Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-07-09
WARNED BY CAR
REFUSES TO RECEIVE ANY PETI.
TON RELATING TO INTERNAL
AFFAIRS.
SLAP IN THE FACE FROM RUSSIA
THAT'S WHAT WE WILL GET If
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
PERSISTS.
WILL Be SENT JUST THE SAME
STATE DEPARTMENT SAYS De.
LAY is FAULT OF THE
PETITIONERS.

Washington, July 3-"The Russian
government must categorically refuse
to receive from any power any petit
tlons. Representations or communlca-
tons relative to it's internal policy"
T..is is TIE closing paragraph Of
statement given out yesterday by the
highest source of authority in the mat
ter in this country. Its significance is
very deep. II is a direct warning to
carry out his expressed intention to
send to the car the petition from the
Jewish organizations in the United
states for the betterment of the con-
dition of their co-religionists in Rus
STA, he will be told to mind his own
business. 1t means that the friendly
relations which have existed for SO
many years between Russia and the
United States will become strained
should the president
Persist in His Purpose.
To put it plainly, President Roose.
Welt and the government Of the United
States are in danger of receiving
slap in the face from Russia. The
statement in which this significant
warning occurs was called forth by a
report that Russia had offered an eS-
PLANTATION of the kishineM massacre to
this country There is tone of indig-
nation in the denial which composcs
the rest of the statement, and which
reads as follows:
THE Russian government most pos
itively denies the report that it has
offered an explanation to the Amcri-
can government through the Russian
embassy at Washington or the Amcri-
can embassy at st. Petersburg regard
ing the kishinefr incident, or that it
has ever been addressed by the Amer
lean government upon the subject"
Will Send 1t Just tl:e Same.
The state department last night au-
thorized the following statement:
The delay in forwarding the petit
ticn of the American citizens of the
Jewish faith as to the ill treatment Of
their co-religonists in Russia was
solely due to the delay in furnishing
the address to the state department by
the petitioners The state department
would, of course. pay no heed to any
statement purporting to emanate from
the Russian government. unless such
statement was made officially in some
form or other to our own government.
The state department has been careful
to act only in accordance with all re-
quirements of official propriety, but
within the limits thus laid down, it
will most
Certainly Not Hesitate
to give expression to the deep sympa
thy felt not only by the administration
but by all the American people for the
unfortunate Jews who have been the
victims in the recent appalling mas
sacras and outrages."
In this connection it was pointed out
by another official, who d:sciaimed to
speak in his official capacity, however,
that 1t seemed somewhat strange to
say the least, that "the Russian gov
eminent would choose this particular
method of making statement to the
American people at this very time
when by methods certainly the reverse
of friendly to the United States it has
sought to make China join in break
ing the plighted faith of all treaties as
to open door in Manchuria and has
endeavored to bar our people from &C.