The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-05

RUSSIA Is RELIEVED
Thinks She Sees a Change in
American Sentiment.
AT LEAST OFFICIALLY
Several Facts Indicate Wash
ington's Neutrality.

ST. Petersburg, March 4-The Russian
press halls with great satisfaction the
American dispatches of the last few days
as indicating a change in the DISPOSE
ton OF the American government toward
Russia. The Bourse Gazette and the
Novoe 'Vreyma this morning discuss in a
sober-minded fashion American re-
lations and the danger OF permanent
estrangement. The Gezatte says there
is something profoundly regretaable in
the present relations between these tvs
world powers.
They transcend the bounds of common
logic. The position taken by America
since last June and the anti-Russian news
paper campaign in the United States are
sa inexplicable that they seem like a
nightmare. Since the beginning OF its
history America has inspired the liveliest
feelings of friendship and admiration
among Russians, and diplomatic and po-
litical expressions of these feelings have
been continuous and constant. In Rus
sian social circles there has ever been
veritable worship of the classic land or
liberty and the Americans have always
corner stone of their foreign policy. Sud-
denly as if an evil spirit had broken
loose, The Americans, despite their prac-
teal turn OF mind, began to do every
thing TO stimulate Japanese aggressive
ness and seem now to be anXiously await
iu5 japanese victories in Asia where i'm
portant American commercial interests
are conferred. AS matter of fact hostil-
ity between America and Russia would
be as great a misfortune to civilization in
the twentieth century as was the rivalry
between France and Germany in the nine
teenth. The duty of every right-minded
man is to arrest the growth of this ami
mostly.
Russian diplomacy owes 1t to the
Americans and the whole civilized world
to do its utmost We are called upon to
re-echo the hostile sounds coming from
beyond the Atlantic because unfriendly
sentiments do not exist among us. The
latest advices permit the belief that il
will be much easier to remove the misun-
derstandings than the enemies Of Russia
may think.
The Novoe Vreyma says it does not
know whether the Washington cabinet in
fluenced such incidents as the gift of
$4,000 by Charles r. Crane Of Chicago to
the Young Czarinas fund for Russian
soldiers and sailors the ro-Russian Irish
demonstration in New York anf the
quieter tone of the British press, but the
paper believes it notes a change in Amer
lean official tactics beginning with a dis
inclination to favor the Japanese CABLE
project, followed by the report of Secre-
tary Hays dissatisfaction with the anti
Russian press campaign. which disposf-
ton was further proved by his not in
sisting on dispatching United States con-
suls 10 An Tung and Mukden at this
time which quite agrees with President
Roosevelts decision to allow Mr.. Nor
gan appointed L. s. consul at Port Dali
N.Y. to remain at home for the present
and not to send the batteship 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 as it is to US.
The anita gonism of Washington distress
ed but did not brighten us. for things
could not come 10 a rupture, as prudence
must end always in dominating impulse
and there being no serious reason for
quarrel. The practical Yankees must
realize that the telegram of the American
consul at Moscow to Chicago, to the ef-
feet that American business In Russia
was suffering by reason of the anti Rus
sian feeling said to exist in the Unite.
States illustrated the feelings not only
II the Moscow merchants but of all
branches of Russian trade. What he pre-
dicted happened in the case of England
after the Crimean war. Germany stepped
into the British shoes
In conclusion the Novoe Vreyma says:
'Al is well that ends well. II the light,
cool fog which has been hanging over
Washington is dspelled and the good old
feelings return. We shall be the first to
welcome them