The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
SOME WAR TALK
Russia Getting Ready to Give
Japan a Thrashing.
WILL EVEN UP SCORES

Such Is the Prediction Of Congress.
man McKinlay, Of California, Ad-
miral Robley D. Evans and VIII
liam T. snead, One Of England's
| Greatest Editors, Who Is Here.
| Washington, Feb. 11.-Reeently
a single issue of a Washington news
paper contained statements from
three eminent men, concerning di-
rectly and indirectly the present re-
lations between this country and Ja-
pan, which. are OF much significance.
In speech delivered in Wash
tington Saturday night, Representa-
tive William s. McKinlay, of Califor-
MIA, defended the right of his State
to regulate its own local affairs,
and made use Of the following Ian
guage with reference to the reia-
tions between japan and the Unit
ed States:
"The question of war is idle
Among those who. really know con-
ditions in the far East, the concen-
sus Of opinion is this: Japan has
only ended a preliminary skirmish
with Russia. The Russian defeat
is not ultimate. Today Russia is
| double-tracking the railroad whose
ridiculous inadequacy led to her .hu-
initiation. She is preparing to pro-
tect her frontier, is making up to
the present peace of civilization, and
has not turned her face from the:
goal set by Peter the Great.
If Japan should turn for mo-
ment to engage in warfare with 8
second, or even a third rate, power,
Russia would be at her throat. The
statesmen Of JapanIknow this phase
of the question so much better than
we do that it is ridiculous to dis
cuss it.
Fighting Bob's,' Opinion.
The same issues Of the news
papers which reported Mr.. McKin-
lays speech carried an Associated
Press dispatch reading as follows:
Chicago, Feb. S.-"A few days
ago, when the Russian government
foated a loan Of $250,000,000,
which was subscribed thirty times
over, that was Russia's notice to
Japan To get ready for war, and
stay ready, for I am going to lick
you
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans,
seated in his apartments in the Au-
ditorium Annex, tonight made this
statement:
And what is more,' added the
admiral, Japan herself recognizes
and realizes the position in which
she is placed. The handwriting is
plain. Japan can read"
A number. of other predictions, Of
international. import, viewed from
the standpoint Of Bob" Evans, did
the admiral make. Briefly summer
lied, they are as follows:
The United States will have no
trouble with Japan, neither viii
England. When the next Russo
Japanese war does come Germany,
France and Austria will espouse the
cause of the Russian. England will
find herself allied with Japan by vir-
tue of existing treaties. What the
result of it all will be no man can
| foresee.
Japan cannot go on at the rate
that she is spending money now"
he continued. 1T is out Of the
question. Japan recognizes that q
conflict with Russia is Inevitable,
and the government is straining ev-
cry nerve, exhausting every effort
to put itself in a state Of prepar-
edness."
". T. Stead's View.
The third statement appearing
contemparaneously with the two
above quoted is from the pen OF
William T. Stead, the great English
journalist. While it makes no di-
rect reference to Japan or her rela-
tions with the United States, 1t is
significant that his remarks bear
out what Mr.. McKinlay and Admiral
Evans say concerning Russia. Mr..
Stead says:
''The great fact which ought to
command universal attention Is
overlooked. 1t is the coming Of the
Slav' into his kingdom, a fact COM
pared with which the fortunes of
kings and emperors are as dust IN
the balance. The proposed annex
alton of Bosnia and Herzegovina to
the Austro-Hungarian empire is but
cne Of the signs of the ripering OF
the Slavonic question, the gradual
emergence of the Slavs from the po-
sition Of subordination and political
serfdom and their establishment as
the predominant race in the heart
of Europe.
"Of all the great races Of Europe
the Slavs have received the fewest
favors from the fates. Providence
has been to them cruel step moth
er.
From century to century they
have been the prey of conquerors,
European and Asiatic. When, as in
Russia, they were able to assent
their independence of Tartar and
Turk, they could only do so by sub
mitting to an autocrat whose yoke
was seldom easy and whose burden
was never light. But for this Gin
derella of Europe the light is rising
in the darkness and there are not
lacking signs that in the future the