Show IN SAFE HANDS It probably has not dawned upon very many Americans but In every capital of Europe the fact is recognized that the American State department has led In everything that has gone to I the relief of the legations In Peking The first light that was flashed on the dismal situation was when tho spider web of Chinese evasions was broken through by tho stern insistence that a dispatch should be sent to Minister Conger and an answer transmitted back It came but for days thereafter in all the capitals of Europe It was not believed Then came Chinas appeal to our country to Interpose and the reply was direct that China must first make It clear that the legations were safe Then came the appeal that there should be no advance upon Peking and coupled cou-pled with a covert threat that If such advance should be attempted there would be a massacre of all the whites in Peking But that did not delay matters mat-ters for an hour Next we heard that fighting was on that the Americans British and Japanese were In ono body and tho French and Russians in another an-other And the matter culminated on Wednesday last the Russ and the Jap at one gate the AngloSaxon at another and that the swarming foes were driven like chaff from beforo either devoted band and the rescue was made The United States has made as good a showing In the field as the best of the others while In the field of diplomacy no other power compares with what our Government accomplished accom-plished But more forces ought to be hurried forward A mighty army of Chinese Is In and about Poking and so long as enough grasshoppers can stop with their dead a railroad train so there may be a hopeless delay caused by tho dead Chinese In the path of the allies Americans should always have a warm spot in their hearts for what the Jap and the Russ and tho British have done and we may be certain that in the homes of all those lands the story Is being told that the American soldiers In China were like the American sailors in Manila bay that they never thought I about stopping fighting while ther was a fighting Chinaman in sight |