Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-03-10
PRESS OF RUSSIA
SATISFACTION AT TONE OF
AMERICAN DISPATCHES.
REGRETS THAT THERE IS STRAIN
Depreeates Effect OF Estrsnged Rela-
tons Between Two Nations and In
sists Prudence Must Ultimately Sur.
mount Impulse.

ST. PETERSBURG-The Russian
press halls with great satisfaction the
American dispatches of the last few
days as indicating change in the
disposition of the Washington govern.
ment toward Russia. The Bourse Ga
zette and the Novoe Vremya Friday
morning discuss in a sober-minded
fashion Russo-American relations and
the danger of permanent estrange-
ment. The Gazette says there is
something profoundly regrettable 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 a nightmare. Since
the beginning of its history America
has inspired the liveliest feeling of
friendship and admiration among Rus
slams, and diplomatic and political ex.
pressions of these feelings have been
continuous and constant. In Russian
social circles there has ever been a
veritable worship of the classic land
OF liberty and the Americans have al
ways heretofore made Russian friend
ship the corner stone of their foreign
policy
Suddenly, as If an evil spirit had
broken loose, the Americans, despite
their practical turn of mind. began to
do everything to stimulate Japanese
aggressiveness and seem now to be
anxiously awaiting Japanese victories
in Asia. where important American
commercial interests are centered. AS
a matter of fact, hostility between the
United States and Russia would be
as great a misfortune to civilization
in the twentieth century 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 anmosity.
Russian diplomacy owes it to the
Americans and to the whole civilized
world to do it's utmost We are not
called upon to re-echo hostile sounds
coming from be-ond the Atlantic be.
cause unfriendly sentiments do not
exist among us. The latest advices
| permit the belief that it will be much
easier to remove this misunderstood
ing than the enemies of Russia may
| think"
The Novoe Vremya says it does not
know whether the Washington cab
met influenced such incidents as the
gift of $4,000 by Charles h. Crane Of
Chicago to the Young Czarina's funt
for Russian soldiers and sailors, the
proRussian Irish demonstration il
New York and the quieter tone of the
British press, but the paper believes 4
notes an important change in Ameri
can official tactics, beginning with
disinclination to favor the japanese
cable project followed by the repor
of Secretary Hays dissatisfaction will
the anti-Russian press campaign
which disposition YVES further proved
by his not insisting on dispatchinl
United States consuls to Antung anC
Mukden at this time, which quit,
agrees with President Roosevelt's deci
sion to allow Mr.. Morgan, appointed
United States consul at Port Dalny, I,
remain at home for the present, an,
not send the battleship Kentucky t
the scene of the hcstilities in the fal
east.