The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-26
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The Radical Difference.

to the office of secretary Of state
a sure-enough proof that the rumored
alliance between the United States and
Great Britain is soon TO be accom-
plished.
That happens because these Germans
view everything that relates to affairs
of state from the bureaucratic stand
point-they see in the transfer of men in
our diplomatic service a good deal that
really isn't there: they judge our pro-
cesses by their own. Berlin and it's edi-
tors could not possibly understand how
small the significance is. to the Ameri-
can people, of the appointment of this
man or that to the office of secretary of
state 1t might have happened as easi-
ly as not that President Mckinley had
recalled Ambassador Andrew ID. White
from Berlin for the cabinet premier
ship. instead Of summoning Mr.. Hay
from London for that honor. The Amer
lean people would have perceived no
particular policy in that course; yet,
had DR.. White been chosen. you would
have found the German editors filling
their columns with learned theses to
show that this was done in order to
reveal a wish on the part Of the presi-
dent TO enter into "pleasanter relations
with Berlin, by selecting for the for
eign office in his cabinet n man who is
understood to be pleasantly in favor at
Berlin.
Dur diplomatic service Is not so re-
condite as the Berliners fancy It TO be.
According to the American plan, when
II comes to the selection Of a secretary
of state. any good man will do; and it
often happens that a pretty good man
will do well enough. So 1t has just
turned out in the case of Secretary Day.
The country knew nothing about him
when the war broke out. The war is
ended, and the country knows. TO this
hour. next to nothing about Judge Day,
The general opinion is that he pulled
through all right. He certainly has not
been criticised; he has been esteemed
a sort OF private secretary to the presi-
dent rather han a premier-and that al
a time when the %country's foreign rela-
tons suddenly became more significant
IMAM lhFN la btIi aA al Ai'lAA'iA
within the lifetime of living Americans
All this is something 10 German edi,
tor could possibly see through. lie
knows no man in stateCraft, except tht
man who. so to speak, has been sched'
uled into greatness-the man who II
the product Of high-wrought, red-tape
bureaucratic evolution.
a. I. L.. A. a,n,. l., z,I1r y,Ile
Dewey would have been impossible un
der the Prussian regime He didn'
have high-enUugh rank to begin with
It isn't the mission or purpose Of tn
German method 10 permit a brief war
like our recent one with Spain, 10 writ
new names on history's bright page. 4
1870, old King William, Bismarck. TN
Crown Prince Frederick and vo
Moltke were the arbiters Of the Father
lands fortunes. That year the wa
with France began. A year later a
Germany was celebrating the most i'm
presslve victories Of modern-day wal
fare. out Of IT all came the same quar-
tette-wiIiam, Bismarck, Crown Primo
Frederick, Won Moltke. They were III
~oetensible heroes-the big four Of IN
Franco-Prussian war. As far as n
outside world is concerned, that va
gave no new. great name to history.
1t is probably true that on April
Of this very year not eight per cent.
the people of the United states had evr
heard Of George Dewey. He achieve
greatness: unquestionably Dewey is I
day the ranking citizen Of the Unite
states-the president, the cabinet, Il
admirals Of a hundred days ago N
barred. That happens because wis
the magnificent opportunity offer
Dewey met It magnihcently: n Oh
is what American citizens like to hs'
an American citizen 10. The dineren
is that under the German method Il