New Britain herald., 1915-06-17

4 Those diplomats in washington will ,I have to buy their own grape juice now aI-St. Louis Globe-Demncrat.
 The interpretations placed upon Bryan's resignation by foreign news
 papers make American news service
 appear mighty accurate. --Ro Rochester I Union.
 l Another inspiring thing is to see W R. Hearst and Theodore Roosevelt
 the band wagon.--Brooklyn Standard I Union.
 When does Mr. Bryan expect to l have that referendum to determine l whether. he or the president is right 1 St. Louis Globe Democrat.
 The United States navy will estab- 1 fish a wireless station on Cape Cod l especially equipped to guide vessels along the Atlantic coast in time of l fog.-Hartford Times.
 Colonel House is back from Europe and denies that he visited the bellig- erent countries as the emissary of President Wilson Then why do the
 newspapers wink ?-6New Haven
 Journal-C Courier.
 Mexicos chieftainsl seem eager to win the approval of the United States, lso they are going at the slaughter ing contest harder than ever. Thus is civilization encouraged.--Wate Republican.
 Switzerland, deprived of it's tourist 1 trade, is going to make some use Of
 it's hotels and sanatoriums after all. Wounded prisoners of war will be re- ceived from the various belligerents and cared for on an agreement bE
 which the respective governments will make pensation.-Buffalo Com mercial
 In time of peace the governm er1t l never would have. the mill, forge and
 shipyard capacity for a great emer- gency. 1t is genuine economy for the nation to foster these immense privately-owned concerns. which can l be. called upon at any hour to con- vert their peaceful pursuits into war preparations. Tn the long run this policy is exceedingly cheap insurance for the nation.-Philadelphia Ledger. The president has had it made plain to him, from many sources I throughout the country, that in t.iis crisis he is not regarded as a deml cratic president, but as the president I of the United States, to whom all the l people owe and give loyal support as I long as he holds to the right course l Reciprocally, it would be only fair and l just if the president would give the ! other great political party representa- l ton in his cabinet, in the position for l which the democrat who three times sought election to the presidency has just conclusively proved his unfitness Albany Journal.
 I Such a spectacle as that provio et I by some thousands of supposedly up- I right and generally Iaw-abiding citi- gems in Atlanta last Saturday is fair l ly startling. The object of the mass Il meeting held in sight of the prison I in which Leo M. Frank is awaiting I his fate was to influence the mind I of Governor Slaton, who must decide I within few days whether Frank shall l be hanged or imprisoned for the re- mainder of his life. The people who N IIlCl lO llStGH 1IO SpSdhGIS WLO o6- l manded the execution of Frank and to l cheer them doubtless believe he is ] guilty of the murder of Mary Pha- l gan. But they have no clearer knowl- I edge of the case than the many thou I sands who believe him innocent I New York Times.
 1 Bryan's vague but fanatical emo- I tionalisn would be Imaginable were it ! not forced on the country at time T of serious crisis and did it not tend
 to give support to the opponents of ! this country, with whom we are in discussion at this moment. When
 however, he revives the hyphen i,1 I American citizenship and appeals di- I rectly for the support of German
 Americans'' he is going bit too far l The president, editors throughout the 5I country and men of high ideals sltf ], I as Mayor B1ankenburg of this cuy. have been bending every endeavor to s| the elimination of hyphenated citizen
 ship in this country. Just as they are making their best efforts and ef- I fleets along comes Bryan with an ap- ! peal not to Americans, but separating I a group of them and calling them I German Americans, to whose preju- }! 4dices he addresses himself. It is too nuch.-Philadelphia Star.
 MT. Bryan would do away with
 battleships and let the Atlantic and