Omaha daily bee., 1907-07-14
EYE ON MAIN CHANCE
Good People of The Hague Getting
Rich Of Conference.
PRICES RAISED TO HIGH LIMIT
putchmen Appear to Have Much Best
4 of Meeting So Far.
SOME NOTABLE MEN ATTENDING
M. Bourgeois of France Has High
Literary Attainment.
SOME NOTABLE MEN ATTENDING
GERMANY's DELEGATE IS CAPABLE
Has Acted as Right Hand Man OF
Emperor wIIIiRm-M. NeIidoR
Belongs TO the Older
School

THE HAGUE, July 15-(special. War
has its horrors but the price OF peace-or
at all events peace conferences-is some
times hardly less terrible. The good people
Of The Hague are evidently bent on reap
ing a golden harvest from the delegates and
their suites and the other persons whom
business has called to The Hague in con-
nection with the conference The prices
demanded for everything are tremendous.
They decline to serve table d'hote dinners;
you are obliged to dine a la carte at prices
which are simply out Of proportion to the
established order of things Altogethef the
Dutchmen Of The Hague appear to have
had altogether the best of the peace con-
ference When the home offices OF some
OF the peace correspondents receive the
bills for expenses turned I'm by the peace
correspondents they will undoubtedly come
to tho conclusion that war prices are to be
preferred to peace prices.
Americans will naturally be interested In
learning something about the personalities
Of the diplomats at the peace conference.
For no matter whether the peace confer
ence is in reality making for veal or for
woe, for war or for peace, European coun-
tries did send the elite OF their diplomatic
corps.to the peace conference at The Hague.
one Of the most distinguished, of course, is
NJ Leon Bourgeois, the French plenipoten-
tiary. M. Bourgeois has been prime min
lister, minister OF foreign affairs, minister
OF public education and president of the
Chamber Of Deputies He is a man Of high
literary attainments and is a polished and
eloquent speaker; a man OF letters, states
man and born diplomatist But probably
Just because he is so many sided he has
never taken the position In France that he
might have done. He Is too much the
Admirable Crichton of French public life.
In order to be OF great success IN modern
French politics a man requires more con-
centration and less universal ability. But
at the peace conference he has naturally
been playing a leading role.
n Peace q MOnomaniR.
- Us colleague, Baron d"Etournelle Con-
atabt, is a man OF much smaller caiber
The preaching Of peace and disarmament
has become q sort Of monomania with him,
and he puts his views before his country
men In season and out of season. He 10 a
good speaker but somewhat apt to become
tedious One thing 1t must be admitted
Baron d'Etournelle de Constant has worked
An the cause of international arbitration as
rev men nave dOuS SNeu II III hAiS Wblhhe
he has at times bored his fellow country.
men.
Undoubtedly one Of the most interesting
figures OF all Of the diplomatists assembled
AT The Hague is Baron Marschal vor
Beberstein, the German plenipotentiary
He is certainly one of the most capable
among the statesmen of Europe He was
for many years secretary Of state for for
eign affairs before going to ConstantinoplC
as German ambassador He probably stands
higher in the confidence OF tho kaiser thar
a any other ambassador or minister. TIT
eastern policy OF Germany is undoubtedl!
the work of the kaiser. but 1t is equally
certain that he relies greatly In this respec
( upon Baron Marschall Won Bieberstein
The days when Prince Bismarck declared
that nc would not risk the bones of
single Pomerainian grenadier for the who'll
eastern question are long past Since tn
kaiser's famous visit to the sultan on hi
way home from the marriage of his siste
at Athens. the eastern policy OF German!
has been changed. lock. stock and bar
rel"
It is the kaiser now who appears TO hav
adopted the advice OF Peter the Great to hi
descendants, the czRrs OF Russia. "Neve
take your eyes of from Constantinople.
And I'm this policy Baron Marschall voi
Bieberstein has long been his right han'
man, He Is tall man OF BismarckiaI
mould. heavy, stout. with broad shoulder
and something OF the iron Chancellor
A rough joviality. But ne also has Prime
Bismarck's brutal force OF character ant
stands like a rock. always and ever 70
German interests. And II was for precisel!
this trait In his character and not becaus
he Is an authority upon the eastern ques
tion, for the eastern question is not likel!
70 figure IN the calculations OF European
dlplomats for some time TO come that tn
kaiser selected him 10 represent German,
at the conference.
President, of the Conference.
NJ Neudon tire president belongs to m
older school OF Russian diplomatists whic
has nearly died out. man OF imrosin
presence and courtly manners he is un
doubtedly a very fox for cunning and ha
tie reputation OF being none TO scrupulou
when the interests Of Russia are at staFC
TIE and Baron Won Bieberstein are old ad
vernaries NJ. NeHdofS succeeded Genera
Ipnatieff the famous "father OF Hes" an
the generally accented author Of the Ru-s7
qAurhtsh war, as ambassador al Consta nti
n~vlo as he II was who wrung tho troat
of San stetano from tNe vanuu'shed TUX
srd hrouaht about European interventi0
and the Berlin congress. From constant
rr'rie he went 10 Rome, and two years a.
was Given the blue ribbon Of tho eiul"mat'
kckycer the Paris embassy 7hNugh ne
nv Npuhte6Iv ono ~ the strongest Of nersor
elF 'os at THO Hnrue n u were possible {
r~aa hiT innermost thoughts II would ur
onuhtefiv no found tNa' be Is not as ferN
e-' a believer IN the efficacy OF any paaC
o"7'erence as his royal master. the cHar c
yNn-~ir
Though y 's talked about I'm a rathe
f''vprsssed fashion. there Is a feelinI
r"'iT'ous questions 20 one side, that IN
renal see ought 70 have been invited =
Fend some ~ its trained diplomats Fo
~ matter what men saw IN their bindrez
n Is undoubtedly true as has been said fror
tho start that tho por' Is the greatest peao
force
Mart Twain on Way Home.
Y IONnoN, July l2.-Mark Twain (samu,
T. Clemensl hade farewell 20 London thi
rsornfng and saiisd for home