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Show Progress. H Russia has built a railroad through Man- churia; she is making Port Arthur impreg- nable; she is building a great city, and is slowly Russianizing the great country. Periodically there is a great ferment among the other powers and demands made upon H Russia of when she will retire from Chinese Territory. She always blandly replies that just so soon as conditions permit she will gladly evacuate the country. We are told that in London the belief exists that the right conditions for such a change will never come if Russia is left to be the judge. This seems almost grotesque. It may be natural for France and Germany to keep their eyes upon the "White Bear," but that Great Britain should debate the probability or possibility of Russia ever giving up any country that she has once appropriated, or that England should speak in a tone as though Russia was not acting in good faith, is comical. What if Russia should answer back, that she would be ready to get out of Manchuria the day that England decides to get out of Egypt, what would Englishmen have to say? The truth is that England will not give up Egypt and Russia will not , surrender back Manchuria to the Mongo- j Hans, and neither ever should. There is no i progress in either country possible, if left to j the native inhabitants. The inertia of four I thousand years is upon China; the degrada- j tion of fifteen hundred years is upon ! Egypt. Both are attended by cruelties that j should be stopped. Both Manchuria and j Egypt are great countries, under strong ! modern guidance they will become world's ! granaries; the people will be advanced, I progress will begin. ! It is better so. Russia has been a bug- ! bear to Western Europe for- a hundred ! years. The fear ought to pass away. It was the Czar who proposed the Peace Congress. Con-gress. The war in South Africa has demon-1 strated that hereafter a gigantic power can no longer count upon certain victory, when j at war with a weak country. . : We look for no more great wars between civilized peoples. The dawn of peace is nearer than most j m.en think. Some barbarous peoples will have to yet be subdued, but among the ! Christian nations there is not to be very 1 much more fighting. The redemption of Asia is mostly in Russian hands, that of ' Africa is in great part in English hands and j both are well. 1 |