he Sultan has considered himself. Seeing American cruisers at Smyrna,
and aware that there were battleships behind them, he has formed a new view of the justice of American claims, and has agreed to pay compensation for the losses suffered by the American missionaries during the Armenian troubles. He has ordered all other and smaller claims to be settled at once, and has even conceded the serious demand that the American Mission at Constantinople shall be raised to the rank of an Embassy ; only in regard to this request he pleads for a little delay. The affair has excited little interest in America, but its settlement means, as diplomatists are quick to see, that the statesmen of the Union intend America to be recognised as a Great Power, with right, like any other Great Power, of asserting her claims, even when they are inconvenient to older States. The diplomatists fret at this "intrusion," but as it follows naturally upon America's growth to her full stature, they have no power to do more than murmur that if Washington is going to inter- vene in Europe she ought to give up the Monroe doctrine.
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