Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-30
The New Diplomatic Appointments.

Save under exceptional circumstances
PERSONAL changes in the diplomatic corps
P6fany nation have largely lost importance,
since the connection of all the principal
countries ofthe world by electric telegraph
has enabled instantaneous communlca-
tion between foreign Ministers and their
home governments. This is particularly
tbe case with the United States. The
ocean cables to Europe and Central and
South America and the rapid intercourse
now possible with Mexico by railroad as
well as wire have abridged the discretion
and therefore the responsibility and the
consequence OF our diplomatic delegates.
What we may term their ornamental
functions have not been lessened; and
with the growth of travel and commerce
among nations their minor cares-of
social nature, OF collecting and transmit
ting intelligence not strictly diplomatic
in character, ard of helping individual
citizens in various wavs-have largely in
creased. But their importance in the
more serious dealings OF nation with ma
ton, such as, for an extreme illustration,
involve war or peace, has shrunk very
much.
President Cleveland yesterday displaced
four Minister'S of the first class-Messrs.
Lowell, Morton, -Kasson and Morgan
who have been serving President Arthur
in Great Britain, France, Germany
and Mexico, and nominated Messrs.
Pbelps. Mel aue, Pendleton and Jack
son in their stead. There have
been times when such a change would
suggest on the face of it, by the new
names, the lines of foreign policy, if there
are new ones, on the part of a new admin
istration, and public discussion would rur
in that direction. This is not so now, fol
everybody knows that no Minister of the
United States anywhere in the world is 81
situated that he cannot communicate a
once with the State Department at Wash
ington in any emergency and be guided
rom day to day by minute directions
adapted to the shifting phases Of the
i case. Public discussion Of these
monuments yesterday applied
tsli, therefore, mainly to personal crit
Gm of the new Ministers as representa-
tres of the dignity of our country, its
manners and morals, the tone of its civil
zatiOn. We print large number OF in
teryiews on the subject with all kinds o
intelligent people in this city and its vicin
ty. With the exception of groaning anC
gumbling among politicians, their gen
eTal drift is very favorable and compli
mentary.
President Cleveland, and Of course Sec
rotary Bayard also, show in these appoint
neutrality-suspicious. of any political clique
Or faction, The new Ministers all are O
mature age, high character and acknowl
edged abilities and requirements. Two o
them-Messrs. McLane and Jackson
have served as foreign Ministers before
and OF these Gov. McLane has had dip
4omatlc experience unsurpassed in merl
and variety by that of any other member @
lheparty IN power. The qualifications @
Mr. Pendleton to represent the countr.
most honorably have been too often an,
100 lately extolled by the Herald to nee
any fresh recital of them, and Mr.. Phelp
certainly will carry to the mission in Lon
Gon an acuteness Of reasoning and sol
1 GLty Judgment greatly needed there i
tne dealings between Great Britain an
the United States
we therefore Welcome the coming dir
.uulatlsls. But in speeding the departin
o1es ii would be ungracious were we not t
tSckno,w!ledgethat inmany particulars the
nave displayed merits which wifTput the
successors oS to a desirable test. We hay
T TOn. occasion during the residence of M
lin OTeLl IN London and Mr.. Kasson in Be
acti ~ altlcise the one severely for tram
pnJo o,N IN the matter of arbitrary arres
sbo ueg the Crimes act, and the otht
ia ,@,piy Tor his share in the Congo Coz
mo ttlce but we have not overlooked otht
r. I I'VE IN which they have done hone
been nV country cunt. Mr.. Morton in France h
6 aor.a:,N Minister whose departure will |
IJer l!liy regretted, and Mr.. Morgan
c ,ouAlGo has been so blanneless and so a
p EimpAshed diplomatist that if our TO
Of ~ User service were organized on the pls
not u t OF European countries he wou
HAZE dropped but transferred
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