Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-03-05
RUSSO-AMERICAN
CASE DISCUSSED
American Business interests In
Russia Are Suffering.
ALL's WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

Russian Newspapers Say 1t Is the Duty
| of RiehtMnded Americans to Ar.
rest Growth of Anti-Russian Feel.
| ing in the United States.
st. Petersburg, March 4-The Rus
sian press halls with great satisfac-
ton the American dispatches of the
| last few days as indicating a change
| IN the disposition of the Washington
government toward Russia.
| The Bourse Gazette and the Novoe
Vremya, this morning discuss in
| sober minded fashion Russo-American
relations and the danger OF a perma
| nent estrangement. The Gazette says
| there is something profoundly regret
| able in the present relations between
| these two world powers.
They transcend the bounds of com
mon logic. The position taken by
| America since last June and the anti
Russian newspaper campaign in the
United States are so inexplicable that
they seem like nightmare Since
the beginning of its history America
has inspired the liveliest feelings of
friendship and admiration among the
| Russians, and diplomatic and politi-
cal expressions of these feelings have
been continuous and constant. In
Russian socal circles there has ever
been veritable worship of the class
ic land of liberty and the Americans
have always heretofore made Russian
friendship the cornerstone Of their for
eign policy. Suddenly, as If an evil
spirit had broken loose, the Amsri-
cans, despite their practical turn Of
mind, began to do everything to stim-
| ulate Japanese. aggressiveness, and
seem not to be anxiously awaiting Jap.
anese victories in Asia, where Ameri-
can commercial interests are centered.
AS matter of fact, hostility between
the United States and Russia would
be as great a misfortune to civiliza-
ton in the twentieth century as was
the rivalry between France and Ger
many in the nineteenth. The duty
OF every right-minded man is to ar
rest the growth Of this animosity. Rus
sian diplomacy owes 1t to the Ameri-
cans and to the whole civilized world
to do it's utmost"
The Novoe Vremya says it does not
know whether the Washington cabi-
net influenced such incidents as the
gift of $4,000 by Charles B. Crane,
of Chicago, to the young czarina's fund
for Russian soldiers and sailors, the
pro-Russian Irish demonstration in
New York and the Quieter tone of the
British press, but the paper believes
it notes an important change in Amer.
lean official tactics beginning with
a disinclination to favor the Japanese
cable project, followed by the report
of Secretary Hays dissatisfaction with
the anti-Russian press campaign which
disposition was further proved by his
not sfnsisting on dispatching United
States consuls to Antung and Muk-
den at this time, which quite agrees
with President Roosevelt's decision to
allow Mr.. Morgan appointed United
States consul at Port Dalny to remain
at home for the present and not to
sen dthe battleship Kentucky to the
scene of hostilities in the Far East.
The paper adds:
I'VE are certain that this change is
as agreeable to the Americans az to
u.s.
THE antagonism of Washington dis
tressed but did not frighten us, for
things could not come to rupture.
as prudence must end always In DOM
mating impulse and there being no
serious reason for a quarrel. The
practical yankees must realize that
the telegram of the American consul
that American business in Russia was
suffering by reason of the anti-Russian
feeling said to exist in the United
States illustrated the feelings not only
of the Moscow merchants. but OF all
branches of Russian trade. What
he predicted happened in the case of
England after the Crimean war. Ger
many stepped into the British shoes"
In conclusion, the Novoe Vremya
says:
'AlI is we'll that ends we'll II
the light cool fog which has been
hanging over Washington is dispeTled
and the good feelings return, we shall
be the flrst to welcome them. .''Tf