Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-09-08
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PEACE AT GREAT COST.

PEACE AT GREAT COST.
Peace has been declared by the
officials representing the car and the
mikado but is it permanent? Already
murmurings of discomfort, outbursts
of .disapproval, are heard among the
subjects of both rulers. It is evident
that the peace terms do not satisfy
either nation, does not appease the
wrath Of either of the two great
armies now leaning on stacked arms
in Manchuria. Is it permanent peace
or simply prelude to more cloudy
conflict, that may involve more ma
tons? Is it victory other than for
the money loaner? All, here is the
real victor. He can loan his shekels
to both impoverished nations, while
the poor soldiers go back to toll to pay
the piper-back to impoverished
homes, to communities taxed to the
limit in treasure, Astounding with
homes made desolate by wars awful
carnage. Hundreds of thousands of
lives have paid the penalty Of loyalty
and has it been worth the sacrifice?
That is the question the intelligent
Jap now asks and he seems quite
ready with an answer. One of the
mikado's subjects in the New York
Times, very pertinently says:
Peace is to be welcomed for hui
manity's sake, Japan had the moran
and Russia the diplomatic victory, Mr.
Roosevelt is to be thanked. So the
:sEorld thinks.
But is the peace now obtained after
such disgrace to Japan subject for
congratulation? A little thought would
reveal to anybody who is alive to the
diplomatic affairs of the world that the
peace now concluded is more injurious
than benefcent to the permanent
peace of the Orient and of the world.
ttWe do not mean, however, that in
demnity should necessarily be paid by
Russia, that the whole Of Sakhalin be
coded, or that the interned warships
be given up. But, as the supposed
peace terms go, no one would enter
tain the least doubt that Russia will
in no far future prepare herself to
tight against Japan; at least, there is
ample room for such supposition.
The holding of Sakahlin by both
powers, especially, while no limitation
is imposed on the naval power of the
Russian Pacific fleet, invites both
countries to renewal of fighting.
we, as the subjects of the mikado,
have a great doubt why Japan, victor
ious as she is, should crop such a
small harvest from the present war.
With all our patriotism we could not
but cry that such great failure on
the part OF the Japanese diplomats is
permanent and irredeemable nation
al disgracest to the history of the Rising
Sun
We shall not wonder, under the cir
cumstances, when our peace ENJOYS as
well as the so-called Elder Statesmen
are called traitors. Having England
as her ally and the United States her
warm sympathizer; above all, backed
by the unfinching determination OF
the whole nation, they have no excuse
whatever for their ignominious peace
making. The world has been repeat
eddy assured that Japan wants peace,
but not at any price. The word is
fresh in our ears, and yet such dis
graceful peace was bought with an
enormous price Of human lives and
thousands OF millions of dollars.
Just examine the peace terms now
supposed to be agreed upon. Where
Is diplomacy? What is diplomacy?
One would scarcely imagine that the
most ignorant and undiplomatical
could conclude worse peace. There
is no diplomatic victory on the part Of
d. Witte. there is no diplomatic
strategy whatsoever on the part Of the
Japanese.
We are thankful for the kind
ofices offered BY President Roosevelt.
but we are pretty well sure that he
himself must have been astonished at
the unprincipIed and weak stand Of.
the Japanese. IS