| Show THE EDITORS EDITOR'S ITO TABLE TALK SA OF THINGS GRAVE VE AND GAY u RUSSIA IN MANCHURIA It Is probably true as Gen Get James N N. Wilson declared at the dinner in New York of the Delaw Delaware re Society the he other night that Russia cannot be e prevented from working her will In Manchuria l as 9 far as physical possession possession possession posses posses- sion of that region Is concerned The General asserted that the Russian gov- gov government already had seized and occupied occupied pied six million square miles of Chinese territory and that there was no power pow pow- er on earth that could s stop p her from taking more whenever she should get getgood getgood getgood good and ready to do so He said The Tho Siberian railway I cannot cannot be reached nor Interrupted by any army armyn In n the world and Russ Russia a can concentrate concentrate concen- concen concen- concen rate herself along it There Is noth- noth nothing nothing ing ng to stop her so far as I can see except Russia's moderation What General Wilson says Is of or at at- at t- t At the same time it is withIn with with- In n the th ability of England and Japan to blockade Russia at Vladivostok Port Arthur Aithur Nieu Chwang pr or at a any y other point or port of egress open to her in China Manchuria 1 or Eastern Siberia So the advantage Is not altogether altogether al altogether al- al together on the side of ithe Czar THE SENATORIAL DiGNITY DIGNITY Having started in to tc be more dignified dig dig- and proper tha than anybody the Senate enate purposes going the complete animal The action of or President pro tempore Frye In crossing Tillmans Tillman's Till Till- mans man's and McLaurin's names off the roll has not pleased the the Senators gen gen- Not that they object to se securing ur- ur ing ing ng a little rest from the ceaseless gabble gabble gabble gab gab- ble of McLaurin McLaurin quarreling on the floor to the delay of public business business busi busi- ness but they feel sensitive about Mr Fryes Frye's suspected disposition n to make himself a bloated It It of t the e Thomas B. B Reed variety So Mr Frye has put the names of the sena Senators ors in contempt back on the roster and th the Committee Commit Commit- tee of Privileges and Elections has the matter in charge and we we shall hear all all all' about it in true hue ue time time time-in in our our news colmans columns col col- col- col mans today perhaps J I OUR NEW EXPANSION ON In view of the fact that the submission submission submission sion of a a. lothe people of the Danish West Indian Indian Islands by the Danish government before ratifying the treaty of cession would be a a. perfunctory perfunctory perfunctory tory and superfluous proceeding proceeding we are glad to know that the idea has been abandoned By the terms of the convention convention convention con con- the Unit United d St States tes is to produce the purchase money thing ninety days after ratification but bul may ay enter upon possession immediately upon the conclusion sion slon of the diplomatic formalities It is therefore probable that within a a. few days the Stars and and Stripes will be hoisted over the islands of St. St Croix St. St Thomas Thoro and St St. t John and the Gibraltar Gibraltar Gib Gib- of the Caribbean n sea be ours ours The Thea a acquisition on will be belea bel a worthy and lasting lasting lasting last last- ing mo monument t to totne J ti j a administration of President J OUR COALING COALING STATIONS STATIONS With the annexation nn of the Danish West Indies this country will gain a a. most important coalIng station the value and importance of which will be vastly i increased creased by Y the construction of the proposed canal Under modern conditions coaling stations areas are areas areas as necessary to naval vessels as are officers se seamen men and guns It is the proud boast of England that there Is no part of the world where her ships are not within easy casy reach of a place under the British flag whereat to fill their bunkers This is one of the most po potent potent po- po tent factors ip England's mastery of the sea sea Coal is now universally regarded as a II mill military tary supply and hence as ns contraband of war var in th the eye of Inter- Inter law and according to the practice practice practice tice of nations If It an army marches marcheson on its belly a a. navy no less is mobile or otherwise according to its independent ent steaming ability As yet this country country country coun coun- try is sadly deficient in coaling stations ns abroad as compared with Great Britain but this defect it is to be hoped will be cured In time PRESENT COALING FACILITIES The lessons of th the Spanish war have led our Government to seek a a. line of coaling stations around the world So far twenty-one twenty ports of the United States are provided with supplies of coal at need for the navy Outside stations have been secured and sto ked at Pago Pago Sitka Honolulu Honolulu Guam and Manila Ma Ma- Manila nila nila for the Pac Pacific fic ocean In Atlantic Gulf and Caribbean waters we have Tortugas and San Juan dc do Porto Rico and arid shortly will have stations on the Cuban coast at Havana Guantanamo and Nipe St. St Thomas will be added by hy cession from Den Den- I mark It will be observed that we have nothing in the way of coaling stations on the shores or islands of European waters Should we happen in the near future to find ourselves at war single- single handed with any European Power Power our naval operations would have to be confined confined confined con con- fined to this side of the world as the obligations of neutrality would prevent us from rom sec securing ring any coal from friendly ports beyond a supply s barely sufficient to carry a a. vessel to the next coaling place on the way home I COLOMBIA AND THE CANAL It is observable ble that the Associated Pr Press ss to The Telegram within with with- in a day or two have contained several hints that leading government people in Colombia are trying t to throw difficulties difficulties dim dim- in the way of the acquisition by bythe bythe bythe the United Stats States Stat s of the old de Lesseps ditch or whatever may be left leCt of it If true these stories are surprising Assuming the the- busl business ess practicability of completing the Panama Canal a a. matter mat mat- ter which still Is open to question notwithstanding notwithstanding not not- withstanding the he miraculous conversion conversion conversion conver conver- sion of Admiral Walker t to- to the affirmative affirmative affirmative tive of the proposition the thep he opening ning ing of the waterway would be obe the making of Colombia Possibly the dictator Marroquin and hiS immediate te associates associates asso asso- dates In the rump government at Bogota Bo gota gota may imagine that the United States is anxious anxious' enough to shoulder the French failure to be wil willing ng to buy off their opposition If If that that is the their r idea idea- 1 if it is wrong Should this country really decide to use the P Panama nama route the antagonism of Marroquin and his coterie could be ea easily lly disposed of including in including in- in eluding the p personnel o of of the tion |
