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Show H RUSS AND JAP H The Utah Pioneer takes ths Rus- H sian side of the question that is now H being debated by force of arms be- H tween that nation and Japan, and H thus declares his sentiments: H "Pretending to be on a friendly H visit, but really on a spying errand, B with the spy-in-chief an officer of a H warship disguised as a servant, some H Japanese went into and came out of H Port Arthur, receiving most respect- H ful treatment coming, going and H while there. That same night, in ' . violation of the usage of civilized fl nations, the Japanese, without a dec H laration of war or notice of any kind. H opened the war by an attack on the H 'place tney had visited as friends a H few hours before. Such treachery S as this amounts to nothing with those H who are determined to be on the H wrong side of things, because trie jH whoopjng-up is in that- direction; H l)ut hovr about the reflective, sober, 1 impartnVpeople? - j "HaveVjpy of those loud-mouthed -,J yawpers ho 'rah for Japan because somebody else dot-s, or for reason ' equallyshallw.ever stopped to con- JB sider the grand, the signal service m rendered the, Union cases by Russia during our civil war? when she was M ready to fightV for Uncle Samat the "" first show of interference Toy " any I other power, with her ships at hand I and ready for action? Can they re-I re-I member when Japan rendered any S1 such servire or service of any conse- , quence wHatever? On the contrary, did we nojhave to whip the Japanese a little cer half a century ago to enforce,6ur rights? Just think such .1 and o'.her pertinent things over before be-fore etting yourselves go wild over . mock heroics. s "Another thing: The war has only fairly begun, the Japsjvere, and are, almost at home, their prep arations have been fully made for ' a long timi, and by striking trench -t erously advantages to them were to be expected for a while. The advantages ad-vantages cannot last throughout. Russia is a very powerful nation and - a very slow one. The last previous J ' war in which she engaged was with -j I Turkey, and for a while the Turks I - had everything their own way, but b I eventually the great bear got in his 1 I mighty hug and the jig was up. 4jVk Of course, this may not be a prefig. ",iiB urement, but it is a likelihood. IB- "Does anyone who calmly con JB sidersthe whole situation want to see ft a third of the world's population all ft yellow and all pagan a standing m menace to all the rest of it. Ja rs I panese success means that'." ( - vitftftftftftftftftftftSftYl |