The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-24
A POSSIBLE VISIT.

Prince and Princess of Wales May Visited United States in 1904. x.
 The intimation that the Prince and Princess Of Wales may visit the United States in 1904 if properly approached by our government should stimulate immediate negotiations. Our people will be very glad to have the young people run over, if only for a brief stay, and may safely be counted on to give them a cordial if somewhat noisy well come. Moreover, this welcome will possess every charm that comes ot variety and Protean shapes. We have no means of knowing what the royal couples tastes may be, but if they like humility, obeisance, breathIess awe
 they'll get it all and more in our metropolis, New York. As they journey West and pass through changing at mospheres of reverence into wholesome and self-respecting environments of good will they may or may not find the process comfortable, but they will at least .irnbibe an enlightened under standing of the American idea. For our part we hope they will come. In these days of reconciliation and altru- ism it would be especially precious to witness celebration by the British royal family of the Louisiana purchase. Nearly fifty years ago another Prince of Wales, now King Edward VII, whom may heaven long preserve, visit ed these shores under circumstances of peculiar interest. He did not come in his representative capacity, but under the. polite fiction of an incognito. He was Baron Renfrew, that having been one of his multitudinous titles. What motive inspired him to this transpar- ent disguse we shall not try to indicate. Certainly he did not shrink from observation, for Baron Renfrew was as we'll known and as easily indentified as ''tl1e Prince of WaIes,' could possi- bly, have been. Nor was concealment necessary in those days. Society then was led by people to the manor born, and what we call leaders now were in those days poised upon a pinnacle of birth and breeding enjoyed himself thoroughly in Washington. He was entertained by MT. Buchanan, over whose simple yet serene and elegant household Miss Harriet Lane, his niece, presided, and he was brought into con- tact almost, if not altogether, exclu- sively with gentlemen and ladies. He was beset by no importunities-The regime of the bank account had not been estabIished-and he was free to enjoy himself in his own way. The "staff correspondent and the special commissioner were still among the un- suspected wonders of the future. Mo- body wanted to know how many pairs of boots he had or what he ate for breakfast or where he got his trousers creased. It was time of reposeful self-respect and dignity.
 Of course the new Prince of Wales will visit the United States, under very different conditions. He must brace himself for an encounter with asperities of which Baron Renfrew'' never had a hint. But as he recedes from New York and gets nearer to the real American people he will find much to interest him, and still more-if he have the faculty of intelligent observation--to give him a good opinion of the United States and the men who really represent it. We hope that he will come and bring his princess with him.-Washingto Post.