Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-21

attained 0eBfe OF authority Hhlul} ~
be distinguished from absolute power
an that. OF course, died with her. The
king will never be able 10 gain a posi-.
tlon similar 10 that enjoyed by his
mother " only because he begins hii
reign when no Is over 90, and by ne
possibility can occupy the throne as
long as his mother.
The temporary staff is no doubt allowed
TO run HE realm IN minor matters
very much as II pleases, 40 long as i
does not threaten the continuity, the
stability, and whose shareholders have
trusted their interests 10 us care, But
.he moment danger threatens from any
quarter then the permanent editor as
sorts himself, and-ln the late reign
seldom did 40 In vain.
In the bands Of the permanent edl-
tor lies the nominal right 70 appoint
every bishop OF the church, every CO.
lonial governor, every ambassador. lie
is the fountain Of honor. II can only
rain garters and peerages through his
sign manual And this nominal right
of appointment Is often converted into
actual power OF appointment by the
natural desire Of the temporary staff to
Obllge their permanent chief, and by
the fact that he Is Cor may be) far
better informed than they as 70 the
qualities Of the men and the extent to
which they are persona grata at the
courts TO which II IL proposed TO ac-
credit them. For the king not only
reads the printed correspondence Of the
ambassadors OF which a few shreds
carefully cooked alone are printed IN
blue BOOKS, he can, and often does.
carry on a direct personal private cor-
respondence with these ambassadors.
colonial governors, Indian yiceroys, and
the like.
out side the one, two or three mar
rowly restricted fields Of party conflict,
the permanent editor has more say In
the settlement OF everything than all
the temporary stan put together, In
the army, In he navy, In the colonial
service In India, and In diplomacy the
permanent editor ~ inComparably more
influential. II he pleases to exert his In
huence, than the leaders Of both parties
put together. As rule, the strength
even OF the most robust editor being
limited ne does not interfere with the
regular routine administration of the
realm. Editors-in-chief seldom con"
Germ themselves about news paragraphs
or the placing OF advertisements. Meth.
or does the king disturb himself about
the small things, the 1.-THE OF mint and
anise and cumin II II with the
weightler matters that he deals The
god does not step out 10 the machine
unless there Ia a complication worthy
OF 80 exalted an intervention TO UNI
Tayel But he Ia never beyond reach,
and even IN the smaller things he Is
more potent than any OF his temporary
assistants,
Looking then az the realm as a news.
paper II Is obvious that the position OF
permanent editor. even though II is
limited by a prohibition OF all direct
contribution 10 the columns Of the pa
per, Ia on the whole immeasurably more
influential on all questions but those
OF direct warfare, than the position OF
the most influential OF his advisers.
II is evident from this explanation OF
the duties OF the sovereign that every
thing depends upon whether the king
IL capable Of exerting an influence over
his advisers, and Of making his charac-
ter felt upon all those who serve him.
He has the opportunity OF doing q
great deal. but he viii never be able
to do as much as his mother. Her in.
nuence was on the whole, especially In
relations between Britain and the
United States, exercised In favor Of
peace. she accepted II as her duty
to undo as far as possible the conse-
quences Of the fatal folly of her grand
father, George III.
King Edward VII has neither the
sagaoity. the resolution, the experience,
nor the patience OF his mother, He II,
however by no means devoid Of intell-
gence. Since his accession he has shown
a remarkable interest In public AFFAIRS,
and although the habits OF lifetime
are not easily changed, he Is displaying
greater readiness to take pains and
inform himself accurately concerning
the AFFAIRS OF his realm than most peo-
pie suspected. He will not be the bal
ancewheel of the constitution which his
mother became In her later years: but
he will undoubtedly make himself felt.
and he is all the more inclined TO do
so because Of the envy with which he
regards his nephew the kaiser, whose
energy and activity Is felt
In every department OF the German
empire.