New-York tribune., 1901-11-03

become the Chief Magistrate of this nation.
| True. Colonel Roosevelt has given voluntary
| assurances that he will continue in the meas
| ure of the possible the foreign and domestic
| policy OF his predecessor.
But the new President is OF striking
| individuality, of much originality of mind and
! of strength OF character. and no matter how
| Loyalty he may endeavor to tread In the foot
| steps of Major Mckinley. and to adhere to the
course mapped out by the latter, it is inevitable
that he should be guided, perhaps unconscious
ly by his own views and prejudices. Moreover,
new situations are constantly arising which call
for the exercise of wholly independent judg-
ment. they were not contemplated by the
late master Of the White House.
In Europe a change in the rulership of a
nation does not mean nearly so much as does
the succession of one President to another here.
The Chief Magistrate of the United States. al
though embodying theoretically the highest
form of democratic republicansm, by a singular
anomaly enjoys greater amount Of executive
power and initiative than any Old World mon
arch, while the Presidents of the Swiss and
French republics are environed by many
constitutional restrictions that. compared to the
American President. they mere igureheads.
THE PRESIDENTS POWER.
II IS not the Prime Minister. or the Foreign
elgn relations of the United States. but the
President 1t IS upon him. far more than
upon his Cabinet that depends the solution
OF the question whether it would be we'll to
come to am!Cable arrangement with Great
Britain on the subject of the interoceanc canal
and other pending issues, or il It would be more
conducive to the national welfare OF the United
States to listen to the clever inslnuations of
Count Cassini. the Ambassador of the Car. In
fact. for the next four years President Roose-
Welt will without any exasgeration prove the
pivot. and not merely the pivot but likewise
the controller, of the foreign policy and of the
foreign relations of this country. AS such he Is
likely to be for the next few months subject
of the most absorbing study and interest TO the
returning foreign diplomats whose govern
ments naturally eager to be enlightened
concerning the views and the attitude of the
executive Of a nation that has become one Of
the principal factors in international politics.
That is why the foreign governments are
sending back to Washington the ENJOYS who
have represented them here, assuming that. by
reason of the knowledge which they have al
ready acquired of this country and OF its pub
lie men they will be better qualified to form a
correct judgment of the novel situation Gre
ated by the advent to power Of President
Roosevelt than diplomats without previous
American experience
Each of the foreign ambassadors returns i'm
bued with the desire of improving the relations
OF the country which he represents with that
TO which he is accredited and. while there
some who have no other object than to promote
sentiments OF cordiaty between their govern
ments and the United States. there are others
who will seek in the future, as they have in
the past to Illustrate the efforts of their foreign
colleagues in this direction and to promote dis
cord between the United States and nations
whom they regard rivals TO their own. But.
whatever their aim. they Will one and all en-