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Show government the office ha lost much of the responsibility respon-sibility that formerly attached to it, bat still the man makes clear what he .is and carries corresponding corre-sponding weight By the way, since Bismarck gave up that business to become premier how many German Ger-man foreign embassadors have distinguished themselves them-selves f GERMAN VIEW OF OUR DIPLOMATS. The resignation of Dr. Hill as American embassador embas-sador to Germany has set the German press to com-tnenting com-tnenting on the diplomatic service of the United States. Some of the newspapers refer to the sub jeet as "diplomacy in shirt sleeves," which is prdlt nbly natural, as Europe provides speeial educ.ati-.ro N for embawadurs, and many of then become great r . sticklers for forms, the idea being to surround an embassador with much of ''the awe and majesTy - v-Lich attach to kings." It is convenient, too, for 7 many a stupid man has passed for being as wine a the goddess of wisdom, simply by adopting her ambient, which was the solemn owl, that marvelous J ' bird which in face simulates a profound wisdom. - when the truth is she has uot an idea in her brain. One journal thinks the great thing which American diplomats lack is experience, and another that as the salaries provided by our government rre - ' aw meager that only rich people can accept the sta-t sta-t tion. And they say theso things when the embassador embas-sador which has been in Berlin for the United ? ' States for years has been the peer of the finest ' German scholars, and has never sought to conceal that he was financially too poor to attempt anything any-thing like display. The chief features of American diplomacy is our embassadors abroad ara aceus-i aceus-i toraed to tell the truth 'and to insist upon having tLe truth told them in return. And though our government gov-ernment has always exercised a penny wise and . pound foolish policy in the payment of foreign ministers, min-isters, they have managed to make a respectable showing. In the list of them some decidedly re-' re-' spectable names appear. ' How about Benjamin Franklin, or Thomas Jefferson, or John Jay; or John Quiney Adams, or Martin Van Buren, r . James Buchanan, or Chsrlee Francis Adams, or iHmcs Russell Lowell, or plenty of others! Bather lnjfli names, sre they notf Tim work of embassadors haa lost a good tlj.il o' distinctiveneaii aince ocean' esbles have been laid. T r K t:g in constant coniuiiiuicatiuu wirk the home |