Show SURROUNDINGS i Every day we see in the eastern press communications I from men who want our in iu forS foreign foreign for for- S eign countries to live livo in plain houses and to adhere to the old si simplicity We v e d do not noti I i see why such aro are published by intelligent I I i j i editors It is provincial in the extreme extremo A A. man in inI I one paper before U us says Mr r. r Adams did not require a big residence to house him Well what of it 1 When Mr Mi Adams was minister th the United States S was a a. fifth rate power ower The thing that ht ou ought to govern is what an um- um S represents If ho goes from the theS S v I United States to any aDY of the European a a the tho s of-a of o world a B t. i t J power powel that when vien it makes its wishes known the whole world stops to lo listen Ho Ire has to deal deni with the ho foremost men of all the world he ou ought ht to lo beable bouble bo be able uble to deal with them at nt least as m one gentleman does docs with other gentlemen when he lie asks them to tolis his lis house There ought not to be any very ostentatious display dis dis- play lay except on oil a state occasion and then tho the idea should be to give the impression that the United States is is a world power in fact and such displays have bave lavo their effect because the older tho the world grows tho the greedier grow gro the nations n and when we come comedown comedown comedown down to the real truth thero there is nothing nothing- which foreign for for- eign nations so J much mch revere as the ability to back buck any demand no matter what may be the cost It is true rue in il national as in ill private life that tho the advice of ofa a man worth a II million dollars is ten times as yalI val val- lable to the ordinary citizen as the advice of a man I worth only a 3 hundred thousand We nIl all rail at money monor The truth is mone money is what rules this world it always has and we presume it al al- ways waya will until the millennium comes but then there will vill bo be a different class of people |