Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-07-20
OUR DIPLOMACY TRlUMPHS.
Worlds Progress Accelerated Through
the Patriotic Statesmanship
of Roosevelt.

The successful effort by the United
States to secure the release of Mr.. Per-
dicaris. the American citizen who was
seized and held captive by a Moroccan
Drlgand, and incidentally the freedom
also OF his stepson, who was a British
subject, grows in Importance as it's full
significance comes to be understood
This is because, as has been the case
numerous times before, the American
initiative. taken with vigor and firm
ness, is likely to lead to international
results of great moment To get the
true perspective of the incident it is nee
sary to look at the matter through for
eign eyes, and it is tribute to the states
manship of our government that the
meaning of it all is so readily recog-
nized and so willingly acknowledged
abroad.
The st. louis Globe-D Democrat, which
Is not given to over-enthusiasm. ex-
presses the opinion that mot since De-
catur, in 1915, captured the dey of AL
giers' flagship, destroyed one of his
frigates and compelled that functiolary
to sign treaty of peace on the United
States officers deck, has American di-
plomacy won more conspicuous tri-
umph in dealing with a barbarous peo-
pie than it has just scored in compell-
ing the release of PerGicaris," and in
this position it is sustained by a British
journal OF the character and standing of
the London Standard. which affirms that
Secretary Hays decisive action has
speedily closed "the most remarkable in
cident which has troubled contemporary
history in Morocco" This is emphatic
yet discriminating. That il is more than
JUSTIFIED is shown by the Globe Demo-
crat in further elucidation of the mat
ter:
THE Roosevelt administration in the
Perdicaris affair had not only to deal
with the brigand chief, but it was COM
PEELED to fight the sultan of Morocco
Muley Abdul Azziz had to be overawed
before any Roadway could be attempted
with Raisuli. The kidnapping incident
was merely one of a series of frequent
episodes which diversity the annals of
Morocco. The difference between the
Perdicaris affair and the general run of
abductions by bandits in that land of
licensed rapine is that this time it was
an American who was the victim. and
consequently II was the American gov
eminent which had to be reckoned
with
Probably the mandate OF President
Roosevelt and Secretary Hay in Mo-
rocco, We must have Perdicaris alive
or Raisuli dead will change the reIa-
tons OF that country to the rest of the
world as radically as cambridge and
Decatur did a century ago. when they
paid tribute to the Algerian pirates at
the mouths of American cannon. For
ages Europe had submitted to the black
mail which was levied on its vessels by
the Barbary corsairs. but the American
people forced Jefferson and Madison to
crush the pirates instead of substituting
them. Then Europe followed the Ameri-
ran example, and the reign Of the free
hooters was over. Once again the United
states has sent big feet through the
Pillars of Hercules. Again American
cannon has compelled barbarism TO ca
pitulate to civilization. The United
states squadron which sailed past Glib
raltar and into the harbor OF Tangier has
fulfilled its mission as promptly and de-
cisively as did its forerunner long ago
In Tripoli and Algiers. Muley Abdul
Azziz, like the nameless despots who
ruled the varioTs Barbary states of a
century ago, has been forced torecognize
that Europe's easy tolerance Of brigand-