The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-01
An. EPOCH IN OUR CIVILIZATION
CZAR'S PEACE NOTE WILL NOT
BRING INSTANT FRUIT,
Bue In International Relations It's
Moral Effects Are Already Felt,
Says British Diplomat.

London, Aug. 31.-The New York
interview with a British diplomat of
world wide reputation and with unique
sources of information respecting the
cars manifesto. This diplomat spoke
with freedom, but absolutely forbade
mention of his name.
1.-THE issue of this circular he said,
sis not, as the bulk of our own and the
continental press conveys, a deep-laid
scheme of policy on the part of the
car and his advisers, but it is the Gull
mination of long and determined
struggle between the czar and those
advisers, in which he has carried the
day.
Ever since his accession to the
throne the car. has been Steadfastly
striving, aided by the czarina and
Queen Victoria, to furnish the world
with the tangible proof of the sincerity
of the pacific declarations with which
he took the crown.
"Muravieff, while at Copenhagen,
was privy to the cars aims and ex-
pressed sympathy with them, hence his
appointment to the chancellorship. But
once installed at st. Petersburg, Mu-
raveiff played into the hands of his col
leagues, passiVely resisted the cars
will and by various methods succeeded
in obstructing its expression.
"Russias position in the far east,
thanks to Murayeiff, had been COM
pletely assured before the ear was
permitted to shoot his bolt, and Pre-
mier Salisbury'S reluctance to make
any serious repriSal for RuSsia's pro-
vocative proceedings at Pelxin was due
to knowledge of the cars intention
and fear of baking it if any action
r,lr H.
England. Bismarck's potent hostility
was used by Muravieff to stayshis mas
ter's hand. and Bismarck's death, to-
gether with the feeling of revulSion,
caused throughout the civilized world
by revived contemplation of his blood
stained statecraft, convinced the ear
that the psychological moment for def
mite action had come.
rs there any foundation for the re-
port that the German kaiser contem-
plated forestalling the car on his
forthcoming visit to jerusalem"
Concerning the kaiSer'S intentions,
cannot speak with. absolute knowledge,
but I do know that a month back
when it was made known in exalted
circles here that Muravieff had APP
proved draft of the circular, a promi-
nent member of our royal family who
is not friendly to his nephew, Kaiser
Wilhelm, remarked: 'Nicky had better
hurry up with his manifesto or the
war lord will anticipate him from
mount Calvary There was probably
some foundation for this royal mot.
''By the way the recent annulment
by the car of the specific credit of
9,000,000 roubles for an increase of the
Russian navy was the first visible sign
that he was imposing his will on Mura-
vieff. The annulment was offered as
an earnest of his sincere desire for
peace to the British government, which
at that time, despite the solemn as
surances conveyed through our royal
family, had begun to believe the prom
ised manifesto was only one of Mura-
vieff's devices for effecting his designs
in China.
You ask me my opinion of the ulti-
mate effects of the cars action. be-
lieve it is one of those events which
mark an epoch in the history of civil
lization. 1t is decried, it will not bear
fruit Immediately. but it constitutes
new starting point in history. In inter-