740.] The American Minister was therefore instructed to exert his influence with the Russian Government in the direction of mitigating the severity of the anti-Jewish measures.

He was to point out to the Russian authorities that the maltreatment of the Jews in Russia was not purely an internal affair of the Russian Government, inasmuch as it affected the interests of the United States.

Within ten years 200,000 Russian Jews had come over to America, and continued persecutions in Russia were bound to result in a large and sudden immigration which was not unattended with danger.

While the United States did not presume to dictate to Russia, "nevertheless, the mutual duties of nations require that each should use his power with a due regard for the other and for the results which its exercise produces on the rest of the world." [1] [Footnote 1: _Loc.cit_., p.

737.] The remonstrances of the American people which were voiced by their representatives at St.Petersburg were received by the Russian Government in a manner which strikingly illustrates the well-known duplicity of its diplomatic methods.