The record-union., 1898-10-30

had the training of the skilled artisan.
On the other hand. another Ameri-
can declared quite as positively that
the Russians employed in his works
work as mechanically as the machines
they tend. They never make a sug-
gestion or propose an Improvement.
Their minds are sluggish and they are
the most conservative of men.
There is manifest in certain quar-
ters a suspicion that after a time the
cordiality of Russian and American
friendship may undergo some little
change The American element in the
country is a little yeast leavening the
Russian mass with American ideas.
Already Russian workmen here and
there have been heard to observe that
they had no use for a Car. a phrase
which seems almost pure American.
No greater contrast could be conceived
than that between the feverish, news
paper-lit, electric-driven democracy of
the United States and the slow, patri-
archal despotism of Russia.
Consul General Holloway, of whom
I was delighted to receive the best ac-
counts, subscribes regularly for nine
American newspapers. AS the mails
do not come in regularly every day, it
is easy to imagine the perpleXity of
the unfortunate Russian censor, who
has to examine every column of every
paper that passes through the post. SO
the censor capitulated, and, taking ref
uge gladly in the rule which allows
certain official personages to receive
their papers uncensored. it was de-
creed that the Consul General should
receive his mail intact. The incident
is illustrative of much. A thousand
Americans scattered up and down Rus
sia and Siberia would let in flood of
light into many dark places and help
to roll the Cars chariot along a little
more rapidly than it moves at present.
Another principle upon which the
Russians, or rather some Of the Rus
slams, see impending danger is the GER
tainty with which the American En-
bassador here never loses an oppor-
tunity of emphasizing that the United
States will stand no interference with
the open-door policy in China. In Mr..
Hitchcock the United States has been
fortunate to find a business man who
has spent years of his life in the
Chinese trade. He knows the value of
has no intention of allowing any OBJ
stacle to be placed in the way of it's
development.
The action taken by the Car on his
own initiative in summoning a confer
ence of all the nations to consider
whether anything can be done to Sc
cure an arrest Of armaments affords
an opportunity for the friends of peace
in the United States to do a stroke
of good business, both for the cause
and their country. The Gar has been
plentifully piled with cold douches and
skepticism, ridicule and scorn. The
the Ministers of the old world have
no faith in the humanitarian enthusi-
asm of the young Emperor. Even
among his own Ministers there are
many who have little sympathy with
his chivalrous crusade of peace. But
Nicholas II means business. and he is
going through with this business as
best he can with such support as he
can command.
IF there be any real enthusiasm of
humanity anywhere in the new world
1t ought to be easily evoked and
strongly expressed in support of his
valorous declaration of war against
the ruinous armaments of the modern
world. OF one thing Americans may be
sure The more enthusiastically they
make manifest and effective the re-
Spouse to the appeal of the young En-
peror the better it will be for the fu
ture relations of the two countries"