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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1902)
What Russia is Doing in the Orient o but he ti developing It Me is setting out cotton plantations and Introducing our American plants. His product of cotton is already enormous and half his crop Is now of the same variety as our own. It loads down the railroad during the season and you may see shiploads of it going up the Volga to be transferred to the factories and all parts of Russia. Tobacco Is also grown In large quantities, and In Trans caucasia tea plantations are being estab- lora who urge you to fight ue. They are your enemies and will bring you to ruin and death. Woe be uota you if you do otherwise than as we command you!" The Chinese know by bitter experience that the Russians will do what they say. They will treat the people well if they obey them, but If they do not, they will not hesitate to annihilate them. Some of the towns along the Amur river were utterly destroyed during the late war. An Ohio nsnea. i nst region is now one or the great man who crossed it saw thirteen Chinese silk cocoon-raising places of the world and villages In flames at one time and described It exports hundreds of millions of pounds the river as black with bodies for three of cocoons annually. The wheat lands are days after the Russians took one of the also Increasing and Russia seems In fact to Chinese cities upon Its banks. ue reading out toward a monopoly of pro ductions of every variety for all the world. The Russians are already our chief com petitors in the wheat markets of Europe and they will be more so as time goes on. Russia Is the granary of Europe Siberia promises to be the granary of the world. A few years ago I traveled over the Black plain south of Moscow. It has some of the Russia's Manrhnrlnn Itallroad. The czar Is rapidly pushing his railroad to the northward to connect with the Trans Siberian system. Short passages by rail to Europe are already advertised at the lead ing ports and we shall soon be able to go from Tort Arthur to Paris. The railroad Is nominally under the control of the East- HL'SSIAN GUARD ON MANCHURIAN RAILROAD. (Copyright, 1902, by Frank Q. Carpenter.) Feb ncnesi sou Known to man and it produces cm Chinese Railroad company, but this Is abundantly with the rudest cultivation. The another name for the Russian government, people are now Introducing our machinery The company Itself has a capital of 12,500,- N mm GASAKI, Japan, 15.- and their crops will be Increased thereby The wheat lands of Siberia are said to be (Spe- as rich as those of the Red river valley and ciai uorresponuenre 01 i ne nee.j me climate is aDout the same. I want to tell you what the Russians are doing out here In the Pacific. They are the prln- clial actors on the stage of western Invasion. Germany, England and the United States are making a great nol.e about trade and development, but Rus.s'a Is keeping her mouth shut and cawing wood. Her policy Is to wcrk quietly, but steadily. She makes no backward foot steps. She has her ringirs out In every Colnnlilnit Siberia. Russia Is rapidly colonizing Siberia. The soli Is bilng broken. Irrigation works on a large scale have been started and devel opment Is going on upon the choice tracts alrng the new railroads. Since 1887 more than 1,000,000 peasants have emigrated to Sibirla and vast num bers are now being sent by sea from Odessa 000, but its bonds are guaranteed by the government and are supposed to be held by It. The provisions of the concession forbid China to collect a tariff on goods in transit upon it and the Russian officials and Rus sian malls are to be carried free. Russia is to have charge of the postal system along the line and with It goes the privil ege of opening up and developing the min eral resources of Manchuria. Russian en gineers and surveyors are now traveling over the country prospecting it. They have already found coal and iron and some rich mines of gold. There are large coal fields near Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, which will be tapped by the railroad. The coal there is said to be better than the to Vladlvostock. The czar has built a fleet direction and Is quietly gathering In the cf immigrant steamers, which run regularly continent. She