DIPLOMATIC TREACHERY CHARGES REVEALED

EDITORIAL COMMENT c 5 1 We regret to note the diplomatic Treachery chargee recently made against this government ot the surreptitious purchase of the secrets of other gov ernments. It was charged that the missing construc tion plans of the English Dreadnaught had been stolen at the instance of this country. And on Wednesday of last week three men were convicted in Leipzig Germany of selling to the representatives of the American Legation at Brussels a submarine mine and anchoring apparatus with the drawings belonging to them. Such methods have long been a disgrace to diplomacy.

They prosper by treachery bribery de ceit and treason and are no better than the vices they live by and encourage. To appreciate what they mean of official corruption one needs recall or re read the details of the Dreyfus case in France. Our navy department we are glad to see denies all knowledge of the foregoing charges and further states that it has always been against the policy of the department to purchase the secrets of other gov ernments or to obtain them in other surreptitious ways. It is not often that men of.

The Man Honoring the means position or ability are.