The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-07
AN ERA OF GOOD FEELING.

AN ERA OF GOOD FEELING.
desire men of cabinet size for the chief for
cign appointments.-President Wilson.
That President Wilson should give more
thought to the qualifications of those whom he
will appoint to represent this country abroad
tnan to the fairness of their pocketbooKs may be
considered by some as evidence of theoretical
turn of mind-as indication that he will be
guided too much by idealism and too little by
conditions. Clevelands often repeated phrase
that it is a condition and not theory that is TO
be faced win occur to them, and with much
shaking of heads they will express doubts of the
success of his foreign policy should ne send
men to Great Britain, France and Germany who
lack the means with which to keep the pace
set by other ENJOYS They win point out that
while it is a democracy which these men will
represent they will be stationed at courts and
viii deal with aristocracy, and unless they can
meet the officials of the country to which they
are sent on equal grounds and can play the
game" as 1t is played there, they will be unable
to establish that spirit of comfy which is so
essential
Most of lis will remember however, that Pre-
fessor Wilson, as his small detractors delight
iH calling him, has shown an ability t. make
fact 5nd theory 1T. IN other words, his theories
usually have been correct and as result his
conclusions were inevitably facts When fact
and theory do not iibe there is something the
matter with the theory, and It generally hap
pens that there is nothing the matter with
Professor Wilson's theories In this case, there
fore, it may be that it is the theories Of the
practical men, which will not be borne out
by the facts. and those of the theorist, which
will be borne out
This does not mean, of course, that mans
financial condition will have bearing what
ever upon his appointment In fact, poor
in purse will refuse the honor even should it
he rendered them. 1t does mean, however. that
President Wilson intends to show the nation that
the idea that only pampered millionaire and
splendid spenders can represent this country
abroad is one of those theories which do not
accord with fact It does mean that the men
cho are appointed ambassadors will have some
thing more than large incomes to qualify them,
Just as The VirGtnidn is willing to walt in CON
fdence for time to prove that President Wilson's
cabinet is of the best to be named in years it
is willing to believe that the representatives Of
the United States at the court of ST James, at
Paris, at Berlin, at St Petersburg, at Toxic and
at the capitals Of other great foreign nations,
when named, will up to the ideal set by
the man who will appoint them, and that they
will be, indeed, men of cabinet size. The Vtr-
gintan firmly believes that the man IN the White
House today win be the greatest president OF
modern days. that the heads of the departments
will make a whole cabinet superior to that of
any in years. and that at foreign courts the
Omitted States will have representatives true
representatives of true democracy, great ma
ton and world power
1t believes, moreover, that the relations be-
tween the United States and foreign countries
will be those of continued and increasing friend
ship; that confidence In the good faith and de-
the years that its ambassadors will be welcomed
in a spirit Of utmost good win, and will remain
satisfactory to their own country and to the coun
try to which named. that in Latin America there
will gradually grow up a better feeling toward
the big brother to the north and it believes that
these conditions will be due to the nature of the
appointments made by President Wilson and to
the faith placed by foreign peoples and govern
ments in the honesty of purpose Of the sec
rotary of state and in the sincerity of his be-
Lief in peace among nations.
Do not put off until tomorrow what YOU can do
today, unless it is worry