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Show er powers beiiig honorable accepted Russia's word of honor .-. ; Then Russia began to, steal llanchuria She rushed troops into the country upon one pretext or another and she assembled her fleets at Port Arthur. Ar-thur. Little Japan was not to be footed. She began be-gan to object and she begaif to prepare 'for. war. She exhausted diplomacy, only to be met. with repeated re-peated lies.- Then she struck. She had t6) forhav-ing forhav-ing possession of Manchuria and Korea, Russia would hare had no scruples against attacking Ja pan. . - -;' ' Russia has played the part of a liar and a thief. She has tried to steal a vast empire and a small and secondary nation has whipped her. Japan will continue con-tinue to be victorious. She has an advantage now too great to be overcome unless Russia receives the assistance of allies. r ' . ;. ' Why Russia should think she is destined to rule over other peoples Is incomprehensible.' She cannot rule Jher own in a civilized manner. She is barbar-ious,' barbar-ious,' tyrannical She seeks to grow without realiz-v ing that growth must come from within.. . .t; She is responsible for the war. She deserves to pay the heavy cost. She deserves to lose. It may be of benefit to her in the end. It may awaken her,to the fact that she must throw off the shackles of barbarism before she essays to cope with real world powers. Russia Should Lost. The announcemept of the fall of Port Arthur occasioned oc-casioned little surprise. That it .was' doomed was known months Bgo, but the tenacity with which it I was defended astonished the wofld. -The bravery of Gen Stoessel and his officers and ;menU always al-ways shine in history. The Japanese were brave, too. They hurled themselves upon the seemingly fmpregnable fortress with utter disregard of life and stormed hill and fort after hill and fort until the. capture of Port Arthur was inevitable. The bravery of the Russians was the more impressive-bowever,r impressive-bowever,r for they were fighting without hope while the Japanese were fired with the ardor of success. The capitulation' of the stronghold ends one of ' the hardest sieges in history. It was fighting probably prob-ably unequalled in the past Sevastopol is the near-) near-) est approach to it, but neither attack nor defense , compared with the fighting af Port Arthur. ' ; The fighting has cost both nations thousands of ' - men-and millions of dollars. The Japanese have been victorious from ' the Outset, They have outfought out-fought and outgeneraled their foe on sea and land, but there. can be nothing said to the discredit of the -Russians. They fought as valiantly as if they were bearing arms in aworthy cause. It is a pitiful war. It is ignoble, barbaric. We lose sight of the motive in the excitement of the ( struggle, but it is as base as when the war began. , Japan.has been fighting to protect herself. The ' war was forced upon her by Russia. The Czar's ' - nation gave its faithful, promise to evacuate Man- c huria at the close of the Boxer uprising in China, i Jlanchuria is a part, of the Chinese empire. Russia has no more' right to it'than Germany or England. ' Japan had no designs upon It. But Russia wanted it She lied deliberately when the question of her occupancy, arose . She, agreed to get out, knowing all the ticee that she intended to remain. The oth- '''. |
