Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-03-30
Mr.. BAYARD CENSURED.
FOR TALKING HOME Politics
IN GREAT BRITAIN.
Resolution Passed by Large Majority
I'm the House OF Repre-
sentatives.

I
bassador Bayard was sent into
gdiplomatic Coventry, this after
noon. BY vote of $50 to II, not
entirely Republican, the House of
Representatives censured the Am
bassador to the Court of st. James
for unpatriotic utterances and
diplomatic improprieties," what
ever they may be. BY a still larg-
er majority, 191 to SO, the same
body condemned all displays of
craftsmanship by diplomatic repre-
sentatives of the United States.
This action is on the principle
than an ounce of prevention is
worth pound of subsequent CEN
sure.
The resolutions are as follows:
Whereas, Thomas L. Bayard,
Ambassador of the United States
to Great Britain, said in a public
speech delivered in Boston, Eng
land, on August 2, 1895, as fol-
lows: "He (the President of the
United States) stands in the
midst of strong elf-confdent
and oftentimes violent people
men who seek to have their own
way-and l tell you plainly that
it takes real man to govern the
people of the United States" and.
| Whereas, Thomas +. Bayard,
Ambassador of the United States
to Great Britain, said in public
speech delivered in Edinburgh,
Scotland, on November z, 1895, as
follows: SIN my own country l have
witnessed the Unsuitable growth
OF that form of State Socialism
styled Protection, which l be-
lieve has done more to foster class
Legislation and create inequality
of fortune, to corrupt public
life, to Danish men of indepen-
dent mind and character from
the public councils, to lower the
tone of national representation,
blunt public conscience, create
false standards in the popular
mind, divorce ethics from politics
and place politics upon the low
level of a mercenary scramble,
than any other single cause. =
1t (the said policy of protection)
has unhesitatingly allied itself
with every policy which tends to
commercial isolation, dangerously
depletee the Treasury and saps
popular conscience by schemes of
corrupting favor and largess to
special classes whose support is
thereby attracted. Thus it has
done so much to throw legislation
into the political market, where
jobbers and chafferers take the
place of statesmen" therefore
be it
Resolved, That it is the sense
of the House of Representatives
that Thomas +. Bayard, Ambas-
sador of the United States to
Great Britain, in publicly using
the language above quoted, has
committed an offense against dip
lomatic propriety and an abuse Of
the privilege of his exalted posi-
ton, which should make him the
representative of the whole coun-
try and not of any political party.
Such utterances are wholly incon-
sistent with that prudent, delicate
and scrupulous reserve, which he
himself, while Secretary of State,
enjoined upon all the diplomatic
agents of the United States.
In one speech he affronts
great body of his countrymen,
who believe in the policy of pro-
lection, and in the other speech he
offends all his countrymen who
believe Americans are capable of
self-government. Therefore, as
the immediate representative of
the American people, and in their
name; we condemn and censure
the said utterances of Thomas L.
Bayard.
Resolved, Further, that in the
opinion of the House of Repre-
sentatives public speeches by our
diplomatic or consular officers
abroad, which display partisan
ship or which condemn any po-
lical party or party policy, or
organization Of citizens in the
United States, are in dereliction
of the duty Of such officers, inn
pair their usefulness as public
servants and diminish the
confidence which they should
alWaVs command M homo and