The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-07-26
REPUBLICAN RECORD ABROAD


New York Tribune: The Republican
party makes a confident appeal to the
electors OF the United States for a re-
newal OF its lease of power in national
analrs on the ground--among others
OF the successful foreign policy Of the
present administration. That ground
Is, II shown to be substantial, a legiti-
mate one, and in nowise open to the
reproach of injecting foreign affairs
into domestic politics or OF making the
foreign relations of the country an is
sue In a domestic campaign. We have
consistently contended that a broad
distinction should always be observed
between domestic and foreign affairs,
and that in the conduct of the latter
there should be a continuity OF policy
practically unaffected by the changes
and vicissitudes of the former. In no
other way can nation win success in
lts diplomacy and command the conf
dence and respect of other states. The
danger to which that principle is sub
1ected in republic Is obvious. That it
Is which first caused monarchial pow
ers to view the United States with dis
trust, as likely to be tickle In foreign
policy, and which caused the present
French republic to be similarly regard .
ed for years by its neighbors. The
same consideration still leads the more
autocratic monarchies to look with
suspicion upon their more constitution
al and therefore more popular and con.
seuently more variable neighbors.
1t Is high praise OF Republican or
Democratic administration that il has
won for Itself in international affairs a
place of dignity. confidence and influ-
ence comparable with that of any au-
tocracy of them all.
That, We may we'll believe, is the
praise Justly due to the present Repub-
lican administration Of the United
States. In token of this it would be
easy to cite long catalogue Of special
details. These last three years have
been uncommonly busy years in the
foreign transactions of this country.
They have involved operations in peace
and in war, In nearly all parts Of the
world. In some matters this nation
has been compelled to stand alone, or
all but alone, against the world; in
some 1t has acted in harmonious coop
Grafton with the other powers, and in
some-and these by no means the least
importantly has exercised a puissant
leadership, which its fellow sovereigns
have been glad to follow There Is
however, no occasion here to enumer-
ate details. The truest criterion oil
judgment is the general standing Of the
nation and the recognition given to II
by foreign powers. AT no time since
its earliest years has the United States
failed to command certain degree OF
respect abro2d. That is quite true
Equally true Is 1t that never has that
degree been greater and higher than al
the present time. Indeed, we may say
1t was never before quite so great and
so high as 1t is now. Never before was
this country's friendship so eagerly de-
sired and its displeasure SO scrupulous-
ly avoided Never before was its title
to full vote in international councils
so unhesitatingly recognized. Note the
dominant part it played In the peace
congress at The Hague. the ready &C
cession of the powers to its proposals
for maintenance of the "open door" in
China, and the Difference paid to its az,
titude in the present crisis in the Fal
East