Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-02
PEACE FARLEY ECHOES
Presidents Experiences In Deal.
 ing With the Envoys.
HOW OBSTACLES WERE OVERCOME

Russians Said to Have Been sus-
 picious and 0verbearing-.Admir
 ton of Nipponites For Mr. Roose-
 welt When They Understood Him.
 'In dealing with the peace commits sioners President Roosevelt had far the easier time with the Japanese pleneSo- tentiaries," said one of the men who had heard from the chief executive the anecdotes hereinafter related concern ing the real 'inside of some of the con ferences which were held at Sagamore Hill," says the New York Tribune. "They were willing to take his word for any statement of facts and seemed anxious from the beginning to do ev- erything to please him. The same could hardly be said of the Russians; they were suspicious, overbearing and, when ever they were at loss for an argu- ment or a reason for their refusal to come to terms, would invariably fall back on the grandeur of their history. Russia can never pay indemnity; she is too great Russia can never cede ter ritory; her history is too sublime.'
 After the president had listened to these set speeches for some time, he one day asked the Russian enyoys if Russia had not ceded territory after the Crimean war.
 "'Ah, yes, but that was different case they exclaimed.
 "'Quite true,' agreed the president; this is another war; but, if you refuse to cede Sakhalin, how are you going to defend it? The Japanese now hold the island, do they not? ....
 "'Yes,' admitted the plenipotentiaries.
 "'And you have no navy in Asiatic waters or in any other waters that is likely to retake it within generation ?
 "'Alas, quite true! again admitted the Russian envoys. ..
 "'Then how are you going to avoid ceding the islandY asked the presi- dent.
 ITO this clincher they had no reply except again to fall back on Russia's past.
 "The president intimated rather dry. 1 ly that her position was not half as glorious just then as it had been at va, rious other times in her history and made a few other remarks which, l think, opened the eyes of the enyoys.
 "In his dealings with the Japanese plenipotentiaries he soon found that he was considerably handicapped by their ignorance of our commonest idioms and fg6res of speech. When he illus. trated point with figure he usually had to spend quarter of an hour dia' graming the thing Then, when they finally understood, they held up thelr hands in admiration and awe.
 "'The president is the wisest of men. He speaks in parables. He is a seer, they exclaimed.
 For instance one day, he said, Keep the kernel and throw away the shell, when he was trying to make the Japa- nese understand how much better il would be to accept a settlement that was to their immediate advantage than to try to force larger indemnity that they perhaps could not collect after it had been extorted-on paper.
 "'What does that meanT they asked. Where Is the nut? We do not see any
 "When they finally saw the applica- ton of the presidents remark they were immensely pleased and were all the more impressed with his prophet ! like speech.
 During another conversation that he had with Baron Komura and Minister Takahira over the same subject the president said: When lived out west and had occasion to travel across the plains we sometimes found bull on the track. Although the right of way was ours and, if we wanted, we could knock that bull of the rails, we did not do so unless we had to. We would blow the whistle. let of steam, ex- haust the air brakes, even get out of the train and throw stones at that bull, before wed butt into him. And our solicitude was not because we loved that bull either. Now, in this case Ja- pan reminds me of the train, which has the right of way, and Russia Is the bull on the track
 Baron Komura and Minister Taka- hira were completely mystihed-
 "'How do we resemble locomotive l and train of carsf they exclaimed in duet. And how does Russia imperson- ate a bulll An, 1t Is because the Rus sians below so very loud that they are Ike the bull upon the trackF
 The president spent some ten min utes elucidating.
 "'We are Ike the locomotive and the train because we represent progress, Is | 1t not soT they then asked.
 "GNo. no. nor cried the president
 "'But we do represent progress, cried Baron Komura la an injured tone of voice And the Russians do below Ike the bull upon the track
 "'of course you are progressive as. serted the president. I did not wish 1 to hint that you are not What I want ed to make plain was the probability that if you press your demands for a great cash indemnity it will cost you more than you would like to pay. Jus, % with the train and the bull The train can undoubtedly knock the bull oi the track. but ID doing SO stands . i very good chance of sustaining some very serious damage. That's vhy we always tried to get the bull to move without butting him seel I dh not mean that Russis's character was at all like a bull or thsf yours resembled