The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-24

its, and the idea that there is super
abundance of gold in the world is
necessarily abandoned by all practical
enonomists.
THAT BLAZING 1ND1scRET1oN.''
We find the following editorial refer
ence in the Logan Journal to what has
been denounced as "blazing indiscre.
tom of Secretary Bryan, and the COM
ment Of an Ogden paper thereon
On ST. Patrick's day William ]. Bryan.
| In an address made at a gathering OF
! Fibern!ans, made a few remarks appro-
occasion to congratula the Irish people
upon the rapid approach OF the long
desired home rule for Ireland; wherest
some OF the English newspapers entered
protests. and some OF the anglomanIacs
on this side OF the pond raised a howl
The Ogden ESa m iner, which did all within
administration which made Mr.. Bryan's
appointment possible, suggests that II he
cannot avoid topics that may give ofrense.
he ought to resign. oh, Hellespont! Mr.
Views as Secretary OF State, but merely
as an individual; and so far as what he
said Ia concerned. all the world knows
and best OF all the British royalty-just
where every true American stands with
reference to "a government OF the people
by the people and for the people" 1t has
since the beginning. and In this country
an established fact since 17I6. King
| George will take no ofrense. nor will the
constituted authorities be either sur
| prlsed. shocked or offended; why should
their good American subjects get so ex
cited?
That is not the way to meet the case.
When Bryan speaks, as long as he is
Secretary of State, it is impossible to
disconneet him from his office, especial
| ly when he speaks of foreign affairs
| which are directly within his jurisdic-
tion. Mr. Bryan cannot say, and
neither can anyone say for him, that
when he makes public speech he does
not speak as Secretary of State; for
the office attaches to him, and the re-
sponsibility of that office he should al
ways have in view when he makes a
public address. Therefore, his speech
was clear violation Of international
comfy.
But Bryan was entirely justified In
making it, because he was the victim
Of precisely the same sort of interna-
tional "blazing indiscretion himself,
and from Great Britain, too. His retort
was long past due, and he was entitled
to make it. Mr.. Bryan wa sthe Demo
cratic and Populist candidate for Pres
ident in 1896; he was defeated at the
November election that year. AS soon
as his defeat was ascertained, Lord Sal
isbury made a public speech at the
Guild hall in London in which, after
referring to the presence in the audi.
ence of United States Embassador
Bayard, he said Though contrary to
practice to remark upon the internal
Politics of other States, / may be per
mitted, without impertinence, to con-
graduate him upon the splendid pro
nouncement the great people he repre-"
sents have made in behalf of the prin'
ciples which lie at tho base of all hui
man society," meaning, of course, the
defeat of Mr.. Bryan. That is, this
British Minister, In public address, re"
ferring TO the presence Of the American
ambassador at that meeting, throws IN
his face the proposition that Mr.. Bryan
was defeated because he stood for the
destruction Of principles which lie at
the base Of all human society; and
this TO Democrat. too. Surely,
Secretary Bryan was not an offender
in getting back at British officialdom
on his own account after such ''blaz
ING indiscretion - of British Minister
directed against himself.
Nor does the oft.time attitude OF
British statesmen absolve them from
criticism Of precisely the same charac-
ter from time to time. Exactly that
sort of criticism by British statesmen
Of foreign countries has been frequent
and extremely irritating. 1t Will be
remembered that Gladstone spoke dur
! ing our Civil War in way to deeply
incense the Union sentiment of this
country when he recognized badly and
absolutely the creation of new ma
tion by the organization of the South"
crp Confederacy. He also put himself
on record as calling the Sultan of Tur-
kew, politically considered, ''the sick
man of Europe Lord Salisbury
spoke publicly of Spain as "dying
nation' And as the New York
Evening Post points out, Canning,
Palmersou, Russell Disraeli and
Others have been sonstant offenders IN
this respect. Gladstone once made an
attack upon the Government Of Aus
tria for which he had to apologize.
The attitude of British statesmen IN
this respect drew from Lord Rosebery
the rebuke: England has always as
sumed the possession Of European cen
sorship which impels her 10 admins
ter cxhortatIon and rebuke to the
states of the Continent.
So that the outcry in the British
press against Bryan 5 ''blazing iudis.
eretion' - is simply rubbish. His indis-
crction in this matter is simply bring