Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-04-13
Thursday, April Is, 1905.
Washington Letter.
(FRoM OUR REGUL CONSEQUENTLY
Saturday, April 8, 1905.

Saturday, April 8, 1905.
It is we'll that the country has both
wire and wireless communication with
the President of the United States,
while he is hunting big game, for. to
use the expression of the vice president
in a recent speech in North Carolina,
matters of great "pith and moment
are in the wind" While King Ed
ward of England and President Loubet
of France are holding communications
on railway train and the Kaiser and
the King of Italy are whispering to
each other in Naples, the German,
French and English Ambassadors are
talking over the same questions with
the Acting Secretary of State and act
ual Secretary of War whom the Presi-
dent has left in Washington to ''hold
down the lid.N 1t is all about the open
door in Morocco. France, it is suspect
ed, wants to control the door and France
thinks or hopes that she will be backed
by England. Germany wants an equal
entrance with France through that door.
The incident, small as 1t is from our
point of view and remote as we are from
the Mediterranean, serves to emphasize
our growing Importance as world
power. The splendid isolation of Great
Britain in her tight little island, de.
Tended by moat of salt water thirty
miles in width, is as nothing compared
with our isolation, because our moat is
three thousand miles wide on the At
lantic seaboard and nearly twice that
width on the Pacific, But there are
various kinds of splendid isolation and
Germany is beginning 10 become famil'
lar with phase OF it. The tripartite
alliance Of Germany, Austria and Italy
has not the raison d etre or the strength
that it once had, for since its formation
there has been considerable oscillation
of the maps of the world and one first
class power has sprung up in the Orient
and another long latent first class pow
err the United States is recognized in
the West. Since the triparute was
formed Japan has conquered China and
demonstrated her superiority to Russia
England has shown her ability to carry
on war involving the transportation
over nine thousand miles of sea of three
hundred thousand soldiers with equip
ments and munitions of war and the
United States has with an almost
fippant ease destroyed second Span
ish armada and established now ma
ton in the Caribbean.
These questions may seem a little
foreign to Washington letter, but the
world has grown so small through the
humiliation of time and space and the
United States so proportionately large
in the past ten years that our interests
aud our influence touch all countries
and are touched by them.
One cannot help comparing just now,
the progress Of the President through
thousands of miles of the United States
with the lmmurement for safety of the
Gear of all the Russians. Mr.. Roose-
welt is passing through a part Of the
country meyer before visited by Pres.
ident. He is attended by members Of
the press In his off hand way he tells
that he has left a three hundred pound
man "sitting on the lid" This is his
way of assuring the public that things
will go right at Washington. He is
greeted everywhere with familiarity and
affection and he replies to these greet.
Ings without 1ormality and in true dem.
acrat;o spirit. A: man on telegraph
pole called out to him: Hello, old pal,
Glad to see you,' aud the man received
in reply a wave Of the hand and smile
displaying those famous teeth. All
along the road he has been greeted as
Teddy and be is evidently enjoying
mixing with the people. At a town
called Temple, in Texas, which the
train was scheduled to run past with.
out stopping, a special meeting was call
ed and something called an emergency
ordinance was passed and an old Con-
federate soldier wired the sense of the
order to the President. He promptly
acknowledged the potency of Il brand
new law and stopped at Temple, max
ing little speech. On the other side
Of the Atlantic the Gear Of Russia has
ordered fence made around the pal.
ace, composed of spik ed iron pickets Is
feet high and at a recent review of the
splendid Household Cavalry, the Gar
didn't annear. And who can blame him