The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-05
GERMANY WOULD
GET THE TRADE
Result of Estrange-
ment With Russia.
SITUATION is IMPROVING
GREAT BRITAIN ALSO MODIFY
ING HER VIEW.

st. Petersburg, March 4.-TLe Rus
sian press halls with great satisfaction
the American dispatches of the last few
days as indicating a change in the dis
position of the Washington govern
ment toward Russia. The Bourse Ca
zette and the Novoe Vremya this morn
ing discuss in sober-inmed fashion
Russo-American relations and the dan
ger OF permanent enlargement. The
Bourse Gazette says there is something
profoundly regretable in the present
relations between these two world
powers.
They transcend the bounds Of com
mon logic. The position taken by
American since June and the anti-Rus-
sian newspaper campaign in the United
States are so inexplicable that they
seem like a nightmare. Since the be-
ginning of its history America has in
splred the liVeliest feeling Of friend
ship and admiration among Russians,
and diplomatic and political express
slons of these feelings have been con-
tinuous and constant.
Amounted to Worship.
an Russian social circles there has
ever been a veritable worship of the
classic land of liberty. and the Amer
leans have always heretofore made
Russian friendship the cornerstone of
their foreign policy. Suddenly. as if an
evil spirit had broken loose. the Amer
leans, despite their practical turn of
mind, began TO do everything to slim
ulate japanese aggressiveness and
seem now TO be anxiOusly awaiting
japanese victories in Asia, where i'm
portant American commercial inter
estS are centered. As a matter OF fact.
hostility between the United States and
Russia would be as great n misfortune
TO civilization in the twentieth CEN
fury as was the rivalry between France
and Germany in the nineteenth. The
duty of every right-minded man is to
arrest the growth of this animosity
Russian diplomacy owes it to the
Americans and to the whole civilized
world to do its utmost. We are not
called upon to re-echO hostile sounds
coming from beyond the Atlantic, be-
cause unfriendly sentiments do not ex-
list among us. The latest advices per
nit the belief that IL will be much
easier to remove the misunderstanding
than the enemies Of Russia may
think"
Favorable Symptoms.
The Novoe Vremya says it does not
Know whether the Washington cabinet
influenced such incidents as the gift of
$4,000 by Charles r. Crane of Chicago
to the young czarina's fund for Rus
sian soldiers and sailors, the pro-Rus-
sian Irish demonstration in New York
and the quieJeT tone of the business
press, but the paper believes il notes
an important change in American Of
fetal tactics beginning with a disincli-
nation to favor the Japanese cable
oil 4 ~
rotary Hays dissatisfaction with the
anti-Russian press campaign which
was further proved by his
not insisting on dispatching United
States consuls to An Tung and Mukden
at this time. which quite agrees with
President ROOsevelts decision to allow
Mr. Morgan (appointed United States
consul at Port Dalny) to remain at
home for the present and not to send
the battleship Kentucky to the scene of
hostilities in the far cast. The paper
adds;
Grieved But Not frightened.
I'VE are certain that this change is
as agreeable to the Americans as it is
TO US. The antagonism of Washington
distressed, but did not brighten us, for
things could not come to a rupture, as
prudence must end always in dOminat-
ing impulse, and there being no serious
reason for a quarrel, the practical
Yankees must realize that the tele-
gram Of the American consul at Mos
COW 10 Chicago 10 the effect that Am
erican business in Russia was suffer-
ing by reason Of the anti-Russian feel |
ing said 10 exist in the United States |
Illustrated the feeling 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. Germany stepped in |
TO the British shoes"
In conclusion, the Novoe Vremya |
says:
All is well that ends we'll. If the 4
light, cool fog which has been hang |
ing over Washington is dispelled and 4
he good old feelings return, we shall |
be the first 20 welcome them"