The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-16

JhOugnt OF the DAY work IN mad
social whirl.
And right here our diplomats should
be highly commended for footing most
of the bills incurred while cementing
international friendship. Other nations
allow their diplomats gOOdIy sums for
accomplishing this part of their days
work. We are so IaTSimOniOuS that we
scarcely pay our representatives, enough
to cover the yearly rental Of decent resi-
dences- They must keen themselves
persona grata at their own expense. a
drain that only deep pocketbook can
stand.
Another bit Of work that takes up n
goodiy portion Of "a diplomats day is
that of receiving and disposing of the
stream Of callers to embassy or lega-
ton, as the case may be
These visitors come on all sorts of
missions Not few are members Of
the American colony. who drop in TO
say hOwdy-dO and to inquire whether
America is still on the map. Some are
CrankS, both of American -End native
extraction one wants the diplomat to
collect for him several million dollars
in damages from the United States An
other is anxious to sell us an invention
which viii make US al-powerfuI in
war Still another would like the dis
tiuguished gentleman before him to
take his advice in the course of diplO-
matte transactions with the foreign Of
flee Many of these cranl1s are headed
off by the clerk and the secretaries, but
in spite of their vigilance. some slip by
them, and whenever one does. the dip
lOmat has to be very diplomatic. in
deed He cannot have the crank kicked
out, OF treat him abruptly: then he
might figure i'm an unpleasant expert
ence. and the public. learning Of il
through the prints, might cOnstrue the
affair wrongly, and he and his country
suffer in its estimation.
~, Is the touring American with a let
ter of introduction to the diplomat. He
secures this letter by writing TO his
congressman, who gets it at the state
department in Washington. 1t is a
tormldable-lOOking document, and it
makes a man who carries il feel that
he IS somebody. On landing. he makes
straight for the embassy or legation
and springs the letter. The members Of
, the staff have learned by sad expert
ence that they cannot take the place
/ Of the ambassador or the minister. lie
| himself must be seen; he knows it. too
and SO. all through the day. he is COM
1 PEELED 10 drop whatever he is at, and
/ shake hands with Mr. John Smith and
I Mrs. John Smith and Master John
smith. jr-. and inquire after their
health and their plans while a broad
and altogether take a keen interest i'm
them OFTEN he is asked to SupDIysin-
/ formation that could easily be got in
a guide book. and not infrequentIy he
actually becomes a guide for fellow
Americans He is exceedingly cheerful
about II all. even when he is asked by
/ the financially embarrassed to advance
them enough money for their passage
nome. He recognizes that it is a dfplO-
! mat duty TO speak soft words and to
smile and NIr Choate i'm 1903 Went so
/ Tar as to show his fellow countrymen
! some of LondOn's historic places His
! sightseeing parties became famous in
/ stduter.
| Besides such visitors. common to all
! legations and embassies. each diplomat
/ has a peculiar lot of callers all his own
! TO whom he must give up a considera BILE
/ part Of his day.
/ In Peking our minister is worried
/ hIif TO death by promoters seeking
| concessions Of all kinds from the Chi
! heSe government. One man wants a
! mining concession; another permission
/ TO costruct a telegraph line from a GER
/ tain seaport into the interior. a third is
I DenI ON tapping a rich section with a
/ railroad. and fourth has plans for a
! Datueship which he would like TO build
/ ior the imperial navy at a profit of a
! million dollars or more to himself
/ All these men and their schemes the
! minister has to bring 10 the attention
/ OF the Aameu, that official body which
/ passes on all petitions for foreign ex-
! plOitation of the Flowery Kingdom. II
/ prayed for ne goes on his way rejoic-
I ing If ne doesn't, ne continues 20
/ make life miserable for the minister
/ When Mr.. Charles DENLY was our min
/ lister 10 China a certain promoter want.
/ ed concession to build railroad
J from Peking TO AIukden. The Yamen
/ would not listen 10 the scheme.
/ Then get 'em to let me build il from
/ Picking TO Hangkow." the promoter in
/ StruCted Mr.. DENLY
Again the Yamen refused. and not
( until it had disapproved of still an
! other route did the promoter leave the
} minister TO his own reflections.
/ In such countries as China and Tur-
/ key the missionaries also make daily
| inroads on "A diplomats time. They
! are continually calling on the minis
| ters to protect them and to make de
/ mands in their behalf: and. like some o
/ the laity. some of them threaten tn,
l minister with all sorts Of dire result
| when he does not do as they command
4 have four hundred Thousand
/ church members back of me, a dis
| gruntled missionary once said TO Mr.
/ DENLY
! And / have seventy millions OF PEG
! pie back OF me-" was Mr.. Denby's re
! tort. s.ts.
When he isn't being sociable anC
isn't receiving visitors. the diplomat Il