Show DIPLOMACY THAT COUNTS Once more the United States has taken decISIve action In China In anole ncton note which Jc has just sent to the rest ot the powers represented In the concert con-cert it has urged the opening of negotiation nego-tiation between those countries and the 1 Chinese Government and as a necessary neces-sary preliminary It asksthat some authority I au-thority agreed upon which can beheld be-held to stand for the Chinese nation In I its corporate capacity This counsel Is at the bo reasonable and so necessary present 10 moment that there Is the strongest probability It will be acceded to by all the countries as It hn al h b of them The mm ready been by aome fl object of the Chinese campaign having been accomplished It Is necessary to In accordance map out a plan of operations cordance with the new conditions and the United States mov6 opens the way for Intelligent work In that dliectlon The diplomatic representatives of the various Governments have been rescued res-cued except Germanys who was murdered mur-dered early in the siege Peking has been captured and the primary work of the allies has been done Obviously a new stage In the operations in China has been reached The American Government rI Gov-ernment asks for the adoption of t pro gramme which will meet tho changed situation and points l out what that programme ought to be When the Chinese cataclysm first presented Itself and while Europe appeared ap-peared to be dzed by the unexpected peril the United States uttered the Intelligent I In-telligent and decisive word Secretary Hay declared that the purpose at his Government which represented a country vlltally Interested in Chinese affairs was to restore order in China to rescue the diplomats and the rest of the foreigners whose lives were endangered en-dangered to protect legitimate Chinese I Chi-nese authorities in the suppression of the turbulent elements In their country coun-try to preserve the open door to all I nations and to prevent the dismemberment dismem-berment the emplrei This position appealed so strongly to the worlds sense of fair dealing and progressiveness progressive-ness that it was accepted by all the other countries at least for the time and the campaign against Peking proceeded pro-ceeded on the lines thus laid down Many efforts were made by Li HunG Chang with or without the suggestion or consent of the Chinese authorities to wheedle the United States into postponing 511 post-poning the march on Peking but this I country was not moved from its purpose Ii I pur-pose and thus success came earlier and I I more completely than any of the European j Euro-pean Governmcrits expected Americas triumph in the purely military mili-tary part of the Chinese demonstration i will lead the way to the acceptance of its counsel in the strictly political part of the problem which now l > resent itself It-self From the American point oC view it the war Is ended unless the Chinese Government should attempt to regain military possession or Its capital Russia I Rus-sia and one or two of the other countries coun-tries however are disposed to act r If the war was still under way and to I strike the Chinese authority wherever r they can find it The Russian commander com-mander says his sovereign has declared t war on China and that It Is his duty c to follow up the capture of Peking by a march Into the Interior after the Empress 1J Em-press and Emperor with the object of capturing or deposing those personages As the United States wishes to find these magnates In order to treat with 7 them for the peaceable settlement of I the trouble there is 0 wide divergence between the two conceptions of the iu proprieties in the case The United States position is so reasonable and so bumane that it will be agreed upon unless I x un-less there Is a determination to find a pretext for subverting all native government I tG gov-ernment In China and dividing up the rr empire between the great nations The ILU course of President McKlnley and SfiC ictary Hay has been Indorsed by the American people without Distinction of sJ party and It Is extremely likely to meet the approval of Europe ultimately 211 ultimate-ly It Is evident that the United States Is about to score 3 diplomatic victory which will hold a high place in the lonb list of the moral conquests which it has achieved In I the century St Louis I GlobeDeniocraU |