The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-05
The RUSSIAN PtERIPOTENTIARY TALKS
ON THE PROSPECT OF EARLY PEACE

NEW YORK, Aug. when the Kaiser
IN Wilhelm der Crosse arrived at her
| pier, NJ. White handed to Professor
De Martens the following statement,
( which Professor De Martens read aloud:
For the friendly greetings of the
] American newspapers upon my first visit
to the hospitable shores Of the United
states | offer my heartfelt thanks. This
kind attention touches me all the more
PROFOUNDLY because | realize the vastneSs
OF the power welded by the press of the
United States and admire the keen in
telligence with which it is uniformly di-
Tected. l am glad TO be able to add that
the aims of the attainment of which that
power is so often and so successfully
employed.
,''One of the noblest of these aims is
ship among nations, and it is to the
pralseworthy efforts of the people of the
Jnifed States in this direction that my
visit to the new world is attributable
For it is in compliance with the American
people desire for peace, of which Presi-
dent Roosevelt was the authorized ex-
ponent, that his majesty, the czar, has
empowered me to come hither and ascer-
tam the conditions which our gallant ad-
Yersary deems necessary and adequate as
basis for peace negotiations.
Hopes For Peace.
/
ardent desire that the two chivalrous
Toes, who first became acquainted on
the field of battle may have found in
each other sterling qualities motives
qualntanceship until it ripens into lasting
friendship. Meanwhile, however. the
terms offered must first be ascertained
weighed and judged admissibly by Russia
before she can proceed TO formal negotia-
tons. Hitherto as you are aware it was
customary in cases like this to settle all
such pre!iminarites before the meeting of
the pIenlpotentiaries whose task it was
10 come to a final agreement on the mat
terS under discussion.
NOW the very fact that his majesty, the
car, consented to take a course inVOV-
ing departure from this ancient diplomatic
usage and to appoint a mission to learn
Inc nature of our brave enemyS terms is
an eloquent token of the friendly feeling
which he and his subjects continue to
cherish towards the people of the United
States. | say to cherish because at no
epoch of our history have our traditional
relations wit hthis great republic been
other than cordial And now | should
like to say. and to prove to your people
who live less in the past than in the pres
ent and the future, that it is the fervent
wish of the emperor and the people of
Russia further to strengthen the ties of
friendship which have hitherto subsisted
between the two nations.
1t is in virtue of that sincere desire
that his majesty. the car, waiving all
other considerations. has unheSitatingly
accepted the cordial invitation of your
first, citizen and genial leader. And if
my mission should prove in all other re-
spects barren and the endeavor to find
a common basis for peace negotiations
should fail for the time being, the signal
proof of friendship given by his majesty.
the car, and the Russian nation would
still stand out as a memorable event
fraught- | trust, with far-reaching and
beneficent results to the two great peo-
pies of the west and the east"
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, with
NJ. Sergius White, arrived in quarantine
this afternoon. Mr.. Witte was in good
health. The ship had a good passage,
being smooth except on Sunday and Mon
day, when it was a little rough.
On shipboard NJ Witte was generally
reticent when the subject of his mission
was mentioned However, to an Asso-
ciated Press correspondent, who accom-
panied him from Cherbourg, M Witte
said:
1.-The Russians have had reverses, but
this does not signify that they have lost
the power that was known to the Mus
covite before the war, nor does it mean
that Russia has become a negligible
nor that the Japanese have ac-
luired by result of the recent victories
such a supremacy as to make the Rus
sian empire consider them truly re-
EQUITABLE enemy"
NJ. Witte recognizes the good qualities