Show A GREAT STATE PAPER Whatever may be the outcome of thepresent trouble in China It will go down In history that the reply of the President to the appeal of China to act as a mediator between her and the warring nations was about the ablest paper ever put out by any Government Govern-ment in a crisis I shows lhat kind of statesmanship which Is backed by not only l a general knowledge of law but an acute understanding of the principles on which tho lawa perfect science was framed I was not Just such C paper as people expected from President McKinley and we can explain tho difference by saying that it was such a paper as would have been expected ex-pected of Benjamin Harrison In the same place I has all the acuteness of a sharp attorney it has all the solid sound logic and comprehensiveness comprehensive-ness of an exalted Jurist I will bo more appreciated beyond tho sea than It Is at home I Is an example of how much more exalted is that diplomacy diplo-macy which deals on the exact square which has no subterfuges which has no generalities which has no evasions but means exactly what It says than is that diplomacy which when brought to perfection is the framing of words with the object of concealing thoughts It will strike European Eu-ropean cabinets a something fresh and new and the Impression It will give will be that the Great Republic at least is big enough and unselfish enough to tell the truth and to keep In a position where the searchlights of the nations may be turned upon I It every day without discovering any flaws I Is a very great state paper |