The Alaska daily empire., 1915-06-15

self. is weighted with deepest impor by the circumstances attending it With "stand by the president the slo gan to which the country promptly at tunes Itself in any crisis affecting thC nation. the Secretary of State Q paci lficist temporarily bereft Of reason anC lost to sense of patriotic duty brealu with the President A Statesman would have resigned before the issue was made The episode must nee l essarily appear to Germany as eyi 1 dence of divided country
 Mir. Bryan-and the Post lntelli | gencer speaks with the respect duo to a conscientious, high-minded, Chris tian gentleman-is unftted for state craft and has been only misplaced l figurehead from the beginning. His usefulness lies in other directions. On incomplete analysis of the jarring i'm cident, the manner of his going is the least becoming act of his unprofit able career in diplomacy. In every other aspect Woodrow Wilson, the ad, ministration and the country are the beneficiaries of that act.
 People Wlth President
 Seattle Times The break has come; Bryan quits, the issue is made It may in some quarters be interpret ed as forecasting a divided country on the German question. This is the one unfortunate phase of the first stages of the incident
 But Mr. Bryan cannot reconcile his views with those of the President It is commendable, then, that the break come now. The regretful feature is that it did not come sooner.
 The American people are for the President to the man. They will back him at all events and at any sacrifice to the end that the lofty policy touch ing international law and the rights of neutrals under it be upheld
 Was Good Secretary of State
 Seattle Sun.-Whatever the actual cause of Secretary of State William Jennings Bryans resignation, 1t is to be deeply regretted just at this time. This action is sure to have a marked Influence on the negotiations pending between the United States and Ger many While the press reports in- sist that President Wilson's premier is leaving the Cabinet on the most friendly terms with his chief. it will be impossible to make the world out side believe 1t, especially the particu. lar nation with whom we are now hay ing a controversy. It will naturally be looked upon abroad as evidence that there is division of sentiment among our people on the proper course to pursue in the premises.
 But entirely aside from the ques- ton of what ether nations may think. MT. Bryan's resignation from the Cab met is exceedingly regrettable. In spite of the disgusting vituperatlon which has been heaped upon him and the effort to belittle and embaTass him which has been indulged in by narrow minded and blindly partisan press. the fact remains that MT. Bry- an has made a good Secretary of State and that. too. in the face of more per plexing problems than have arisen in a single administration since the Civil War. That he is man of remark able ability cannot be honestly denied even by his bitterest political enc mics; that he has been a veritable tower of strength to the President dur ing the troubulous years of his incum- bency is equally evident to all fair minded people.
 In spite of this unexpected split in his Cabinet. we wish to urge every loyal citizen to give the President his most answering support. Disa- gree as we may among ourselves. when there is a controversy between our own country and any foreign country it behooves us to stand now sQuarely behind our national spokes- man, who. in this instance, are the President and his Cabinet.
 Wilson Is eainer
 Portland Oregonlan.- Mr. Bryan's resignation as Secretary of State is an event of momentous importance in Its relation both to the foreign affairs and the domestic policies of the Unit ed States. In both connections 1t is an event of such gravity that with difficulty can the one be dismissed from the mind while considering the other
 The effect of Mir. Bryan's resigna. tion on internal politics is only slight. l ly less important than its affects on our foreign policy.
 Mir. Wilson may have lost the Bry- ! an strength. but he has won immeas. urably greater strength among that vast body of Americans. tied only loosely to any party. which values the national honor and the national safe. -y abode all else.
 Praise For Bryan and Wilson
 Portland Journal.-.Mr Bryan is great in his retirement He parted with his chief on supreme issue. The point of difference is not Q party question, but world question. If lis view is SO fixed that he could not assent to his chiefs view, 1t is to Mir. 3ryan's credit that he places his con- science above the premiership in the Cabinet of the United States.
 Mir. Bryan's retirement will not ihake the confidence of the country n President Wilson and his admins. ration. The constructing powers and ar-reaching vision of the chief exc .utiye are universally confessed. and he confidence of the country will fol- ow him almost implicitly in the curse he has chosen in his negotia. ions with Berlin.