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that are following 80 closely
upon one another's heels 10
0s Old World, where no less thar s!x-
. Powers. great and small, are en-
SAgsd IN an appalling war for their
. national existence. 4, Is r United
s0tates which on this day may b sad
% monopo.iz@ attention n every for
e1gn capital. All eyes will during The
. nsxt sixty hours be turned toward this
osuntry.
Never before has a Presidential
election here aroused such a degree Of
ioterest abroad. II times gone BY con-
tssts Of his kind have excited relatively
|, little popular attention In the Eastern
Hemisphere. Blu, on this occasion the
.FStprns on Tuesday night VII! b.
nsss and impotence as anywhere In
-tAs Union.
. II this II the cass Il IL because Il
y realized OF yonder side Of the At
'hatic and Pacific oceans. moro per
haps ever tina In America. that n.
.e3oction not only will decide whether
0srs IL to be q radical change In III.
0DsOIgn policy Of the United States
especially with regard to the war.
-60t also Will 90 . long way toward
S0Dtsrminins the role which this coun.
~ vii b called upon to play during
o. next hundred years In the concer,
- nations.
. i may safely b assumed. md this
- admitted sven by those mos. inclined
- 1ssstmism. that the present war
:V0 - brought TO an END bsfers an
.VeAsf four years have passed away.
.0nt u 70 say at some period during
- American Presidential term which
-1ommences on the eth Of March next.
~ conclusion Of the strussis Will
- followed in due course by an inter-
1o0tional congress for the negotiation
81 the maj conditions OF peace. As
- The Ease OF the Congress Of Vienna
rV0Sch brought the Eapoleonic wars to
. close q LITTLE over a hundred years
49,. % vii! the next International con-
00os Of the same 1 reshape the
Oap Of the greater par; 0. the world.
There will be a very natural DISPOSE
/, I'm on the part OF the vctors to en-
force their " demands. political and
economic, In view % the appalling sac
: ya0ces OF life and treasure wh.ch they
oAve made TO win the day. Nor need
0Ay n here be surprised II the ma
Sortty OF the Powers represented at
: ne congress manifest n tendency to
ignore the Interests OF a country such
- this. which. far from suffering n
ea5ury through the war. has derived
ouch colossal riches tnerefrom-that
, To say from the ruin and devasta-
. Ten abroad.
Several of the great Powers. which
Nave suffered what they conceive TO
. - affronts at the hands % this Gov.
a eminent, manifest an inclination 10
exclude 1t from n participation In
tAo congress. though this would not
- tolerated by either Great Britain
- France. But the cordially OF the
S0vftation to the United States-which
NJ not represented at the Congress
- V~ienna-to take part in the next
eoogress. will depend largely upon the
extent to which the thief Magistrate
q this nation has caused IL To he re-
opected abroad. and II Ia that too.
which together with the prestige. the
weight and the statecraft ~ his repre-
voutatlves, will determine the degree Of
0onsideration accorded Nv the other
U1enlpotentIsries TO American inter-
I0ts and views.
II Gov. Hughes ls elected on Tues
GAy next the nation may rest easy in
D assurance that Il will be repre-
scented at the next international con-
1fess by the one American master
statesman who has n true grasp OF
foreign AFFAIR.", especially where they
Meet this country. and who thinks
Nth nationally snd internationally.
SA1nely El.hu Root; and by either
Theodore Roosevelt or William ".
SAft: and by Nicholas Murray Butler.
Deesident Of Columbia University. who
D widely known and liked abroad. But
~ one ca fee. certain az 10 who would
oent from America to the interna-
t3onal congress II Woodrow Wilson Ia
Seelected. Indeed. II one were to judge
~ past experience. he would appoint
tor h purpose Secretary OF the
xreaNry william q. McAdoo and
Samuel Tntermyer. who were his spe-
G1Al ambassadors 10 South America
1Ast winter, and Col. Edward Mandell
0ouse. who has on several occasions