has already a million from the Black sea to the mouth of the sauara miles, more than one-third of all Amur. I see them often In these waters. Asia, and the prospect Is that the whole They carry peasants free from Russia to JapaneBe and equal to the Cardiff and To northern half of this continent will aioena ana me government gives each fam- cahontas coals. u wlll have a gocd mar eventually be hers. from 200 to 300 acres of land free of ket at Port Arthur and Tanenwan and the Have you ever figured up the enormous charge. It also loans them money to start mlneB wlu pay well At pregent the most properly that tne czar owns ouisiae oi b iuiuibu agricultural impie - ' - mi" I K ft tV. RUSSIAN SOWING WHEAT IN SIBERIA. nf ttin tnlnlno' I a A rrt a Kv (Via nnilvas ThA Europe? Hla possessions In Asia embrace ments at reduced rates. Within seven years coal lg goUen out by hand and carried to the 8ame Place 8nd they ttre now 8ald 10 thence to Siberia, and a third, a most im- nvore than twice as much land as the almost 20,000,000 acres of state lands have tne markete in Chinese carts It is both be P,annln naval and coalln8 station portant projection. Is an extension of the United State proper. They are about as been turned over to Immigrants and from anthraclte and bituminous. there. This will give them command of Transcasplan road from Central Asia large as the whole of South America and now on the settled country will be rapidly the Corean strait and they will not be far through Chinese Turkestan and southern almost twice as much as Europe. The Rus- increased. I have no figures as to the pes on ienow sea, ftway ir0m japan ana irom tne bnimiooaeu Mongolia to the head waters of the Yellow sian possessions In central Asia alone, In- numbers which are coming In by the Trans- The ciar has already chosen the site for lralt' where there are great Japanese river and thence south to Hankow on the his metropolis in this part of the world, mruncauons. xangise is.iang. n this road is completed It U to be at the terminus of the Man- ( ' and Corean Emperor. Mongolia and northern China will shortly churlan railroad system, within a few miles -rh i.n.n. i,.i... th. Irion. bo Russian. A part of the system is a line of Port Arthur. This dace will surnass ,.. .v.- n.. ... . Irom Hankow to Kashgar Th -to- hu. .Ir. hD . !!. . .. . . ' ""'V """"" u TlirLul,!. - ... Ti, V T.v viaaivostocK. as it win nave an open naroor the RuB8ian8. n will be remembered thai Manctblla. The soldiers Who guard the tha venr rnund. anil will ha mnn ssiIIt j i-.-t j .i. n.i . ' urinE i ii irauuieB wuii'u iuijuwvu lue iui cludlns the regions now being opened up siberlun rallr ad, but they must be enor by the Transcasplan railroad, are half as mous, for the government has reduced the large as the whole of our country, and the immigrant fares to a minimum and it Is ezar Is now claiming the right to all con- aiding Immigration in every possible way. cessions In Chinese-Turkestan, a territory twice as big as the empire of Germany. in Chinese Turkestan. Russia's. Tratte Methods. The czar now proclaims free trade for vrfjiv Liberia is tweniy-nve times as dib a ur- iuiuuio uiuugui meir accessmie. Tne Kuaeians are Dullain lr i ,.. v. , hi. many or France. It Is a million aquare famlllen with them and they are settling much as Peter the Great built St. Peters- na.ia.Pe and fled to the Russlon legation for Manchuria, but after the country has been miles bigger than Europe and bigger than along tne line as tney buna it. The Rus- burg. They are laying out the city on a protection. He sneaked out in a closed Russianized the best things of Its commerce grauu suaie, expecuug to onug m me gedan chalr, with a woman walking on w,u "eiy oe given to nis own people. Until people after it is completed. They are eacn glde of ,t juBt jlke a common noble- recently only Russians could mine gold In building immense breakwaters out from the man.. w,fe , order t0 eBcape the Corean Siberia. There are restrictions on trade shore and are so dredging the harbor that noDieg wno had him In keeping. The tbere, and this is so in every Russian coun tt will admit the largest of the ocean steam- Ruggan minister took him in and for a tr7- Tne Russian army is long and Its hand era. They have already built warehouses )ong Hme the RugaIan