The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-14
THE SPECIALISTS i
WHO ARE EMPLOYED AS CoUN-
 .i SEL BY NATIONS.
Evolution, of e Profession Confers Power and Fortune Upon Scholars of Afairs-A Ten-Thousand- Dollar Fee is What Nations Pay for John W. Eos
 ter's Opinion. -
Washington Special to Louisville Courier

Wasnlngton Special to Louisville Courier Journal 'f few days ago as a number of dip lomats were leaving the elegantly deco rated diplomatic room of the State De- partment and started down the corridor of the big stone pile MT. John W. Foster brushed past them. One of the diplomats raised his eyes inqui1ngiy and was told MT. Fosters name. A moment later Mir. Charles A. Conant stopped to greet a member of the diplomatic party, and as they were leaving the department build ing MT. Charles M. Pepper stepped up and shook the hand of Director Rockhill of the Bureau of American Republics who was with the diplomats. .sa& f.. They are three types of new class | of specialists" said MT. Rockhill to his foreign friends They are publicists, l every one, and in a few more years, If l necessity grows as 1t has. in recent years. | their number will be greatly Increased. " It was true. If one should ask the present occupation of the three men pass ed in leaving the State Department build ing it is doubtful If their friends who know them best could succinctly explain They are publicists. That tells the whole story. They are engaged first on one task and then another, but always in the line of their speciality. That they are
 
 surely do-in the United States is strong illustration of the expansion of the country and the serious and new things with which our public men have to deal Their peculiar callings show what op- portunities persistence and the cultiva- ton of speciality will open to men Who have Judgment and acumen enough to see the national drift of which they take sd- vantage
 Legal Counel for Nations.
 Mir John w. Foster is the best known of the three men and has made the most out of his speciality. He lives in one or Inc nTost exnensiye and elaborate homes in the nations capital, and a popular re- port credits him with the possession or more than $3,000.000, made in fees. Law ia his speciality and his clients are the nations of the world. No private lnoi- viduai would think of coming to him. Tie would be useless if they did. No nation would think of asking even for type written page of John w. Fosters opinion without rendering him retainer or at least s1oO00 He knows the history or the world. He knows the diplomatic ms tory. of the past 100 years as feW men know it. He is counsel for dlrereht na- tionsAof the world when they become ln- volved in disputes and go to courts or ar filtration for settlemnet. or when they have. recourse to the more devious ways of diplomacy. How did he find his pres ent peculiar field of activity? He devel- oped it.
 Just now MT. Foster is looking after the interests of the United States Tn the Alaskan boundary dispute, which Will De discussed hy a commission in London in the fall The members of the commis- sion representing the United states are Senator Lodge and Foster and MT. Root | the present Secretary of War. Although l men of ability they did not have suin- | cient experience in international analrs to cope with the specially educated ana | trained pubhcists of Great Britain one man in all the United States stood out l ure-eminently as the man who should | prepare the case for this country. It was | John We Foster. No one could deny hls | special qualifications. He had conducted | for this country the Boring Sea aroltra' | ton, the case of the United States In tne | seal fisheries controversy, and througr
 them had acquired special knowledge o
 the history of the negotiation which let | to the acquisition of Alaska and to every step and to every diplomatic turn givel the negotiation between this country anc
 Russia and to the succeeding representa-
 tions through which the controversy nal
 reached it's present stage.
 A Spanish American Specialist.
 What John w. Foster has done in the
 wide-world fled. Charles M. Pepper IS
 doing in a small way in the southern
 half of the hemisphere. Pepper was newspnper correspondent. For many | years he represented a Chicago daily al | the National Capital Unlike many oi
 his fellows, he was not content to .tal- low the drift of the days events ana
 write in a superficial way of the passing
 incidents. He dived deep for cause and | effect, and while 1t may have made his
 style of writing ponderous and labored at tines, it fitted him for new work | and one on which he is now engaged Il Public men about Washington began tc | respect his opinions on things that mac | to do with the questions involving the
 republics to the south of us. After the
 war with Spain he went to Cuba, and foi
 three years wrote of conditions in the | island. He studied Cuba as few mer | have studied it. Wrote a book about the | island and it's people, and incidentally | showed that his investigations had ex' tended to all the South and Central Amer ican countries. He mastered the Spanish
 and Mexican languages.
 1 When the members of the commission | to the conference of American States al | the City of Mexico were to be selected l the mind of President Mckinley reverted
 at once to Charles NJ. Pepper, who had
 been writing on the subject to be dis cussed for a number of years. To Mexico
 he went on the special train with all the
 representatives of the Southern republics On his return the same qualities whict | had mended him to President McKin
 ley prompted the officials of the Louisiana | Purchase Exposition Company to selec
 him for their representative In Cuba. H'
 came back and almost immediately wa | asked to accept a mission to Soutl | America--that of Investigating whether
 great international railroad was feasi | ble Congress had made an appropriation for the purpose. but when Senator Davi
 of West Virginia, and Andrew Carnegie
 the great library patron and steel mag
 nate, heard that Pepper was to be sent ol
 the mission, they promptly offered an!
 amount that was necessary supplement