The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-23
|NJRB AMBASSADORS.
l.. president Favors Raising
the Rank.
!, coysrASrISoPLI AND MADRID

AN tUNDfN
p.tween ambassadors and
PIenipotentiary - Praise For
,onu Hay and Word oil 0r''''''-
,or political Service
w,suINGToN. March 23.-lSpecial. !
" '.idcnt Mckinley is in iaVor Oh eicNa.ine
MINISTERS at certain foreign oour,s 10
oui ranL of ambassador Inc parolcuiar
'uo " whose Importance ne Wishes " III
Due are that at Constahtihopie anu aU
cs0oar,d Az TO the first nameu, IL Is uh-
,I.Stood that negotiations nave alrea9y DC
uo,s With the Turkish government II ene
su ato I've found willing TO increase the rams
its representative IN M"shliB'oh, .lle
OIL 10 ,nister of the United States mt Con
o,ontinople will be MADE an eillp 1,I s.u
s,n,i thc limited States has small direct
Nhic q, the outcome of the great game
inter- sld nolitics now being played at Con
stontlnople, our Indirect lh'eresU Is .oIy
sU A mere minister Is not taken INTO
graz ,adonce of the representatives of the
inc oor mowers at the Turkish capital.
Euiop ,'oor or more Minister Terrell has
iol ,1ohle 70 keep the state department.
,Ssorn,ed concerning the progress of events
lnlo .a CIV. as they were observed from the
.aido President Mckinley feels that the
v 1."n;tv of the United States could be bet
unssnnbold by making our diplomatic agent
.hsre rank with the best of them.
Tho president is also anxious to have our
,,nister nj Madrid raised to the rank OF
ombassador. The leading nations OF
T,rone keen ambassadors at Madrid, and,
aonsiderinp the Importance OF the relations
Sot,yeon the United States and Spain at
nc nresent time and their still greater
nrobahle importance in the future, 1t would
fasm 70 be good policy to invest our repre-
sentative there with all possible dignity
and rank.
ambassadors Defined.
poonIe who are not familiar with the
workings of diplomatic corps cannot I'M
dsrstand why a minister plcnipotentiary
,s NOT inst as good as an ambassador. But
here in Washington we see a great differ
once At the Inauguration OF President
Mckinley. for instance, the diplomatic rep
resentatiyes of Great Britain, Germany,
France and Italy, being ambassadors, were
given seats in the senate chamber almost
beside those of President Cleveland and
President Elect Mckinley, while all the
ministers occupied seats on the floor OF the
senate. This one circumstance indicates
the great difference between the rank OF
minister and that of an ambassador. The
former is the representative of his govern
mept attached to the government of the
country in which he resides. The embas-
sador. ON the other hand, is the personal
representative of his sovereign near the
berson of the sovereign or head of tho
country to which he Is sent,
have been asked the question why this
government does not send an empassauol
70 ST Petersburg. Russia Is one or I'M
greatest nations in the world. ~ Is hrs
class mower, while Italy, to which we az
send an ambassador, Is second rate pow
or The exclamation Is that this govern
ment applied to the ears goVernmen
some time ago for permission to exchang
ambassadors, but Russia was not willin
TO do so. The refusal implied no affron
to the United States, no intimatlon Una
this republic was not considered frs
class power but was solely a matter OF dc
nestle convenience. All the great foreig
nations maintain permanent dlplomatl
service. Their consuls are promoted to |
ministers and their ministers to be emba
sailors. After man has once served
ambassador he cannot be reduced to II
rank of minister without offending hin
Russia has now on hand all the embass
dorial material it can take care OF
At Foreign Courts.
The rule at most foreign courts Is tn
ambassadors, being the personal represen
atives of their sovereigns, are admltteu
audience whenever they call upon the Sc
rotary of state for foreign affairs or up'
the sovereign himself. Before our repi
sentative at Paris was made an embassad
American ministers enjoyed the unplei
ant experience of waiting hour after no
in the anteroom trying to obtain audleh
with the foreign minister, while embas'
dor after ambassador arrived and was
once admitted.
In the end it will be found advisable
almost necessary - to send eihpassau'
from the United States to every lorei
capital at which other governments K'
diplomatic agents of the highest RANK
one of the acknowledged first class pow
of the world the United States cannot
afford to take back scat anywhere ii
follow the example of England, we 81
send ambassadors to Turkey, to spain,
Russia and TO Austria Hungary, IN al
ton to the four which we now nave
many and Italy.
Praise and Censure.
President Mckinley has SO far been
ceedingly careful in his selection OF nSl
represent this country abroad. Coio
John Hay, who goes as our ambassador
London, is thought by many who 90
know him to he a mere society man, w
the brutal would call "snob.
could not be greater injustice M 5,
Colonel Hay very well, and more u
ough American there is not. Ihert
nothing of the snob about him ne
plain, practical sensible, thorougngo
man of the people. 1t is true that, We
blessed with fortune and line nous
Washington, Mr.. Hay entertains =
deal. He is fond of company, Is CAP
host and has his friends throughout al
ficialdom and among the best people.
is good story teller and witty con'e
tionalist. Every one that knows MN
him for his plain Americanism'
Even Homer mods sometimes, ana
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