legation was the 80 Iar8 It hopes eventually to hold and piers and are putting up other build- geat of tne g0vernnient of Corea. From tho world financially as well as territorially. Ings suitable to the great city of the fu- th- mn4rn ont fnrth . that See what it did in Persia! The Ensllnh his cabinet should be arrested. He or- were supplying the country with moat of dered that the members have their heads ,ta cttn cloths when the Russian govern chopped off and that the said heads be ment 8ave Russian merchants and manu brought to him at the legation, which you tecturers a bounty of 3 cents per pound on will agree was a" tne manufactured cottons sold in Per- A dainty dish to set betore the king. ,la- This paid their freight and left them At this time Russian officers were chosen ' cents a pound profit, even when they sold to drill the army and It looked for a while he f000" at C08t- W1,1 "uch advantages as though Corea was to be at once Russian- the EnglUhu manufacturer could not com ized. Shortly after this, however, the Rus- J- and the re8ult wa8 the Russians got slans concluded to take Manchuria first, 1 "'. .u . and they signed a treaty with the Japanese Shortly before the late war in China the that neither government should Interfere UB' ",k f.d 'n "element with in the politics or trade of the Corean penin- tte ?nlneBe offlla'9 tnat a Russian goods BU,a coming through Manchuria were to pay In the meantime the Japanese are buylns ?e;thlr.1 less Impo.rt futies than were paid 1 2 It i . tr v ! X t ture. The name of this town is to be Tallen wan and the present Intention is to make it a free port. It will have wide streets crossing one another at right angles. It will have large public gardens and parks. I understand that they are already laying the sewers and building bazars, and thai before any lots are sold. The city is to be a business one. The military fortifica tions will be at Port Arthur, which Is also being Improved. ew Cbwanar and Mukden. It Is a question as to what rights foreign ers will have in Tallenwan, or, indeed, In any of the Manchurlan cities. Tho Rus sian. believe In controlling thing, for their up the railroad, of Corea as fast a. they i" men the Idea to ruc. l own people, and limitations will probably can and they are now building one from "fl ' e 4 "f"""?"' h- m,aS n fnrai settlement, and for- Fusan. one of the ports on the south coast, "utles one-third In favor of Russia. Whethei l.w "-fc .. .V. fn h rnltl Ron.,l Th. whirl. I. "utu " ,"uu,u uttye oeen CBrriCQ OUt new railroads will materially increase the trade, and it Is safe to predict that in the far future the Rus sians will have more commerce with the Chinese than any other nation. FRANK Q. CARPENTER. Phenomenon Explained Washington Star: "Why is it." said Mrs. -i a .uv....k a V it iha rl a I CoaiiI Th a rponoh wtVi tr I a ' :,;uv ;"h:rwT.6" r;a,'R. sf j- been some trouble as to the rights of Amer- have obtained a concession for a railroad h ,f th t .. . " 1 . leans In Manchuria, and that especially In from Seoul to the northern boundary of the b t Me.tenth of all th rhint.. . New Chwang. This 1. a town situated on country, and this will probably eventuaiiy ThelVnlwrai road.Pwm tne Liiao river, loineen mnes irom us oe conneciea wiin me aiancnunao rauroau mouth. It has been an open port for some and enable the czar to put his soldiers Into years, but the Russians have Instituted a the Corean capital at will, military station there and they claim to Ru. 8cheme. , chInll. control the town. They have had charge of the customs and act as though the whole H la difficult to say where the czar s country belonged to them. They furnish a schemes as to China begin and end. Dur- mllltary band which gives Sunday concerts, lng the war the Russians seized the Tien New Chwang has until now been the chief Tsln-Shanhalkwan railroad and they will port for Manchuria and it has English, eventually want to control this line aa an Mlee8. ...hat a man ..,, German and American housea. The Rus- extension of the Transslberlan system to to take a glrl t0 tne theater and geemg t sians have built a branch railroad to It, Pekln. If they cannot buy the road out- care go ttIe about , after he , the Russo-Chlnese bank has opened a right there will be little trouble in paral- red?" house