The age-herald., 1902-02-24
Not Believed That Congress Will Retire Lieutenant Hobson

young men in the Naval Academy-and no young man can even enter that school unless he is mentally bright and physi- cally strong-require four years of con stant and painstaking study to fit them selves for the humble duties of midship- men. The point needs no elucidationl
 The amazed disappointment that was universal when the President made pub lie his novel decision has settled into universal soreness. It is idle for the Pres ident and the press to plead for peace in respect to the Schley case. The soreness will not pass from the great body of the American people who are bitterly resent full of the injustice which offcialdom has imposed upon the most popular hero of this generation.
 In his ples. for cessation of the contro- veIs sy, the President is answered by the people as noble naval hero Jones re- sponded to the Britishers demand that he surrender his ship:
 sir, we have just begun to fight
 In thirty minutes 1t was the Britisher's ship that had surrendered, and the brave Paul Jones is immortal.
 The American people are amiabie, for giving, forgetful: but let him call upon the mountains to hide him who arouses their passionate sense of justice and fair play. In other directions the Republican party leaders had already stirred that passion. The President in the Sohley case is prodding the lions. Await the full roar.
 As for Secretary Long, he having been ''vindicated" in his war on Schley will retire, and thus one of the powerful ringsters who have never forgiven Hob- son because the Merrimac did not block the channel entrance to Santiago harbor and thereby bottle up the Spanish fleet, innocuously.
 The professional negotiator of reel procity treaties that never get out of the Senate. John W. Foster by name. knowing himself to be forgotten, has contrived to get his name in a local newspaper by means of letter to the editor in which he writes intolerably of what he doesn't know concerning the alleged concert of action on the part of the foreign ambassadors in Washington in the effort to preserve peace between the United States
 Incidentally, Foster gets in a poorly yelled side blow at President Mckinley, who followed the example of President Harrison in giving the said Foster the fattest jobs he ever enjoyed. For this exhibition of ingratitude and unmannerlf flying at the dead, former Acting General Wayne MacVeagh gently whacks Foste by saying:
 T am not concerned to defend r. | dent McKinley's conduct in reeeiving these representations (the ambassadors) from MT. Fosters severe criticism if 1t, as there are many others far. more competent and under far greater t9bliga- tions than I am to make such defEn if they think it desirable" 4
 Foster used rather violent isAr. concerning MT. G. W. Smalley, Il =. can correspondent of the Londo
 whom Foster and other shiping
 epublican-Dingleyism hate De,
 cannot use nm to further thel
 schemes; and after paying MT. n
 deserved tribute. MT. MacVeagh I, the professional negotiator of Repu. = humbug that personal "Epithets in Co troversy are only used in the sabse. arguments" ,i '
 Foster takes the remarkable a.
 untenable position that represenl I
 foreign countries are without
 to attempt to preserve peace bet
 country to which they are acci 1sler and another country with which they are at issue Yet this man is the pet pro fessional diplomat' of the Republican party in power, and he is constantly on hire to that party, except when he is allowed to accept an odd job for some other country. Thus he got a hundred thousand dollars from China for "set- ting" the war between that empire and Japan, after Japan had already closed the incident. as the diplomatic phrase runs.
 Foster having been Republican secre- tary of state and also Republican minis ter to a European power, he has some thing to sell-experience, for example. He is willy one; but his bad manners in severely criticsing the dead President and the ambassadors alike are likely to get him into trouble. If he is thrown , out of the State Department for good and all, sef-respecting Americans will be pleased.
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