Show 1 I HOUSE HOUSE THE TIlE THE I TELEGRAM is in iii receipt of a t booklet urging that th the government of o the tile Un United ted States States appropriate residences in foreign provide pro shaU haU countries cow ries for foi its ils The book contains of beautiful illustrations of the A great number 1 buildings that different nations have provided for fort H their in foreign cities Even little t residences for its ministers m rain min n- n foreign J has splendid pan an and all aU the great powers of Europe while ti they y pay ay their vastly more than we wedo 1 do ou ous ours s provide them also with super superb homes when performing their official duties i. i Sot t SQ far we wo believe the United States has but hut butone ori one structure of that kind It is s hard to under- under stand jt-stand x t ml why this his is so Ours is supposed to be a no ngi game nati nation nation-it claims ims its place in the front r rank earth it claims claim to have among n ong the-nations the of f the severy v ry attribute attribute- r ofa of a- a great nation it claims to to be bethe i the only great free nation on earth and yet et it in ef L Let t man apply for an em- em says effect aSs t. t no poor pOOl ba Nb No matter how divinely gifted he h may be or how how eminent his s services to his country may have been there there- is no use for him him- to try to go goto goto to represent his his' country in a foreign land be because a Fc 11 lie would be short of hoard board mon money mony y in in two weeks or n el else v have to put up with a a common lodging i c ing h house use and arid take pot luck hick with other impecunious boarders i This is is' clue due to an old od theory which the fathers i entertained that it was not becoming foi for fon simplicity to put on good clothes and appear like gentlemen in foreign courts It would w uld seem s G n nit it a though gh that ought to be outgrown by this time lJ In the last four foul years years years' we suspect that White it 1 v in London ha has paid and anel more l 4 fl S rent and as much more in ill service That ff r J y all ll right so far as he was concerned because s 1 O v a L Y very rr wealthy man but hut we suspect his ii r came home in debt several thousand dollars h roro j the same embassy And that is simply cont con- con t t l for a rep republic like ours Our 1 broad not only ought to have houses rent i e but t they should be houses of a kind to show nation which built or ought them is rich riche enough e to at least l ast be self respecting The Spanish embassy r in London is a t magnificent structure The British embassies ia ill all aU the European Euro Euro- pein capitals are arc stately structures The one at Paris must have been exceedingly costly But But really it is a matter which O ought not to tobo tobt tobe bo bt discussed Under present circumstances we lose lese the services of many many eminent men meb we lose prestige an ant t I character abroad and the tle matter should be c settled by a bill passed through both hoth houses of congress appropriating a certain amount of money for the different embassies in ill the great capitals and it should include the furnishing f of those structures when erected an and ill in m addition ad a certain ertain generous sum for the tile cost of service in such buildings and nd the cost of keeping them in repair In Iii the meantime we suggest to Mr Rockefeller that in ill preparing for the final distribution o 0 of hi his est estate te it would be a good thing tiling for him to se seaside set aside enough right now to build these buildings Mr Carnegie appropriated a vast sum for a temple for The Hague conference and it was ii in inthe inthe the interest of the peace of the world Mr 11 Rockefeller Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- feller might rival him and provide these needed structures and claim that it was was' out of charity for forthe forthe forthe the poor distressed republic of or the United States which does not seem able to provide a residence for foi forit its ils it s high officials official |