there and the foreigners fear that lellng It, as most of the country is level. That's very easily explained " answered their trade will be gobbled by Russians. and as It possesses but few englneeilng her husband. "It is due to a certain de Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, will difficulties. The road was largely built piorable but inevitable masculine vanity be the chief Interior city along the line, with English money, but it Is owned by when he takes the girl to whom he is en il is a wanea iowu oi aooui zuv.uvu peopie, v.uim-o. mo hud nuiu rtra to nannow gaged to the theater he knows she is eom the United States, Central America and ,ana make no bones of saying they own and M th, seat of the Chinese government la said to practically belong to the Rus- paring him with the handsome hero of th Mex'co combined. Manchuria, which Is Manchuria. General Gribsky. who has ,t hM Deen the center of everything Man- alana. A concession for It was given to the play and to the disadvantage of h hr now practically annexed to Siberia. Is big- charge of the territory, recently aent out a churlan. The town Is said to be like Belgians and the French. They capitalized After marriage she doesn't hesitst t t.ii ger than any country In Europe outside proclamation that the Chinese would col Pekln an(j t0 have fine Chinese houses. it at $25,000,000. and building is now going him flatly that he looks like the low come Russia, and Mongol a. which will follow he allowed to aettle in certain sections, as The question as to whether the Russians on from both ends. The money Is said to dlan." suit. Is one-third the size of the United the landa were to be used for Russian col- wm take possession of Corea is one of be furnished by the Russo-Chinese bank. States. onizatlon. He forbade them to build In tDe future. They will certainly not concede and this is really the Russian government. For tllli ltlllV IK w the nua.laas Work. the town of Algun. as It was needed for u to Japan. The Japanese are very Jealous The bank has its branch houses at all the ual,j Over all thle vast territory the czar la quartering the Russian troops and for Rue- 0f Rusila and resent their acquiring ter- ports of China. Including those of Man- Brooklyn Life: The Medical Expert I'm pushing his explorations. He la preparing to sian warehouses. It was in Algun that the rltory on the Corean peninsula. They churla. It la backed by the government sure your baby shows what your modern settle the neveral countries and to Russian- Chinese fought the Russians. The town threatened war In the spring of 1900 when and acts as the financial agent of Russia In methods will do. Did you follow my direc- ize them. Hie Transcasplsn road Is carry- was destroyed and the villages near It. the offlcera of the czar took possession of Siberia. This bank has other concessions tions? lng thoutands of his peassnts Into central General Gribsky has warned the Chinese the harbor of Masampo, on the south coast, from the Chinese and it la more or leas Mother Oh, yea. First I skimmed the Turkestan. His railroad already goes that If one of them dares to shoot at or Some land about thla harbor waa granted connected with all the railroad movements milk and added two parts of hygienic water through Bokhara to beyond Samarcand and Injure a Russian he will hsve his village or to a Russian stesmshlp company, but a of this part of the world. All aorta of lines and two parte of your celebrated modifier, a branch line extenda down Into Afgbanla- town burned to the ground. He cloaes hla private Japanese Individual had bought are being projected. Some are to open up Then I carefully sterilized the whole, tan. Other roads, of which I write later, proclamation with the following: the land of the Corean ownera and for this the Shansl coal fields, one Is a railroad "And then?" are being projected to connect with three. "The Russian cxar loves those who obey reason the Russians were not able to get -ver the old caravan route through the "I threw It out of the window and gave He la not only opening up the country, him. Turn a deaf ear to the evil counsel- It- They did get. however, other landa at Nankow Pass from Pekin Into Mongolia and the baby the cream."- RUSSO-CHINESE BANK AT SHANGHAI FINANCIAL AGENT OF CZAR IN EAST ASIA.
