The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-09-17
THAT BOMBASTIC Def
DID NOT MAKE A HIT
While John Bull, Who Is jolly Old
Boy, After All, Is Disposed to Treat
the Matter as Joke, a Speedy Re-
pudiaton OF M. Pelletan's Remarks
Is All That Can Save France
From Humiiatino Demonstration.
IBY ASSOCIATED PRESS

lbb hSSo1lAlED PRESo.J
Paris, Sept. I7.-The Figaro this morn
ing condemns the speech of the minister
of marine, M. Pelletan, at Bizerta, Tuns,
which it says in another mouth would
have been laughable, and in the mouth Of
the mouth Of the minister is intolerable,
and continues:
Gas head of the navy, M. Pelletans
place is in the ministry OF marine, not at
banquets. If he is not conscious, the
president Of the council should remind
him of this. His repeating that he re-
mains in Office, what he was previous to
taking Office, will convince everybody thar
he is unworthy to continue in the ministry.
He Had Better Resign.
Ellis speech is not newspaper arti
Gle. lie has compromised the government
and country. Fortunately M. Dclcasse is
there to repair the mischief, but this must
not become the foreign minister's daily oc-
cupation. 1t is not for this we have a
minister of foreign affairs"
The eau ois asks wonderingly what
opinion the powers will have of France
when they see her minister Of marine cast
ing defiance at Europe. They would ask
themselves if M. Pelletan is not the
mouthpiece of the government, if the gov
ernment does not unload itself of him.
This unloading" says the Gaulois, will
not be so humiliating as explanations and
apologies"
He Aneered the StaIophiles.
The 1ntransegeant, this morning, says
II is in position to assert that as re-
suit of the protests of the Italian ambas-
sador to France, Count Di Vergano, to M.
Delcasse, a telegram containing strong
representations on the subject of his
speech at Ajacdio, has been sent to NJ
Pelletan by the premier.
This is borne out by the report of a
speech made by NJ. Pelletan at banquet
in Bizerta last night, in which the
minister declares that sometimes words
were attributed to him which he had not
pronounced. mus in Corsica" said M.
Pelletan, II spoke of Italy and at once, by
one of the Italophiles of France, was re-
ported as taking an aggressive attitude to-
wards that country"
II Makes Hit With Them.
London Sept. I7.-The English press
while paying much attention editorially to
M. Pelletan's amazing" speech, as it is
generally termed, deals with it more in the
light of polite astonishment at such a
breach of manners than III any spirit of
serious forebodings with regard to its ef-
fects upon the peace of Europe. Indeed
there is somewhat humorous solicitudc
on the part of leading London organs
anent the feeling that M. Pelletan is likely
to have aroused in Berlin and Vienna, 20
say nothing of the horror that is attrib-
utcd to the more responsible members of
his own government
The Times treats M. Pelletan's remarks
humorously and commiserates his fellow
cabinet members. Relapsing for para
graph into serious strain the paper says !:
They May Get in Bad.
1T is for M. Pelletans colleagues and
countrymen to remember that circum-
stances might easily have arisen in which
similar incontinence of tongue might en-
tail the most serious consequence and for
them to reflect whether it is prudent to ex-
pose France and the world to such dan
gers while M. Pelletan is growing accus-
toned to be a minister"
Vienna, Sept. I7.-The Vienna news
papers are inclined to treat M. Pelletan's
speech at Bizerta seriously and to read
the French minister of marine severe
lesson for his lack of tact.