The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07

THE CITY OF TITLES
THAT Is THE CAPITAL OF THE
UNITED STATES.
n You Have No Title and Are Going to
Washington You Would Be Wise To
Order One with Your New Cea.-For.
eigners With and Without Titles,

Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, March This Is pro
| eninently the city of titles. If you come
to Washington to live bring your title
with You II you have none, order ens
| made along with your new dress cost
You will flnd it very convenient here. Ths
man without title is lonesome in Wash
ingson- He feels humble. useless, almost
humiliated. He endures for time his sad
condition, but in the end does one of two
shIng@he acquires, or Perhaps it is bet
ter TO say secures, or Obtains, or wears, a
title; or else he gives it up and moves
away. 1t is one Of the best known tradi-
tons OF the national capital that there is
no place like It for titles-no place in
which titles grow 80 thickly and luxu-
riously. Nine men out of ten have some
sort of handle to their names. The ma
tional weakness for titles appears to be
concentrated here at the national seat.
We even insist upon giving more titles TO
foreign dignitaries than they have a right
TO, and persssentfy thrust upon some of
them who have no titles at all the highest
titular honors
To the average American it is incredible
that every member of the diplomatic corps
is not baron or count or marquis or some
thing or other. IL he isn't, thinks the
American, what the deuce is he doing over
heres What right have the effete mon
arches to send plain Eaisfers TO represent
them ut the court Of Uncle Sam, Are we
not as good IS other nations, Thus the
impetuous Yankee goes on and on, expos
ing his ignorance and his inconsistency at
the same time. 1t Is a lanentable fact that
we plain, common, every day republicans,
who boast Of our democracy and wax elo-
quent over the shsurdity that all men were
born free and equal, are the craziest of all
the title craze people IN the world.
AT White House reception last month
Senator Sanders, of Montana, eagerly
grasped the fat paw of the good natured
British minister and exclaimed, my dear
Lord PaUncefote, how are you," Il asn
very we'll, fortunate enough TO be here, and
TO meet YOU, my dear senator, but not
fortunate enough TO be lord" replied the
minister suavely Mr.. PaHncefote is Sir
Julian, and that's all. But three Amer
leans out of four insist upon promoting
him to the peerage. When Sackville West
was British minister here the snobs of So
oiety almost invariably called him Lord
West, though he WAS until within a year
or SO of his departure from Washington
nothing but plain ''Mr. Vest
In the same way we insist upon putting
ode" before the names of all our friends
from France and Italy, and won before
those from Germany, irrespective of the
proprieties. During the recent interra-
tional marine congress held in this CITY
q distinguished looking delegate, whom
the Americans had always addressed as
Baron" finally made this statement: at
IS true we have classes and titles and no.
bility in my country, but it is not true. as
some of you appear TO suppose, that ali the
men who become noted or useful have
titles. In England l am always called M.
de -, but in America, where i under
stand rou have neither titles nor classes,
am always Baron de At home, in
my own country, am plain NJ. -"
A very distinguished diplomatic is NJ
Theodore Roustan, who since 1882 has so
ably and acceptably represented the French
Republic at this capital. He is nothing
but plain monsieur in France or mister in
but the society tuft-honors de-
cline TO let him off with anything less than
a marquisate. The same thing is true of
NJ. Charles de Strive. the Russian minister,
who never had a title in Russia, but in
America is a baron, whether he will or not.
A mistake so common rs TO pass uunoticed
Is that of speaking OF the German or
French or Chinese embassy in Washing
ton. There is no such thing as an embassy
here, for the simple reason that there are
40 ambassadors. In pursuance of the |
principles of simplicity laid down by our |
l. a
refuses to give even the most important OF |
is representatives abroad a higher title |
han that of minister, or, to use accurate |
;erms, minister plenipotentiary and Ell
roy extraordinary.
Diplomatic usage doesn't permit us to |
'ece1ve from other countries representa- /
ives of higher rank than we send TO their |
courts, and consequently there are no am
)assadors here and no Enthusiastically |
minister's and legations. Minister pleni- |
and envoy extraordinary"
ounds as big as all out doors, but il is |
PRETTY small potatoes compared to a gen
line ambassador. / know an able, accom-
,lished, amiahle, even pious gentleman |
Who was once in the diplomatic service OF
his country as minister 10 a European |
curt. He was never known 70 indulge in
except when be spoke of the
manner in which he used TO cool his heels
n the anteroom of the prime minister
While the ambassadors from Monaco and |
doDte Carlo and Costa Rioa and lot of
ther one horse powers were going In and |
ut, each IN his turn, and casting, As they |
assed him by, lofty glances of pity and
uperlority upon the unfortunate minister
rom the United States OF America.
Yet IL must not be supposed we have no
tiled foreigners here. We are overrun
nth them. The young iaiies who made
neir debut in capital society last winter
Tere fairly bewildered by the array Of
tied foreigners which their sstonished
yes beheld. Aastro Hungary sends US
II her minister gay and handsome oheva-
er, Schmit Won Tsvera, aud he IL assisted
/ the management Of the legation By the
aron Vriera, the Chevalier de Krapf-
iverhoff and Count Bella Batthyany, the
ss named being descendant Of the zrea,
asehyany family of Hungary, conpa,rot.
Kossuth. Belgium, a land n which
,uBte are as thick As winonills, sends .
ain mister as its minister 10 the United
,ates, bat, mindful Of the necessities Of
'ashsnt ION society, gives him Tor a.sise- |
soul DE Vuen-
The Chinese minister and nearly all Of
e stsaches Of the Chinese legation are
en- Of high rank, tus tAssr tztiea, uRfort~ ;
isteiy, are not known 70 the average
Derican- The PerraSH, the Sisnese and /,
e Turkish ministers have sutf7xes TO
ear nAInes which are ia the European .
.se tsssss> II ysu AaDpen 10 neet the q
Inissa tPpE Siam do not sdsr-~ hsr a. J
Z. PhyA Nontri Sung, bat a. Phya Mon }
Surg . WUsze, To leave "a the .
on9ss il a mortal oHense, ike tha: Of ac- c
sing celonel Of tie regular army ~
k;or
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