The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-06-01
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ded in history IS dwarfed by tn,
proportions of that in progress u
pom the sea of japan today. New
or was so much money and time
spent in preparation for a conflic,
Never were so many great and
new engines of war employed. Ne,
yer was the destruction so great.
Human life is held cheap and hu.
man blood incarnadines the sea
Other battles were determined in
an hour or a day, but this one will
wear out a week, so vast is the ar.
ray, so desperate the combatants,
SO magnificent the arena. The Ru.
ssians that yet live are fleeing &C.
ross a sea GOO feet deep. The ter
ror of their peasants crews as the
day fades into night and the thun-
dcrs of war never shaken in their
ear can only be imagined.
Aboukir bay was a shallow and
peaceful place and Nelson had as
much trouble to keep his light
wooden vessels out of the mud as
he had to beat the French. Antho
ny and Caesar decided the govern
ment of the world in their time a.
long a shallow shore. AT Salamis,
where the Greeks turned back
the Persian lords under Xcrxcs,
these was no vessel as big as the
torpcdoboat destroycrs. which arc
to this battle as are wasps to the
imagination of men.
Yet undoubtedly the history Of
the world was altered at Salamis.
The west wag left to the western.
The armada of Philip ii was re-
latively more like this of Rodjes,-
vensky than any others mention
ed tn history. In Phillips day
Spain overtopped the other ma
tons as Russia overtops them now
She was a mighty and mysterious
power whose resources of men
and many seemed beyond COM
prehension of the most magma
tive. She prevailed upon sea and
land.
Her soldiers robbed the peace
full pueblo OF America and redden
ed the canals of Holland with the
blood of her men and women at
the same time, and her Corsairs
roamed over the waters of the
earth fighting, plundering ard ter
rorizing all who ventured out.
But the armada of Philip was as
an infant to giant by comparison
with the mighty aggregation OF
destructive machinery Russia pre-
pared for this contest.
The elements dashed the Span
ish vessels to. pieces and their
wreckage strewed the shores OF
England, Ireland and France.
Those that survived the storm
were an easy, prey, TO English
From that day until her Admi-
raj Cervera sailed out of Santiago
harbor to meet Schley Spain tot
tered backward and downward,
the victim of ignorance and bigot.
~. Russia is likely to go the
same way. No enlightened man
can see why she should exist, a
menace and disturber.
BY this victory of the Japanese
the power OF Russia is shattered.
1t is hardly probable that she will
ever again have. the prestige with
which she entered upon war, that
she will ever again marshall such
hosts OF men TO battle, or own
such a navy as she has now lost.
This weeks work means that
the orient belongs to the orient
ais Whatever time and fate arc
carrying in their wombs must be
b orn for the Asiatics. Their
caildrcn arc not 10 be the slaves
OF marauding captains from the
west. Justice forbids it, Sioux