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Show pBJTMI'MSS! H N AS.SOC I ATI ON B The President lias been critic H iscd foolishly cnougli for the nies H sage sent to the Czar on the n?s H nssinalion of the Grand Duke Ser- H k'lus mid Monday, Mr. Haker of H New York condemned his act'on H in Congress. Mr. Grosonor of H Ohio, and one the ablest friends R of the President defended him and B - declared that in sending the mes- sage the President had done ex nctly what civilation icgardcd as S his duty. The United States has long carried its policy of befriend- B ingthe "under dog" to nn absuid j Apparently all that is necessary to receive our championship of a cause is that it should be a weak ) one. The charity of this spirit is J beyond criticism but the judge- ment of it is not always so lortun- ate. In the case of Spain and her opprcs'on of the colonies our interference has been ample vind- idled but scarcely so tuucli can be said of our senlimcnt in favoi of the Boers as opposed to F.ng land. When the war broke out H between Russia and Japan our sympathy was all with Japan, not because the cause represented by the Japanese va,s studied and an- I alyzed and'found tlic,bt8', but principally because the Japanese t were small people and "plucky", H It would bi lamentable indeed if B the United Status were by infcr- BB ence or declaration to show a spirit B that f.ivoreii any revolutionary BBBBfl party in Russia whose sciitime'iti H arc expressed by assassination ol H the rulers. Claritable, we ma H be, and the friend of the weak but BBBBB save us from mawkish .'entiment- |