The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05
Russian Review GrieVed at Inimi- cal Tone of Foreign Press
OLD FRIENDS ARE HOSTILE
Even the United States Is Acting h. consistently as Regards Philippines and cuba-Russla Justified
 In Manehurlan Policy.

St. Petersburg July 1.-The Vestnik Europy views with deep concern the fact that the foreign press Is again largely lnimicaI to Russia, Even old friends like the United States have lately displayed In their press a hostility such as has hitherto characterized England alone" says this long-established and dignified review, which continues as follows:
 .Our policy in China scarcely justified the reproaches which the American press is heaping upon us. We suffered incom- than any of the other powers. and never theless. we have taken far less thought of compensation and of the defense of our interests in the future than others have. Under the compulsion of events which we did not foresee or which we could not prevent we had to occupy Man ehuria. Once we had entered a Chinese had been restored and the operation of our railroad had been insured. When this had been accomplished we could not make mp our minds to place the results of our efforts in jeopardy again, and so we kept deferring the evacuation of the provinces that we had occupied In order to obtain from the Chinese government some guar antees for the future.
 No Traces of Treacherous Policy.
 Tn this logical sequence of circnm- stances one can scarcely find traces of a treacherous policy of conquest which would properly occasion tho lissatistac- tion and the protests of .he interested powers. Sooner could we be convicted of heedlessness than treachs.y, for the acquisition of a railroad in foreign terri tory. Reliance upon old neighborly friendship was in itself a risky under taking. N
 ''The vacillations, contradictions and uncertainties in our conduct and in our declarations about the ManchErian oues- tion can easily be traced to causes which are perfectly applicable to us but which do not exist as far as foreign cabinets are concerned. In Manchur,a three sep arate authorities are at work and each lns It's own views and sees It's own way 10 defend the interests of .he state. The ministry of foreign affairs is naturally chiefly mindful to avoid all 1misunderstan2 ings and conflicts with .ureign powers and is therefore always inclined to make peaceable declarations even In cases where their fulfillment does not depend upon the diplomatists alone.
 lnsolent Tone of Foreign Press.
 "The vestnick Europy, however, re- gards the 'insolent tone or the foreign press towards Russia as due 10 some- thing beyond errors of diplomacy or weakness of foreign policy.
 We have to do here" it continued, with one of many symptoms of a deep fundamental antagonism for which inter- national questions serve only as a con- venient pretext.
 Diplomatic hypocrisy. treachery and cunning foreign politics, all that we are reproached with in our dealings with China, are to a far higher degree char acteristic of the English and in part of other nations also. We need here men tion only the conduct of the Americans in Cuba and after the Spanish war. but particularly their actions in the Philip pines. How quickly the civilizing mission of the emancipators degenerated here into an open policy of robbery and con- quest"