The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-18
SENATOR woLCoTT's SPEECH.

long promised and anXiously- awaited
speech on the mission of the bimetal-
lie commission to Europe. 1t must
be said that the speech is rather dis
appointing. 1t tells little if anything
that was not known before. The SEN
ator appears to have hope as to the flu
ture of bimetallism, but what he says
can give no hope to others.
He says that the administration
stood Loyalty by the commission in all
its efforts, and he effectually disposes
of the absurd story that the president
directed our ambassadors to whisper
to the various governments that the
commission was a by-play and that
the administration did not desire to
have it taken too seriously
Speaking of the London press, Sena-
tor Wolcott says:
THE newspapers of London, like the
newspapers of many of the capitals of
the world, are dominated and allied
with the banking element, and reflect
their views and often their expressions
The business of money-loaning is an
engrossing pursuit lot always tending
TO the cultivation of the amenities of
life. and it is not to be wondered at
that the London newspapers, voicing
that industry, should, in their hostility
to a policy of which they disapproved,
forget for the moment that courtesy
which is due to the stranger within the
gates, especially when he comes upon
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to characterize proposals as fmperti-
nent' which were made only upon the
request of their own government"
Just what the senator means by this
is not certain. Does he mean that the
commission was in England on the in
vitation of the British government? If
he does, his view that they were there
on such invitation will not be generally
accepted; and yet this seems to be the
meaning he intends to convey. He
speaks of the proposals that were made
upon the request of the British govern
ment. The real question is, Who re-
quested the meetings held at the for
eign Office July u, 1897, and July 10,
1897? The correspondence presented to
both houses of parliament in October,
1897, does not state who requested these
But is it not a fact that
they were arranged for by Ambassador
Hay? When Ambassador Hay and the
members of the commission met Lord
Salisbury, Lord George Hamilton, the
RI. Hon. Arthur J. Balfour and Sir
Michael Hicks Beach, it was the most
natural thing in the world, it was the
Dnly proper thing to do for Lord Sails
bury to invite a statement from the
of this government as
o the nature of their mission. This
,ould hardly be called an invitation of |
This part of Senator VOL |
otis speech is either ambiguous or |
He says that it was perfectly real |
zed from the beginning that bimetal
ism for England was out of the ques-
ion. If this is SO. then why did Sen
tor Wolcott, at that meeting on July
., request that England should agree
o open English minis as its contri-
,utiOn to an attempt to restore BIZ
letallism by international agreement"
lie made that request on behalf of the
pecial ENJOYS.
He makes it certain beyond bubble
hat the reply of the Indian govern
nent declining'to open its minis to sill
er was its own deliberate judgment,
by public opinion in Lon
on or anywhere else.
lie says that while the world has
card much of the famine in India, it
as not been so generally known that.
he famine was one of money rather
han of food. More than six months ago
he Herald pointed out how the clos
lg of the Indian minis aggravated and
ltensified the evils in the manner in
icated by the senator.
Among the obstacles with which the