New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-01
Drawing by Louis Fancher

CYy ERE are two men who hold the
nNV<NF persistent annual records for being
SDk - the most freely, and usually the
a. most uniustly, damned men Of all
M0IlE# official mankind. the baseball UNI
rirc and the United States Consul
GStE<A About an the difference IS in point
Of pay and popbottlcs, also in re-
gard {, myth Of the damning season. The
high par ana short season of the umpire Offsets
the pop. lies thrown by his Infatuated country
men; t-. while the United States Consul does
notjee. Icpta lodging through the Summer
season must become induratcd 10 abuse and
learn @. .. on q smaller income The baseball
umpire as much in three or four months
as the - PC Consul makes in year, and furthermore
he has u.ntagc Of hope; for ne can always look
prwa- eaiug q nice little business somewhere that
will po become an athletic headquarters.
The g. 10 on the other hand, can look forward
under .. inefficient and just laws % being fired when
somcJ.l a 81 stronger pull and on the scene OF the
Offices. battlefield, Washington, can screw his Job
from ur lis feet Then if he has been unfortunate
enough -maiu in the service for say ten years, he
can SIT in his Office the day the notification Oh
removal aas, and make ont lists Of friends he thinks
will lend him money enough to return home. lie can
Start back -ys whatever ocean II may De with the dc-
hghtiu certainty that he is no longer in touch with
American business affairs with old associates, with ne"
condition and that his experience abroad has not been
worth ...ceut piece when it comes 10 rcsumlng the
struggle t.r existence.
If be bias been fortunate ~ enough TO hold his APP
pontmcD abroad for twenty thirty years before the
state Department hands his job 10 some other aspTanl
ne Will perhaps have arrived at the age OF sixty years
lie come back % q country that has grown away IRON
MN, and discovers before ne has made weeks quest
Tor job that the good old times when gray hair was no
obstacle ~ employment have passed, and also, strangely
enough that the business az home whose interests
ne has been serving, the thousands for whom ne has
uone favor. when they abroad, and his country
men at large, have abruptly forgotten him. About all
ne ever got from them was chance % listen TO thcH
not air after he had pulled them out of some difficulty
that fine regulation American brand Of You can bet
HI ever comes my way Mr.. Consul, Il try and repay
you Tor al your assistance! Just remember that
please, and call on me-"
lie calls on some Of these grateful fellow counrymen
ana refrigerator would be as warm as a tropical day
compared with his reception. lie usually gets desk
III some importing or exporting firm because OF ms
Ao"le1gc Of languages learned before he went abroad
"l perhaps in some instances because Of his knowledge
ITnis, and thanks high Heaven that ne can make at
''J hiteen dollars week for the rest of his working
yeaTs He is always a misanthrope; for he concludes
mat inc most ungratcu nation in the world, the cheap
~ ule most parsmOnous, the most niggardly the
C,Sesl Of al nations under the sun, not excepting
- - bulgaria. San Marine, any other independent
P"Ue' Is this same United States Of America