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Show WHEN RUSSIA AIDED AMERICA. Xot long ago the legislature of the state of Iowa, by a decisive majority," parsed .resolution de-! de-! ploring the sympathy of Americans for Japan and j condemning the hostility of the people toward Ru- sia. We are not certain that one of the resolutions i reflected upon the international policy of the gov-j gov-j eminent, but opine that it did. However, the reso-j reso-j lutions adopted were strong and Hat-footed, giving ! no uncertain tone regarding the sentiment of the people of Iowa as expressed by their repre-j repre-j scntatives. For justifications of its action, the legislature legis-lature of Iowa called attention to the assistance Russia rendered the .states of the north in the civil war and the friendly relations which had existed ex-isted between the two countries up to the break- j ing out of hostilities between Japan and the govern- ; ment of the czar. j This action of the Iowa legislature was the first ! break in the monotony of Japanese adulation, but j Others have since occurred. X7 eommpnt nnnonrs i i in the jingo newspapers which published the dis- j patch from Des Moines, but comment was not to be ' expected. j Iowa, probably better than any other state of the Union (not excepting Yankee Xew England), represents native American sentiment. Comparatively Compara-tively there are fewer foreigners in Iowa than in other states of the middle west. Colleges, academies acade-mies and institutions of learning are seen more frequently fre-quently in Iowa than in any other place west of the Mississippi. Why is it Iowa is not in touch with popular sentiment regarding this war in the East The answer is that the people of Iowa are real Americans. An intelligent, educated people will not withhold praise from a nation so niarvelously changed from barbarism to enlightenment like Ja pan; neither will they iorce themselves to admit the false ethics teaching that sympathy precedes gratitude. Living in Iowa are men who passed through the civil war, citizens familiar with the causes that brought it about. These have some knowledge of the Anglo-French conspiracy to aid the states in rebellion and defeat the object of the loyal north. In Iowa, the question nearest the soul of the people was this: What nation would President Presi-dent Lincoln aid were he alive and president That is enough. Below is a little bit of history, the testimony of persons close to President Lincoln. It explains why Iowa is justified in its condemnation of jingo centiment: Thurlow Weed relates a conversation between Admiral Ad-miral FanagUt and Admiral Lessovsky during the winter of 1863-64, as follows: " A ln-.!..ot TT., . u... 3 t It ...1 he was frequently visited by the Russian admiral, between be-tween whom, when they were young officers serving in the Mediterranean, a warm friendship had sprung up. Sitting in my room one day after dinner. Admiral Farragut said to his Russian friend, 'Why are you spending -the winter here in idleness?' " 'I am here,' replied the Russian admiral, 'under sealed orders to be. broken only in a contingency that has not yet occurred.' "He added that the Russian war vessels were lying off San Francisco with similar orders. lJuring his conversation the Russian admiral admitted that he had received orders to break the seals if during the rebellion we became involved in a war with foreign nations. Strict confidence was then enjoined. "Louis Napoleon had invited Russia, as he did England, to unite with him in demanding the breaking break-ing of the blockade. The Russian ambassador informed in-formed his government that England was preparing for war with America, on account of the seizure of Mason and Slidell. Hence two fleets were immediately sent across the Atlantic under sealed orders, so that if their services were not needed, the intentions of the emperor would remain, as they have to this day, secret. It is certain, however, that when our govern--ment and Union were imperilled by a formidable rebellion, re-bellion, we should have found a oowprful nv in T?.io. sia, had an emergency occurred." The latter revelation is corroborated by a well known New York gentleman, who was in St. Petersburg Peters-burg when the rebellion began, and who, during an unofficial call upon Prince Gortschakoff, wsa shown by the chancellor an order written in Alexander's own hand directing his admiral to report to President Lincoln for orders in ease England or France sided with the confederates. The Alabama arbitration, by Thomas Willing Balch, Philadelphia, 1900, gives an account by George Pierce, esq., of an interview in 1872 between ex-Governor Cur-tin, Cur-tin, the United States minister at St. Petersburg, arid Prince Gortschokoff. The Russian chancellor, showed Governor Curtin the orders to the Russian admirals and other important correspondence. , In a letter of Secretary Seward to John Bigelow, consul general at Paris( dated June 25, 1862, published in the New York Sun Jan. S, 1002, Mr. Seward said: "Between you and myself alone, I have a belief. that the European state, whichever one it may be, that commits itself to intervention anywhere in North America, will sooner or later fetch up in the arms of w, vi.uiim luuw.uj iiui especially distin guished for amiability of temper." Another piece of evidence quoted by Mr. Balch is a letter from Wharton Barker, esq., about the policy of Russia during the civil war, printed in the New York Sun Jan. 9, 1902: "Mr. Barker, for many years a financial agent of the Russian government in the United States, relates an interview to which he was called in August, 1879, at the palace at Pavlovsk by the .Emperor Alexander II, and say s, in part: "With great earnestness and some sadness he (the emperor) said that in the autumn of 1862 France and Great -Britain proposed to Russia in formal, but not in an official, way the joint recognition of European nations of the independence of the Confederate States of America. He said his immediate answer was. 'I will not co-operate in such action and I will not acquiesce, ac-quiesce, but, on the contrary, I shall accept recognl- tion of the independence of the confederate states by France and Great Britain as a causa belli for Russia, and that the governments of France and Great Britain may understand this is no idle threat, I will send a Pacific fleet to San Francisco and an Atlantic fleet to New York. Sealed orders to both admirals were given.' After a pause he proceeded, saying: 'My fleets ....,1 r tv. A - : 1 . cimvcu m viut-iii.-ttii puriM, mere was no recognition recogni-tion of the independence of the confederate states by Great Britain and France, the American rebellion wa3 put down and the great American republic continues. All this I did because of love for my own dear Russia Rus-sia rather than for love of the American republic. I "acted thus because I understood that Russia would hve a more serious task to perform if the American republic, Mith advanced industrial development, was broken up and Great Britain left in control of most branches of modern industrial development." The squadron of Admiral Lessovsky consisted of the flagship Alexander Nevski, the Osliaba, the Pe-resvet, Pe-resvet, the Variag and the Vitlas. The Variag arrived in September, and Admiral Lessovsky, with his other ships, reached New York during October. The authorities author-ities of the city gave the Russians a grand welcome. The significance of these . festivities was the more marked in that an English fleet to whom only the usual courtesies were extended, was also in the harbor har-bor at the same time. The fleet of Admiral Popoff at San Francisco con-' j sisted of the flagship Rogatyr. th- A-,.rk ,h 7" i j -j lvaivthp Gaildainask and th- Uyn-la. Th-, ' ' ' ' ! ; arrived iirst on Oct. IK. T3. and th- i:yihi:l7..,'.,,""";; i. the- 7th of th. following month. in ,-'"J-"' is-" j thK civil and military authoritif-s of Sim !.-, " ' j California gave Admiral Popoff ami his tfi.-..,'l "V"; ' : ball. "It was not," to qiiot. th- Alta. t '..ii r.,.'! . '! j Kier ball, but also a p-.litical demoiistr:i;jf,:i.- ""' 1 |