The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-09
IT WAS AN UTTER FIZzLE
FOURTH OF july POORLY OBSERV-
ED BY AMERICANS ABROAD.

That Horrify His Brother Ambassadors.
Paris, July Z, 1896,
To the Editor OF the JOURNAL AND COURIER
Now that Fourth of July returns are
in from the various capitals of Europe,
it Is evident that the anniversary has
not been celebrated with the ordinary
amount of American bumptiousness.
There hasn't been nearly so much
pointing with pride" or challenging
comparison with the effete, &C." In
fact the rejecting citizen Of the United
States cannot just now point with
PRIDE" nor can he Challenge compari-
son with the effetes, &c." If he point at
all he must point to a country which
has the most expensive government on
the face of the earth: where expendi-
lures far exceeds income; where forced
loans are necessary to preserve the
standard value of the currency; where
economic notions prevail which in Eu-
rope are only known In lunatic asylums
and where a government officer, as a
reward for partisan support of a meas
ure declared unconstitutional by the
highest court in the land, is promoted
by the chief executive to the very high
est position in his gift. Even Depew,
with a big fee in his pockets and a big
dinner in his insides, would stagger be-
fore the task of euIogizing such a con-
ditiop. Here in Paris the celebration
was an utter fizzle in spite of accounts
which have appeared in print; and
there were several outside matters to
emphasize the fizzle. There is in Paris
body called the American Chamber of
Commerce. Exactly what are the func-
tons, purposes and objects of the body
nobody knows but the insides, and they
are not divulging. AT all events out
siders may safely conclude that the
concern is not a charitable organization
and that its supreme object is to make
money At the head of it is the Rev.
DR.. Tying, late of New York, V. S. s.!
This chamber of commerce thought it
"oNANA w SlAICl ~ lplhS anu q "
piece of advertising to take the Fourth
Of July celebration under it's wing.
How it succeeded in getting Mr.. Eustis
to preside, and two members of the
French government to be present, must
be asked Of the ex-dominie. 1t, more
over, succeeded in turning away those
reputable members of the American col
ony who always appear when unadul-
terated patriotism or good works call
them from their privacy. No one at
the banquet called attention to the fact
that the two great republics of the
present day, France and the United
States, have the two most expensive
governments of the present day Nor
was it asked how can you invite the
minions of despotism to republics
where their burdens will be increased
France has the better excuse, for she is
compelled to hold herself ready against
a nation that has more than one and a
half times her territory and fifteen mil
lions more of inhabitants France has
reached a point in taxation when 1t
seems as if not another centime could
be added. Yet the yearly deficits must
be met by new loans or by greater tax
alton. At home every burden can be
traced to venal ignorant and unrefect-
ing legislation. No extrinsic circum-
stances are responsible for our pension
laws nor for the gigantic commercial
frauds, swindles, monopolies, which leg
islatures manufacture and courts pro-
tect.
Mr.. Eustis is very odd amba ssador.
He is continually doing and saying
things that horrify his brother ambas-
sailors. His last performance was so
extreme that an emphatic disclaimer
was imperative. So no one must be-
lieve that he said that every American
sympathized with the Cuban rebels,
and that the United States will annex
Canada just as soon as IT chooses. What
the Figaro" will do remains to be seen.
1t gave the interview with names, dates,
place and every particular of confrma-
tion and the Figaro is not newspa-
per to manufacture am interview out of
| whole cloth.
Outsiders suggest that Mr.. Eustis is
engaged in manufacturing presidential
capital and that he is talking to voters
at home and not to diplomats abroad.
| 1t is too much to ask of any American
| to distinguish between minister and
an ambassador. To most Americans
| the position of consul-general would
seem the most honorable as it certain
| ly is the most lucrative. To appoint
ambassadors without surrounding them
with the pomp and ceremony which
constitute nine-tenths of the position, is
the greatest absurdity yet of United
| States diplomatic legislation. 1t would
| be far better to terminate the entire d.
p1omatic system than to present 1t as a
laughing stock to the courts of Europe.
A meeting between Ambassador Eustis
and Ambassador Bayard is said to be
| as good as play. Ambassador Bayard
| belongs to the old school of diplomats.
His grandfather was in the business.
He is by inheritance calm, suave, tact
turn He is up in all the details Of d.
plomacy, knows just how and when to
keep his mouth shut; and understands
to perfection fiattering queens, dukes,
| lords. &c. At the same time Ambassa-
dor Bayard has also the presidential
bee in his ambassadorial bonnet and,
although he would rather expire than
give way to one of Ambassador Eustis'
| untutored utterances, he has a most
| uncomfortable notion that the untu-
tored utterances aforesaid may be maxi
| ing voters at home. If the time has
come, as it is supposed to have come,
when the next democratic candidate
must be taken from a southern state,
why should not the man be Bayard,
thinks Bayard; and why should not the