The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-02-13
SOME WAR TALK
Russia Getting Ready to Give
Japan a Thraslling.
WILL EVEN UP SCORES

SuCn Is the ITeulCllOu VI SOASESSS.
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
single issue of Washington news
paper contained statements from
three eminent men, concerning di-
rectly and indirectly the present re-
lations between this country and ia
pan, which are of much significance.
In a speech delivered in Wash
ington 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 rela-
tions between Japan and the Unit
ed States:
1.-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 q
second, or even third rate, power,
Russia would De at her throat. The
statesmen of Japan know 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. ga few days
ago, when the Russian government
loated 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 will
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 tho
result of 1t all will be no man can
foresee.
Japan cannot 90 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."
w. T. Stead's View.
The third statement appearing
contemparaneously with the two
above quoted is from the pen of
William r. Stead, the great English
Journalist. While it makes no di-
rect reference to Japan or her rela-
tions with the United States, it 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, 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
one of the signs of the ripening 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 a cruel step moth
er.
From century to century they