Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1917 — ASSURES RUSSIA OF SUPPORT [ARTICLE]

ASSURES RUSSIA OF SUPPORT

President Tells New Government We AVill Give Assistance. Washington, August 28. —President Wilson sent to the members of the National Council at Moscow yesterday assurances that this government is willing to extend “every material moral assistance” to the government of Russia. y No official comment was made by government officials on Premier Kerensky’s speech before the members of the council the day before, but it was made clear that the sentiments expressed by the Russian leader were heartily approved here and that his declarations indicating the firm manner in which he and his counsellors are prepared to deal with enemies of the new government had aroused a greater confidence in the outline of their plans. The message cabled by President Wilson follows: I take the liberty to send to the members of the Great Council, now meeting in Moscow, the cordial greeting® of their friends, the people of the United States; to express their confidence in the ultimate triumph of ideals of democracy and self-government against all enemies within and without, and to give thejr renewed assurance of every material and moral assistance they can extend to the government of Russia in the promotion of the common cause in/which the two nations are unselfishly united.