The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
CASSINI CAN'T SEE HOW
The United States Can Keep Out of
Chinese Affairs

New York, March s.-A dispatch to the
World from Washington says: o.
The Russian ambassador, Count Cas-
SIM who for many years the cars
representative at PeIin and who obtained
sions regarding the Siberian railroad,
s2eakng Of the Chinese situation SAD said:
the open door proposal and so many in
terpretations TO be placed upon III that
issue with Lord Charles Beresford, and 1
think made my position plain. Now
with proposition which 1taiy's action IN
china has made possible. Russia's att-
tude is not changed by this action. We
have never opposed the open door, and
consequently we can take no other atti-
tude than that which has been officially
announced from our foreign ofhces many
but we are wondering what our great
reighbor to the west. the United States,
TT would seem now that the United
States will be forced by the necessities
of the case to take part in the delibera-
tons OF the nations concerning China 5
commercial existence. As in RUSSIA, there
terests at stake, a world in itself, where
the wealth of a large part of the coun-
."Of course. I can speak only, for Rus
STA, but there seems similarity OF IN
forests to guard and promote Russia is
at the entrance of her Industrial and com
Enercial development and she will endeavor
to shield this deV9Iopment from all that
might retard 1t. We have vast countries
just awakening from the lethargy of CEN
turtles and becoming grain lands and pas
ture countries and from the outlet on the
(
cial world in the four quarters of the
globe; s.,...,.- ill.,, I'll,
and Of China. The tea product alone will
bring annual income of 10000, 900
roubles: Other staple products yield a
prOportionate figure. Then it is hoped
your great western countries and bring
your overa bundance into Asia and A frica.
the United States as a factor in the coun-
ellis of the nations that must of necessity
he N q hgaN
cially or unOfficially. protested against the
American occupation of the Philippines
on the contrary, we have welcomed the
United States in coming nearer to us, as
one friend welcomes another. 1t has been
that Mr. Hitchcock, lately ambassador to
st. PetersbuTg' has told the american Peo-
and since the Spanish war 1t would be
expected that Russia's ambassador here
would say that nothing hostile had been
done against your country by his own.
His position would be otherwise unteuable.
But Mr.. Hitchcock is disinterested wit
ness. and when he has so cordially and so
eloquently reiterated what have said to
the American people for many months, 1
am, OF course, deeply grateful
titude toward this great nation. She was
one Of the first to aid the founders of this
growth a sympathetfc and sincere frfend'
During the civil she did her part
during the war which has just been fought
the United States needed the aid of Rus
STA It would have been given as freely and
as fully as in the past.
There have been many to assert very
different things of Russia's feeling toward
America and there are still some who
say that Russia has Interior intentions in
endeavoring to draw the United States
into the Chinese question. Time and the
authority of your own ambassador to st.
Petersburg have proved the falsitv of the
first proposition and of the second it can
be said that Russia is not trying to draw
the United States into the Chinese cues
ton, but if the United States, to protect
her vast commercial interests, sees fit to
seek a voice in deciding this important
issue, Russia Will be the first to welcome
her and to cooperate in finding a just and
satisfactory solution of its difficulties"