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Show TLe real car ? cf the conflict in the Far East is EUeSIA'8 INEXORABLE CREED. OF EXPANSION. EXPAN-SION. TLe .. tightened march of the Muscovite Izs teen constat for C3 years. CTOITED EY THE TACIFIC, TnE EEAR TUEN3 TO THE COUTH Result: EncrcacLcnt ca Japan's cher-islcd cher-islcd ilz- cf empire. , In looking for the canse of the vrar between Ecs-eia Ecs-eia and Japan, now virtually begun, you must go back to eld lloscow, in the cionth of June, 1C72. There and then was born the child who afterward became PETER THE GREAT, UNDER WTIOSE RULE RUSSIA HAY BE SAID TO HAE "FOUND HERSELF." It wns the mind of Peter that evolved the policy of expansion which Russia has pursued inexorably to the present day. Following its dictates, she has pushed her borders over Asia. All the Pacific coast is hers, from Bering strait to Vladivostock, and ESTOPPED BY THE OCEAN FROM FURTHER PROGRESS EASTWARD, SHE HAS LONG BEEN COVETOUSLY CROWDING TOWARD THE SOUTH. Let this fact be borne always in mind, as the North American says: Russia's unalterable purpose pur-pose is TO GROW AND TO GO ON GROWING. Through more than two, centuries it has become the heart object of the self-perpetuating oligarchy that rules Russian destiny-r-and is Russia. Checked by the Pacific, the paws of the Bear rest heavily ppon the Chinese empire and his nose sniffs hungrily at Korea JAPAN'S AX7AKENIK-Q AND DEFIANCS 07 ST7SSIA. Ultimately it is hoped to govern all Asia, from St. Petersburg, and what Russia hopes for tehe never hesitates to strive for. So much for one side of the causes leading to what MAY BE THE MOST TERRIBLE-WAR THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. On the other side is the destiny of Japan. Dur-ing'the Dur-ing'the major portion of the time when Russia was responding to the impetus of Peter, Japan maintained main-tained an attitude of hostile isolation toward all Occidental nations. It was not-until 1854, when the diplomacy of tkmmodore Calbraith Perry of the United States navy , opened her ports to our commerce, that she began to abandon her sullen solitude, and it was not until the revolution of 1868, when the reactionary power of the Shoguns waa overthrown and that of the Mikado-firmly established,, that the world' was introduced to the energetic, resourceful nation that HAS DEFIED THE GIANT DESPOTISM OF NORTHERN EUROPE,. PERILS OF TWO COLORS FEOK TWO VIEWPOINTS. While the Caucasian race talks of a "yellow peril," be it understood that the Mongolian race talks of a "white peril." Japanese statesmen have seen the encroachments of .European nations upon China, and for probably a quarter of a century have worked at a plan to stop them. THIS PLAN IS NOTHING MORE NOR LESS THAN THE FORMATION FOR-MATION OF A GREAT YELLOW EMPIRE, EMBRACING EM-BRACING JAPANESE, CHINESE AND KOREANS. KO-REANS. A tremendous incentive to the crystallization of this idea was found in the inauguration of the trans-Siberian trans-Siberian railway by Russia in 1891. Strange as it may seem, it was the realization of what this meant the garrisoning of East China by Cossacks that brought about the war between Japan and China. That war was intended to be a step toward, the consummation of the Mongolian confederation. IT WAS THE JAPANESE PURPOSE TO CONQUER CHINA THAT. SHE MIGHT AWAKEN HER. ' Japan diJ conquer China. But the fruits of her victory were snatched from her by a European coalition co-alition formed by the diplomacy of Russia. If more were needed than the clashing of their destinies to make THE JAPANESE HATE THE RUSSIANS WITH A DEADLY HATRED THIS . WTOULD HAVE SUPPLIED IT. THE CASUS BELLI AS AXXBE0SS SXESCZ SEES TT. This is the case in broad terms. Of course, there are irritations,- skin eruptions of the deep-seated disease, dis-ease, which have brought the two nations to the verge of actual hostilities. These are RUSSIA'S GRABBING OF MANCHURIA AND HER INTERFERENCE IN-TERFERENCE IN KOREA. j Manchuria is a natural market for Japan, whence she gets a large part of -her, supplies, and whither she has been rapidly increasing her sales of manufactures. ' ' " . ' Korea is virtually a province of Japan, Russia's control of Manchuria is a blow at Japanese commercial com-mercial growth and an obstacle calculated to paralyze para-lyze her future. MEDDLING WITH KOREA ISA DEADLY INSULT. , These, then, are the immediate causes obscured and ill-defined to Western eyes, it is true, by interminable inter-minable negotiations and notes and counter-notes. E Jt behind them THE REAL REASON FOR WAR STAND3 GRIM AND UNERADICABLE. In the caustic words of Ambrose Bierce it Is: ' Tor the Puepian is a Kuaslan, - tl And the Jap Is Just a Jap: 1 Behold, ye heavenly powers, and ye hdlJV, . '. J'hat mankind .terms ft casus belli, ,j . |