Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-12-19
THE MESSAGE AND RUSSIA.
A st Petersburg Journal Attacks
President Arthur.

A special cable despatch from London
says: Our st. Petersburg correspondent
telegraphs under date of the 9th: To-
days No0Oe Hren1yG contains the follow
ing article, which / translate literally,
without softening or accentuating the
opprobrious language of the artiele
''Arthur's message to Congress Is sur
prisingly strange if the telegraphic ver-
sion before us be accurate 1t congratu-
lates Americans on their growing pros
perity, as if this were anything new to
the honorable Yankees. Arthur takes
upon himself TO express his views on
foreign politics. France and Germany
receive friendly patronage, but with re.
gard to the much talked of friendship
with England not a word is said and how
could it be expected from an Irishman :
Arthur even refrains from making com
ments on English home affairs--the Irish
| rebellion, for instance, which is agitating
millions of American citizens, who are
also born 1rlshmen like the President.
But Arthur was more brave in dealing
with Russia. Laying aside the funda-
mental pEinciplee of Americas foreign
| policy of non intervention in the internal
affairs of European governments, Arthur
took it into his head to promise us his
energetic protestations with regard to
our treatment of the Jews. Arthur's
threats are empty ones. No notice will
be taken of any of his representations by
the Russian Government even out Of
condescension to the American people,
among whom are so many Jewish swim
dlers unaccustOmed to productive labor
aud who thrive on American soil as
elsewhere, by getting the fruits of other
peonn!!35's work. This thoughtless freak
of Arthur places the American Govern
ment in sorry light.
"0nly few weeks ago the same gov
ernment said that it would not suffer the
slightest interference of Europe in the
Panama canal business, and dwelt
triumphantly on its own strict observance
of non Intervention in the affairs Of Eu-
rope. Immediately after this fresh con-
secration of the political doctrine of
Monroe, Arthur takes upon himself to
criticise the internal affairs of Russia, of
which he knows nothing, and is not
likely ever to understand much, as posi-
bly, the American party of swindlers
have expressed their sympathy with
the swindlers settled in Russia. and
they may have succeeded in
casting a cloud over the already
hazy brow of this chance President,
whom the assassin Guiteau calls his
friend and his choice man for the Presi-
Dental chair. What simpletons Arthur
must take the American people to be !
By chicanery and senseless talk on for
eign politics he hopes probably to divert
public attention from impending re-
forms in the American administration
and from the inevitable explosion of
official peculators and corruptible off
cials. We are convinced that the last of
this list to go out will be Arthur him
self. If the American Government
really did make the representation
together with England to the Russian
Government On the subject of
the expulsion of the English
Jew Lewsohn, as the DAILY Neaos
states was done, such representations
were probably madein the same friendly
tone as that in which Americas repre-
sentative in London addressed Lord
Granville on the arrest of American eiti-
zens in Ireland. In the latter case Lord
Granville answered that the law allowed
the Irish authorities to make arrests on
suspicion, and, therefore, that American
citizens remaining in Ireland could not
be exempted from the law. The Ameri-
can representative was satisfied with this
answer. America could not seriously
protest against the expulsion of Lewisohn
from Russia, because the American Gov
ernment itself interferes with and re-
stricts Cinnamon from settling in the
United States.