa my trip home I net Dr. Tong,
wno has been sent by the Chinese
government to negotiate new treaty
with the United States. I talked to
him OF bis country and his people, and
even I, who know something Of China
(I have been there nine times) was
amazed at the story he told. So
amazed, in fact, was I asked him to
reduce to writing and In the form OF a
letter to me the substance Of what be
had said.
Here Is the letter. Iai5 he speaks
OF the cordial relations that have al.
ways existed between China and the
Unite States, and reminds me that
the Chinese people, from the days OF
Confucius, have been people OF peace,
who haya been taught, more than
any thing else, 80 revere the works
and the spirits OF Their ancestors. 8
Chinaman who cies leaving no son IS
regarded as lost soul, because ne
leaves behind him no one to venera5e
him. Yet there is an. old Chinese
adage that it is better for map to
leave no son than to leave a son who
becomes q sol lier.
In spite Of this and In spite OF the
+b,,,-oo5e of roors of tradition and