Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-13
PRESS VIEW OF THE BATTLE.

- 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 a 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 abstemous japanese
sober. highly educated and self-contain-
ed, shot Observation-Disclosures 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.-N York
World.
The condition in which Russia is
placed renders it difficult to see how she
can further prosecute a war in which she
has met disaster at every turn and which
seems to portend a continuance of the
same experience.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The time has come for peace Civil
izatiOn demands it. Not the civilization
of japanese or Muscovite, but the great
er and higher civilization toward which
the benighted of all lands occasionally
lift their eyes when they have nothing
more profitable to think about. Enough
blood has been Embellishments SEN
tinel
Togo has put the finishing touches upon
Oyama's work. In order to make the
case complete, Japan must have Vladi-
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 Philippines Minneapolis
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 Rojestyensky
anu ~NCDVSdlOh 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 a cherry.-Detroit Free
Press.
This naval engagement in the Korean
strait marks radical change in the dis
tribution of the military strength and the
military possibilities of the world The
complete victory of Japan in the war
with Russia which it foreshadows viii
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 its vic
tory over China ten years ago.-New
York Sun.
The result of the battle makes if 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
STA, either slowly or speedily. is to I'M
dergo 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
a century has troubled the dreams of
every British prime minister of a possi- |
bic assault on British dominion in south
ern Asia is permanently removed |
York Globe.
Enormous and costly ships. great fight |
ing machines, steel-plated and heavily |
a with fbo 4 /
and machines for working them and |
laden with the most destructive ammu- |
milton, count for little without crews |
that know how to work the guns effec-
lively and to deliver a deadly fire. More |
than guns it is 1.-THE man behind the gun" |
that counts The result of the recent |
battle shows that the superior intelli- !
gence of the japanese had grasped this |
fact, and in their long preparation for
the war they mastered the art of gun |
merry as they did everything else.-In- |
dianapOlis News.
This tremendous sea fight. as all can |
see, is an epoch in history. 1t tears up [
the map showing the territorial en- |
croachment of Europe, especially Russia. |
in the far East. 1t clinches Japans Mon /
roe doctrine and advances that country /
TO the head of the international coun- /
ell board in eastern Asia. Russia dream /
of ascendency in the Orient is over. The I
billions it has spent in crossing Asia. I
building. cities and founding huge fort
reSses. are Wasted.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
1t is time for enlightened nations to
exercise their influence with bath bel
ligerents for the termination Of this
bloody confict.-Baltimora Sun.