AMERICAN CONSULS

Grey River Argus, 26 June 1908, Page 1

AMERICAN CONSULS

, The Diplomatic: an^^^ .-.Consular Ap- { propdatibrt Bill 1 wa= uhder discussion ( in the United St-es Congress on 1 Monday,' and led ( some pointed al- j luslons to alleged -cyiation from Re- , publican simplicity >n. the- part of the ( Ambassadors in Bclin, London, and < Paris Some of these references were palpably unfair, an: were very proper- \ ly resen.ted by the friends of the diplomatists criticised .The general conclusion however, :s summed up ;by The Times corres orident, was eminently satisfactory. It was that "diplomatists who enteiinn lavishly do not, as a ruFe, exercise any more influence in affairs diplomr-ic than those who attend .to-th^busiMjjs of" their 'ctiuntry regardless of' sdchl affairs, or of the wealth they -- : dismay : in : living. ' ' * f Art .the same, time, ; we regret that the jgio"p'osiUfof the Gbvcnrhent maintenance ■ of ,s,u.kable Legatba-bmldings- in foreign capitals was lAf avourably .received. The present frugality of the United States, in thi:-iegard.^undoubtedly .^m^s^th^Vea^fSelee^ioriMo^men of laTg^iiTi^at^-nHeais. As%'tbe thorny 'question of diplpn|ti.c unif&rm"^ which : le#. to -sVme "Uvel; Sagsaj^sjflurThfi^flie debate, it may 3e remembered that ••Mark-Tjwaiii, of vhose &twdy Republic :aaism there has iiever been any ques!tioii,' is responsfte for the most damaging criticism I the American Usage. If we remembef aright, he points dut that in -ce'rttaiti ircumstances simplicity: is ultra con-ufcuous and defeats its .end...--..-! '■ * : ::-'S [ .''■'■■ , ■ •