Excerpt from The Outlook, Vol. 76: A Weekly Newspaper; January-April, 1904

For centuries the wave of Russian aggression has been rolling across Asia. It has swallowed up Turkestan, Bokhara, and more and more of Siberia. Now it has practically engulfed the Chinese province of Manchuria and threatens the inde pendent if small empire of Korea. Last week there were disturbances and unrest at Korean ports and the rebellion of the Tonghaks in the northern part of that country, which may precede another war, calls attention to the fact that a Tongbak rebellion preceded the chino-japanese war of 1895. In that war Japan won a suc cession of the most brilliant victories of modern times. She was entitled by every right to the fruits of her conquest over China, and demanded a strip of mainland for her overflow population. China granted the demand, but Russia prevent ed Japan's acquirement of the land, and Russia now practically owns it, defying her solemn promise made to the nations to evacuate it. The Chinese province of Manchuria is now as pacified as are some of the districts of Russia proper, but Russia remains in Manchuria, daily more intrenched there than ever, under what seems the specious plea that the province is not pacified enough from the efiects of the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, a rebellion which some of the diplomats at Peking openly charged was secretly instigated at many points by Russia her self. However this may be, many Rus sians doubtless honestly believe in the validity of Russia's excuse, and they argue that Russia has spent altogether too much money in Manchuria not to have her proper return in commercial control, the same control that Japan enjoys in Korea. While Russian commercial and even political pretensions to Manchuria are thus somewhat justified, the world is.

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