The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-30

 diplomacy For months John Adams, the American envoy, had been denied an entrance to the States General.
 The second treaty with Great Britain, effected by Chief Justice Jay, was hard ly less an American diplomatic victory, It's stipulations were fair for both the contracting parties, but the gains were distinctively our own.
 It would be an agreeable task to trace the history of American diplomacy de- cade by decade down to the present time. It is not difficult to prove that there has been no degeneracy in it since those heroic days.
 There is no better training for the business of European diplomacy than the school of practical American poli- tics, It is better training than is af- forded by the inherited blood of an em- bassadorial line or by the partiality of a prince, or by routine from childhood in the monotony of office. I make no claim that our diplomatic service is perfect or that all American foreign ministers have been saints or sages. Sometimes we have had inefficient sometimes timid, shuffling men, but what General Woodford said of himself was the record of his colleagues: When your minister reached Spain he was absolutely direct and frank in his dealings"
 "In scholarly culture our diplomatic representatives have surpassed those of any other land. No foreign country has summoned to it's service such host of historians, political economists, poets, orators, journalists and educators of every class.
 Any discussion of this subject is in- complete which does not recognize the ability in diplomacy displayed by the ot1Gers of our navy. In 1915, Decatur | in Algiers. In 1854, Perry in the Gulf of Yado. In 1867, Farragut in his Euro pean visit on the flagship Franklin. In 1898, Dewey in Manila Bay The American diplomatist lives in a glass house where he may not only be seen, but stoned. The European diplo- matist still inhabits a half mediaeval castle, almost impregnable to criticism and difficult of access except the privi- leged few.
 In this later day the nations listen to catch the accents of that western state which has revealed itself to them. It is President Mckinley His utterance, i his bearing, his entire demeanor which 1 they heed. As one relves these last | few months, passed in the suspense of /! imminent war. in the strain and agony l Of uncertain battle, in the delirium of unmeasured victory, he can recall no act | nor word of the president in his diplo- matic relations which has not been 1 worthy of his exalted office | T am we'll aware that many arc clamorous for the adoption of the Flu American diplomacy offer only an un- | certain title and promise nothing o1 real accomplishment? The immensity | of it's achievements covers the whole ! nineteenth century of international law l It has broken the caste shackles o1 birth, has successfully asserted the | right of repatriation, has declared the seas and straits and continental rivers l Gods highways destined to be free fol man. 1t has compelled the rights o1 ] neutrals to be recognized by very civil. 1zed state. Now it is building the scaf- 1 folding for another achievement no les, 1 great-the exemption of private proper l ty from capture on sea as 1t is exempt 1 from capture on land.
 This year three famous universitie:
 held a regatta. One crew rowed a for. | eign stroke one a stroke half-foreign
 and the third one American Tn the var
 finished the boat propelled by the
 American stroke. Tn honorable near. ness followed the boat with the stroke l "a fir on hoJf y-t. crew taught with foreign training wa. l left behind.
 The American stroke is the stroke ] for us, whether on the Thames, thu 1 Seine. the Tiber, the Spree or the Vein
 And that not because of provincial pref
 udice or national pride, but because O l the facts of history.
 The following is the programme fol l to-day:
 Colonial Hall, IA Grove Street, 1o;3o n. m | Colonial History and Policy. | Il. A Forgotten Danger to the New Eng l land Colonies. By Dr. Frank Strong, Yalt | university
 2 Some Lessons from the Recent Histor, | of European Dependencies. By professo
 Henry B. Bourne, Western Reserve unyer | sity.
 S.. The Constitutional Questions Incden to the. Acquisition and Government by tn, United States of Island Territory. E, Judge simeon D.. Baldwin, New Haven. l General discussion
 AFTERNOON SESSION. | Yale University Al Osborn Hall, 2:30 D. m l Historical Activities
 l.. Historical Manuscripts in the Library or Congress. By Dr Herbert Friedenwald superintendent of MSS. department, Wash ington. D. c.
 2. Business meeting. The American His torical Review and the American Historica association. Amendment to the Constitu ton, Article ", by which the executiv, council shall consist of the officers and O
 six other. members elected by the associa | tion, etc" instead of the officers and fou | other members" as at present
 Report of the historical manuscripts com mission. By Professor J. Franklin Jameson l Brown, university.
 Report of committees, etc