Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1905 — VICTORY IS WITH OYAMA AND HIS HEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VICTORY IS WITH OYAMA AND HIS HEN

Russian Army in Full Retreat from Its Mukden Positions. OLD TACTICS ARE REPEATED Line of Retreat Lighted Up by the Clare of Burning Stores. CAN HE GET AWAY SAFELY? Only Qnestlon at St. Petersburg, Where the Jap Triumph la Conceded Bloodiest Battle of the War. Toklo, March 9. —The Japanese have cut the railway north of Mukden. Tokio, March 9, 8 a. m.—lt is officially announced that the Russians began retreating yesterday morning. The Japanese armies are pursuing them. Tokio, March 9. —Advices received here indicate that General Kuropatkin is badly beaten in the bloodiest battle of the present war. London, March 9. The following dispatches are published here: “Mukden, March 8, 4:30 a. m.—The Russian army is evacuating its positions south of Mukden. “Mukden, March 8, 10 a. m. A heavy cannonading is in progress northwest of this city, causing the walls of houses here to tremble. An engagement is in progress at the imperial tombs.” Another dispatch, dated Mukden. March 8, 4:30 a. in., says: “This may be the last dispatch out of Mukden, as the telegraph line is in danger of being destroyed. The battle is in full progress.” Washington, March 9. The state department is officially informed from Tokio that the Japanese have achieved a great victory before Mukden and that the Russian army is in full retreat. Mukden, March 9, 11 a. m. The Russians are retiring from the line of the Shakhe river and the left flank to the line of fortifications on the Hun river. Japanese are north of Mukden end advancing against the railroad at Unguntun. A tight is raging two mile-s west of the railroad, and projectiles reach the railroad. Russ Retires In Perfect Order. London. March 9.—A dispatch from Mukden, dated March 8, 5 a. m., says: “The Russian army is leaving positions south and southeast of Mukden. The sky is lighted with the brilliant glare

of burning warehouses, where tons of commissary supplies have been given to the flames. The retirement is being effected in perfect order, the Russians beating off attacks of pursuing Japanese. The withdrawal was necessitated by a heavy concentration of Japanese west and northwest of Mukden whither they have transferred a large share of the forces from the southern front to reinforce the original striking force of General Nogi.” Lown on Both Sldoa Enormoai. Mukitbn, March 0. —The losses on both sides have been enormous. The casualties on the Russian left flank on Tuesday exceed 7,000, The burning of commissariat warehouses and the destruction of supplies south of Mukden, which has been in progress several days, is said by Russian officers to be complete. Everything that could not be carried away was destroyed. RUSSIANS ADMIT DEFEAT St, Petersburg Says Knropatktn Can Only Try to Got Away. St. Petersburg. March 9, 3 a. m. The battle of Mukden has resulted in a Russian defeat. Field Marshal Oyama has once more proven himself one of the greatest masters of offensive strategy since Napoleon. while General KuropatUn is now engaged in endeavoring to defend his title as a master of successful retreats and bring off his army, with its immense train, safely to Tie pass,

acting toward them in a spirit of Just and generous recognition of all their rights. There Are Problems to Solve. “But Justice and generosity in> a nation, us in an individual, count most when shown not by the weak, but by the strong. While ever careful to refrain from wronging others we must be no less Insistent that we are not wronged ourselves. We wish peace, but we wish the peace of Justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right, and not because we are afraid. No weak nation that acts manfully and justly should ever hare cause to fear us; and no strong power should ever be able to single us out as a subject for insolent aggression. “Our relations with the other powers of the world are important, but still more important are our relations among ourselves. Sucli growth in wealth, in population, and in power, as this nation, has seen during the century and a quarter of its national life is inevitably accompanied by a like growth in the problems which are ever before every nation that rises to greatness. Power invariably means both responsibility and danger. Our forefathers faced certain perils which we have outgrown. Face Other Perils. “We now face other perils the very existence of which it was impossible that they should foresee. Modern life is both complex and intense, and the tremendous changes wrought by the extraordinary industrial development of the last half centure are felt in every fibre of our social and political being. Never before have men tried so vast and formidable an experiment as that of administering the affairs of a continent under the forms of a democratic republic. The conditions which have told for our marvelous material wellbeing, which have developed to a very high degree our energy, self reliance and individual initiative, have also brought the care and anxiety inseparable from the accumulation of great wealth in industrial centers. No Reason to Fear the Future. “Upon the success of our experiment much depends, not onty as regards our own welfare, but as regards the welfare of mankind. If we fail the cause of free selfgovernment throughout the world will rock to its foundations, and therefore our responsibility is heavy—to ourselves, to the world as it is today, and to the generations yet unborn. There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us, nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright. “Yet, after all, though the problems are new, though the tasks set before us differ from the tasks set before our fathers who founded and preserved this republic, the spirit in which these tasks must be undertaken and these problems faced, if our duty is to be well done, remains essentially unchanged. We know that self-gov-ernment is difficult. Left a Splendid Heritage. “We know that no people needs such high traits of character as that people which seeks to govern its affairs aright tlirough the freely expressed will of the freemen who compose it. But we have faith that we shall not prove false to the memories of the men of the mighty past. They did their work, they left us the splendid heritage we now enjoy. We in. our turn have an assured confidence that we shall be able to leave this heritage unwasted and enlarged to our children and our children’s children. “To do so we must show, not merely in great crises, but in the everyday affairs of life, the qualities of practical intelligence, of courage, of hardihood and endurance, and al>ove all the power of devotion to a lofty ideal, which made great the men who founded this republic in the days of Washington. which made great the men who preserved this republic in the days of Abraham Lincoln.” Inaugural Parade and Ball. The splendor of the inaugural parnde and the size of the inaugural crowd exceeded all former public functions of the kind. Pennsylvania avenue from capitol hill to the White House was a river of bright colors and moving mass of humanity. At night it was ablaze with electric designs, and the big pension office was the scene of the grand ball. The president reviewed the parade from a stand near the White House.

EASTERN GATE AT MUKDEN, MANCHURIA.