The times., 1898-02-15
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1898.
HyanIed-A Dipluma tist.

If Mr. Mckinley would insert
Nant advertisement in the appropri-
ate column of The Times il is possible
that he might be able To acquire a re-
sponsible head for his State Depart
ment competent TO cope with people of
The grade of, say, about the ninth sec
retary of d foreign legation at the court
Of the Ahkoond of Swat. If the desired
individual cannot be found loose in
America, perhaps he might be brought
in from foreign lands under a reci-
procity suspension of the McDingley
trust and monopoly arrangement. We
fear that such q thing would be difficult
il not impossible as a question OF reel
procity: because. if we have any of that
sort OF talent to trade, we need it for
home consumption. and its existence is
not apparent among our native produc-
tons Obviously, the only thing to do
would be to import the article and Fay
Mr.. McDingley his duty on it. There
are some things which come high, but
we must have them.
We do not mean any of these re
marks as a reflection upon poor old
Secretary Sherman Nobody would
be cruel or contumelious enough even
To- think of him in connection with the
state Department. or even with what
Dupuy de LONE humorously but truth
fully refers to as the United States OF
Ohio" MI. sherman retired from pub
lie life year ago.
What we do have in mind is the
peculiar conduct Of our foreign
affairs by diplomatists grown in
Canton. As village administration
1T is excellent. 1t represents exactly
the kind Of foreign policy which natu-
rally would be evolved in solemn council
at the general store. where statesmen
enthrone themselves upon the sugar
barrel anu the cracker box, and whittie
them with their jackkuives. The trou-
BILE with il is that il is not necessarily
in adjustment to the needs and neces-
sites OF a first-class nation with sew
enty-three or four millions Of people.
We can conceive of Chinese wall fiscal
policy emanating from the flowery vii
lage of Canton, and that the manda-
rims magnates and inhabitants of that
rural settlement might regard them
selves as bound to il on sentimental
grounds. But when il comes to the
foreign policy and relations of a great
country. it may be suggested with be-
coming modesty that some interna-
tional lore and experience is necessary,
beyond that with which the discussions
.,f the ct.rner grocery or lnra"t:ce in the
county court are calculated to endoW
an intending Secretary of State.
For example, il is open TO doubt that,
with trained and accomplished man
al the head of our State Department,
Mr.. Mckinley would have been placed
in the embarrassing and ludicrous po-
sition he is to-day. An efficient Secre-
tary or Acting Secretary would not
have permitted a little creature like
Dupuy de LONE to insult the President,
and then slip out under an honor
able resignation. Perhaps the Canton
village people who permeate the Ad
ministrstion do not know that the
preater the truth" contained in the for
mer Spanish minister's structures, the
greater the libel.' But ii is a fact, and
should have been punished accordingly.
IL may be true that President McKin-
ley, in his message to Congress, wanted
to leave a door open" for De LONE,
with whom he was on the most inti-
mate terms. and whose every wish was
law at the White House and at the
State Department. 1t is probable that,
as The distinguished exile states, Mr.
Mckinley wished to stand well with
the jingoes of his own party; but that
political point in the affront ought to
have been saved by gentleman learn
ed in tie Ohio code and able to conduct
the most intricate case before the jus
tice OF the peace or the coroner at
Canton
With much regret we are compelled
TO acknowledge that he was not equal
TO the occasion. Instead Of giving the
insulting envoy his passports at once.
our Village Hampden'' allowed him
to resign and to depart with his diplo-
matte thumb attached to his nose and
the fingers of his fine italian hand gy
rating in the atmosphere.
Even diplomatist from Canton must
appreciate the affront, in consequence
Of his early education in the Masonic
signs Of juvenile association. But 1t is
nothing new 1t is homologous with our