The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-18

: hired a hall, listened to burning
!, speeches and adopted resolutions. Ont
: of those resolutions directed petition
: be sent to President Roosevelt, re
? questing him in the name of American
| Israelites to interfere, for humanity's
7 sake, and shame the car into compli
, ance with a request that he call off his
) murderous Cossacks from the inof
Tending Hebrews of Russia. We are
not so sure that the text of the peti
ton included the word interference
1t may have been that time worn
phrase of diplomatists yclept good
offices" At any rate it was a vigor-
Gus protest, one calculated to arouse
the ire of a lesser potentate than the
car of Russia between whose govern
ment and our own there exists. and
has always existed. the most cordial
relations.
Theodore Roosevelt loves adu1ation
as no other man, but his most ardent
admirer dare not deny that there are
times when the president goes off
half-cocked. He did it just after TAX
ing the oath at Buffalo which con-
firmed him as president, when he i'm
petuously announced that the policy
OF his predecessor would be fulfilled
and rounded out in all things. He did
it when he assured the Jewish petition
ers that he would dispatch their pro-
test to the court of st. Petersburg. All
the time he was thinking of those
100000 Jews in New York and reck-
on1ng up the votes that they could
swing for Roosevelt in the pivotal
state of the Union. The Jews sound
ed the praises of this American pres
1dent with the extraordinary back
bone. The Roosevelt press lauded the
act as another evidence of our grow
ing Importance and influence abroad.
Meantime the Jews were admonished
to hurry up the petition.
In the course of a week after these
events recorded, it dawned upon the
president that he made a mistake.
that his assent was hastily given; in
homely language, that he put his foot
in ii" He may have reached this
conclusion after reading some cans
tic extracts from the st. Petersburg
press, in so many words telling the
president of the United States that
he government of the greatest empire
IN earth was entirely capable of man.
lging its internal affairs. AS if the ,
leVil conspired to make Rooseyelt,s
position more awkward and the pens s
II Russian writer's CORRESPONDENCE r
more caustic, at this time, race riots e"
nd burning of negroes became daily v
ccurrences. LET America pluck the p
cam from its own eye before if dis. +
overs the mote in Russia,s eye" But 4
was too late to back out now. Roose- f,
cit had passed his word to 500 OOO O
eWs. How will we get out of this "
esky business, Mr.. Hay, without Of Ii
ending Russia or throwing down the r.
ewish voters? =,
80 II came to pass that the Jews
ere directed to modify their petition to
they expected any attention to be "
I'D to it by Russia. They were adj th
to obtain the signatures of he
eminent Americans. They were re- he
nded, also, that the Russian govern W,
ent had taken drastic measures to 20
nish the mob that slaughtered their do
ethren at Kishineff, and 300 were
eady imprisoned. (Parentheticallv r.
us remark, no drastic measures 70;
We been taken to punish American Tb
'Ds) So, after an interview with nm
wish citizens who called upon him wt
Oyster Bay, the president succeed DIV
IN emasculating what he thought mo
sht be offensive to Russia. and as TIL
ing his Jewish friends that in IFS one
alned form, the revised petition was VIII
the thing. On Wednesday secre- DIV
Hay communicated by cable to soc
Riddle, the American charge daft ma,
es at st. Petersburg, respecting stat
means to be employed in bringing eve
the attention of the car bo1,
its modified form the petition ;s o;+;.
note of the cuckoo. In it's original rive
1t is the proud crow of the game. tboe
:. No matter in what form the ne r.
n is presented, the object for or
N 1t is intended will never be al Of
I'd, or we miss our guess, about God
me oCner nand, it will tinct
uce a GOODNESS, a diplomatic re- ica1
Mt among two nations who nave NO
,0ioie lriendiy' right
this because of the blunder of q for .
dent who desires to succeed him the
WIN the aid of Jewish votes. But ;ts p;
all is said and done, will he get Cart
mated
o- fused