The Irish standard., 1905-05-20
CAREER ENDS.
Said in Washington THAT John
Hay is Out.
Secretary Of State to Resign
From the Cabinet.

sumed charge of the State Depart
ment until he went to Europe on sicl
leave, the foreign relations of the
United States were conducted with {
view to serving other interests thar
those of the American people. Ii
Eastern Asia Russia was needlessly
antagonized for the purpose of aiding
England and her ally, Japan, and Of
promoting commercial interests con
trolled by Englishmen, and to a lesser
extent by few residents of the
tions with England are very close
and who are in this country the repre-
sentatives of English interests, says
the Gaelic American. This course
was pursued by Mr.. Hay when it was
plain to all we'll informed men that
; the real interests of the American
people could be best served by direct
negotiation with Russia, which had
aways been friendly with the United
States. and that they could not fail to
be injured by associating them with
those of Russia's enemies.
Unfortunately most Americans are
not we'll informed on foreign affairs,
and Mr.. Hays elaborately organized
press bureau flooded the country with
false information which deceived the
people into the belief that he was a
sturdy champion of American inter
ests, and that Russia was hostile to
them. Not half a dozen daily papers
in the United States took an intelli-
gent view of the situation, and not one
but the Washington Post recognized
the game that was being played. But
The Gaelic American alone undertook
to fully expose the true inwardness"
of Mr.. Hays policy, and to point out
from week to week the danger in
vOlved in it for the country. Cor
respondents who refused or neglected
to send to their papers the fulsome,
but skilful puffery of John Hays di-
plomacy handed out from the State
through independent sources OF infor-
nation were frozen out or boycOtted,
ana in time this audacious system of
misrepresentation enabled the Secre-
1ary of State to dominate practically
the whole American press
So long as this system concerned
itself solely with the Far East and
was sliilfully aided by the Anglo-He-
brew combination that rules the New
York daily press, through which all
the papers throughout the country re-
/ ceive their Old World news, it worked
= to perfection. But when it undertook
TO throw dust in the peoples eyes in
regard to Venezuela and San Domin-
go it was "a horse of another color" +"
These countries are close to the
United States, have intimate business
relations with this country, and very
many Americans are thoroughly in
formed about their affairs. Rival in
terests were aroused, influential poll
ticians were enlisted in the fight, and
the daylight was gradually let in. The
whole exposure has not yet come, but
it is coming, and it will leave John
Hays reputation as Il great American
Secretary of State, working unseltish,
ly for the interests of his country,
without a shred of Il leg to stand on.
The statement from the Chicago
Chronicle which follows, is only the
first installment. When the Bowen
Loomis investigation is finished the
eyes of the American people will be
partially opened. Revelations about
San Domingo cannot fail to follow,
and some time the real secret of John
Hays attempt to drag the United
States into war in the Far East for
England's sole benefit will be made
clear. But John Hays career as Sec
retary Of State is ended.
The Chicago Chronicle published on
May the following despatch from its
Washington correspondents:
John Hays continuation as Secre-
tary of State, even if he should return
to Washington restored to health, is
regarded as extremely doubtful by Il
number of influential United States
Senators who are familiar with the
details of his extraordinary manipula-
tlon of the Dominican and Venezuelan
affairs in the interest of a New York
lawyer. The lawyer in question is
John Bassett Moore. Secretary Hay
has unlimited faith in his talents, and
on a number of occasions has EN-.
ployed him to interpret questions
growing out of international differ.
enccs. 1t is an open secret at the
State Department t,lat Moore can get
anything he wants by merely asking
the Secretary for It,
"The records Of the department
prove conclusiTely that it was Moore
who persuaded this government to be
come the champion of the bankrupt
asphalt trust in its effort to coerce
President Castro into obeying the viii
of the trust in Venezuelan affairs
The records of the department, ac
cording to United States Senators who
have seen them, prove conclusivel!
that every move this government has