Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1904 — AMERICA NOW IN EVIDENCE. [ARTICLE]

AMERICA NOW IN EVIDENCE.

London Paper Comments on Attitnde _ of United States. The London Morning Post devotes a long editorial article to a historical record of the rn-pid growth of American activity in far eastern affairs, comparing the present attitude of the United States with their passive Interest in the .Chino-Japanese war. Tlio .paper remarks on the notable pro-Japanese feeling in the United States after such a long traditional friendship with Russia, and contends that American friendship for the Czar’s empire was always artificial. Admiral Dewey’s guns, the paper continues, literally shattered the Superstition that Russia _w«a the appointed friend and Great Britain the appointed enemy of the United State*.—-