Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-11-03
NATIONS THAT DON'T SPEAK
LIKE INDIVIDUALS. THEY SOME
TINES cur ACQUAINTANCE.

TINES cur ACQUAINTANCE.
England ignores Servia and Bolivia
Turkey Will Have Nothing to DO
With JapSn-The Relationship Be
tween Austria and Montenegro De-
cidedly Chilly.
There are in the world nations, as
wen as individual people, who won't
know each other" or who are not ON
speaking terms.
Two nations more or less contin-
uously in our eye are unacquainted
diplomatically-Jap and Turkey.
Though during the last two years
questions have often arisen in which
our Eastern ally would have liked TO
pop a word into the ear of Abdul Ham
id Especially such questions as the
free passage of Russias volunteer fleet
through the Dardanelles last year
Japan has no accredited representa-
tive to Turkey and Turkey has none
to Japan.
AS a matter of fact, they simply
don't know each other The Sultan of
Turkey has a rooted objection on
principle to foreign diplomatists, and
is about as anxious to receive a new
one as the average mouse is anxious
10 receive cat Therefore he has
never consented TO Japanese Min
lister at Yildiz Kiosk. 1t is, however,
expected that after the war Japan
will be able to put that little matter
right.
Two powers whose territories adjoin
each other who may be said to prac-
tjcally cut each other dead are Austria
and Montenegro One of the surest
signs of good relationship between
countries is the existence of a treaty
OF commerce, by which one nation
enjoys the most favored nation"
tariff within the others boundaries.
Though adjoining, Austria steadfastly
refuses to grant Montenegro such a
treaty. probably because of the little
principality's notorious friendship for
Russia. The result is that the goods
of the Montenegrins are heavily taxed
before they can even leave this coun-
try and smuggling is rife on the Dor
ders.
1t is, however, notorious that certain
of the powers won't know" Servia
as a punishment for the fearful mas
sacre in 1903 of King Alexander and
1l1-oc l,-if ai ir
aloof Of these powers, and now, for
nearly two years, we have had no
diplomatic intercourse with King
Peter, our business with him being
done by our consul, Mr. Thessiger, at
Belgrade.
Morocco has been very much talked
about of late, but, though Britain is
on visiting terms with the Sultan,
through our minister at Fee, Morocco
has no representative in London. Her
nearest approach to the British ear is
conducted at Gibraltar by a gentle
man who rejoices in the name of
Taleb-Abd-esIsiam-B ou-Zian-el-Tanji
The new Republic of Panama has
way, by sending a representative.
The shoe is on the other. foot in the
case of Great Britain and Bolivia
Our relations with that South Ameri-
can state have been distinctly "ofish''
for the last fifty years. Three times
since 1852 have we appointed a MIN
lister, but for various reasons he Mas
never gone to his -p4st,c. Ta-ngre IS no
British, -pah11ifster in Bolivia at the
nTrcsent time.
In the case of some small states,
Britain, as it were, kills" her social
duties by appointing one minister for
four Thus Costa RIGA, Honduras,
Nicaragua and Salvador each rejoice
in one-quarter of a minister resident,
the whole of that official being to rep
resent US to all four at once
Apart altogether from times of
war, we have often been in the posi-
tlon OF mot knowing" another state.
OF all great powers in recent years,
we have fallen out. diplomatically,
most with the United States. Old time
United States Presidents had way OF
dismissing an Ambassador with little
ceremony. The President of 1856
promptly sacked" Mr. Champion. our
minister. to show his disapproval of
the British habit Of recruiting in the
United States soldiers to fight in the
foreign legion against Russia.
Thirty-two years later, in 1888.
President Cleveland cut" us dead In
the same fashion BY dismissing Lord
SackYille, our Ambassador, for having
written letter commenting on po-
litical uesiion.-Pearson's Weekly.