Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-02-21
OUR SLAP AT RUSSIA.
ROOSEVELT AND HAY TO BACK
ENGLAND AND JAPAN.

ROOSEVELT AND HAY TO BACK
| ENGLAND AND JAPAN.
EnaIish-Japanese Pact Was Submitted
to Them Before Being Made Pub
| lie and Endorsed. 4
Chicago, Feb. 21.-The Tribune
prints the following special cablegram
from Peking, China, under date OF
February 18th: "A sensation was
caused in diplomatic circles here today
when it became known that the Uni
ted States, through Secretary of
State John Hay, had sent note to
the Russian and Chinese governments
closely along the lines of the Anglo
Japanese treaty of January 30th.
The note is a distinct warning to
both China and Russia that the United
States will not permit the integrity
| or the empire to be molested in favor
Of one nation to the detriment of an
other.
The note. which practically endorses
| the English treaty with Japan, says:
| washington, d. c., Feb. IAN
agreement whereby China gives any
corporation or company the executive
right or privilege of opening mines,
establishing railways or in any other
way industriallly developing Man
!
| graVeSt concern by the government OF
! the United States.
ct constitutes a monopoly, which is
distinct breach OF the stipulations
| Of the treaties concluded between
| China and foreign powers, and thereby
seriously affects the rights of Ameri-
can citizens.
ct restricts their rightful trade.
exposing it to be Disseminated against,
| intelfered with or otherwise leopard
! lied and strongly tends to permanent
ly impairing China's sovereign rights
in this part Of the empire, while it
seriously Interfere with her ability to
meet her international obligations.
| Furthermore, such concession on
| China's part would undoubtedly be
followed by demands from other pow
ers for similar equally extensive adj
| vantages elsewhere in the Chinese EN-.
pire, and the inevitable result must
be the complete wreck OF the policy
| of absolute equality of treatment to
all nations respecting trade naviga-
| ton and commerce within the en-
| pire's confines. ..
ION the other hand, the attainment
| by one power of such extensive privi-
| leges for the commercial organs of it's
nationality conflicts with the assur-
ances repeatedly conveyed to this gov
! eminent by the imperial Russian min
! istry Of foreign affairs of the imperial
governments intention to follow the
policy of the open door, as advocated
| by the government of the United
| States, and accepted by all the treaty
powers having commercial interests
! in the empire.
at is for these reasons that the
Of ho Init Toto
as formerly animated by the SINGER.
est desire of insuring to the whole
world the benefits of full and fair in
tercourse between China and the ma
lions on equal footing of equal rights
and advantages to all, submits the
above to the earnest consideration
of the imperial governments of Russia
and China, confident that they will
adopt such measures as will relieve
the just and natural anxiety. Of the
United States"
The Tribune prints the following
special from Washington: 1T has
been understood here from the out
set that the terms of the British-Jap-
anese agreement to preserve the in
tegrity Of China was submitted in ad-
vance to President Roosevelt and Sec
rotary Hay and approved by them.
icy, however, of avoiding entangling
alliances, the United States positively
declined to become a party to any
actual agreement concerning China.
when Lord Cranborne, in the Brit
ish parliament last week declared
that there was no doubt the British
Japanese agreement would commend
the full approval of the United States,
he spoke by authority.
"The agreement between Great
Britain and Japan was dated January
Goth. There is, therefore, deep sig
nificance that on February LIST, two
days after the treaty was signed, this
| country sent to Russia a note prac-
tically adopting the principle of the
treaty as the policy of the United
! States. The agreement between Great
! Britain and Japan is largely military
one and provides for joint use Of
| forces in case Of hostilities.'
| y 1000 KILLED IN EARTHQUAKE.
Details of the shsmaka Disaster Are
Slowly Arriving.
Baku, Trans Caucasia, Feb. 1S-De-
tails which are slowly arriving from
| Babu Shamaka, shows that 1000 per-
| sons, mostly women and children per
| ished as a result of the earthquake
| last week and that four thousand
houses were destroyed.
Thirty-four villages of the country
| surrounding Shamaka also suffered.
To add to the terrors of the neigh.
! borhood, volcano near the village OF
| Marasy, eastward of Shamaka, has
| broken into active eruption. A great
! crevasse has appeared from whence
| immense flames and streams of lava
are being thrown out. The course of
the river Geonchaika has been altered
in consequence Of its bed being dam
med with earth which has been dis
| turbed by the earthquake.
Battalions of guards and detach-
| ments Of soldiers with tents have been