The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-05
RUSSIAN PRESS
To THE DEFENSE
Sorry For Manifest Hostility to
Russia.
WANT TO PLAY FAIR GAME
NEVER GUILTY OF ANY DOUBLE
DEALING.

Correspondence Associated Press.)
st. Petersburg, June 21.-Tne VestniS
Europy views with deep concern the
fact that tse foreign press is again
largely inimical to Russia. Even old
friends like the United States have
lately displayed in their press a hos
tility such as has hitherto character
lied England alone" says this long
established and dignified review, which
continues as follows:
Our policy in China scarcely jusu-
fies the reproaches which the Ameri-
can press is heaping upon us. We
suffered incomparably more from the
Chinese troubles than any OF the other
powers. and nevertheless we have tax
en- far less thought of compensation
and of the defense of our interests in
the future than others nave. Under
the compulsion of events which we
did not foresee, or which we could not
prevent, we had to occupy Manchuria-
Once we had entered a Chinese prov
ince we could not leave it until order
had been restored and the protection
of our railroad had been insured.
Couldn't Jeopardize Railroad
when this had been accomplished
we could not make up our minds TO
place the results of our efforts In
jeopardy again, and so we kept de-
ferring the evacuation of the provinces
that we had occupied in order to OBJ
tain from the Chinese government
some guarantee for the future. In this
logical cOnca tenatiOn of circumstances
one can scarcely find traces of
treacherous policy of conquest which
would properly occasion the dissatiS-
faction and the protests of the inter
ested powers. Sooner could we be con-
Victed Of heedlessness than treachery,
he nf a
foreign territory in reliance upon all
neighbOrly friendship was in itself
risky undertaking.
THE vacillations, contradictions and
uncertainties in our conduct and in our
declarations about the Manchurian
question can easily be traced to causes
which are perfectly applicable to Us,
but which do not exist as far as for
eign cabinets are concerned. In Man
churia three separate authorities are
at work, and each has it own view and
seeking in its own way to defend the
interests of the state. The ministry of
foreign affairs is naturally chiefly
mindful to avoid all misunderstand-
ings and conflicts with foreign powers,
and is therefore always inclined to
make peaceable declarations even in
cases where their fulfllment does not
depend on the diplomats alone.
THE ministry of war is, for it's part,
unable to withdraw troops from a re-
gion that still needs military protec-
ton, and is therefore often compelled
to have recourse to measures againSt'
which diplomacy has pronounced in its
declarations The ministry of finance
keeps the great material interest con-
nected with the east Chinese railroad
mainly in view. and is compelled there
fore to insist on great caution and the
gradual evacuation of Manchuria.
Consistency Out of Question.
Where three independent authorities
are engaged one can scarcely expect
uniformity and consistency in the Of
fetal declarations and actions, and thus
are explained many peculiarities in the
course of our Chinese affairs. Contra
dictions between the conduct of the
various authorities are taken by for
eigners as a proof of the dislOyalty Of
our government and as a sign of am
bilious plans which are directed i'm
mediately or remotely against the in
terest of other powers"
The VeStnik EurOpy, however, re-
CARDS the ''insolent tone of he foreign
press toward Russia" as due to some
thing beyond ERRORS of diplomacy or
weakness of foreign policy.
I'VE have to do here" it continues,
with one of man, symptoms of a deep,
ternational questions serve only as a
convenient preteXt. Foreign newspa-
peTs. even those which enjoy the great
est authority, more and more frequent
~ draw unseemly parallels between
Russia and Turkey. making use withal
of matter which it is not customary to
treat in our press. Diplomatic hypOc-
risy, treachery and cunning in foreign
politics, al THAT we are reproached
with in our dealings with China, are to
a far higher degree characteristic of
the English, and in part of other ma
tons also. We need here mention only
the conduct of the Americans in Cuba
and after the Spanish war, but particu-
larly their actions in the Philippines.
How quickly the civilizing mission Of
the emancipators degenerated here into
an open policy of robbery and con-
quest"