Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-20
RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.
why We Feel Justified In Doing More For
| the Former Than For the Latter.


The London Chronicle, discussing the
treaty between the United States and the
cars government, wants to know why in
the matter of the extradition of assassins
we concede to Russia what we have refused
to England The New York Sun accepts
The Chronicles challenge and max the
following reply;
We can indicate some general grounds
on which we might be strongly impelled TO
grant privileges to Russia for which Eng
land might appeal in vain. As was dis
closed by the hostile tone of her newspa-
pers at the time of our demand for an
apology and an indemnity from Chilli for
the massacre of American sailors, England
is still no cordial friend of the United
States. So far as any tie of blood exists, it
seems only to aggravate her jealousy. Not
only in that part of her population which
is of Irish lineage, but in that still larger
and most influential element which traces
its descent to the men who created the
American colonies and fought the Revolu-
tionary war, there is no feeling moredeeply
rooted or more thoroughly justified by his
tory than that of resentment toward Eng
land.
To Russia, on the other hand, we are
bound by the strongest ties of gratitude
and friendship. When we say Russia. we
mean not only or mainly the Russian peo-
pie, but the house of Romanoff, which gov
erns the great northern empire. Never
since the beginning of our national life
have we suffered an injury at the hands of
that dynasty, and we are indebted to it for
tremendous services. When, even after
yorktown, George III chung to his deter
mination tosubjugate the - colonies, Cath
crime III Joined the league of neutrals,
which subjected the British ministers to a
pressure which they could not resist
Again, when England by her orders IN
council and Napoleon by his Milan and
Berlin DEGREES were combining to extermi
nate American commerce, our vessels were
welcomed to the Baltic ports by Alexan
der /.
In the war of 1s12-15, while British sol
diers were engaged in burning the capito
at Washington, the same car, Alexander
/, tried to mediate between the combatants
At the crisis of our national existence, wheI
the Union seemed split in twain and Ma
poleon III proposed to England to give u
deathblow by joint Intervention
proposal passionately favored by the Eng
lish aristocratio and plutocratic classes
Alexander III interposed his veto, and hi
intentions were signilied by the dispatch o
Russian feet to the harbor of New Yorl
and Russian squadron to San Francisco
/ Finally, while England had done her hes
to deprive us of Oregon, Russia coded I
|, us Alaska at a price ridiculously small
compared with the profits of the seal indus
5 try alone.
These are the reasons, if it please th
London Chronicle, why the great body c
genuine Americans may well feel dispose
to do for Russia what they would decline
} do for England. When the Radicals, whoI
, The Chronicle represents, make themselvt
the real masters of Great Britain, whe
they have hunted the aristocrats out {
. every nook and Granny of the administri
4 ton and have revived the splendid common
wealth of Cromwell and Milton, then III
doubtedly Americans will look with ver
! different feelings upon their English kin
i. men. But not before.