The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-27

doubtedly been able to exercise upon
the press, and consequently upon The
popular sentiment, Of Continental Eu.
rope. Each Of these two backstaIrs
diplomats has had considerable sums
placed at his disposal for the special
purpose of influencing the foreign press
and. Judging by the tenor of the latter
both as regards the Philippines and
the Transvaal. the Java born doctor
and the representative OF the FllipIno
republic have done their work we'll
For the Partisan daily papers, even in
Guiding such newspapers as the
Temps" and the "Debats,' are dis
tinctly unfrIendly toethe United States
and sympathetic to AguInaldo, as far
as the Philippines are concerned. while
1t is hardly necessary TO add that the
boulevard press, with the single excep-
ton of the Figaro" is openly hostile
to England in the Transvaal difficulty.
publishing daily interviews with DR..
Leyds, while most Of It's uttefances
show the enrmark Of Transvaal gold.
That Leyds and Agoncillo should be
able to influence the opposition press in
France and in Germany one can at n
pinch understand, but that they should
be able to dominate the policy q Jour.
nails that are avowedly administration
organs, and the writers of which are
government officials writing over their
own signatures, is Inexcusable.
shrewd Anglo-saxon Diplomacy.
Although diplomacy and statecraft
are regarded as branches Of science in
which the Latin nations rather than the
English-speaking races might be ex-
pected to shine, owing to the exagger-
ated Importance which the former at
tach to everything in the shape Of
punctillo yet the fact remains that the
governments of the United States and
of Great Britain have displayed far
greater amount of what the French are
so fond of describing as Correction" in
these matters than their friends on the
continent of Europe. Thus at the
present moment the authorities at
Washington are refusing to accord the
slightest recognition, direct or Indirect,
to Mr.. Montagu White, whom President
Kruger has sent to this country, or to
General o'Beirne. of New York, whom
the Transvaal government recently in
trusted with n mission to President
Mckinley, while the spirit which pre-
walls in the national capital in such
matters was clearly indicated when the
Metropolitan Club, largely recruited
from Federal officials, declined to ad-
nit as members the non-odlclal agents
OF the Cuban Junta.
Great Britain in the same way refus-
ed to receive or to concede even the
faintest recognition or encouragement
to Mr.. Mason when he was sent to
London by the Confederacy as its dip
lomatic agent during the early part OF
the Rebellion here, while his colleague,
Mr.. Slidell. found ut Paris and at the
Court of the Tulleries, IL not official ac-
ceptance, at any rate that moral sup
port which is to-day being rendered by
number of the continental govern
ments of Europe to DR.. Leyds and
Agoncillo.
A counterpart of the case of General
o'Belrne is to be found, in that of Gen
eral wlllo1ghby, an English soldier of
fortune, who came to England some
years ago as the agent of the queen of
Madagascar for the purpose of Induc-
ing the British government Of the day
to take some step in connection with
Madagascar which was directed against
the interests of France. Although the
advantages to the United Kingdom
we're obvious. and General willoughby
was an Engllshman of good family and
standing, yet the English official world
declined to have anything whatever to
do with him. and he returned to the
Orient, having made complete failure
Of his mission.